The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-02
MANY STEAMERS
DUE THIS WEEK

Mail will go to the coast this after
noon on the Oceanic liner Sierra which
is due to arrive from Sydney, Auckland
and Page Page early this morning.
This steamer will be the first of a
number to call here this week, break
ing week of dullness as far as steam
ers are concerned. Tomorrow the
Sierra's sister ship the Ventura, is due
to arrive from San Francisco with a
weeks mail. The Ventura was eight
hours late in leaving the coast port,
being held for the English mails. At
her usual rate of speed that would
bring her here at about p. m. tomor-
row. 1t is likely, however, that she
ing. Another steamer is due from the
coast tomorrow. This is the Amer
Hawaiian liner Nevadan which
was also delayed in sailing. She lost
a propeller near Tacoma and left San
Francisco for this port five days late.
A cablegram received here by her
agents stated that she carried no mail.
She is expected at about three o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
A third steamer due tomorrow is the
Cana dian-Australian liner Moana which
is due from Sydney, Brisbane and
Suva. She will probably arrive early
in the morning though she may make
port tonight. She will sail tomorrow
for Victoria and Vancouver, carrying
the Canadian mails. The Miowera of
the same line is due Saturday morning
from Canadian ports on her way to
the Colonies. Friday the U. S. A. T..
Logan will be due from Manila with
coal for the army quartermaSter and
with a big load of troops going home
to the States. Sunday or Monday the
Sherman will be here from San Fran
cisco. The twin ships Korea and ST.
IBERIA of the Pacific Mail line Will be
here together on Monday.
MINNESOTA LOSING MONEY.
San Francisco, April 1O.-Reports are
current on the nothern coast that the
mammoth steamer Minnesota, owned
by James J. Hill of the Great Northern
Railway company, will lose 100000 as
the result of her first voyage to the
Orient Although she carried many
passengers and a cargo of %, 900 tons
of freight, the fact that the big steamer
could not discharge except by means
of lighters, and at a long distance from
the usual places in the Oriental ports,
has proved one dscouraging source of
expense. 1t is said also that the cost
of operating the Minnesota amounts to
$4,000 a day. or nearly twice as much
as other vessels carrying nearly as
much freight. The great draft of the
Minnesota and her slow speed appear
to have placed a ban upon her as a
competitor for business On the Pacific.
PUNCH BOWL FOR PEGASUS.
The Tacoma Ledger has the following
item concerning the ship Pegasus which
called at Honolulu recently enroute TO
the Sound:
When Captain Abraham Scott. mast
er of the splendid four-masted British
bark Pegasus, now at the dock of Saw
age, Scofeld & Co, finds himself in
distant parts of the world, he will
never forget his memorable visit to
Tacoma.
Yesterday afternoon he was the re-
cipient of a handsome silver punch
bowl presented to him by the Retail
Grocers' association of this city. This
is a souvenir of the trip made by the
Pegasus to the upper waterway. pass.
ing through two bridges and establish
ing new epoch in the shipping history
of this port. The occasion was a hap
py one for both the jolly skipper and
the grocers who remembered him.