The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-28

will come in this morning The Mohi-
ly, is now in port in command of the
ship George Curtis which is scheduled
TO sail for San Francisco today with a
cargo of sugar
The Mohican brings a general cargo
valued at over $4,000. In the cargo are
225 pieces of dynamite.
BIG CROWD ON AoRANeI.
The Canadian-Australian s. S. Aoran-
gi, from the Colonies, which passed
through yesterday, carried a big list
of passengers, seven of whom were for
Honolulu. She locked in the Bishop
slip at 10 a. ~, resuming her voyage
at o'clock in the evening.
Brisbane was left on the 14th, strong
winds and rough seas being encounter
ed between there and Suva, from which
point a pleasant trip was made.
Among the passengers was globe
trotter Greek, making tour of the
world on foot. He started from Cairo,
making his way down the East African
icoast to Capetown, from whence he
took ship for Australia. He covered that
country and New Zealand and is now
en- route for Vancouver and trip
across the United States. His visits to
the principal cities he has visited are
Iattested by the signatures he has Sc
cured of the various governors, ceebri-
ties and mayors, preserved in book
While here he visited Governor Carter
and secured the Governors signature
to a certificate engrossed by chief clerk
auckland and embellished with the
Territorial seal.
| FUTURE OF THE SAILING SHIP.
| The arrival in New York a few days
ago OF the largest sailing ship ever
built has revived the old question of
| the superiority OF the sailer over the
steamer as a freight-carrier. A dozen
/! years ago, when the modern tramp
| of construction and economy of opera
| ton, the building of sailing ships al
| most ceased; and, while the European
yards were crowded with orders for
single new sailing ship under construc !
ton in the United Kingdom. With |
cheap fuel, cheap crews and high |
freights, the tramp steamer increased |
in numbers at a pace positively alarm |
ing to the owner OF the sailer. But
with the decline in freights on the long
distance routes the sailer has succeed |
ed in holding its own, and the Germans
have been adding quite a number of
new sailing ships to their merchant
marine fleet. The r. G. Pickmers.
which is the name of the giant craft /
that has just reached New York on her
maiden trip. has a capacity of more
than 10000 tons, and crossed the At /
lantic in nearly as short time as that ,
consumed by the average tramp steam |
er in making the trip.
We can not, OF course. tell what the |
future has in store in the way of econ |
on1y in fuel. which is now the greatest !
expense in connection with operation of |
steamers but scientists have demon
strated, with q fair degree of accuracy, |
that at some remote period in the fu-
ture the fuel supply of the earth Will |
be exhausted. If we reach that stage
before the transoceanic traffic is eX-
hausted. there should be in prospect
most interesting renaissance of the
sailer The building of clipper sailing /
ships practically ceased in the early |
COS. although some finei modelled ana
speedy craft have appeared since that
time As in every other line of INDUS
trial endeavor We have made great
strides since that time, it is reason!
able TO suppose that, when the Amerl-
can shipbuilder again turns his hand TO
modelling a modern clipper she Will De
faster than anything ever produced in
the past 1t has been so long since the
American clippers were making history
on the high seas that. had their records
not been retained, some of their per-
formances in comparison With those of
the tramp steamers would seem in
credible.
The famous Dreadnaught sailed from
New York to Queenstown in days and
Il hours, and there are very few tramp
steamers in existence today that can
beat the performance. The Sovereign
of the Seas. in an eighty-day voyage |
from San Francisco to New York in [
1851. logged $500 miles in ten consecu-
tive days. and on one day made a run
of 437 miles, equal to the work of any
express steamer on the Pacific Ocean |
in this twentieth century. The Trade |
Wind sailed from San Francisco to New
York in seventy-five days, and the
Northern Light covered the same course
in seventy-six days. None of these
ships ever made slow passages. and IT |
they were afoat today in the hands of |
such navigators as sailed the seas in j
their day and age, they would make 1t
interesting for the tramp steamers.