The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-18

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SONOMA HAD NO FRESH WATER.
/ It is stated that the principal reason
! why the s. s. Sonoma was delayed in
her sailing on Sunday morning was
that the entire fresh water supply for
newed here and to take on the 700 tons
necessitated holding the vessel until
after four o'clock in the morning, when
| the sailing hour had been set for mid
that during the last three days of the
voyage from San Francisco it was i'm
possible to get a drink of good fresh
water on board and the lack of this
| the main reason why there was so
much difficulty with the motive power
The vessel had plenty of fresh water
m leaving the Coast, but through some
mistake in the engineers department
salt water was turned into the fresh
water tanks, making the whole brack-
fsh and unfit for use. At any rate, the
fresh water tanks were pumped out
here and reflled
There was a death on board among
the passengers when the Sonoma was
three days out from San Francisco, one
of the cabin passengers succumbing to
an attack of delirium tremens. This
passenger was on the way to Australia
to claim large fortune left to him.
He had been living in destitute cfrcum-
stances in San Francisco and when
the news of his legacy reached him,
accompanied by a large draft from a
Colonial firm of lawyers to pay his
expenses to Australia, he celebrated
his good luck by going on a protracted
spree until his steamer sailed. On board
the effects of the spree, combined with
severe seasickness, proved more than
he could stand and death followed.
The body was embalmed and brought
to Honolulu, being here now awaiting
instructions as to its disposal from the
Australian relatives.
ARIzONAN WILL OPEN TRAFFIC.
Within short time the big steamer
ican-Hawaiian line will be at Tacoma,
says the Ledger, of that city. She is
out from New York. via San Diego and
San Francisco, having arrived at the
latter port last Friday. Her sailing
date for the Sound has not yet been
announced.
To the Arizonan will fall the distinc-
ton of being the first large freighter
to inaugurate the new freight service
from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic
via the Tehauntepec National Railway.
Reliable information is that this line
will be opened to the commerce of the
world a few days after January l, 1907.
Thereafter this road will play an i'm
portant part in the commerce of the
continent.
AS stated heretofore, the Tehaunte-
pee Railroad is built across the 18TH
mus of Mexico. Some time ago the
American-Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany contracted with the railroad to
transport it's freight across Mexico,
thus avoiding the long and costly voy-
age around the South American con-
tinent via the Straits of Magellan.
The Arizonan, whose freight capacity
is II 900 tons, will be the first vessel
of any great size to enter the harbor Of
Salina Cruz the Pacific coast terminus
of the railroad. Her cargo from Puget
Sound, Hawaiian Islands and San
Francisco will be discharged at Salina
Cruz, loaded on cars there and trans
ported to the port of Coatzacoalcos, the
Atlantic terminus. Thence the mer-
chandise will be loaded on other vessels
of the Observation-Disclosures fleet and
shipped to New York.
Conditions at the harbor of CoatZa-
coalcos, according to the San Francisco
Daily Commercial News, do not as yet
warrant the general opening of the
isthmus route to the worlds unlimited
commerce, owing to the incompleted
harbor facilities at the gulf terminus
with the insufficient depth of water
now available.
A new dredger of large capacity is
Ell route from England and on her
arrival the outer channel of the Coat
zacoalcos harbor will be deepened as
rapidly as persistent effort will allow.
The autumn floods are also depended
upon not only to maintain the depth al
ready secured, but to assist materi-
ally in increasing it. The harbor of
Salina Cruz, on the Pacific, is COM
plete as far as dredging operations
are concerned; and the Arizonan. which
draws from % to 90 feet, will have
no difficulty whatever in reaching her
berth or in leaving it again for that
matter The American Hawaiian !
Steamship Company's fleet will be for
the present the only line having official
relations with the road and regular
dates. The opening of the route to all
vessels must be deferred until the har- |
bors at both terminals are in condi- |
ton to allow the full extension of
traffic.
The Amercan-Hawaiian vessels, in !
Guiding the Arizonan, Alaskan and Tex
an. all of 1000 tons, with the Hawai- |
ian. which is to be taken off the At !
lantic route and permanently assume |