The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-31


The T. K. K. S. S. Hongkong Maru,
which arrived from the Coast yester-
day afternoon, carried very few pas
sengers, the bookings at the Coast hav-
ing been closed by arrangements with
the Pacific Mail company to allow the
carrying on of as many of the strand
ed Manchuria passengers as possible
from here. OF the twenty-one passen-
gers in the cabin four are lay-overs
for Honolulu, A. r. Finn, Bruce D.
Smith, H. r. Wilson and Geo. Beer
man, the first three bound for Yoko-
hama and the latter for Hongkong.
Captain Bent reports a good voyage,
the sea having been unusually smooth.
Like the captain of the Maheno, he re-
ports having experienced an easterly
current when approaching Hawaii, al
though the current was not SO strong
as felt by the turbiner
The disaster to the Manchuria and
the consequent blame which will be at
= tached to her commander, Captain
Saunders, affects Captain Bent, mas
much as he and the Manchuria COM
mander are close personal friends, hav-
ink been shipmates together on the s.
S. China, under Captain Seabury, he
as second mate and Saunders as first
mate
During the visit of the Hongkong
Maru at the Coast there was a slight
difficulty between the steamships Of
ficerS and the sailors and firemen act
ing as steVedOres during the strike.
Among these was fireman whose
handling of the freight did not suit
James Crichton. the stevedore for the
Togo Kisen Kaisha vessels. Crichton
ordered the foreman to discharge the
man. Because this was done the steve
dores, about fifteen of them who had
been working at the same hatch with
the fireman, refused to turn to and on
that hatch the strike continued until
Crichton, learning that the unsatisfac-
tory stevedore was fireman, gave him
another job, trimming coal in the lin
er's bunkers The stevedores then took
off their coats and went to work.
The Maru brought only one days
later mail for Honolulu, but large
amount was landed, some Io3 sacks,
the bulk of which is through mail for
the Philippines.
Last night force of sorters from the
local postoffice worked on board the
liner, sorting over the SEQ sacks OF
Oriental mail and taking out the let
ters for the Manchuria passengers.
This is proving to be a strenuous stunt
and the boat is to be held here two
hours longer than was at first announc-
ed to allow the letter-sorters to com
plete their work.
All the steerage passengers from the
Manchuria will be taken aboard TINS
morning and sixty of the. cabin passen-
gers
The Hongkong Maru sails at noon.
today. !
WILL PLANT NAVAL POINT.
Correspondence has been opened up
between the Navy Department aI
Washington and Admiral Very, of the
local naval station, IN regard to plant
ing the naval reserve point with grass
and trees. to beautify the harbor en-
trance for one thing but mainly to keep
the sand there in place and prevent 1t
being blown into the harbor, from
which it was pumped at consider
able expense.
This matter of preserving the harpor
has had the attention of Captain STAT
tory for some time. who brought the
blowing of the sand to the attention
of Admiral Very. Besides what sailu
is blown in, a not inconsideraoie
amount a great quantity is being wash /
cd hack into the harbor channel py 1
a current which has set in around the /
end of the point, observable IN al.
weather through the discoioratlon OIL
the water. e
Tnis current has already deposited :
a bar of sand right across the channel d
so,,ndinps taken some weeks ago show r
ing that there had been a shoaling OF f
nearly three feet. Fortunately the
dredging at this point had been done >
to an overdepth, so that there Is pien- 2
ty of water there despite the oar. As !;
the bar is growing daily, however, TINS -
will not long be the case and arrange Z
r,euts have been made by Captain Stat y
terv to dredge that portion of the chan- q
mel as soon as the Navy Department h
has arranged to keep the sano iroiii n
being blown back.
THE HILONIAN- !,
PORTLAND, August 22.-Wlth car
20 alnost five times greater than the
,rs. one she took from this city, and
With a number of passengers the MAT
ION Navigation Company;s liner Hlio-
10, is scheduled to sail for Honolulu ps
md Hilo at 8 o'clock this evening gi
AGENT Lindsey. the local representa- so
i've of the steamship company, Is
pleased at the increased ps
reieht offered this trip, and enteftalhs M
lob homes of the business getting bet tn
er each voyage, for on her present VI II
it the steamer brought representatives u
f island firms, who came to Fortlanu m
D investigate the conditions ana 10 nr
rder certain items of merchandise de- lg
lred by the merchants they represent,
In addition to 1000 tons of general gr
the Hilonian will take 20
cad of horses. which were purchaseo po
, Es Oregon for the Hawaiian ou
Iantation Company by James NC qu