The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-02

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, that the Olympian lies broads1tle to the
beach. hanging amidship, an that tDe
salvage was estimated at SIT, SEQ. THAI
sum. it is thought here, may hook bigger
, to her owners than the Oly E.phoi and
, the old side-wheeler viii iI!iei lie left
on the beach at Possession Bay until
she falls to pieces and drifts 4W9v
plank by plank, on the treacnci ous tides
/, that trapped her.-San Francesca tail.
T. K. K. BOATS TO MANCEUELA
BY June it is expected that the Rus
sian Volunteer Steamship Company
will establish a line of steamers be-
tween san Francisco and VIadivoatok,
connecting with the transsiberian
railway system. Two steamers are
expected to be placed in this service
Previous to the war, when NJ. Witte
was building up great commercial
city at Dalny, it was the intention Of
the Russian company to establish this
service. and also a coast line between
Shanghai and Dalny in connection
with the Chinese Eastern railway,
connecting with the trunk line across
Siberia at Hardin, but the loss of the
Chinese Eastern railway and Dalhy,
with other losses, has Of necessity
caused a Encouragement of its plans.
1t is entirely probable that the Jap
nese steamship lines already running
to the United States Pacific seaboard,
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha's service TO
Victoria and Seattle. and the Togo XII
sen Kaisha's line to San Francisco,
will arrange a service to tap Manchu-
ria, as was the plan of the Russian
company previous 10 the war. Already
the japanese have established
steamship line connecting Yokohama
with Tairen. as Dalny is now known,
and a fast ana most modern passenger
steamer service has been arranged be-
tween Shinonoseki and Fusan, on the
southern coast of Korea, whence the
Korean trunk railway connects with
the Chinese Eastern railway at Lao
yang also tapping the richest portion
of Manchuria. The next few years
will see a great deal of commercial
development in this section OF the
Orient, and although the Russians
have lost so much, the commercial
tcompanies interested in that section
although their rivals, the Japanese,
have secured so much better oppor-
tunities than previously existed. The
Vladivostok-San Francisco line is one
of the efforts to rearrange the situa-
tion.-Victoria Colonist
CALMING SEA WITH OIL.
During the recent trip of the
schooner Alice Cooke from Puget Sound
| to, Honolulu the vessel ran into about
the nastiest weather experienced by
Captain Penhallow in his long expert
ence at sea. During the height of the
storm the captain had canvas bags
filled with oakum soaked with oil low
cred over the sides OF the vessel to
break the force of the waves. The
experiment was successful. The oregon
Journal Portland) gives corroborating
evidence Of the calming effect of oil
distributed on the sea, as follows:
What effect oil has on waves and the
best kind to use. how to apply it and
lot of other data ON the subject viii
be procured from the sea captains in
:
the local photographic office, and for
warded to Washington in compliance
with a request which has just been
received from the department officials.
No explanation accompanied the in
structions but it is presumed that the
United States government and foreign
powers are preparing to enter into an
international agreement making it
compulsory for the various shpowners
to keep their craft supplied with a
certain amount of oil to be used to
calm the seas during a storm in the
event that it is shown by the testi-
mony OF sea-faring men to be useful.
When questioned a number of the
ship captains at Portland declared that
they invariably pour oil on the water
when it is unusually rough. They are
also a unit in saying that it proves
effective. Some prefer fish oil for this
purpose, while others believe that mix
ed oils give a better result. The COM
mon lubricating oil carried in the en-
gineroons is often used.
IT HELPS. SAYS McKECHNIE.
4 have experimental with oil as
means for calming the seas for years.,
says Captain McKechnie OF the British
steamship Ilford, ''and I always found
that it proved a greet help. I pour it
out on the water to the windward and
no matter how high the seas are I'M
ming the waves Immediately begin to
recede. Fish oil is about the best that
can be used, although there is nothing
better than the waste oil in the engine
room. oil does not appear 70 have any
effect on waves over shoa1 bars at the
mouth OF a river
Testimonies Of captains are being
collected by the photographic Office at
Washington. Some of these have been
forwarded to Mr.. Ledbetter of the local
Office and are as follows:
La Bretagne CFr So, Captain Ponce [
let, from New York to Havre-During
a hurricane that prevailed from De-
cember % to q, 1895, we experienced q (
mountainous sea from aft our course /
being about north so degrees east. We /