The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-21

America Maru arrived from San Fran
cisco Yesterday a p. M. going to the
Hackfeld wharf She left the Coast on
April IA and brought two days later
mail.
Purser Lacy Goodrich reported per-
feet weather and stated that no tidal
phenomena had been met with during
the trip. He and the other officers. as
well as the passengers. could hardly
credit the news that San Francisco
had been stricken by an earthquake
and were at first disposed to treat the
matter as a joke.
The steamer brought 1O7 bags of
mail and has aboard $500 tons of
freight. She will sail for the Orient at
II a. m. today.
Commander Going is with the vessel
as usual and C. Lacy Goodrich is chief
officer. \. P. Crooks is surgeon and f.
c. Mallory is filling the position of
fl eight clerk.
There We're only FIVE stop-overs for
this port and they all decided to con-
tinue their journey on hearing the
news from California. They were Miss
Clara Biattner, Mrs. E. J. Blattner,
Mr. and Mrs. James Todd and Edward
Holth
Miss Helen Hyde, one of the passen-
gers for Toxic. is the painter who has
recently become famous on account of
her treatment of Japanese subjects.
She spends a portion of every year in
Toxic.
Mr.. and Mrs A. F. Fell are wealthy
Pittsburg people who are taking vaS
cation trip to China and Japan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur w. Cornwall
are also on vacation trip. Mr.. Corn
wall has for twenty years past been
in the retail coal business in San Fran
cisco.
S. Glasgow represents a Seattle -four
mill and is going TO the Orient for bus
mess purposes.
o. H. p Noyes is connected with the
big mercantile house OF Jardine.
& Co. of Yokohama and is
making his semi-annual trip to China
and Japan
Mr.. and Mrs. James Todd are wealthy
people who are making a trip
to Yokohama and return.
Chang Huey, who Is proceeding to
Shanghai. is the Chinese minister to
Peru, whence he has been recalled.
With him are his attaches, Wang Kim
Chouh and Shin Shin PIE
The officers of the America Maru re-
ported a shortage of float coal in
San Francisco and thought that steam
ers- scheduled to sail after them would
experience difficulty in filling their
bunkers.
The America Maru reports as fol-
lows:
18th April. a. m.-S:35. met three
masted schooner. Lat 1910 N. Long.
1870 w; 1920, met sailing vessel.
Lat S5.4S N. Long. 12s15 w; 11:2O met
a sailing vessel (bark), Lat. 3540 N,
Long. 1880 w.
18th April. a. m.-6:45. met a sailing
vessel (signal letter NJ. II. c. 81, Lat.
30. "a 1-2 N. Long. 80 w
18th April. a. m.-2:30. met a steamer
bound n. e., Lat. 31.55 N, Long.
1885 w.
18th April. p. m-14O met a steamer
and three-masted sailing vessel, both
bound ~ E., Lat 24.10 N. Long. 1926
w; 11:15. met steamer bound n. E.,
Lat. 22.5O N, Long. 154.35 w.
SHIP ELWELL ARRIVES.
The American ship Elwell from La
laina, arrived here in distress shortly
before noon yesterday, tying up at the
DOT of Fort street.
The Elwell left Port Townsend on
March 10 for Lahaina with a load of
lumber. She ran into a heavy gale of |
Wind on March II in lat 80 N. long. |
43 w. and when the blow was over
he had over six feet of water in her
lold and her pumps were choked with =
rravel ballast.
The pumps We're cleared and it was
ound that the ship was making one !
DOT of water an hour. The deck load
f lumber was jettisoned to tighten the
esseI. After this was done the ElweIl
Proceeded to Lahaina. arriving there
april 3. She discharged the balance
f her Lahaina cargo there and Cap
ain Young. finding the ship still leak
ng. proceeded to Honolulu in order to
btain assistance.
The EIwelTs entire cargo viii be dis
harged in order to locate the leak and
hen this is done the vessel will pro-
eed to Honoipu and Kahului, for
hitch ports she has cargo.
Captain Sam Young who commands
he ship, was formerly master of the
arkentine Echo which was recently .
! port. His wife and daughter are
taking the trip with him and both are ,
God sailors. Capt. Young is a sailor
the good old school and has a wealth
: interesting "reminiscences of his ex-
erfences on the Pacific and elsewhere
relate.
THE ElwelI is a good ship" said he.
she has been a1oat thirty years and
rs never had any trouble. This time
lie came down with 100000 feet of {
mber aboard, not bad for a thirty
EAR Older
Captain Young was in the Straits of
INDIA in 1SS1-2, a short time after the
tastrophe at Krakatoa. He was then
plain of the ship Armenia.
He states that when he arrived on
g scene. 10000 bodies of victims OF
e disaster lay rotting in the sun.
mice blown from Krakatoa reached