The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-27

De made, as the plates to substitute
for those that will have to be taken
out must be procured in the East. The
Mongolia's bottom plates are one inch
in thickness and material of this
strength is not carried nor made here
While on the drydock the holes III
the Mongolia's bottom were patched
sufficiently to prevent leaking. 1t is
now the intention to make temporary
repairs as speedily as possible and put
the liner in commission again. She
! Will resume her place on the Oriental
run and will be kept in service until
permanent repairs shall have been
made to the Manchuria. BY that time
/ the new plates and other material for
| the Mongolia will be here. The Man
churia will go into commission and the
Mongolia will be laid up for perma-
| nent repairs.
| The loss of these two great carriers
! at this time is a serious matter for
! the Pacific Mail Company and for the
| trade of this port. Temporary repairs
! to the Mongolia can be made in COM
| paratively short time, and as far as
business is concerned the liner will be
as valuable as ever and perfectly sea-
worthy.-Can, October IS.
WISCONSIN IN QUARANTINE.
Because of neglect to put ratguards
on the battleship's mooring lines as she
lay alongside the wharf at Honolulu,
the Wisconsin, which arrived Thurs
day evening from the Asiatic station,
was ordered into quarantine yesterday
for twenty-four hours. She is now
alongside the fumfgating barge Omaha
off Angel Island, where with deadly
gases the quarantine officials are pois-
oning such rats as may have walked
on board at Honolulu.
The ratguard is a simple contrivance
of tin. Failure to place this barrier
on mooring lines at ports where plague
and other tropical diseases exist is
responsible say the Government medi-
cos, for the quarantining of hVe out
of every six vessels detained by the
federal doctors at this port. II rat
guards have been used-and they are
on all the regular liners-the vessel IS
granted pratique. provided there is no
actual sickness on board If no rat
guards have been used, the vessel from
the infected port goes into quarantine
without regard to the state of health of
those on board.
NEwsBOY HAS ARGENTINE
CREW.
The barkentine Newsboy, bringing
800, 900 feet of lumber from Aberdeen.
arrived in port yesterday morning She
had an uneventful passage of twenty
one days from the Sound. At Aber-
deem, as we'll as at all the Sound ports,
there is at present a great scarcity of
sailors, and it was with considerable
trouble that the Newsboy secured
crew. Eventually she shipped a crew
from a number of Argentinos, who had
worked their way to the Sound from
Shanghai, having deserted there from !
the Argentine trainingship Presidente
Sarrniento, which was here some
months ago. These men were denied !
a landing by the immigration officials
at Aberdeen for the reason that none +!
of them had any money. The agent |
of the sailors union took up their case |
and secured them for the NeWsboy, al
though they are not union sailors. 1t !
is an agreement between the shipown-
ers and the union that in the event of ,
union agent will secure crew for a |
vessel lTOI1 cdlllOIS iiOilOllioAA HILL 90 I
done in this case.
EDWARD MAY MADE SMART
PASSAGE.
The bark Edward May, Captain Jor-
censor, arrived yesterday afternoon
from the Coast, making the voyage in |
fourteen days. The run was without ,
incidents The bark brought a big car
go of general merchandise, valued at /
$51 67S, a part of which is consigned for .
Eleele and Makaweli.
This cargo consists of feedstuffs,
baled hay, canned goods, 1850 gal
Ions of distillate, 1922 gallons of |
coal oil, 4030 railroad ties, 400 kegs and :
400 cases of powder, $500 feet of hard
wood, 5000 pounds of fertilizer and a
large quantity of hardware.
After discharging her Honolulu car |
go the Edward May will go to Eleele /.
and Makaweli, taking on sugar ballast
at the latter place, and then to Ma
to load sugar for the Coast.
sLOCUM SAILED YESTERDAY.
The Army tug Slocum. under COM
mand of Captain Isaac Smith, is to sail
about next Friday for Honolulu to take
the damaged transport Sheridan in tow
for this port, says the San Francisco
Chronicle of the goth inst. The Slocum
has lately been laid up, having two
new plates put in position on her bot
tom. receiving new stern post, new
high-pressure cylinder, new guards
and a general overhauling. The trip
to Honolulu will be the Slocum's big
pest undertaking since she came out
here from Boston six years ago. She
is expected to have an easy time OF it
going to Honolulu, being specially suit
ed to deep-sea work. Though having
a bunker capacity for 250 tons of coal,
a. 10 tons are eSnectRd to he used