The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-07
MARINE:


Honolulu is contributed by Norman
Watkins, shipping commissioner:
The business of the office of the
United States shipping commissioners
has increased about 10 per cent over
thee preceding year, owing largely TO
the Atlantic seaboard.
There has been an unusual scarcity
of seamen in port during the sugar
shipping season, and ships leaving port,
while they have not been shorthanded
as to numbers. have shipped inexper-
fenced men, many of whom We're Japa-
nese and Porto Ricans. The reason for
the shortage of seamen may be traced
to the large amount of public work
that has been under way in the city
during the past year, on which many
seamen have obtained employment.
A feature in shipping circles that
has been in no way a credit TO the port
has been the unusual amount OF litl-
agtion between seamen and vessels.
During the month of May last there
were five cases tried in the United
States court against vessels of the
sugar fleet. Four of the cases have
already been decided in favor of the
defendants, while the fifth case is pend
ing. The parties bringing suit have
been put to practically no expense,
while the vessels have been compelled
to defend trivial suits, at an expense
of hundreds of dollars.
1t is of interest, now that it is a
well-known fact that the sailing fleet
rTlear1 .rIT
by the steamers, to state that this
office paid out to seamen of sailing yes
sells during the last six years about
1925. 600, and only $4,000 TO seamen of
steamers during the same period.
AMERICA MARU HAD ROUGH TRIP
The T. K. K. S. S. America Maru
arrived from the Coast yesterday after
noon, bringing six days later mail. She
has a small list of passengers. only two
of whom are stopping off here.
The liner had a rough passage, en-
countering a northeast gale during the
first three days out and having to buck
a heavy southeast wind for the re-
mainder of the passage.
Among the passengers for Yokohama
are DIR. and Mrs. ]. P Gehring. DR..
Gehring is the inventor of a system of
wireless telegraphy, having sold his
patent rights to the Marconi people.
Baron Kikuhawa, member of the
Upper House in the Japanese govern
rnent. is also bound for Yokohama. He
has been on the mainland for some
"a, the dip
Ionatic circles at Washington.
A party of engineers is booked for
Manila, where the members are to take
charge of. the building of 800 miles of
the new government railway. In the
partv are T. B. Boone H w. Bowles,
a. Hammelef, J. r. O'Cornor and 6.
Winslow.
FL. Halton is on his way to Hong
kong. He has been appointed to one
of the head positions in that city for
the Pacific Mail Company. With him
are his wife and three sons.
The America Maru has large cargo,
including some big shipments of ma
chinery for Japanese manufacturers.
The liner will sail this morning for
the Orient, leaving the Hackfeld wharf
at 10 o'clock.
u L
The Treasury Department has re-
mitted all but $40 of $13,250 III fines
imposed upon fourteen vessels plying
between San Francisco and South
America, Mexican and Oriental, ports.
The fines ranged in size from 1920. i'm
posed on the Manchuria. to $225O, the
amount levied on the Mongolia. The
fines were for violation of the laws
governing the amount of space that
shall be given steerage passengers
Only half of the fine against the Man
churia was RENTED, that vessel nav
ing broken the law regarding the sepa-
ration of the sexes.
The reason for renting the fines
was that since the passage of the law
in 1882, it had never been enforced.
When it was announced that it must be
obeyed the steamship companies made
the necessary alterations on their boats.
NO CAPTAIN FOR MONGOLIA.
The big steamer Mongolia went to
her former slip at pier ~ yesterday
morning, after having been in dry dock
at Hunter Point for about two weeks,
undergoing temporary repairs. She Is
scheduled to sail for Honolulu and the
Orient on December 21st. No com
mander has yet been appointed to the
liner to succeed Captain W. r >.
Porter. who took leave of the Mongolia
some weeks ago.-Chronicle.
MORTON ON BARRACUDA.
Henry E. Morton, who was chief OH
Ger of the big timer Manehurla for
several years, has been appointed
of the Pacific Mail steamer
Barracuda. which is to soon sail Tor
Panama. The new chief officer OF the
Manchuria is "A Mr.. Hathaway, lateiy
in the service of the Morton line on
the Atlantic coast. Captain Morton Is
not only well known on the Manchurla,
but on the Panama steamers.-Chron-
icIe.
NADINE NOTES