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

; The Pacific Mail liner Manchuria,
which for twenty-seven days was
grinding on a Hawaiian reef and which
arrived Thursday evening from Homo
F, lulu, looks little the worse for her at
tempt to travel overland, says the Call
! of last Saturday. She floats on even
keel Fresh and shining paint has COW
cred what scratches and scars she sus-
tanned above the water line in her
struggle to climb the coral reef and
later to win her way back into the ele-
ment for which her builders intended
! her Her decks We're spotless yester-
dav as those of a smart yacht. Cabins,
, saloons and steerage quarters were i'm
maculate, and even the engines, to the
lay eye, presented their wonted appear
ance.
If she was leaking there was no evil
dence of pumping, and if nothing had
been known of the liners experience at
Honolulu it would have taken some
thing more discerning than the eye of
a Iandsman to have detected anything
swung to her anchor yesterday morn
ing off the Preside
When she hove up her anchor and
started for the upper bay, however,
the unrythmic song of her engines told
something of the discord wrought
among her machinery while the great
hull lay in the grip of the reef. Her
engines did not work in harmony and
FL to
unpracticed ear that somewhere, away
down in her vitals, the great steamship
had been badly hurt. If she had been
a man and had been taken to an emer-
gency hospital the surgeon in charge
would have put her to bed and dag
nosed the case as possible internal IN
juries."
From the report of the diver who
examined the liners bottom as she lay
on the reef. there are no holes in the
hull. but so per cent. of her bottom
plates are bent and dinged. Many or
the supports inside the double bottom
are known to be bent and the engines
will require much overhauling.
CAPTAIN Pillsbury returned on the
Nranchuria. CAPTAIN Metcalf came
home on the Ventura. Until the vessel
has been drydocked it will be impossl-
HE to estimate the full extent of the
damage, but the bill for repairs VIII
he heavy. and it will be not less than
four months before the liner is in COM
mission again.
CAPTAIN Saunders, master of the
liner. would not discuss the mistake
that led to her stranding and appeared
70 he more concerned about the loss
and inconvenience to the company than
worried about his own fate, which now
lies between the Government inspectors
and r. 2. Schwerin.
chief officer PiIIsbury. brother or
Cantain Pillsbury, who was injured by
the breaking of a wire hawser as the
liner was being anchored at Honolulu,
has recovered and was attending TO
his duties yesterday as executive
officer.
The battIeship Wisconsin. which es-
oorte7 the Manchuria from Honolulu,
fs now in quarantine. TWO signal men
fro,, the warsrfp were on board the
N1anchuria during the voyage from Ho-
no,ulu and messages were exchangeu
daily between the two vessels. inc
voyage home was uneventful. Strong
,orthvesterlv winds were encountered
-. tho vessels neared this coast, but
co7,eea no Inconvenience, as the vessels
had followed the sailing ship course at
contain PiIIsbury's suggestion and
r,bar the Northwestern came 1t was
fair wind for the crippled liner.
..1rs poi r3rea kfa ST Food .