The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-30

charging of the cOmpany's big steam
ers at the Mexican port. H. Chrisman
will go to Salina Cruz, where he will
act as chief freight clerk for the com
pany-Examiner.
MANY NEW PACIFIC VESSELS
BUILDING.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco now employs some 5000 mechanics
and laborers, and an immense amount
of work is well under way, says the
Commercial of that city. The new
management is displaying an energy
which is bound to revive the remem-
brance of former days, when the whole
waterfront of the works was lined with
warships and commercial vessels in all
stages of completion, and the whole
dustrious employment. The three great
cruisers now very near completion are
the last of the old government con-
tracts, and will soon pass ut-of the
hands of the builders and into the CON-
troll of the naval administration.
The protected cruiser Milwaukee is
to be delivered into the HANDS of the
naval officials soon after December 1,
and will then take her place in the
white squadron as one of the speediest
of her class. The Milwaukee has re-
ceived her finishing touches, and is
about ready for officers and crew What
her future destination will be is not yet
divulged.
The armored cruiser California, after
her splendid four-hour run, will be laid
up in the yards until the woodwork
and finishings are complete. This will
take probably three months before the
carpenters and painters have done their
last work
The armored cruiser South Dakota.
a complete duplication of the Califor-
MIA, will be ready for her trial trip
bv the middle. of December. The cruiser
is expected to equal, if not surpass, the
glorious record of the California.
To complete the cruisers will require
the work of a large force for some time
TO come. but the number of new MEN
employed will not be reduced, owing
to the great amount of marine work
in prospect and partially completed.
There are two immense freight steam
ers building for the American-HaWaf
ian Steamship Company, whose COM
pletion is being urged on account of the
opening OF the Tehuantepec railroad
on January LIST. The new steamers are
named the Mexican and Columbian,
and will have freight capacity of
over 10000 tons. The building of these
steamships has been prosecuted with
remarkable speed. The keel of the
Mexican was laid only 8 months ago,
yet she is expected to be finished
about the middle of next February.
The Columbian will be completed in
May. Both steamers are Identical in
capacity and horse power, and both
are propelled by twin screws.
smaller steamship, the Isthmian,
with freight capacity of about 400O
tons is being built for the same COM
pany, and, though the keel and double
bottom is only now being laid, her
is confidently promised be-
fore the 1st of June. The rapidity in
the Isthmian is hardly
paralleled in anything the Union has
heretofore attempted.
The works has the Pacific Mail J
steamship Manchuria in charge. and /
the task of restoring the huge steamer |
to its condition before the late wreck |
will require the best resources of the |
Union Iron Works for several months
The Manchuria is expected to resume
her place in the company's fleet about !
June 1st.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's steamship Queen is at the yards
receiving a thorough overhauling of
boilers and machinery, besides having
addition to cabins and
upper works.
The Union has a new passenger
steamship under way that is building
for the Interisland Steamship Naviga-
ton Company of Honolulu. The speed
of the Maunakea as the new steam
ship IS named. will be IS knots, and
her tonnage upward of 1000. She is
to be employed in communication with
the group. and is to be filed up with
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