The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-26

MARINE

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A line of steamers circling the glob
and making Honolulu one of the port
of call is about 10 be put on by tn
Chargeurs Reunis. a French company
ranking next in Importance in Frenc
maritime circles to the great Com
ipagnie Transatlantique ct Menagerie
| Maritime.
At the present time the Chargeur
Reunis have their steamers running
between the French and Japanes
ports, and it is proposed by the com
pany to send their vessels on cas-
| from Japan, touching at Honolulu, Sar
| Francisco, the Mexican and Soutf
American ports and around the Horn
back to France across the Atlantic, one
of the steamers to make this port
monthly.
The general agent Of the company is
in Yokohama at the present time or
ganizing the traffic there and arrang-
ing for the change in the company S
plans.
The vessels of this line are large. be-
tween 5000 and 1000 tons. and. although
primarily freighters, will have good
accommodations for a limited num-
Der of first and third class passengers.
The local agents will be T. H. Davies
& Co.
With this line making regular month
ly calls. the merchants of Hawaii will
be able to import French goods direct,
saving the cost of transhipment and
commissions. Touching
as they will all along the ports in the
Indian ocean, imports of sugar bags
and other Indian goods can also be
obtained direct. while the competition
afforded with the American-Hawaiian
boats for Mexican freights may bring
the rates where sugar machinery man
ufactured here can be landed in Mexico
in competition with the mainland and
European builders.
USE FOR THE WATER BOAT.
Those who know the trials of the
mariner and the danger which con-
fronts him from shoals and reefs and
in Hawaiian waters, and who
know them neither theoretically nor
because they have been told. but at
first hand and through the experience
Of years, profess no surprise at the
position the great Manchuria finds her
self in. That many other vessels had
not preceded her is their surprise, for
there are few points on these islands
where warning signals are placed to-
lid the navigator.
'Makapuu Point may need a light"
said one sea captain yesterday. cit
1oes not need the light and needs it
BADLY, but there are other places as
we'll. Honolulu harbor is one of these
places. I know that the government
S going to build a new lighthouse here,
,ut know that the government was
going to build a light on Makapuu
Point fifteen years ago. too.
II wish that Captain Slattery would
all meeting of those who sail in and
tut and around this harbor to tell him
What it needs. He has the opinion of
he merchants, and the bankers. and
he sugar planters-everybod but the
ailors, who ought to know something
Lbout the matter even if they have tar
N their hands. IF he called that meet !
ng the first thing he would hear would |
,e, We want a light that we can see, |
md a range light that we can find
The way the harbor is built around
low the light is hidden from a part
If the west..by the buildings on Quar-
milne island, and from Diamond Head
way by the boat houses and the
Quarantine station and the freight
heds, SO that the mariner approach
ng cannot get "a bearing until he is
we'll clear of the buildings and nearly
tbreast the harbor. There should be a
light visible from Diamond Head
nd
within a few days if the red tape could |
be avoided, for there is an ideal vessel
or lightship lying in the harbor. |
rhe water boat that was towed down
lere from the Mare Island navy yard
,ould be converted into a lightship and
lnchored outside, about where the old |
par buoy used to be, and would be |
plendid. AS she is, she has only been |
! nuisance and an obstruction to all |
he vessels going into the slip where |
The has been tied up for just about a |
rear now.
LAS water boat she is about as |
much use in Honolulu harbor as a |
pare pump brake. She has never been |
lsed and probably never will be for the
purpose for which she was built But
he has good accommodations for a
rev and a tripod for a light could be
1gged UP easily. If the government
Fere to build boat for a lightship
hey couldn't improve a bit on the
oat We have here now, collecting moss
II her bottom and doing not an earth
V bit of good
That range light we have now is
mother thing that ought to be at
ended to- 1t is a green light in what
Tas a red cupola. but ever since Uncle
am got hold of things the woodwork
as not seen paintbrush and the red
as faded out. 1t used to be that YOU
ould pick out the light easily, the red
ehind the green, but unless you
now now exactly where to look for it
GU can't find it. While they are
'riting back and forth from Honolulu
D Washington and from Washington
, Honolulu about the new range light
hey are going to build they might put
dollars worth of paint on the old
ght and keep it of some use.''
SHIPPING NOTES.