The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-28
MARINE:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

F'ifty-fve passengers for Honolulu
arrived yesterday morning on the P.
NJ. S. S. Siberia from the Coast which
locked early at the naval dock. There
was also a large number of through
passengers, 1S6 in all, while 1856 steer
age passengers. including a few Sikhs.
passed through.
Among the Honolulu passenger were
a number of Well-known local people,
including S. Nj. Damon. 3. f. Dilling-
ham. r. w. Single. c. B. Wells E.
J. Lord, Rev. ]. w Wadman and wife.
Mrs. H. a Baldwin and Mrs St. c.
Bidgood, who have been on visits to
the mainland.
Mr.. Ringer, of Messrs. Holme. Ringer
& Co, Of Nagasaki, the P. NJ. S. s.
conpanys agents, is returning to ia
pan with his family from Europe.
Among the other passengers are two
excursion parties, one of Cooks and
one of Raymond's, comprising a large
number.
AS cargo the Siberia is carrying 1000
tons for Oriental ports.
She was joined here by small num-
Der of passengers, among whom was
DR. Jones, who is returning to Ko-
rea and the mission field.
NJ. T. Bailey. formerly an officer on
the Panama and Oriental liners of the
Pacific Mail and who has also served
as captain of the ships Susquehanna
and w. F. Babcock is making his first
voyage as first officer of the Siberia,
having been appointed to succeed j.
c.. Ludlow. Mr.. Bailey is regarded as
one of the most efficient men in the
Pacific Mail service. He was to have
served as chief officer of the S. S. Mon
golfa but the stranding of that vessel
has had the effect of having him ap-
pointed to the Siberia.
While at San Francisco the Siberia
was put into drydock and thoroughly
oyerhauled.
On her voyage the Siberia sighted
the Hilonian, Nippon Maru and the
Sonoma. exchanging signals with the
last named
She departed for the Orient at
o'clock i'll the afternoon.
PULL ON SHERIDAN TO-DAY.
Another attempt to float the trans
port Sheridan viii be made today if
the force at work are able to shift
the anchors in time to make the pull.
The work of jettisoning the remainder
of her coal is now going OH and her
ballast of pig iron is also being thrown
overheard with the intention of rails
ing the transport as high out of the
water as possible.
President Kennedy, of the Inter-1s-l
land Steamship company, thinks that
there will be little trouble in getting
the vessel off. although he puts the
date, on which the attempt can be
made in the middle of next week, the
time being necessary to make the
needed repairs to the pumps and re-
lay the anchors.
ALI. SELECTS PACIFIC FLEET.
SAN FRANCISCO, September IL
The American : Hawaiian Steamship
Company has decided on the five steam
ers that will ply on the Pacific when
the new service to New York by way
of the Tehuantepec route is inaugu-
rated in the early part of next year.
The vessels are the Arizonan, Alaskan,
Texan Mexican and Columbian. Ihe
two last named are in the course OF .
construction at the Union Iron Works.
but owing to the scarcity of labor it IS
NOT known when the vessels will be
completed The reason for the seiec-
ton of these vessels is that they are
oil burners, which fuel is abundant on
this coast.
The first of the steamers to arrive
will be the Arizonan. She is now at !
San Diego, and is expected to sail for
this port in a day or SO. The vessei