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

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show that the port of Honolulu has
thrived more from the presence of sail
| ing vessels than of steamers. That is,
| so far as actual cash in hand is con-
Icerned. Shipping Commissioner Nor
man Watkins has just forwarded to
Washington his annual report, which
| indicates an increased in business in
sailing vessels. He has also compiled
figures for the past six years, or from
July I, 1900 to June 80, 1906. the period
in which Hawaii has been an actual
Territory of the United States.
In this six years 5000 seamen We're
discharged here from sailing vessels
| and they received 1901, 537 10.
During the same period 9o1 seamen
We're discharged from steamers and
, they received s25,949.72~
The argument in favor of sailing YES
sells from the standpoint of wages re-
ceived here by discharged seaman, and
expended by them,sis clearly on the
side of the windjammers.
This does not begin to include the
money which sailors, working on the
regular San Francisco-Honolulu trad
ing vessels, have received from their
which. of course, was all spent here for
one purpose or another. These vessels
generally pay in San Francisco, their
home port, but the regular crews can
generally get small advances for spend
ing or pocket money while lying in this
port.
OF course, in the figures given above
for sailing vessels, the discharged sea-
men We're mainly from deep water
ships, or those which come in from long
voyages-the '-Round-the-H orn-ships''
for instance
The Shipping Commissioner is of the
opinion that very little of this s301,-
1910 ever went out of the country in
the pockets of the seaman. It is sup
posed that the bulk of it was expended
right here in Honolulu. Seamen after
being paid off, start in for a good time
and when their money is all gone they
go into the hands of the shipping
masters, get advances from them and
finally when they start off on a new
cruise, their wages are mortgaged for
month or two.
Vonf -, III
lulu will have had about eighteen deep
sea ships to take on sugar. But from
the way in which the steamers are en-
croaching on the old-time privileges of
season is not so bright.
The Shipping Commissioner has at
times paid out as much as $4,000 cash
to the crew of deep water ship. and
amount was spent inside of a week. OF
course, the steamers while in port for
short periods, pay out heavy sums to
skevedores.
TROUBLE WITH NEW CREW.
The Oceanic S. S. Alameda departed |
for San Francisco at 1910 a. m. yes |
terday. The delay of forty minutes was |
occasioned by the necessity for the |
of the Hawaiians and Porto |
Ricans taken from here as a duplicate |
crew to replace the regular. crew should |
FRANCISCO. The Porto Ricaps We're all
on board on Tuesday, but toward even
ing they weakened in their desires to
act as strikebreakers and deserted. The
but to no purpose. The police officer
on duty at the wharf was asked to pre-
vent them going ashore, but he said he
could not do that. Of course, the
matter and threaten to prefer charges
gainst the officer. Later the deserters
but had to undergo a special
,umigation. a large number of passen-
gers departed for the Coast and the
;argo a large one, comprised island
products. including 500 empty wine
casks. $500 punches of bananas, $50
Eases of canned pineapples, 500 cases
If fresh pineapples. 6475 bags of raw
sugar. 300 bags of coffee. 1000 bags of
ice, 11S bales of wool, 700 bundles of
rides, 300 sacks OF coffee and variety
If miscellaneous articles
HEAVY SUGAR SHIPMENTS.
The big shipment of $1,000 bags OF
-efined sugar brought from Hawaii by
he steamer Hilonian was discharged
N Howard street wharf yesterday, and
oday the steamer viii so to Crockett
o land 1900 bags of sugar, returning
o the city tomorrow. The Hilonian. :