The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-26
MARINE

Nine days from san Francisco, the
United states Fish Commission s. S
AIbatross, Captain NJ Johnson, lieu
tenant commander, arrived yesterday
| afternoon, getting off port at 1885,
o'clock and entering the harbor and
| docking at Naval wharf No. 8 at 5
O'Clock. She calls fer coal and to
make some repairs to her machinery.
She will be here about FIVE days, ex-
pecting to leave for Guam and Manila
next Wednesday. Here she takes
aboard 200 tons of coal and will coal
again at Guam. At Manila she will
again replenish her bunkers and then
start the work for which she is or
dered south, working the waters in
the Philippine group, spending about
year in studying the fishes of the
Philippines, noting the varying tenn
peratures of waters at various depths
and, incidentally, gathering much in
formation of value geodetically.
Deputy Fish Commissioner Smith,
who will be in charge of the work of
the Albatross in the Philippines, viii
join the vessel at Manila. He is ex-
pected to pass through here in the S.
S. Manchuria.
a pleasant trip was enjoyed from
San Francisco, a passage without in
cident except that the machinery suf-
fered slight accident, necessitating
a brief pause in the journey. The
Albatross was fumigated before leav-
ing the Coast, on account of plague
in San Francisco, and was carefully
examined off this port by the local
Federal health authorities. She came
down slowly, but did no fishing on the
way.
A year ago the oath of next month
the Albatross arrived here from the
Orient and reported the loss of Cap
tain Garrett overheard through being
swept from the deck while in a steam
er chair. Captain NJ. Johnson, lieu
tenant commander, is in command.
Other officers are B. G. Barthalow.
lieutenant; F. Hazard, chief boat
swain; T. n. Cassidy, boatswain; F.
w. Meters, Acting Assistant Surgeon
G. G. Hart, Assistant Paymaster
Haskell Dial and Maehinist c. T.
Crater.
The naturalists are F. M. Chamber
lain, DR.. Bartsche of the National
Museum, Washington, D. c.; H. Cliff
ford Fassett, inspector of Alaska
Fisheries and assistant to naturalists;
Lewis Ratcliff, general assistant to
and Clerk Welles. All
these officers, except Hazard, Meters |
and Crater, are new to Honolulu.
KE AU HoU ARRIVES.
The Ke Au Hou. Captain TulIett, |
arrived from Kauai ports yesterday |
morning. Her freight consisted of !
TAO bags of rice, 738 bags of rice bran /
s empty wine kegs, 2 empty gas tanks, !
u pkgs sundries.
MAUI FROM kauai.
Another Inter-Island board to arrive
yesterday was the Maui which locked |
at this port early in the morning with |
% bags of taro and 20 tons of coal.
She brought the report that the fol-
lowing sugar was ready for shipment:
K. s. NJ, 1000; V K, 1900; M, 1000;
VI. A. X, 1885; G. and R., %.
NoEAU IN AND OUT.
The smallest of the Inter-Island
steamships, the Noeau, arrived yester-
three deck passengers. Her freight for
this port consisted of eight packages
IF sundries. At FIVE o'clock in the af-
-ernoon, she left for Koloa, Kauai,
with a cargo of fertilizer and coal.
SHIPPING ITEMS.
The Mariposa's next trip will no+ be
until November %. She is undergoing
thorough overhauling and when she
goes into commission again she will be
practically a new boat.
BERKELEY, Oct. 13.--C. E. Wells,
1 university junior, sailed on the
steamer Albatross for a two years
,ruise of the Pacific coast this morn
n.y. Wells has been appointed assis-
ant naturalist in the service of the
fish commission. He will visit
Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.