The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-22
NIPPON MARU ARRIVES.

NIPPON MARU ARRIVES.
The Nippon Maru, bringing four pas
sengers and $50 sacks of mail for this
city. arrived yesterday afternoon
shortly after o'clock. One of the
pleasantest trips ever experienced in
his many years of service in the run
between this city and San Francisco,
is reported by Captain Filmer.
The Maru sails from this port to-
day at noon, and she will take
one or two passengers from this city.
Among those on board when she came
in were Hon. F. Branagan, treasurer
of the Philippines, and Judge A. c.
Carson, of the supreme bench of the
Islands. Mr.. and Mrs. Monson, the
former connected with Getz & Co. of
| Shanghai, are on board on their bridal
tour.
H E. Cochran, connected with rail-
road interests in Korea, is among the
passengers. Mr.. K. Inouye is a gov
eminent official of Japan. who has
been on a trip to London to investigate
machinery of various kinds. A. E.
McGlew is the Kobe representative of
the Standard Oil Company on his way
home from a vacation.
A good deal of amusement was fur
nished by the Nfppon's barber to sew
eraI people on the waterfront last
night. He had started down to the
ship when he stopped and called the
attention of his companions to an au-
tomobiIe across the street, He had
never seen such big tires on a machine
in his life and thought that it was a
new Hawaiian patent. Closer inspec-
ton proved it was a steam roller,
which had been working on one of the
streets in the vicinity.
The news that Purser Roberts is to
be married on his return to San Fran
visvo was denied by that officer,
though given to an Advertiser reporter
by Freight Clerk McComb. Mr.. Rob-
erts states that he will not deny an
enga cement, but that he will never
marry while going to sea.
FLAUREECE WARD HERE.
The Flaurence Ward, the steam
schooner which has been built by the
cable company to run between here
and Midway, carrying supplies for the
men stationed at that point, arrived
yesterday morning. She is command
ed by Captain D. r. Fleming, and is
one of the prettiest vessels of her kind
which has ever been in this city. Her
lines are to a certain degree like those
of the Anemone, which sailed in the
Transpacifc race.
The unusual feature in the Ward
t. J1v- .a7,%
which she carries. She has 1000 cubic
feet of space in which meats and other
perishable supplies can be carried and
her eighty-f1ve horsepower engine,
while it is partly for auxiliary power
for use in going in and out of harbor,
is mainly intended for her icemaking
machine. She is 106 feet on her water
line and 100 feet over all with beam
of twenty-five feet. Her bunker capa-
city is twenty-six tons. Her engines
are steam, not gasoline.
The Ward carries quite a crew. Be-
sides her captain she has two mates,
five deck hands, cook, engineer and
a fireman. Captain Fleming is we'll
known in this city. He ran through
this port for three years as an officer
of the transport Rosecrans and was
on the transport Meade before that
He discharged the crew which brought
the Ward here yesterday afternoon,
and will ship a crew of Hawaiians,
leaving for Midway with the supplies
which she brought down directly from
San Francisco in about week. She
can carry 40 tons of provisions.
GOOD WIRELESS.
The Thomas left Manila July 18th,
Nagasaki July 22d, and Honolulu Au-
gust 9Th. A large number of messages
were sent and received by the wire
less apparatus on board. The longest
distance to which a message was de-
livered was $50 miles, to North Head,
Wash. The intelligence received
through the medium of these kilograms
was much appreciated by those on
board and a daily paper containing
current land news was published on
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