The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-24
Knocking Tenyo Maru.

AuOCh1uS 1SuJO IAdIu.
People travelling on the Hill liners,
probably inspired by those interests
of the company, are making as much
capital as possible out of the alleged
structural defects of the Tenyo Maru.
In recent item concerning the arrival
of the s. s. Minnesota at the Sound,
the following item appears:
The passengers bring word from
Japan that the Tenyo Maru, a new
japanese turbine steamship which was
expected to be a world heater, has been
a disappointment to her builders, hav
ing proven top-heayy and a poor sea
boat Although the weather was pleas
ant, the Tenyo, on her trip to San
Francisco, rolled SO badly in calm seas
that about thirty of her passengers
quit the ship at Honolulu and upon
her arrival at San Francisco with 1900
tons of ballast in her to keep her up
right, the criticism was so great and
general that the inspectors refused to
allow her to depart without an addi
tional 1000 tons, making $500 tons of
ballast occupying part of her cargo
hold. She is a speedy boat and it IS
expected that provision will be made
in a sister ship now bailding to over
come the defects in the Tenyo.
Sailors Garments
The shape being loose around the
knees and ankles allows the trousers to
be quickly rolled over the knees if it
is necessary to leap into shallow water,
such as is necessary when Bleaching
about, says The Housekeeper for July.
Thus, by keeping the trousers dry the
men are able to move more quickly and
do not suffer from cold. The sailor 8
uniform is not subject to varying or
ders of fashion, wherefore seafarers of
today wear clothes of essentially the
same pattern as those prescribed for
them when the American navy was first
This was taken with little
change from that of the British navy,
which was adopted by order of King
George III. about the middle of the
century. For many cen
turtles, men almost universally wore
+" breeches (also known as small
clothes y garment which, whether
tight or full, never reached below the
knee, though during the seventeenth
century, a loose garment, known as
tongs,' or "slyderso came into gen.
eral use among the working classes,
at first probably used as overalls. A
picture OF the pirate William Teach,
known to have been painted in 1884,
shows him in long trousers, wherefore
it is supposed that men who followed
the sea were among the first to adopt
the more comfortable garment. Indeed,
we have evidence of this much earlier,
in record of goods shipped from Eng
land to merchant on the Maine coast,
in 1886, which contained 'seven pairs
of trustees. This is the earliest spell
inc of the word and the garments were
no doubt ordered for the use of the
fishermen on the coast.
PETRELs OF THE NAVY.
Perhaps it is due to the reputation
Of mariners for gallantry in every port;
perhaps it is merely spring fever, that
has set the ladies of the Navy to wan |
aering. At any rate, about twenty-five |
If them will follow their husbands duti-
fully to the Orient to keep them from
feeling the least pangs of loneliness.
To be really romantic, these jealous |
ones ought to paddle after the war
vessels in little row-boats equipped |
with large spy glass and mega |
phone There is no doubt whatever but |
that the Oriental trip will be one of |
continuous pleasure for the officers with |
this prospect of finding wifey-and al |
wavs the same one at that-waiting for |
them wherever they land-Wasp.
Astral is Slow.
Nothino has vet heen heard from the |