The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-01
MARINE:
STEAMERS SAIL
ELECTION DAY

Inter-Island steamers will sail on cleo
ton day as usual, notice to that
effect being posted at the Inter-Island
Office. This includes only the regular
mail and passenger vessels. Freight
Tuesday.
Asia Here Nov. 6.
Hackfeld & Co., Ltd, agents for the
Pacific Mail, have been advised of the
departure of the s. S. Asia from Yoke
hama on October %. She viii arrive
here on November and discharge $50
tons of freight.
Palmy Boat Days Pau.
The Honorable Mr.. Mahuka, the vet
eran "boatboy" was one of the few
holding down a chair at the old boat
landing yesterday morning. His boat
was idle, SO idle that it did not even
tug at its painter. There were only
nalf dozen row boats near the landing
and they were practically out of com.
mission. The harbor looked dismal
enough and the only masts to be seen
were those of the barkentine Irmgard
and the cable schooner Flaurence Ward.
Across the harbor was the big steam
freighten Mexican and the steamer Lur
line. Those two huge cargo carriers
told the story of the doing rowbcats
at the old landing.
emo business nowadays" said Ma
huka, glancing up from the political col
umn of Hawaiian newspaper. "OnIy
about six boat boys around here now
and sometimes only me. When the fleet
was here maybe there were twenty of
the boys around, but now you see only
few boats. Five years ago, ten~years
ago, fifteen years ago, there were forty
boatboys around here. Plenty business
all the time day and night. Sometimes
not enough boats for holoholo. When
we had lots of sailing vessels coming
in there was all kinds of business but
the big steamers push the sailing YES
sells out of the way and now we have
no business.
t'The old boat landing" is historic
place. Admirals, commodores, captains,
lieutenants and midshipman by the
gross have landed and embarked there.
Marines and sailors, sometimes under
arms, but more frequently in spick and
span holiday uniforms, have come
ashore there by thousands, to have a
good time in town. The officers have
landed in all their dignity and gold lace
to pay official visits or to participate in
some procession, or else have come to
town in multi to enjoy life ashore even
as civilians do and without being con-
spicuous.
Handsome gigs of admirals and cap
tains, big whaleboats and putting
with flags of almost every
great nation on the globe, have churned
up the water in the little slip by the
boat landing. In the old, old days the
whaler captains and crews also made
the boat landing their objective point,
landing or going aboard.
But business or no business Makuka
will probably be found there to the
end of his days, veritable landmark.
Shipping Notes.
The Lurline shifted over to the Rail
road wharf yesterday to take no cargo.
The steamers Iwalani, from Molokai,
and the Noeau, from Kauai, arrived yes
terday morning.
The steamer Mauna Loa, which has
been undergoing general overhauling,
is again in commission, and will go out
on her regular run to Kona and Kau
ports Tuesday noon.
When the Mauna Kea left Hilo this
trip the ship Emily F. Whitney, steam
ship Enterprise and schooner w. II.
Marston were in the harbor.