The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-17

IL MIS- GOODWIN not only nau TO as
| sist me in the navigation of the ship,
| hut do the cooking for our table also.
| She is on a strike now, and will not
go to sea again with the chances of
| having to do the same thing over
again. Our experience made us think
of and appreciate the many good things
our friends treated us to when in Ho-
nolulu, and also of the chef at the
Alexander Young Hotel.
"FThe first thing / had to do was to
teach them to steer the ship and drill
them in handling sail. They were will
ing enough, but it was hard to make
! them understand, and it was heart
breaking work
eve were fortunate in not having
had weather when in the high lati-
tudes. We lost one man overheard and
one had his leg broken and several
| We're injured by a sea that flooded the
deck. 1t was quite relief to me whex
we got up into flying fish weather
again.
"Of Cape Horn is a very lonesome
place; We only saw two ships and a
bark when down there, where I would
pass dozens a few years ago. Sailing
ships are a back number. / would
like to see one kept to look at, for
after forty-fve years on board of a
deep-water ship there is not grander.
sight to me than ship under all sail. -
THE RUSSIAN FLAG IN PORT
The Russian flag is not often seen
in this port. 1t flew yesterday, how
ever, from the Russian foUr-masted
bark Dundee, Captain Gustafsen,
which arrived early in the morning,
1876 days from Leith. The Russian
merchant flag consists of three wide
longitudinal stripes, white, blue and
red. the white at the top.
The Dundee is a British-built craft,
which accounts for the fact that,
though rugged precisely as the Ameri-
can-built four-masted ship Dirigo she
is rated as a bark according to the
British custom
The Dundee is consigned to the Ra-
waiian Fertilizer Company. She
brings about $500 tons of fertilizer,
quantity of friedrich and about 800
tons of general merchandise for this
port. and about 1000 tons for the
Sound, whittier she will go after dis
charging here.
The Dundee had bad weather for the
first three weeks, but after that the
weather was on the whole good. Just
north Of the equator in the Pacific a
vessel was sighted apparently north
bound, which may have been the Ban
galore. She was a full-rigged double
topgallanted ship. 1t does not seem to
be known here whether this fits the
Bangalore or not.
The Dundee is at the Hackfeld
wharf
LOCAL. NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Honolulu, T. H, April 16. 1908.
The following affects the List of
Lights, Buoys, and Daymarks, Twelfth
Lighthouse subdistrict, 1908, page 10.
HONOLULU HARBOR, OAHU IS
LAND, T. H.
April Is, 1908, Temporary Channel
Buoy, 8, a second-class can, was NOV
ed from its former temporary location
and established in the following posi-
ton, bearings approximate:
Honolulu Rear Range Lighthouse, n
by E lis E, about 1870 feet.
Channel Wharf. left tangent, ESEi
SIS E.
Sewer Pumping Station Chimney, Sc
rs E.
Old Honolulu Front Range Light, w
IA N, about ITO feet.
This will be the position of the buoy
during dredging operations in the im-
mediate vicinity of its former location.
after which the buoy viii be restored
to its former temporary position.
BY order of the Lighthouse Board.
J. F. CARTER,
acknowledgements, u. S. N, AS
sistant to the Inspector of the 18th
L. H. District.
NEW SAILS FOE ROB ROY.
The little schooner Rob Roy is being
fitted out with a new suit of sails.
A COMMODIOUS WHARF.
Everyone connected with the dis
charging Of the $500 tons of coal from
the transport Dix is pleased with the
commodiousness of the new Alakea
street wharf. 1t is long enough so that
all matches can be worked, and thero
is plenty of room for the required num-
Der of men and carts to work to adj
vantage. It is said that on no other
wharf could the Dix have discharged
her coal so speedily as she has done.
She arrived here April Z. and she will
sail a. noon today for Seattle In a
little over seven working days she has
discharge $500 tons of coal which is
considered very fast work.
THE SHERMAN SAILS.
The United States Army transport
Sherman sailed at precisely 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon for Manila by way
of Guam. The Hawaiian band gave a