The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-02

| of lumber for the leprosarium at ha-
| laupapa, 27,000 for a schoolhouse at
Kaunakakai, and 1000 feet of lumber
for school at Kamalo.
The Concord will probably sail again
next Monday.
NEvADAN TO SAIL.
The Americana Hawaiian steamship
Nevadan will sail this afternoon for
San Francisco carrying mail and pas
sengers She takes the next mail to
San Francisco. IShe is sailing about a
day ahead of her ordinary schedule.
GETTING READY FOR THE
LAUNCH.
The shed under which the yacht Ha7
wall was built is being torn down to
prepare for the launching, which will
take place very soon now, it is expected.
AL AT LLoYD's.
Among the ranks of those whose
names are immortalized in the history
of the world are to be found some
strangely diverse characters. Capt
Boycott, for instance, was one of those
men who have attained immortality
without seeking it, and in the same
category must be placed Edward
Lloyd, the coffee-house keeper of
Lombard street, who can certainly
never have dreamed; even in his Wild
est moments, that one day his name
would be familiar in every country of
the earth-a name which would exer-
else an influence far greater than
Caesar or Napoleon ever possessed.
Marine Insurance (says the Syren),
there is very good reason to believe,
is as ancient a business as that Of
shipownlng itself, though what form
it took in the remote ages it is i'm
possible to say.
In the history of our own country
there is no more glorious period than
that which Was ushered in after Queen
Elizabeth assembled the throne. The
spirit of maritime adventure was par
ticularly in evidence. and the, youth
of the country were fired with the au-
dacious exploits of unblushing bucca-
neers like Drake and Frobisher. With
this growth of British overseas ship
ping, it is natural that something
should be done to afford it a measure
of protection, and there is evidence TO
show that in the last decade of the
sixteenth century an "Of1ce of AS
suranees" was in existence, though as
to its operations information is unfor-
tunateiy lacking One Interesting form
of insurance in those days when the
seas-and particularly the Mediterra
nean-were infested by pirates, was
against personal capture by these ra-
pacious gentry. A brisk business ap-
pears to have been done in such poll
eies, the insurer, in the event of
claim, having to pay the amount of
ransom demanded. No doubt the pi-
rates were aware of this system, for
the underwriters had agents scattered
about, and it would be interesting to
know whether they took advantage of
1T TO hold out for exorbitant sums In
certain cases it might have been cheap
er to let the pirates do their worst and
face legal proceedings by the next-of-
KIM
The first intimation we get of Ed |
ward Lloyd s existence shows that he |
kept coffee-house in Tower street. /
Later, he removed to Lombard street, |
and he soon appears to have got to- |
gether very fine connection. A few /
years later he embarked on the mo- /
mentous undertaking of starting a !
journal devoted principally to shipping /
news, giving it the title of sfLlovd's
News, which was succeeded in 1926 !!
by Lloyd S List, - first a weekly, but
soon after biweekly publication.
Lleyd's coffee house at length had to
pay the penalty of popularity, and the
staid supporters of the place. who fore
gathered there to transact plain and
business. were greatly
scandalized by the ever growing influx +
Of wild spectators and other undesir-
able characters. In spite of the efforts
of the old frequenters matters got
worse, and about 1870 they took over
Lloyd's List and installed them
selves in Pope's Head Alley, removing
N l774 to quarters in the Royal Ex-
change.
There is, unfortunately. no evidence
o show when the practice of maintain
ng systematic records of the condition I
# shipping was initiated, though that !
his was done by individual under {
writer's IN the days of the old Lloyd s
Office house, and later by Lloyd him +.
elf, is certain. There is in the pos \
ession of Lloyd's Register a Register e
SOCK. direct ancestor of the present :
dated 1764-5-6, and though s
his is the earliest register extant, there G
Gems to be no doubt that a printed i
egister was in existence about forty t
ears previously; this, and its predeees- s
ors, probably persisted in the fire which T
estroyed the Royal Exchange in 1888. $
he 1764-5-6 volume was quite an elab- t
rate affair, and must have arrived at c
IS then form through several stages h
T evolution. The purport of most of +
he columns is quite plain; the. former f
anne of the vessel appeared in the first, t
ollowed by the present one; the master, Il