The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-02

other mast at the naval station for
wireless use and it is suggested that
this be erected in the mauka end of
the station grounds and the wires
| stretched from the tops of both poles,
| the same as on a vessel. with the con-
Meeting wire descending in the farther
end of the grounds from the street
where the ears pass. 1t is thought
this might improve the efficiency OF
the apparatus.
officers of the Saturn.
The officers of the United States col
| lier Saturn, which arrived Monday from
San Francisco with cargo coal for the
United States feet, are as follows: Cap
tain Joseph Newell, master; C. Phillips,
first officer; F. W. Lacy, second officer;
Fred Marcus. third officer; Donald La
mont, chief engineer; Thomas Bruggy,
first assistant engineer; c. E. Manson,
second assistant engineer; W. W. Wat
son, third assistant engineer; Fred L.
Macfarlane, clerk.
Too Dense for Justin.
When the United States collier JUS
tin arrived off Oahu Monday night
about 10 O'Clock, the weather was so
thick with haze and rain that it was
with difficulty that the Diamond Head
light was picked up. The officers saw
they were pretty close to the shore, and
the vessel was thereupon turned about
and headed to the open sea. The YES
sci came in yesterday morning and
moored at the Fort street wharf. Cap
tain Merriweather states that the dis
play of lightning all Monday evening
and night was magnificent and the
storm also kicked up quite sea.
The Justin is one of the two golfers
sent ahead of the feet with coal, the
Saturn, at the Channel wharf, arriv
ing Monday noon. Each vessel has $500
tons of coal for the fleet This coal will
be discharged directly into the cruisers,
and possibly both vessels will return
to San Francisco on completion of this
work.
The Justin is commanded by Captain
FL. T. Merriweather, a young man who
graduated from the sehoolship st.
Mary's at New York in 1898. He was
a classmate of t. B. Reeves, who, until
recently, was harbor policeman. The
officers of the Justin are as follows:
H. T. Merriweather, master; T. B.
Smith, first officer; j. Helbig, second
officer; A. Illhardt, chief engineer; G.
Hirt, first assistant engineer; T. Fearm,
second assistant engineer; J. Pike, cleo
trician; H. w. Happell, clerk.
Lighthouse Items.
The lighthouse inspector at San
Francisco under date of August 10
gives notice that owing to the destruc,
ton of the beacon, Mare Island Strait
light is now shown from the end of
u. s. Navy Pile Dyke, six feet inside
its former position and nine feet above
mean high water.
Also, that Blunt s Reef Light Vessel
No. 50, stationed / rs miles SW Is S
from Blunt s Reef, off the seacoast of
California, and 4 IL miles WSW, south
erly, from Cape Mendocino Lighthouse,
was replaced on her station August is,
and Relief Lightvessel No. 76 was then
Withdrawn. No change has been made
in Lightvessel No. SO as to the char
acteristics of her lights, fogsignals or
general appearance.
Notice is likewise given that Hum
boldt Bay Fogsignal Station, located
on the southeasterly point of North
Spit, northerly side of the entrance to
Day, WAS eSLdDIlsuSus august
Is, 1908. During thick or foggy wealth
er a frst-class compressed air siren will
give blasts of three seconds duration, |
by silent intervals of seven
teen seconds.
Astral in at Last.
The American ship Astral, out from |
Hilo since April 6, arrived at Delaware |
Breakwater yesterday, although it had |
been previously announced through of |
fetal sources that she had arrived there |
on August "a No doubt some vessel |
signals were mistaken on August 81
for those of the Astral and report made |
The Astral is the last of |
the trio of big American vessels which |
left the Hawaiian Islands last April |
within a few days of each other, the |
other two being the Atlas and Edward |
SewaH $50
Shipping Notes.
The Texan is due today from San !
Francisco.
The S. s. Hilonian is due today from
San Francisco with a DAYS mail