The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-03
MARINE

taine, was off port yesterday at sunrise,
and before the waterfront was fairly
under way with the day s work she was
steaming through the channel and Civ
ing twenty-one guns in national salute,
a greeting which was promptly answer
ed by saluting battery at the Naval
Station. DURING the forenoon Com
mander Robert Garay called on Cap
tain Rees, commandant of the Naval
Station, and was saluted, and later
there were more guns when the General
Baquedano was visited. At noon Mr.
LAM, the consul, ~went out to the ship
in the man-o'-war cutter, and on
leaving received the customary salute.
The coming of the spiek and span
little Chilean on the day following the
arrival of the Brazilian training-ship
Benjamin Constant proved a happy
coincidence, for it appears there are
officers aboard the vessels who have met
before in other ports, and the renewal
| of acquaintance for few days in so
pleasant a place as Honolulu is a
pleasure to be long remembered by the
men of either ship
The General Baquedano went to the
stream, sometimes referred to as Naval
Row, for anchorage the Brazilian be-
ing at the Alakea street wharf, and the
naval wharves remaining unoccupied.
Of course, it was tn thing for the
bum-bOat to get busy and in this was
given an illustration of what may be
expected, on a far greater scale, when
the American Armada visits Honolulu.
Scarcely had the General Baquedano
cast anchor when there were Chinese,
Japanese, Portuguese and Hawaiians
in boats with bananas, oranges, pea
nuts, soda water and 'fsuch truck
FLOR sale. And the boat boys found
business, too, with folks who wanted
to visit the Chilean. They wished the
Brazilian might also nave moored in
Naval Row.
Seventy days from Valparaiso by way
of Easter Island and, Papeete. Tahiti,
the young officers, as well as the elder
men, find it a relief to be in a metropo-
lis again. There was no great variety
of meteorological circumstances, and
too smooth sea voyages wax monoto-
nous.
The General Baquedano and the Ben
jamin Constant have for a distance
much the same route laid out for them,
They are both on practice cruises, and
are taking in much of the world The
Chilean's itinerary is hence to Yoko-
hama and thence to Shanghai, Manila,
Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Cape Town, St. Helena and Sandy
Point. She expects to sail most of the
way, having used her wings during the
greater part of the trip from Valpa-
raise. The Baquedano will probably re-
main here until Wednesday next.
Following is list of her officers: Cap
tain Augustin Fontaine, Commander
Robert Garay, First Lieutenants Ber-
nard Riquelme, Albert Paroles and
Luis. Baruentos; Second Leutenants
Flaniarion Torres, Armand Reyes and
Augustin Prat; Enslgns Ramon Pettier.
Juan Gaiz, Horacio Nett, Franco Fer
nandez and Mariana Cafre; Lieutenant
Abraham Plaza de M. Reyes, Chief
Engineer Diseteo Labor, Second En-
gineer Fernando Molina, Physician
Franco Cadiz, Purser Fernand Blashet,
Engineers Louis Poupert, Artiero To-
Ian, Aurelin Castro, Artiero Pinto Vic
tor Silva and John Ropas, and twenty
one midshipmen.
A NEW FERTILLzER.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21-The
bark Kaiulani will leave here Thursday
afternoon for Honolulu, Hilo and other
island ports with large cargo of pro-
visions and food stuffs. She will carry
$500 tons of cargo, mostly hay and
oats. There will be 1000 bales of hay
shipped in the Kaiulani and several
hundred tons of oats.
She will also carry $50 bags of ferti-
lizer from Germany for Honolulu The
fertilizer is mostly mercury sulphate,
and win be used as an experiment in
Hawaii by agriculturists who are to
make an attempt to raise hay and
grain in the islands. 1t Is contended
that the fertilizer to be shipped Thurs
day supplies the thing most needed in
the soil of the Hawaiian Islands to
produce cereals. If the experiment is
success. more fertilizer will be
shipped to the islands and it is possi-
BILE that they will become independent
of this country for feed.
MAUNA KEA FROM HILo.
Keeping up the good record she has
established for early arriving, the
Inter-Island steamer Mauna Kea, Cap
tain Freeman, arrived before o'clock |
Yesterday morning from Hilo and way |
ports. She was well charged with pas
sengers and miscellaneous freight, the |
cargo being as follows: l auto. / box
chickens. / bag coin, dogs, 2 pigs,
4 horses. 4 packages skins, 5 bales veg
etables, empty carboys, bales ava |
s bags corn, bags coffee, 9 bags cocoa,
q bags bones, 10 crates celery, Is bar
rels empty bottles, 20 cords wood. 81
empty kegs. 109 bundles hides. 700 rail-
road ties, 129 packages sundries.
Purser Phillips reports the following
sugar ready for shipment on Hawaii:
Olaa, 1850 bags; waiakea, 5000; Ha-
wall Mill. 1000: Wainaku, %. 600: Ono