The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-22


sea and wants TO go to New York,
around the Horn. He expects to some
! day return TO Honolulu.
TOWING TO KAANAPALI.
In tow of the tue Intrepid, Captain
Lane, the bark Kaiulani, Captain Colly,
| left the harbor at $3.50 yesterday after
noon for haanapali, where she viii load
| sugar for San Francisco. Captain Lane
expects to drop his tow early this morn
ing and be back in time to take the
! ship Dirigo out of the harbor early this
| afternoon.
TUG KAENA'S MISSION.
The tug Kaena was taken off the
Pearl Harbor and Honolulu run by
| her charterers. the L. S. Engineers
| Department. long enough to make a
/ trip to Maui and Hawaii on lighthouse
! business Captain Orwell, chief of the
| lighthouse system here, is Fastening
repair work and applying the balance
of current appropriations to new work
| before the end of the fiscal year, July
| l, when these appropriations lapse,
not carrying over as id the case of
the Makapuu lighthouse appropriation
and some others. Soon all lights will
be in opera ton; four new ones will be
| established, as noted yesterday in the
official notice TO mariners published in
this column.
The Kaena left Napoopoo, after Wis
ting Maui ports, at AIS p. m. of We'd
nesday for Honolulu, via Lahaina.
FAKE JAP SAILOR AND ALIY.
Almy's the wise one, or so say the
multitudinous and assorted folks who
seek his sanctum for money, advice,
documents and cigarettes. Yesterday
a Japanese endeayored to foist him
self on the United States Shipping
Commissioner with a discharge from
another man, said discharge being the
rightful property of a sailor who had
been discharged on August IS. 1907, in
Valparaiso, from the wrecked ship
Tillie E. Starbuck The japanese
could not say where the ship, from
which he had allegediy gotten his pa
pers, now was; in fact, he did not know
she was wrecked, and he was sup
posed, according to the papers he pre-
scented, to have been one of the ship
wrecked crew. J. Hama, now aboard
the Dirigo in port, owns the papers,
and he was another Japanese who at
tempted to pass the discharge as his
own, on Amy. in an attempt to get
signed on the Kaiulani.
WORD TO LAUNCHMEN.
On the Coast the Federal inspectors
are holding operators of gasoline and
other launches close to the observance
of the letter of the law in regard to
life saving apparatus, and 1T is likely
that local launchmen will be required
to follow the same rules and regulations.
Operators of these small motor craft
must see that their boats have every
equipment required by law Inspectors
have posted the following circular let
ter on the Coast, addressed to the oper-
ators or navigators of motor vessels of
fifteen tons gross or under, carrying
passengers for hire: Your attention
is hereby called to section 1926, revised
statutes, requiring motor vessels carry
ing passengers for hire to be equipped
with one life-preserver for every per-
son on board; such life preserver must
be in frst-class condition Every oper-
ator found violating this section will
have his license either suspended or re-
voked. This penalty also applies to VIC
lation in the matter of any other equip
ment required by law
CLAUDE AND IRWIN PUMPED.
More than one report has come from
the Coast in regard to the rough trip
the barkentine Irmgard had TO San
Francisco from Honolulu, and the lat
est makes. the storm the Irmgard en-
countered worse than does any previous
account tThrown on her beam ends
in terrible hurricane, - says this re-
port, "that swept the Pacific for forty
eight hours, the Irmgard received
fearful buffeting, and for time it was
feared she would be lost. For four
days all the men aboard were forced to
labor at the pumps, and she arrived at
San Francisco with several inches of
water in her hold.
There were several Honolulu passen-
gers aboard the Irmgard, among whom
were Governor Frear s private secre-
tary, Claudius Mcbride, and E. p r.
win, formerly of the Bulletin staff here.
In cases of such emergency aboard
sailing craft, crew and male passengers
turn to and work the pumps, and Me
Bride and Irwin doubtless had their
share of the tortuous labor and did their
part toward keeping her afoat.
NEW sTEvEDoRE FIRM.
Captain Graham of the great ship
Erskine NJ. Phelps is coming to make
his home in Honolulu, it is reported.
after finishing the present trip to thes
Atlantic seaboard. The Phelps is now
en- route from Honolulu to the eastern
coast. In this city Captain Graham
and J. A. Gilman. local agent for the
Sewall ships, will establish a new
stevedore firm and already has a site
been chosen for a warehouse for the
storage of gear, and tackle and all
necessary devices for handling cargoes
are being made ready. The site chosen
is a portion of the Hopper property on
Fort street, below Queen, on the Eva
side, where coal has for a long time
been stored.
MORE WIRELESS STATIONS.
Two wireless stations have baen 90