The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-03


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Captain Miller TO make whack of 80
per cent. to the original purchasers.
1t IS stated on pretty fair authority
on the waterfront that the Alden Besse
VIII later be put on the Laysan Island
run, carrying guano to this port. The
old boat has been reprinted entirely,
and she looks to be in great deal bet
ter condition than when she first ar
rived at Honolulu. Then she was on
her first voyage after two years of idle
ness. One seafaring man said yester-
day that he would wager his last dol
lar that Captain Miller had not paid a
cent over $4,000 for the boat.
Captain Denny is still with the yes
sci, and there is.~one mate and four
sailors Of the old crew still aboard
Captain Miller intends to put a union
crew IN her, and has made arrangements
with Captain Sorensen, the new repre-
sentative of the Sailors Uunion, for a
crew.
Captain Berger Wins Champion
With the biggest crowd she has ever
carried, the Royal Mail steamer Ma
kura sailed away for British Column
lila yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
The Hawaiian band was down at the
dock to give the record number Of
passengers a musical send-off, and Cap
tain Berger did himself proud. When
the blowers struck mp that good old
tune, Dixie, III Jack Jawnson, the
biggest man in the world IS fight cir
cles, gave. a correct imitation of a
happy coon, rolling his eyes and swing
ing his number mines on the deck of
the Makura in true cake-walk style.
His wife was also in on the game, for
she patted her hands in time with the
music, and sang the song at the top
Of her voice There was great APP
plause at the end of the piece, and
Captain Berger was all to the candy,
as the sporting editor would say. He
PLAYED a number of musical numbers
accentuating the negro ragtime, and
topped the program off with "Old
Plantation.
Nippon Sailors Get Shark.
Yesterday morning the sailors on
the Togo Kisen Kaisha liner Nippon
Maru, which was anchored outside the
harbor, hooked a seven foot shark and
hauled him uf on the deck. The sea
lawyer put up fierce scrap before he
was finally landed. Parts of the shark
were. cut up, these being considered .
rare delicacv, for food for the sail
ors. The Nippon Marn came into the
harbor at s clock in the morning
and sailed away at clock last night
The japanese liner carried but eight
through passengers, none being fol
Honolulu She had a trife over two
thousand tons of freight on board.
Recommend oscsllafing Lights.
There may be no necessity for a real
range light to the new lighthouse il
course of completion on Sand Island
if the recommendation that two oseil
| lating lights for the entrance and an
chorage grounds opposite the channel il
adopted. A recommendation has beer
| made that there be placed at tn,
anchorage grounds an oscillating white
| light and a large red light, on TIL
respective sides of the channel Wher
| the white and red lights are uniform
| " placed. so that mariners after pick
| ing up the strong light on Sand Islan'
could tell just exactly where to com
| up TO, for both anchorage and pratiqu
purposes. The present channel is s
well lighted that once a mariner locate
| the entrance to the channel he ca
bring his ship up the channel almos
| as if he were coming up well hghte
street. The anchorage lights are rec
commended to be Of the ascetylene type
Captain sorenson Wen-Liked.
A new agent for the Sailors Unto
recently came down here from tn
| Coast to take the place of Joseph ]
| Liddy. and he has already won for hin
self the goodwill of nearly everyhod
along the waterfront. Captain Sorer
son has been in this port before, hay
ing sailed in several vessels that IA
| in the Hawaiian Island trade, and b
is consequently anything but strange
| here. A sailor agent has many try
ing questions TO settle IN his ofiicla
position, and it is said that there WI
be less trouble between master and me
in the port of Honolulu now that Cal
| tain Sorenson has taken charge of tn
sailors end He IS not a trouble mai Ike
himself, and that counts for grea
| deal, and the fact that he has til
fair mind necessary to handle queS
ton from the master S, as well as til