The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-09
WHY THEY WAITED.

1 was MAD crowd at the landing,
Waiting for the ship to dock,
When the captain said reporters
Were the favored Of the flock.
TIL the passengers had landed
All the rest would have to wait.
Dear me. how those women murmured
AS those men went through the gate.
But what s the use of running
Blindly 'gainst the hand of fate,
For the Fates were with the women
And two women made them late.
Standing al the purser's window
Two of them the fort did hold,
While they kept that purser busy
Counting out a store of gold.
How much money will we need. dear?
. Do You thing that ten will do?'
"Had we better take the paper?''
~ d take gold, if I were you.''
The greenbacks were tied up with string
And tightly bagged the gold.
She united and retied them both
Reporters thoughts, untold.
When number Two g turn came along
She cried out in dismay,
Her little bag could not be found,
Right there she had her say.
"Send for the stewardness at once.
BY her T sent it down.
This looked like news ADDING,
The boys forgot to frown.
eyes, ma am, took the bag of gold
Here. straightway brought the same,
But your sister gave it to me
And I put it in her name. -
The purser turned and found the bag,
The first one on the top.
What those reporters said, to hear
I did not care to stop.
Noah's Name Rejected.
Noah was rejected today for hon
orarv membership in the Society of
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
now at Detroit, Mich, saws an East
ern Exchange Prof. H. S. Sadler, of
the University OF Michigan, in Sec
onding the proposal to admit Noah S
name to the roll of honorary member
ship, contended that he was the father
of the designing profession.
"Noah was a gamekeeper, not a
ISclSItI ~ i!il6Sl l. itbUtb eu
E. Kirby of Detroit and New York,
land I move therefore that his name
be laid on the table,
Evidently the other designers and
architects agreed with Mr.. Kirby s
classification for Noah was rejected
with but one dissenting vote.
Port Of Balboa, Panama.
Extract from a report of the Chair
man and chief Engineer of the 18th.
milan Canal Commission, furnished
through the courtesy of Secretary OF
War April l., 1907
On Monday morning. April 5, 1909
the Pacific Division began dumping
spoil from the canal into the F-ench
Channel at the crossing of the freak.
water to Macs Island This will make
it necessary for all shipping entering
or leaving the port of Ancon to ust
the new channel between the Daralle,
lines of marking buoys, the sea en
trance of which is about a mile south
| west of Flamenco Island. Ships com
ing into the port should enter this new
channel between parallel lines of mark
ing buoys and keep in about the cen
ter of the channel until abreast of ia
Boca wharf. This channel is safe al
mean tide for all ships drawing Is feet
or under. and at three quarter tide fol
those drawing u to % feet, but
heavier draft ships should enter
or depart at approximate higl
tide. The limiting depth in the chan
mel center is about 80 feet (mean tide)
which is found from along the wharf
TO about 1000 feet south of same; dur
! ing the lower 1000 feet of this dis
lance the channel is only $50 feet bot
tom width, that part which is IN
! dredged being on the east side of the
| channel and VIII be fully removed by
| June /. 1909. From this point. 1000
feet south Of wharf to point 10000
! feet south Of wharf, the channel is oper
| to its full bottom width and 40 fee
/ deep, and from this point to deep ses
| open to full width from 45 to So fee
| deep ANY information about the new
| channel that Is required by navigation
| interests viii be cheerfully furnished
| by the Division Engineer. and in cast
| the services Of a pilot should be re
| auired by any captain not sufficiently
| familiar with the channels. same vii
| be furnished on proper request to th'