The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-18
Massachusetts, Loaded,

Inc Ali. steamship Massachusetts
IS still lying at Hilo awaiting orders.
She was held up by the quitting of
her first officer. A new mate had ia
pc brought down from the Coast. Mr..
myers, who arrived on the Asia Fri.
Gay, and who went Immediately to
Hlio on the Claudine, which sailed for
the southern port that night. The
massachusetts, Is loaded and ready to
SAL as soon as she receives orders to
do so.
Nuuanu Coming.
The bark Nuuanu sailed from New
York for Honolulu yesterday. She
went to the eastern coast with a cargo
OF sugar from this port.
Roma Sails.
The Roma, which had been discharg-
ing oil here, sailed for Port Hartford
yesterday morning, towing the bark
entIne Fullerton, which also brought
oil for this port. The sailing of the
two vessels was delayed on account of
the thickness of the oil, which made
1T slow to pump.
Maritime Activity.
Shipping men agree that there is not
only a marked activity in maritime af-
fairs, but that the prospects are better
now than they have been for years, al
though reasons differ as to this cause
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
That the demand for freights is not
of an ephemeral character is demon
strated, they declare, by the fact that
since May / of this year contracts for
more than SO, 900 in new steamships
have been placed with shipbuiIding
concerns on the Atlantic seaboard.
In addition to these, it is reported
that contracts for two or three steam
ships, which will cost about 100000,
for the Alaska Steamship Company,
operating on this coast, will be given
to Eastern yards before the end Of the
present year.
Ten vessels are now under course of
construction at Newport News, Va,
three at Baltimore, two at Camden and
two at Wilmington. Notable among
these is a handsome freight anu pas
senger carrier for the Matson Nayiga-
ton Company. of this city, which will
be for service between San Francisco
and Honolulu. This steamer is to be
launched from the Newport News yards
about the end of September, and is
expected to be on the Coast by the first
of next year.
Not for years have so many vessels
been under construction in American
ship yards, and shipping men say that
the indications in the maritime bust
ness are more assuring than they have
been for a long period
win Use Oil and Coal. ;.
Chronicle. - Plans have almost
been completed, according to adviees
received from the Orient, by the Togo
Kisen Kaisha for the use of coal as
well as oil as feel on the liners of the
company. Before the huge Tenyo
Maru and Chiyo Maru were built the
japanese company contracted for an
annual supply of several million barrels
of California oil and at the same time
began the construction in England or
two huge tank steamers which were TO
be used in transporting the fuel from
this coast to Japan. 1t has been found
since that the oil supply is not entirely
adequate and there seems to be some
danger of the company running short
of fuel. To avoid any possible difficult
ty it is proposed to replace the OIL
burners under some of the boilers with
furnaces and to use both coal and oil
for fuel, the coal being taken aboard
at Nagasaki and the oil at San fran
cisco. The plan is an innovation that
is expected to prove wholly satisfactory
on the big turbine liners.
Shipping Notes.
The American Hawaiian steamship
sailed from Hilo for Sa
lima Cruz last Friday.
The Tenyo Maru, which left Homo
lulu for the Coast on July IL, reached
San Francisco yesterday.
The Aorangi sailed from Victoria for
Honolulu yesterday. Size should arrive
here ON the oath if Gle makes the voy-
age down on schedule time.
Not only does every woman who en-
tiers an elevator containing mirror
turn. round Immediately, touch up her