The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-27

$50 feet n 1929 f true, n 1110 E
Mag (ESE) from the new Honolulu
Range Front light tower The buoy
as now placed marks the turning point
for vessels entering or leaving Homo
lulu harbor, and carries least depth of
thirtyfour feet mean low water along
a line drawn from the buoy to the dol
phin off the southeast corner of Quar-.
antine wharf. This position will prob
ably be made permanent and notice is
sued to that effect.
North Tangent Channel Wharf, 76o
(ENE u f Mag.); Channel Light No.
s, 1902 (South Mag.); old Front range
lighthouse, 242' (SWxW1a W Mag.).
By order of the Lighthouse Board.
STANFORD T. MOSES,
Lieut. Commander, Z. S. n, Assistan.
to the Inspector 18th L. Fl. District.
Chief Aliens Long Service.
Chief Engineer Allen of the Asia,
which passed through Honolulu ON Sat
urday, has been forty-one years in en-
CINE rooms of steamships, and in addi
ton he has record of three millions OF
miles of travel to his credit. Chief
Allen is one of the most, if not the most,
popular engineers travelling across the
Pacific, always kindly, ready with
yarn, and one of the best read and in
formed men in the Pacific Mail service.
Chief Allen was born on the little
Isle of Man sixty-ive years ago. At
present the chiefs stories go back to
his recent visit to his birthplace, the
first he has had an opportunity of max
ing in thirteen years. He was twenty
four years of age when he first began
following the sea for living. In 1867
he went aboard the old steamer Tiber
plying between Liverpool and Mediter-
ranean ports. He was on this route for
eleven years. He then came out to
the Pacific on the old White Star
steamer Belgic and has been continu-
ously in the service of the White Star
company ever since After the Belgic
went off the Pacific route for the first
time in 1888, he went to the Oceanic
of the same line and in 1895 took her
home, returning to the Pacific on the
Doric now the Asia, with Captain Har-
ry Smith as commander, with which
vessel he has been for thirteen years.
OI Alo Adot NIolt W lHG lSlS VI .hdu,
he took occasion to visit Captain Har-
ry Smith at the latter s home in South
ampton. Captain Smith is now in com
mand of the Teutonic, plying between
Southampton and New York. He has
! taken one trip on the Arabic with one
of Clark s touring parties and Mr..
Clark has asked Captain Smith to go
! on the Arabic on its world cruise the
i latter part of this year. The vessel is
scheduled to call at Honolulu twice
Work at standstill.
Work on the front range light on
Sand Island for Honolulu harbor has
come to a standstill and may not be
completed for few months. A rear
rangement of the plans was made to
meet new roof design and this
brought that portion of the work to a
close for the time being. Sand Island
has quoted down since the harbor
dredging contract was finished and
about the only signs of life there now
come from the lighthouse keepers cot
tage.
i The Big P. M. Boats.
As previously stated the Mongolia
from Yokohama, arriving Friday morn
ing, will dock as usual at the Hack
field wharf, where she will discharge
a thousand tons of cargo. The Man
churia due Friday morning from Sar
Francisco, win dock at the Oceanic
wharf; that is if she is not drawing
too much water. Otherwise the vesse
will be moored at the Alakea street
wharf
Coal Hopper About Ready.
Secretary Mclean of the Inter-Islanc
) company stated yesterday that the new
coal hopper plant would be ready fol
handling business early in February
This far steam had merely been turned
, into the feeder pipes to test them, bu
no effort has as yet been made to as
: certain how the big movable derrick
platforms work
Maybe So.
Two new steamship lines between
the Pacific coast and the Hawaiian Is
lands are being organized at Los An
geles. One is to be Incorporated b,
capitalists of Los Angeles and the othe
IS to be subsidiary of the San Pedro
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad TIL
projected lines are to make Los An
geles their principal coast shippin;
: point and both are designed to accom-
modate the rapidly growing came,
pineapple and sugar business and tn
tourist passenger traffic between tn
Pacific coast and Hawaii-Shipping Il
! lustrated
4 Hilonian Departs.
4 Promptly at 10 o'clock yesterda,
. morning the Matson steamer Hilonial
/ left for San Francisco with a SINAI