The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-06
SALVAGE FOR
|NTER-|SLAND
Judge Dole Allows $4,000 for
Pulling Chiusa Maru
Off Reef.

Six thousand dollars is the sum
which Judge Dole has allowed the In
ter-Island Steam Navigation Company
for salving the japanese freighter Chi
usa Maru, which grounded here in the
early morning of November 8, 1906.
The decision of the court was read the
other day. Along with the sum of
$4,000 which the Togo Kisen Kaisha
Company, owners of the vessel, will
have to pay, the costs of court, which
will not be inconsiderable, were assess
ed against them.
Not the least interesting feature of
the case lies in the fact that the Chi
usa Maru ran into a storm about seven
| months ago and was foundered off the
coast of China. She is now lying at
the bottom of the sea. 1t is case
of "payng for a dead horse with the
| Togo Kisen Kaisha Company
The Chiusa Maru, in approaching the
| harbor of Honolulu from Kobe, Japan,
grounded her bow little southeast
| of the entrance to the harbor. The
| Inter-Island boat Ke Au Hou, coming
| in from Kauai, offered its services,
which were accepted on the understand
| ing that the compensation should be
arranged afterwards. A hawser was
taken out to the Ke Au Hou and she
| began to pull dead astern.
| A short time later, the Kinau, COM
| ing into the harbor from Hawaii, land
ed her passengers and returned to the
assistance of the stranded vessel. The
two Inter-Isand boats kept up the
strain on their hawsers from early
morning until shortly after one o CLOCK
in the afternoon, when the Maru float
ed off The United States revenue cut!
ter Manning also assisted (for a short
time) in pulling the japanese freighter
off.
| The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company brought libel for salvage in
the sum of $4,000, alleging that the
value of the Chiusa Maru was $4,000,
her cargo $4,000, and that freight
money was earned in the sum of $4,000.
1t was also alleged in the libel that
the Kinau, valued at 100000, and the
Ke Au Hou, stated to be worth $45, 600
/ were in great peril during the time
they were salving the vessel owing to
the heavy swell that was running shore
ward.
In rendering his decision, Judge Dole
| takes occasion to give high praise to
| the masters of the Inter Island boats,
| saving as follows: ''The conduct of
the masters of the Ke Au Hou and XII
nau was highly creditable and stands
| in marked contrast to that of the mas
ter of the Fearless, which arrived first
on the ground and who declined to do
anything without the promise of $780,
| 600 salvage--conduct most discredItabie
| because of his attempt to take advan-
tage of a ship in distress, and most UNI
| businesslike because no court of admir-
atty would sustain an unconscionable
| contract forced on ship under such
| circumstances.
Judge Dole also commended the prac-
| tise of bringing the crews into the ap-
plieations for salvage compensation. He
stated it as his belief that they de-
| served extra compensation and there
| fore, the award was made to include IN
| its benefits a reasonable proportion to
''the masters and crews of said steam
ers, Ke Au Hou and Kinau, and other
servants of the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Company, Ltd, according
| to the value of their services and the
danger and hardships to which they
were respectively exposed in the sal
wage operations.
| In the Divorce Court.
Sixteen year-old All Lum, Chinese