The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

Ahsh Deas
| places The worBmen who are hand
ling the job say that when they are
1 through, the KaimiIoa will be good for
another century of service. She will
be used to carry oil to Pearl Harbor.
Kukui Returns.
Captain Jobson's trim little steamer
KuSui arrived here yesterday morning
! from trip to Kauai, where Light
| house Inspector Houston had inspect
ed couple of lights and taken up
/ the matter of site for a new light
house. The site was chosen, but where
1 not given out.
Inter-Island Sailings.
Island steamer Mikahala. Captain
Tullett. viii sail for Nawiliwili, Koloa,
Hanamaulu and Ahukini. The Niihau
sails at noon today for Kailua and
Napoopoo. Tomorrow the steamer ".
G. Hall sails at noon for Maa1aea, i
Kona and Kau, Mahukona and Ka-
waihae. Friday evening the Eiaudine
! sails for Kahului, Lahaina and Maui
ports.
Windy Day on the Front.
/ Yesterday was nasty day for all
who had business ON the waterfront,
the wind blowing clouds of dust and
forming whirfwinds in the thorough
fares. Not few minor accidents
I We're recorded as the result of the
dust and wind. A fashionably dressed
young lady. evidently a stranger in
the city, came within an ace of WALK
ing into the bay. She had her head
bent downward and to one side to
shield her face from the fierce gusts,
and had it not been for a small
pile of rubbish, over which she
i tripped and fell, would have walked
directly into the space of water be-
/ tween the Inter-Island and Matson
wharves. AS it was, she was bruised
considerably by the fall.
Coal Pickers on the Front.
Down on the waterfront these days
there is any number of old Hawaiian
coal-pickers busily engaged in keeping
the streets clean of all the bits of coal
which drop from the carts. This is al
ways the case when a transport is in
port, for there is usually more OF less
hauling of coal TO the wharves. But
when boat comes IN with full load
of coal, as the Dix is at the present
time. the coal piekers reap generous
harvest. They sneop along in the rear
of a mule cart, their black sacks over
their shoulders, and every small piece
Of the coal finds it's way-fRto the sack
and becomes part of the Hawaiian s
hoard Yesterday there were no less
than a dozen ek1he pnkersAat 80
allno j !. svsrEs ssags yyI9h
Dix ~ sloss4But e i tfs
/ enough Son the. wharf toSEeep avstea1
string of carts transferring it to one
!, of the United States coal piles on the
/ waterfront Where the Sheridan lay
there are four or FIVE Chinese coal fish
ermen at work all day, dragging the
bottom for scraps of coal lost overheard
when the big troopship was filing her
! bunkers. These men also reap a good
| harvest, usually getting a half boatioad
of coal per day.
Boats for Steamer.
The Hampton Roads bodybuilding
Company of Newport News has just
!. secured contract from the Newport
News Shipbuilding Company for the
construction of ten metallic lifeboats
for the new Matson line steamship.
The lifeboats are to be twenty eight
II
. three feet draft. They win be built
, after the regulation metallic lifeboat
specification and each will be equipped
with air chambers, making them prac-
tically unsuitable.
$ Shipping Notes.
Agent c. P. Morse of the American.
Hawaiian company has received let
! ter from Captain Nichols of the Column
bian reporting that one of the firemen
!, went mad on the evening of May 10.
: he chased around the decks brandish-
ing revolver for while. but was
finally captured and put in irons. Cap
tain Nichols stated that on arriving at
Hilo he would turn the man over to
the authorities
Captain j. Fl. Kinder of San Fran
| V-soo mas cuiiEpletSu negotiations Tor
the purchase of the ship Simla. the one
which Captain Miller of this city con-
: sidered buying, according to the San
: Francisco Daily Journal Of Commerce.
5 The vessel is in a slightly damaged con
: dition, having arrived at Acapulco with
r her cargo on fire.
t Three sugar vessels arrived at San
V Francisco on one day-May I. The
e barkentine Coronado, Captain Houd-
lette, made the voyage up from here
in fifteen days. The ST. Katherine made
the trip in twenty-three days, her time
: beating that of the s. G. Wilder one
K day. The approximate amount of sugar
carried by the three boats was 10000
: bags.
The Big ship Astral arrived at San
: Francisco the early part of the month
after voyage that rivalled that OF
' the Dirigo. Coming around from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, the Astral was
e on her beam ends several times in hur.
| rieanes. Warren Purdy of this city
{ was on board the vessel