The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-23


II there was any alleged quarantine.
that such quarantine was a farce and
| a joke
| 1t has not yet been decided what at
torney Is to represent the alleged quar-
| antine breakers. hut when the men are
arrested this morning. after coming out
! OF quarantine on the island, it will be
decided what attorney or attorneys are
to handle the case
1t will be remembered that the VIII
helmina was put i'll quarantine at Hilo
: on account of a case Being put ashore
winch was supposed to be a matter of
! smallpox. Whether it was smallpox or
not, is question that has to be settled
with the quarantine authorities, but it
was alleged to be such a case, and the
usual quarantine in such cases was re-
quired. When the vessel arrived at Ho-
nolulu from Hilo she was put alongside
i the quarantine wharf aud later was re-
leased from that position and put along
side the railway wharf at the Eva end
/ of the harbor and was warped away
some eight or ten feet from the wharf.
! with the idea that nobody was to be
allowed ashore except the heads of the
ship S department, and that nobody was
to he allowed aboard
The members of the crew resented
the rumor to the effect that nobody
would be allowed ashore except the Off
GERS. They wanted to go ashore them
selves, and when the officers We're al
lowed ashore and they were compelled
to stay aboard they resented the orders
and went ashore whether the rules al
lowed them to do so or not.
l. Tbav ya1l-aI aShorp in cf.i+a of al
legged orders. Now they say the orders
gwen them were merely that they were
i not allowed to leave the ship. They
might have been guilty of leaving the
vessel without leave, but they deny any
guilt as to breaking quarantine.
1t is believed that if these men are
convicted of breaking quarantine, which
is not altogether expected, there will
be considerable change in the method
J of handling quarantine matters here
in other words, that the system of hand
ling quarantine will be such that there
will be the strictest observance Of quar-
antine methods, and there will be no
chance of twenty-seven men, through a
misunderstanding or otherwise. going
ashore from a ship aboard which there
has been case of smallpox, whether
they want to or not.
The United States Public Health and
: Marine Hospital Service is going to
prosecute without fear or favor. and IL
it wins the case against the men of the
:. Wilhelmina it will prove a victory con
trary to the understanding OF the men
: of the Sailors Union and the other
6 unions represented. These unions be
lieve that they have no right to have
: their men prosecuted and viii fight tc
5 have the sailors and stewards and fun
+, kies and engine room men cleared OF
any wrongdoing, in which event it viii
9 mean that the custom here IN regard te
, auarantining vessels will be much more
stringent than at present
: Local Marine Notice.
. Maui Island, Northerly Side, Kahu
lui Harbor, Kahului Breakwater Light
On September 20 the characteristic
: of this light was changed from fixed
. white to fixed red, without other change
in The characteristics Bearings:
= Church ia Kahului, 173 II deg. true
} IS bv f 7-16 f mag; Kahului front
range light. 49, deg. true Is 7-16 t
! mag1; church on Wailuku road. west
; erIy shore of bay, ESQ deg. true CIV /
y mag Y. 5. HOUSTON.
Lieut.. -Comdr.. U.S.N., Inspector, 1871
Lighthouse District.
Big Sugar Haul.
The sugar season IS over. and ont o
about half a million tons Of the swee
:, stuff exported from these Islands IN TIL
: wear the steamships of the American
r. Hawaiian company have transporte'
II about two hundred and seventy-tv
d thousand tons by way of SAUNA Cruz
d thence across Tehuantepee, and so t
II the eastern market.
II The steamship Columbian sailed from
# HiIo Wednesday with six thousand fly
q hundred tons of sugar, that being tn
last of the season.
American Hawaiian sailings.
new schedule of the American-Ha
- waiian Steamship Company is to 90 int
z effect. From Seattle and Tacoma tn
3 :. s. Virginian viii sail for Honolulu
: on or about October f, the MeXca
Z will sail October Is and the Mlssourla
g Will sail on October IS.
o. Alden Besse's Cargo.
"a SAN PEDRO, September . In
bark Alden Besse, Captain McAlIlstel
" will be compelled to discharge ne
70 cargo, loaded at Honolulu, on hghter
1, IN the outer harbor She left the i
Land pert without being fumigated, an
20 is refused entrance 10 the inner harbo
h. bv the quarantine officers.
III Shipping Notes.
Yesterday afternoon the steamer v
RS G.. Hall sailed for Kauai
g, Steamship Hilonian arrived at Hu
e. from Seattle on September 20, Tuesda
i' last.
&c British collier Selsdon has nearly dl
- CHARGED. Next week she will procee
n Ocean Island to load gnano.