Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-11
Shipping
STILL SMALL Voice WARNS
~ TENYO MARU OF DANGER
Unique Submarine Signal Equipment Now Carried BY the
Undertakes Record Number Of Orient Bound Pas
Sengers From HonouIu-South Bay on the Ways-Ho-
nOllhan Departs Loaded With Sugar and Passengers.


Gus spring protected stringers we're
fractured and made racket likened
to the tearing down of portion Of
the structure. Superintendent of Pub
lie Works Marston Campbell was a
silent but interested spectator to what
might have been misconstrued as ac-
tual destruction of the wharf.
G. +. Tobler and G.. j. Meyler are
buyers representing the great house
Of Wannamaker of Philadelphia and
New York.
Charles o. Goodwin is reputed as
the lucky individual who drew first
prize in circulation contest just
closed by Los Angeles newspaper.
He was given his choice of trips aud
choose that which will include a tour
of the Orient. lie is accompanied by
his wife.
A. j. Israel is well known insur-
ance broker with headquarters at
Shanghai who is returning from bust
ness mission that called him to the
States.
T. II. Blackburn Is n Des Molnes
capitalist, on q round the world tour
L. w. Spaulding multl-millionaire,
OF Boston. Is rousd trip passenger.
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Lifcboat Appliance.
Charles Hunt, Of 30 West Ninth
street, has perfected mechanical de-
vice for lowering n .ifcbnat into the
water and automatically releasing II
which, Is being installed on two YES
colo which Ia n,,iI
ing Company, of Cleveland, is build
ing for the Standard Oil Company.
The apparatus will enable one man
to swing n boat from over the deck
and lower II into the water A shaft
connecting the two davits insures
equal speed in the lowering of both
ends of the lifebOat.
A model of the apparatus Is on en-
hibition In the American Museum of
Public Safety. In West Thirty-ninth
street. The Department of Docks and
Ferries has ordered boat equipped
with the device.
when passengers have taken their
places in the llfeboat one man, by
turning a wheel, can launch the craft
In two minutes.
Mr.. Hunt was n passenger on board
the BomgoGnc, OF the French line,
which was Lost at sea In 1896. and
since then he has been working on
his invention. The idea was suggest
cd 10 him because of the confusion
attendant upon the launching OF life
boats during the disaster and the diff
liculty experienced in dropping the
boats into the sean. Y. Herald.
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Cattle and Coffee.
Cargo brought to the port this morn
ing In the Kona ana Kau liner Mauna
Loa ranged from cattle to coffee. There
was an unusually large list of cabin
passengers. The freight list included
5000 sacks sugar, ii2 sacks coffep, So
lunches bananas, III sacks bones, 8
crates chickens, S pigs, IL cows, IL
calves, 80 head cattle, 20 cases honey,
shipments of turkeys and island fruits
and 250 packages sundries.
Purser sheldon reports cloudy wealth
or, with threatening rain. along Kau
and Kona. While crossing the channel
the vessel met with light northeast
winds and smooth seas. The officers
Brought the story OF seeing the lights
Of = plsning steamer while nearing Ma
poopoo, the vessel being of rather large
tonnage. some were inclined ito be-
lirVo that the Mauna Kca had been
commissioned for Il special trip until
they were Informed upon arrival this
morning that such was not the case.
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Heavy Cargo Breaks Gear.
Two extra heavy pieces of machin-
cry to he used In fitting out the Ho-
nolulu Rapid Transit plant nre being
unlOaded from the American Hawaiian