The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-21
captain miller WILL FLOAT SESOSTRIS
The Sailor Boy Will Take Wreckers to
Guatemala---Turner Puts Back to
POrt---Manchuria Back in
Service.

One of the biggest pieces of sal
wage work done on the Pacific for
some years is about to be undertake
en- by Captain Frederick G. Miller,
/ who is overhauling his gear and or
/ gaming an expedition for the work.
! The Cosmos freighter Sesostris has
/ been beached on the Guatemala coast
/ for two years and was recently bought
/ from the German company by a GER
tain Beverly of San Francisco Cap
| tain Miller has contracted with this
/ owner to take the Sesostris off and
/ float her for $4,000 and he will start
| for the scene of action with his APP
paratus and wrecking crew in the Sal
( Tor Boy in two or three weeks.
| When the big steamer is foated it is
| reported, she will be taken over by
the Bates and Chesebrough company
and put on the run from San Fran
cisco to Panama. For this purpose
she will be one of the most valuable
, steamers on the coastwise run. In
the service of the Cosmos company he
ran from Hamburg to the Pacific ports
Of North and South America. When
| she was beached two years ago it was
thought that she would go to pieces
but recent inspection has proved that
she is in perfect condition and is as
comfortably lodged in sand as though
she were in drydock
Captain Miller does not regard the
work of taking her off as difficult and
he believes that with his gear and his
Honolulu crew he can have her afioat
in record time.
The Sailor Boy is at present on the
Marine railway being overhauled in
anticipation of the trip. She is being
fitted with a new false keel, three new
| masts, a new sternpost and complete
new rigging. With a little scraping
and few coats of paint she will be
in as good condition as ever Cap
! tain Miller is particularly proud of the
staunch construction of the schooner
and says that the Nova Scotian who
| built her nineteen years ago at South
| Bend could not get enough iron and
oak in her Her recent labors in the
! South Seas, where she was used to
carry contract laborers from one
group to another, put the bottom in
bad condition but did not affect it's
! solidity. The work of repairing and
painting is being pushed forward
rapidly and will be finished in a few
weeks, when the expedition will be
| ready to start for Guatemala.
1t was rumored some months ago
that an organization Of Honolulu bust
ness men was going to buy the Sesos-
tria and put her on new run from
Los Angeles to Honolulu as the nucleus
of a fleet to operate between these
ports, but these schemes do not seem
to have materialiZed.
MONGOLIA DUE SATURDAY.
A wireless message was received
from the Mongolia last night by the
local agents, announcing that the
steamer would arrive here Saturday
at o'clock and would probably get
away Sunday morning at 8. Whether
or not this can be accomplished the
agents have not determined, but it is
possible that the Mongolia will not
steam for the Coast on Sunday morn
ing until 10 o'clock. She comes from
Yokohama with 1895 tons of oriental
cargo for this port and will have room
for about 100 passengers on her run
from Honolulu to San Francisco.
The Pacific Mail agents also heard
by cable yesterday that the Manchu-
ria would be ready to sail from San
Francisco for the Orient by way of
this port today at l o'clock, so it is
evident that the fire damage in the
hold was by no means serious. The
Manchuria will arrive here next We'd
nesday instead of Monday as sched-
l11nd