The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-17


its completion. The delay is not
chargeable to Contractor G. ]. Erick-
son, but to changes in plans formu-
lated by the navy department and the
wait for new appropriations. The
dock, when finished, will be larger
than originally planned.
There have been 100000 cubic yards
of concrete laid, and the concrete
work will be finished by April IS
Granite has been set to the amount
of $4,000 cubic feet, and the remain
ing $4,000 cubic feet will be in place
by March Is. After that time the
dredging necessary to open the dry
dock will begin and the keel blocks
laid, while the work will begin on the
crane tracks and foundations, the
pump well, steel work and superstruc-
ture, and grading around the dock.
The big steel caisson which forms the
gateway to the dock, and which was
launched by the Seattle Construction
and Drydock Company yesterday, will
be set about May Is.
The contract price for the dock is
81 1864, O961O.-Seattle Daily Times.
Thetis Coming Soon.
The news that the revenue cutter
Thetis has started for Honolulu was
premature. She is coming here soon.
The following is from the Seattle
Daily Times First Lieutenant of En-
gineers William Crockett Myers has
been assigned to duty on the United
States revenue cutter Thetis as chief
engineer, in place of First Lieutenant
of Engineers John B. Turner who
has been granted two months sick
leaye. Lieutenant Myers was award
ed a bronze medal by Congress for
the part he took aboard the revenue
cutter McCulloch in the battle of Ma
Mia Bay, May 1, 1898.
The Thetis this afternoon left her
in Elliott Bay and went to
Bremerton to have her batteries
from the old-model guns to
effective modern three-pounders. 1t
is likely that this work will occupy
a week The Thetis will take on sup
plies here before steaming for her
home station at Honolulu
The Thetis will deliver a new surf
boat to the United States life-saving
tug Snohomish at Neah Bay
Tenyo Maru at 7 Tomorrow Morning.
The Tenyo Maru is due to arrive off
port at Z o'clock tomorrow morning
from the Orient, en- route to San Fran
cisco.
Sierra to San francisco.
The Sierra got away at noon today
for San Francisco with one of the big
gest cargoes of bananas taken away
from here for a long time. She had
1000 lunches of bananas over 1900
tons of sugar, about 5000 cases of can
ned pineapples, about a thousand cases
of fresh pineapples, about 400 bags
of rice, and the usual cargo of island
products, the total freight amounting
to little over 5000 tons.
There were siXty-siX in the cabins
and thirty-five in the steerage. The
allegation that the Sierra was practi-
cally empty was resented on board
this morning
Captain PiItz Retres.
Seattle Daily Times: Captain Hen
ry Piltz, one of the old-time naviga-
tors of the Pacific, whose waters he
has sailed since 1860, today announc-
ed that he had sent in his resignation
as skipper of the schooner Robert
Searles and tomorrow will retire from
the sea. He and Mrs. Piltz, who has
been his companion aboard ship for
many years, will make their home in
San Francisco.
News of Captain Pitts retirement
will be received with general regret
by marine men all along the Pacific
Slope, who have come to regard him
as the Nestor of coastwise shipping.
He is one of the last surviving links
between the old and the new in the
world of Pacific navigators. Since
1860 he has been skipper of many sail
ing vessels, voyaging in the early six
ties from San Francisco to the South
Seas, and then entering the coastwise
trade. In addition he has superin-
tended the construction of a number
of well-known vessels, including the
barkentine James w. Taft, and the
schooner Searles, in both of which he
is part owner.
Retired once Before.
The Searles was built at Port Blake
ley in 1888. A. few years later Cap
tain Piltz retired from the sea, but
the lure of the ocean proved too
strong and he returned at the end Of
nine years In the meantime he had
served three years as port warden OF
San Francisco. For the last fifteen