Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-10
MONEY spent
At QUARANTINE

Following upon the recommends
lions offered by DIR. Trotter, chief
quarantine officer at this port, the
United States government is expend.
ing considerable sum OF money at
the local quarantine station in the
completion OF much needed improve
ment.
The work of laying a large surface
of concrete walk has been completed.
These passages ways will serve TO
connect the various buildings at the
station, permitting far more salts
factory means of getting about in wet
weather.
A number of shower baths have
been installed in the quarters assign.
ed to the European steerage. These
baths are made necessary with the
prospective arrival OF a thousand or
more Spanish and Portuguese immi.
grants, now nearing the islands, in the
British steamship Willesden.
To better prepare for the reception
of the immigrants from Europe, the
dining room at the station has been
greatly enlarged.
new cement floor now takes the
place OF the old wooden one that did
service in the Oriental quarters.
Dr. Trotter's recommendations also
called for the expenditure of money
in the Improvement of quarters oc.
cupied by the quarantine island staff.
Nearly a thousand dollars has been
spent in refitting the apartments
where the guards and attendants must
live during the stay of the immi-
grants.
The federal pharmacist has been
transferred to new and far more
comodious quarters, upon which $500
has been expended in refitting and
enlargement
Survey Ship Patterson to Return
North
Gables received here have ordered
the United States coast and geodetic
survey steamer Patterson and her
company of officers and men to the
north The vessel has been engaged
in survey work along the east coast
Of Maui for some months past. The
vessel is expected will sail for Seattle
the first OF the week, the Patterson to
proceed to a coast refitting station.
During the actual work off Maui. with
out counting the trips of the vessel to
and from Honolulu harbor, the Patter-
son and her launches have travelled
two thousand miles in making sound
ings. fifteen thousand soundings in all
having been taken.
Several hundred current observa-
tons were taken at ten different sta
lions.
The Patterson will proceed for Sc
attic Tuesday and leave again from
that port as quickly as possible. She
will be stationed at Duck Harbor, and
will engage in Alaska survey work
all summer.
Ice Menace in the Pacific
Ice, floating in large fields, is de-
clRred menace to the navigation of
the North Pacific At the time of ar
rival of the Pacific Mail liner Siberia
at Yokohama, reports continued to
reach the Japanese government mari
time bureau of the grave danger to
shipping through floating ice in
northern waters. The small Japanese
collier, the Saiun Maru, which left
Chingwantao, Manchuria, for Japan,
when four miles out from port met
drift ice and found it difficult to make
progress. Later she was seen to be
flying signals of distress. The Kailan
Administration steamer Kaiping set
off to render her assistance, but the
Saitsu Maru arrived on the scene She
took off the captain and most of the
crew, by which time the Saiun Maru
was low in the water and the engine
room was flooded. The inrushing
water prevented the chief engineer
and two firemen from reaching the
deck and all three were drowned.
The same day floating ice impeded
the progress of the Sakata Maru,
which hoisted signals of distress. The
Kaiping steamed out and towed her
into port.
The customs officials notify ship
ping that the wrecked Saiun Maru is
a menace to navigation.
Hyades to Arrive Wednesday
Morning.
The Matsen Navigation freighter
Hyades should come to berth at
Hackfeld wharf Wednesday morning,
Judging from the wireless message re-
ceived from that vessel today through
the agency of Castle & Cooke.
The Hyades. from San Francisco by
the way of Puget Sound ports, is
bringing $3.50 tons general cargo for
discharge at Honolulu. The other
: Island ports of call arc OF receive
freight from the Hyades in amounts
of $50 tons for Port Allen. 100 tons
for Kaanapali, $50 tons for Kahulri
and 500 tons for Hilo.
The Matson vessel will receive ship
ments of sugar at several ports, the
product being destined for coast re-
fineries.
Wireless Flashes.
Through wireless received late last
night two trans-Pacific liners were re-
-..1od nearing mort At s o'clock the