Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-23
PRETTY RACE
is PREDICTED
Well Known WindjammerS
Hasten to Honolulu With
Lumber Shipments.


schooner rugged vessel is again to be
threshed out, with the expected ar
rival Of the well-known barkentine
Newsboy and the familiar schooner
Fred J. Wood.
These windjaminers are now re-
ported to have sailed from Grays Har.
Dor 10 days ago, each heavily laden
with lumber and other lines OF build
ing material. -
A pretty race from the north Pa
Ciflc coast to the port Of Honolulu is
the prediction of seafaring men who
have recently reached this port by the
several trans-Pacific steamers. The
Newsboy is no stranger to the rapid
transit class. This vessel has on more
than one occasion distinguished her
self In taking up the long voyage from
the Sound TO the islanGs.
The Newsboy is said will bring car
60 consigned to the City Mill Com
pany. swEEM
The trim schooner Fred j. Wood is
equally fast sailor and of late has
been more or less frequent visitor
TO Hilo and Hawaii ports.
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Ship Burns: Six Of Crew Perish.
VANCOUVER, b. G., May 3. =
Hemmed in by flames. which started
from some unknown cause, six mem
hers of the crew OF the steamer Ophir,
which sailed from Vancouver last
night and tied up at the Brunswick
cannery, Canoe Pass, near Ladner, in
the Fraser river, were burned to death
in fire which is still ablaze and will
destroy the vessel.
The catastrophe occurred at $3.50
this morning. There were eleven men
signed on In Vancouver last night for
the trip to the cannery with a cargo of
tinplate.
The vessel arrived too late for un-
leading and the crew retired, after
having tied the vessel to the cannery
wharf
The Ophir is a wooden steamer of
200 tons lightweight capacity and is
owned by the Lincoln Steamship Com
pany, of which Captain l.. Rogers is
agent in Vancouver She was en-
pioyed in carrying freight to points on
the Fraser river.
Seeker Older Wireless Operators.
AS a result of the wireless strike
along the Pacific coast affecting all
of the steamers in the Pacific zone of
ship wireless. it is runIored the COM
bined shipping interests are preparing
to demand that no operators be placed
on their vessels unless they have
reached the age Of q years.
Several days ago the Pacific Mail
Company decided in future all opera
tors employed on their steamers must
be 81 years old This is expected to
create more satisfactory service on
the Pacific Mail ships and within a
few days it is expected that most OF
the ship owners win follow the ex-
ample of the Pacific Mail.
The ship owners say the employ
ment of mere boys as operators is a
menace to their property and, in case
OF accident, the lives of the passen-
gers and crews may be endangered.
Ii is claimed that the employment of
many young operators since the in
auguration of the wireless strike has
resulted in an unsatisfactory service.
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Grace Liners Make Their Bow
The next of the new Grace liners to
come to the coast will be the Santa
Clara, which is expected to get away
from New York in July. The Santa
Cruz will be here again next Septem-
Der. While on the Sound the latter
vessel loaded her lumber cargo, talk
ing shipments of general freight and
most of her passengers at San Fran
cisco.
WELLINGTON, N. Zealand, May 10.
The British mail steamer IndraLa-
rah, which sailed from London Febru-
airy 18th for Auckland. was wrecked
today on the Manajata coast. No de-
tails have been received here. The
steamer Indrabarah is 7395-ton steel
vessel. She was built in 1910 and
owned by the India line.