Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-27

HARBOR NOTES

|HARBOR NOTES
The Mikahala brought in 81 hogs
80 bags Of charcoal and miscellaneous
cargo yesterday from Maui
The old Bennington, now a sugar
barge. arrived this morning, towed in
by the Intrepid from Pearl Harbor
The Annie Johnson was due to
leave for San Francisco yesterday.
The Wailele reported her loading su
| gar at Mahukona.
Looking much fresher and bright
er, the submarine tender Alert IS ali
dressed up in a new coat OF battle
ship gray this week.
The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco will submit bids to the govern
ment for the construction Of Is subma-
rines and several destroyers.
Reports from San Francisco state
that Edward J. Keller, Marine Corps,
a prisoner, escaped from the Sherman
here September 4. No report has been
made to the quartermaster's office.
Slides in the Panama canal are be-
lieved to have delayed the navy col.
here by this time. The navy yard
here last heard from her as at Gatun
Lake.
Bringing a record cargo of 5000 tons.
| the American-Hawaiian freighter Tex
an arrived last night from Seattle.
The boat locked today at the railroad
wharf. She brought mail from the
| coast.
Everything in the line of tropical
products, from taro and rice to cocoa.
nuts, came In yesterday on the Like
were 383 bags of rice and 1883 sacks
Of paddy.
Bringing 395 sacks OF mail from
the mainland, the Matson steamer Will
helmina was reported on time today
by Castle & Cooke. The boat win
dock about 1880 tomorrow morning
at Pier Is.
More freight than it can take care
of is making the Transfberian rail-
way operate under heavy pressure,
according to a report filed by Henry
P. Baker, United, States commercial
attache at Petrograd.
A big shipment Of sheep, $50 head,
arrived Yesterday on the Inter,Island
steamer Wailele, from the Parker
ranch. The boat also unloaded here
1882 bags of Kohala sugar, 27So OF
Union, and other cargo. j..
The Oceanic, steamer Sonoma win
sail from San Francisco for Honolulu
and Australia tomorrow, according to
@. Brewer & Company, local agents.
She is due here October 1, and win
sail the same day for Sydney.
AS the result of extensive dredging
a depth of IS feet at low tide has been
obtained in the channel at the Column
bia rivers mouth. This Is the deep
est in the history of the stream, az
cording to surveys made by govern.
ment engineers.
Because of freight congestion in
Manila, due to the Pacific Mails with
drawal, the use of army transports
for commercial cargoes as an en1er-
gency measure is being advocated.
The T. K. KS rates are said to favor
Japanese shippers 7
The waterfront at Cebu, P. l., has
been dredged to a depth of 10 feet,
from the market to the angle in the
seawall, and Is feet from there to the
customhouse. A 3000foot concrete
seawall has been built with berths for
two steamers drawing 80 feet of water.
When the Matson steamer Lurline
sails at o'clock tomorrow afternoon
from Pier 10 she will take Is passen-
gers from here, although she has room
for so. The boat will carry big car
go to the mainland, including between
$4,000 and 10000 cases Of canned
pineapples, 1000 tons of molasses, and
$500 punches of bananas.
Visitors from official, social and
CIVIC circles of Honolulu were enter
tanned on board the Imperial Govern
ment training ship Taisei Maru yes
terday afternoon by Capt. M. Kanno,
commander of the vessel, and officers
and cadets. Invitations were sent out
to representative Honolulans and the
response was large. The ship is due
to sail at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning
for Toxic.
The 9000-ton freighter Eurana, built
by the UniCn Iron Works of San Fran
cisco. was launched there September
II. Mrs. Eurana Schwab, wife OF
President Charles M. Schwab of the
Bethlehem Steel Works, launched the
big ship by pressing in her home in
Pennsylvania the button which re-