Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-30

HARDOR NOTES

IuuB"ON NOu1O
/ The T. X. X. liner Tenyo Maru is
due Monday from Yokohama, She
will bring mail from the Orient.
/ NAH for San Francisco will go in
the Matson steamer Manoa Tuesday.
The Oceanic steamer Sonoma. due
Monday. win bring the next mail from
the coast =
/ With freight to discharge there. the
/ Matson steamer WiihelmiEa win sail
tonight FOR Hiio She win return here
1 In time 10 sail "Wednesday morning
Tor San Francisco.
/ with I.153.000 feet OF number for.
Levers e Cooke on beard. the schoon-
er Helene, Capt Otto Lembke, is at
Pier il today, unloading her big car.
Igo. She made the voyage from Bel
ilinghami washington, in % days
j Two British steamers, the Inyer.
clyde and the City OF Bombay. are
due here tomorrow from the canal Tor
bunkers saturday two more should
ldock, the VaIetta. from the canal for
bunkeFs; and the British oil tanker
D0nax. also from Panama, for oil
bunkers.
i Capt. William K. Freeman Of the.
Mauna Kea Is spending two weeks
vacation ia Honolulu. Capt. Frank
M Berg, assistant wharf saperinter-
dent for the Intef.IsIand Steam Nayi-
cation Company, Will be in charge Of
the steamer Mauna Kea during Capt.
/ ~. K. Freemanss vacation of two
weeks
4 Nothing further has been learned by
Hackfeld & Company, agents for the
German refugee steamer Setos, rela-
tive to disposal of the vessels 3.000,-
900 foot lumber cargo here The
owners agent. a W. Standen, is still
conducting negotiations to sell the
ships cargo to local lumber dealers.
Parts Of the harbor, with masts
looming against the sky, remind one
today Of the old sailing days before
steam Feigned supreme The sailing
vessels now In port include the Hell
enc, Flaurence Ward, GareImapu, Arl-
ME Larsen and Repeat. Most Of them
are lumber boats.
Although now engaged in the hum.
BILE task of carrying nitrates, the Chill
can ship Cafelmapu. now In the har
Dor with nitrate cargo for local
firms, was once one Of the speediest
lclipper ships blowing the waves. She
was built 50 years ago and ohristened
| the KinrOss Under that name she
made some record voyages.
a new steamer, flying the flag Of
the Oregon and California Shipping
Company. will soon be placed In SER
| vice between Portland, San Francisco
land the Atlantic seaboard. This line
nov has two steamers, the Eureka.
1899 tons net, and the Tampico, 1851
tons net, operating between New
York, Philadelphia and the west coast.
The British government Is placing
captured German vessels in use as
lumber carriers, according to report
from Vice,Eonsul g. c. woodward,
Vancouver, who says the British.
steamer Grantland, formerly the Ger.
imam freighter Josephinia, is loading
,25O, 900 feet Of lumber for Liverpool,
under charter to the Provincial For
lestry Department.
Capt. Piltz Of the American schoon-
/, er Sehonne, on which q sailor, 8. II I
Ware, nearly laid ont Eve members OF
the crew in a fight when the skipper
lordered him to cease botherfng girl
passenger, is believed to be relative
of Capt. Piltz of the Flaurence Ward,
now in port The Sehome arrived yes
terday in San Francisco with the
fcave-man sailor Ware IN irons.
With her hull, masts and rigging
damaged beyond repair by shell fire
from the German submarine which
torpedoed her, the Hind, Rolph schoon.
/ er William T. Lewis, summarized OF
the Irish coast September 2, VIII
probably never be put in commission
/ again. The vessel is waterlogged IN
Bantuy Bay, Ireland, where she was.
toWed. A message to Hind, Rolph q
Company stated the ship is not worth
repairing.
Very patent indications that the
ship is an American boat were visible
when the former Pacific Mail liner
Korea sailed from San Francisco Sep
TENDER % for London. She bore the
words, American s. 8. Korea" paint
ed on her sides In letters seven feet
high, and an American flag Of the
same height and % feet long was
painted below the signs, showing the
new owners, the Atlantic Transport
Company of West Virginia, are not
taking any chances with German sub
marines.
Supt. James w. Robertson Of c.
Brewer & Company's freight and
shipping department reported today
that the British. steamer Hardwood
is due here probably tomorrow or Lext