Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-08
M. 8. K. Tramp Steamer TAX
ing Case Oil to Dairen. in
Grave DANGER at Canal

Fire discoFe.ed about midnight, 0c-
tober T. in the vessels No. ! hatch
placed the n z. X. tramp freighter
Mand2san Maru in peril ct Colon, it
was learned from officers Of the
steamer when she docked At Pier {
this mornin-. coming here for bunk
or coal en- route 20 Dairen with car
go Of case oil She arrived off port
at f0:2e last night" =.......:. r.
The fire, according 10 Chief Officer
s. E0shihara vas found burning
among the wooden cases in No. hold.
The cases. enclosed inflammable kero-
sene and engine oil and had the fire
ever gained enough headway to ignite
the Oil ii is DOUBTFUL whether the
steamer would have been anything but
scrap .rcn Today IT,. -. .....=
By quicl; work on the part of the
steamers officers and crew tire blaze.
which was small when discovered, was
put ont in half an hour by streams of
salt wafer from the vessels steam fire
pumps, with no damage to the yes
sci or her cargo. -. -. T.. -. ~.....> -
The Mandasan'S officers report bun
ker coal very scarce at Colon. The
steamer Mandasan Maru arrived OF
port from Port. Arthur and the Canal,
calling here for bunkers: She docked
later today at Pier 6. The Mandasan
is taking case. oil to China from the
Texas oil port. =. III.
The steam yacht Warrior will take
bunker coal tomorrow at Pier u CT
Pier J6 and will probably steam Fri.
day for southern California ports, az
oording to what her owner, Alexander
Smith Cochran, told Capt William r
Foster, the harbormaster.
A coal cargo of 5000 tons brought
from Muroran is being discharged at
the Inter-Island coal wharf today by
the Japanese NJ g. X freighter Kin
kasan Maru, which arrived yesterday.
She sustained minor damage from
heavy northeast winds, reported by
transpacific boats this week. .--.~
At o'clock last night the Oceanic
steamer Sonoma steamed for San
Francisco, taking 80 cabin and 10
steerage passengers from this port,
also close to 1000 tons of freight, in
Guiding 1916 bags of sugar, 1890 cases
of canned pines, 1872 lunches of
bananas and various sundry cargo.
The Japanese tramp steamer Toxic
Maru came here from the Panama
Canal. va San Francisco, because she
could not get enough coal at Cristooal
to take her direct to Honolulu. She
coaled at San Francisco and took |
more bunkers here from the Inter |
Island before continuing her voyage |
at 1916 Monday morning for ShahS-
hal - ="
Repairs and improvements to the |
Hill liner Great Northern, due mere
November IA on her first call here
this season, have cost $l5,0O0. fhey |
were probably installation OF larger
fresh water tanks and enlarging the
tnrbiner's fuel oil capacity. Both I'M
were said by Capt. Amman
to be necessary when the paiatlal
steamer left here last spring at the
close of her first season in the Ha-
waiian service. -: .>E -.
Can't. A. w. Nelson, commander of |
the Pacific Mail liner Ecuador, will |
probably file by mail an answer TO |
the summons served on him Monday
by United States Marshal J. j. Smiddy |
to pay $4,000 assessed against him
three years ago because the Pacific /
Mail liner Korea, of which he was