Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-04
HARBOR NOTES

A PaCl1lC Mall steamer Will HILL
and passengers from San Francisco is
due here tomorrow morning.
A United States transport will take
the next mail to the coast. 1t IS ex
pected to sail from here at noon to-
morrow.
The Matson liner Manoa sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu at noon
last Thursday.
A Pacific Nail freighter is due
from the Orient next Tuesday with
$50 tons of freight for Honolulu
merchants.
Captain Wayland of the four
masted barque Flying Cloud was op,
Grated on for appendicitis recently.
His place will be taken by Captain
Aspe.
The American Hawaiian steamer
Texan sailed for San Francisco late
yesterday by the way Of Kaanapah,
kahului and Hilo. 1t is estimated
that the Texan will take $4,000 tons
of sugar.
The Charles Nelson Company has
sold the steam schooner North Fork,
one of the older vessels Of the kind
on the Pacific coast. to Dr. Rudolph
Schiffman of Pagddena to ply between
San Pedro and Magdalena Bay, where
the new owner mas magnesite mines.
The price paid was $6o,00O
That the steamer Montana, reported
summarized on the Atlantic, is not
the American-Hawaiian steamer Mon
tanan has been pretty definitely de-
OiH iC Y
that it was the little schooner Mon
tana, as 1t would not have had a
crew of q men.
Carl Johnson, son Of the former
San Pedro pilot, has been appointed
second officer of the Pacific Mail
steamer Peru. He was second officer
of the Inflated Admiral Clark, which
foundered in the Gulf Of Mexico. He
was one of the seven survivors who
lived in an open boa! for six days
without a drop Of water or food Of
any KIND.
The yacht Marion has taken heI
last cruise about San Francisco bay
with amateur sailors aboard, as she is
being transformed al Tibbett's ship
yard at Alameda into gasoline
schooner. Atkins, Knoll & Co. are
having the Marion fitted up for inter.
island trade in the South Seas A
gas engine is being installed and she
is being rerigged.
The shipbuilding plant of Barnes &
Tibbits on the northern Alameda
waterfront is being rushed to compile
ton in order to accommodate orders
for several large ships. A United
States government appraisal announc-
ed yesterday estimated that $4,000
had been spent in dredging the water
front Of the new concern. The site
of the new plant is twelve acres. and
Will be a large acquisition to the
many industrial firms on the northern
waterfront
Michael J. Buckley, for many years
freight traffic manager of the Pacific
Nail. has rendered his resignation,
which took effect August / He will
go into business 'ith Joseph Murphy,
formerly secretary to Chief Of Police
White, in San Francisco. The firm
will be known as the Buckley-Murphy
Agencies and will have offices in the
Merchants Exchange building. Buck.
ley will look after the shipping and
commission end OF the business while
Murphy will attend to the exploitation
Of a number Of agencies which the
firm has secured.
The STANDARD Oil Company is fol.
lowing the lead Of the Pacific Mail
and will send out apprentices. The
Pacific Mail is sending out two more
apprentices on the Ecuador. due here
Sunday. These are George H. Stew
ems, Jr., of the vall-known Yachting
family. and Arthur Jones. Both lads
have studied at and passed high in
the list at the Public Evening Naviga
ton School and bid fair to make ex-
cellent sailormen within a short
time. Captain A. W. Nelson, known
equally we'll by his nom de plume
Yankee Swanson is taking thu
Ecuador out on this voyage Captain
Ralph Lobez has been ASSIGNED to
shore dntv Harry Nelson. first Of
ficer of the Ecuador, has been as
signed to shore duty and his place is
taken by F. c. Deleger