F"Orsltel,U As Soon As the Owners of the Star of the Bengal Were Notified of Captain Hen- Torn up While She Was Being Moved
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IN NEWS OF THE WATERFRONT. A fU LIKE OF to take their turns, and frequently BABCOCK wait weeks for a chance. The San AND Big Fleet Enters Francisco Drydock Company has ap- 0 plied to the harbor commissioners for wharf room, and the board has practi- This Busy cally decided to build the necessary piers. When the' drydock company an- Port. nounced its intention of building the three floating docks if the commission would supply the necessary wharf Cappiag room, the matter was taken under consideration. The bulk of the board's Transport Lawton and Income is pledged for some time to come, so it was decided that if the con- Seven Sailing Ves- - tractor who got the job would take part payment In cash, and the balance To make room for sels in warrants extending over one, two. this line we Arrive. three and four years, the commission- arff ers would go on with the work. At a foil recent meeting of the board the dry-doc- k vessels arrived in this port company announced that con- EIGHT It is a lone time since tractors would bid on the board's harbor has experienced terms. Commissioner Herold then Road Wagons -- such a busy day. The tug Fearless moved that the chief engineer prepare was kept on the move from sunrise. plans and estimates for the necessary were in a position to view wharves, which will be built near the Those who S3wTT'!r!... '"' the harbor and the sea from the hills Arctic Oil Works. The motion was car- i . ... Top Buggies $95 yesterday witnessed a scene that was ried, and the work will proceed as soon to was significant. as the preliminaries are completed. HE SCENE aboard the United States battleship Oregon while she was on as entertaining as it the rocks in the Straits of Pechili was a busy one. All pumps were sight at once, in- the Nine vessels were in Railroad Ties for Equador. hard at work throwing out the water as fast as It came in through the cluding the great battleship Oregon, great hole in the ship's bottom. The above illustration shows the pumps at lying at anchor off port. Eight of the The British tramp steamship Adato was by ' work. The picture furnished the Advertiser Engineer's Yeoman J. S. vessels came into the harbor. sailed from San Francisco on the 24th Pollock of the Oregon. The first to enter was the United of May for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with transport Lawton from San $175 States the first consignment of lumber and Phaetons & to $; Francisco. She came in at an early tracts for government work of ten of his present month. The Buffalo brings home hour, being reported the first thing. railroad ties to be used in the comple- most experienced draughtsmen for duty quite a number of officers and men, Then followed, one by one, as fast as tion of the toad between that seaport in the office of the Supervising whose terms of service have expired and several invalids, condemned by the Fearless could tow them, the seven and Quito. The contract calls for medical double-turrete- j on sailing vessels, from Newcastle and the The docking of the d survey the station. in all, and will the I U. S S. S. - coast. They were the American ship ties it take monitor Amphltrite at Port Royal is The Dixie, Comdr. M. Ack- Adato eight trips to land that number ley, New York May 6 Governqr Robie, Captain Harrington, probably the last duty that unfortunate left for Venezuela ALL OF THESE VEHICLES at Guayaquil. There was some spirited piece of extravagant econo- - with men and supplies for vessels on the ARE NP forty-nin- e days from Newcastle; the Government bidding for the order, and at one time my will be called upon to perform. It is South Atlantic Station. She will bring A. Campbell, ha-t- American schooner J. the Puget Sound lumber dealers hoped the vessel will succeed in gettting a number of seamen whose terms Captain, Smith, thirty days from Port thought they had secured the plum. free from the dock before :t breaks down, nave expired to tne is aw Yard New Blakeley; the American ship Balaclu-th- a, They made a miscalculation, however, as it threatened to do while the Indiana York. forty-nin- e days S. Captain Peterson, and San Francisco secured the con was In the dock. The old U. S. Minnesota, a vessel of from Newcastle; the American ship C. tract. The U. S. S. Concord has gone to 4,700 tons displacement, which has been F. Sargent, Captain Melville, thirty Amoy, In soutli of China, will used as an armory by the Massachusetts Pacific Vehicle & away 1,889,353 the and Sup Tacoma; The Adato took feet of probably at that important point Naval Militia at Boston, is to be sold by days from the American bark lumber, 50,029 and a small remain Charles B. Kenney, Captain Anderson, railroad ties for some considerable time. Amoy has the Navy Department. Secretary Long -p quantity of merchandise. i- fifty days from Newcastle; the Ameri- suddenly become of prime interest to this has appointed a board of officers, con- COMPANY, V ED can schooner Defiance, Captain Blum, Schooner Robert Searles. country by reason of the fact that the sisting of Captain Wadleigh, Commander is now Kearny and Naval Constructor Baxter, twenty-si- x days from Tacoma, and the Island of Kulangsu the official E. L. CUTTING MANAGER They are not a happy family in the to examine and appraise her. rORT AND BE American schooner W. F. Wltzemann. foreign residence district, including, of She is the HONOLULU. course, U. S. Consulate. last of the Tennessee class, and was Captain De Witz, twenty-fiv- e days cabin of the schooner Robert Searles, the U. S. S. Is now In built at Wasiungton, D. C, in 1855, and now on way Pu- The Essex Havana, from Gray's Harbor. , her from Honolulu for Cuba, and will remain at that port for was one of the largest vessels of the old Harrow Escape From Creditors. get Sound, says the San Rrancisco Call some little time to come. This vessel, Navy. of May 22d. The vessel left here which is in command of Comdr. Richard The plans o.' tin U. C. St Louis, The Occidental and Oriental Steam- last were supposed year, Captain wife G. Davenport, U.S.N., will return to which to have been lost, ship Company's Coptic sailed for the and Piltz took his United States waters the present according t.. the daily papers, were rest- along him. lady's laten ing safely RACING Orient yesterday, says the San Fran- with The brother month, and late in July the Essex will all the time in the ufflce of wanted to go to sea, so the captain be stationed at Newport, R. I. At last Messrs. Neafie & Levy, at Philadelphia, cisco Call of May 22d. There was a ship who were awarded the to con- shipped him as boy. All went accounts the health of the continued contract big crowd of Chinese down to see the cabin excellent. struct the vessfcj some time since. vessel away, and some of them would well for a month or so, and then the The U. S. naval ccllier Alexander has Cooling Blankets, Salt Sacks, Toe Weights, lad decided that his brother-in-la- w been reported as having arrived safely ADMIRAL have liked very much to have detained Lucia, en route for the Pacific FAWKSPASS. should treat him as one of the family at Santa Derby Bandages, Sulky Whips, Etc, Etc. one of the passengs, who was poking Coast. The next point from which this 1 and not as one of the crew. Mrs. Piltz When was a boy I waited table. fun at them. vessel will be reported is Montevideo, And was in a livery stable; sided with her brother, but the captain Uruguay. It may be remembered chambermaid Sponges, Chamois Skins, Sen Yung Lun was, up to Saturday night that I curried the horses and I swept the Chi- could not see it in that light. In con the Alexander sailed, a short time since, last, a female impersonator in the sequence, gallant skipper had to floor, nese on Jackson street. He the from the United States with a cargo of voted a theater many Things 5,000 And life deuced bore. was paid a high fan tan take a curtain lecture. some tons of bituminous coal for But I to an tie, salary, but new coaling recently estab- learned tie Ascot and lottery keeps him always in debt. reached a climax at Honolulu. There the station And now in the navy I'm a great big Captain Piltz discharged his brother- - lished at Pichilinque, Lower California-I- Lun finally came to the conclusion t guy. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF in-la- w is not probable pay and shipped another cabin boy that the ship wiil that he would never be able to - reach her destination before some date in owed, so quietly packed his On May 10th he sailed for Port Town- CHO.-- Hc learned to tie, etc. what he he send, but hove to o ffDiamond Head. June. trunk and purchased a ticket for China Decoration Day in receiv- The American Maru did not bring the Baltimore currying I on the Coptic. When he attempted to ed an added interest this year from (At horses did excel. FINE HIGH GRADE end of the story, but the supposition And 1 curried favor, too, as well.