Company's new steamship Robert Dollar, formerly the German-owned Kurland, bought in England by Mr. Melville Dollar from the British Admiralty, hag arrived here and has been the object of interest, and admiration on the waterfront. The vessel is the crack ship of the Dollar fleet. and is said to be the best freight-carrier on the Pacific. She is a prize of war and never had a cargo in her until she was loaded at Leith for New York. On the rua from New York to Vancouver she made 11} knots. The crew of 70 or more that brought the Robert Doi-Jar to Vancouver are all Scotsmen who returned to their homes overland. One of the crew, Malcolm Blackader, third officer, signed on the ship at Leith when she was known as the Kurland. He had been aboard her for two weeks before he was aware of the foch that the boat was owned by the Dollar Company, which intereste 1 him because of the fact that he and Captain Dollar hailed from the same old town of Falkirk, Scotland. The officer recalled that the people of Falkirk have watched with pride the rise of Captain Dei-Jar from a humble lad to a great shipowner and one of the most influential shipping men on the American continent and on the Pacific.
News reached Vancouver a fe days ago of the death in San Francisco of Mr. the Robert Dollar Ca. forme resident agent here and for a long time employed with the Company in China.
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