The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-08-11
The Vessel Illuminated by the
Electric Light.
Arrival of the Guests About the Ship.
The Engine RoOm-The Band-Fun and
Flirting-Hard Workers-A Lis;
of those InVited-The Ship
at Midnight-Etc.
THE A

nunQreQ gentlemen 10 luSpSCt ihSli StS"A
err, the Mariposa, when Illuminated at night by
the electric light, each gentleman having the
privilege of taking ladies with him. Owing to
the short stay of the steamer in port the reunion
was arranged rather hurriedly but this did not in
any way interfere with it's success.
ARRIVAL OF THE GUESTS.
Shortly before eight O'Clock the guests began
to arrive and they continued pouring iuto the
majestic ship until nine O'Clock when there must
have been six or seven hundred people on board,
the main deck, social hall, saloon, cabins aud
stairways being at that time rather tightly
packed. The visitors were received by Mr.. r.
win and Captain Howard and they then scat
tered themselves hither and thither according to
their iuclinatIons. The Company's shed on the
wharf was lighted with lines of lanterns of blue,
red and yelloI as was tn main deck of the
steamer, the effect being vary pretty. The gang
way was decorated with flags AS was the hatch
way. All the officers wore the full uniform of
the company, their clothes were made of blue
cloth with brass buttons bearing the letters o.
:. S. Co., each officer wearing on his sleeve the
number of gold stripes to which his rank emit
tied him.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
His Majesty the King was present, accom-
panied by Major Purvis, and remained for about
two hours sitting in the social hall, The captains
and presidents cabins and walking round the
ship. There We're also present Her Majesty
Queen Dowager Emma, H. r. H. Princess Like
like, Hon. A. S. CIeghorn, His Excellency w.
NJ. Gibson. Hon. Senator Miller. Mrs aud
Miss Miller, Mr.. E. l.. Steele President of the
Oceanic Steamship Company and Mrs. Steele,
Mr.. w. CT. Irwin Manager of the Company in
| Honolulu Hon q r RiSbon Hon II A Wi1da-
mann, Hon. G. W. Macfarlane, Mr.. S. Parker.
A full list of the guests invited is given below.
ABOUT THE SHIP.
The socialhall and saloon seemed to attract the
greatest amount of attention, the smoking room
also coming In for its share of usefulness and
admiration. In some of the cabins were little
groups gathered together and making merry and
in others were seen groups of only two with the
light but dimly burning. Other couples went as
far forward as WAS possible, some even ventur-
ing on to the bridge sacred to the captain aud
the pilot, anywhere in short to be alone. The
social hall with It's thirty aul six lights its rich
carpets, its hlniIDm; table covers, its velvet
seats, its mirrors, and it's other handsome fittings
was the theme of universal admiration. All the
cabins were visited and commented upon, the
unusual notice about the life preservers with the
directions for wearing them received favorable
remarks, this being an almost unknown or neg
lected matter on most ships although of the
most vital Importance. The pantry and cooks
department were open and found to be scrupu-
lously clean, the tonsorial department of Mr.
Giles with its razOrs, brushes, shampooing and
shaving apparatus, its photographs of female
beauty and of male beauty in the form of the
we'll known " Mexican Bill " was also wondered
at. Mr.. Harry Wilson, the chief engineer and
an old friend of Honolulu, was kept for hours
in the depths of his departm ents explaining the
mysteries of mechanism to those of a scientific
turn of mind. Hot as it was there, the gentle
men remained and great was the wonderInent
expressed ut the cleanliness Of every part and
particle of the machinery and its fittings which
looked as if they had just been erected and
cleaned instead of having made II long voyage
round the Horn. Even the boilers and the coal
hole were pried into and found clean, and to
Mr.. S. w. Haines the first assistant engineer is
due in a great measure this excellent state of af-
fairs. Mr.. George McLane the purser, seems to
have the knack, peculiar to pursers, of quickly
becoming a popular fayorite, especially among
the fair sex who thronged his quarters, ostensi-
bly, to see a photograph of the Mariposa which
had been taken as she was leaving San Fran
cisco and which was received by the City of Sgd
ney. The large square windows caused a goodly
supply of fresh mir to. flow into the cabins,
though at times the atmosphere was rather
warm. Shortly before ten O'Clock light refre sh-
ments were provided in the saloon, champagne
and ice cream quickly appearing, to the delight
of the la ties who never finched at a champagne
cork or at icy GOODNESS, aud a. quickly disap-
pearing.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
The engine used in working the electric light
is that known as a Lawrence engine, and was
made by Arlington & Son. of Providence, N.
Y. It's size is as follows: TIL da meter of the
cylinder is eight inches by ten stroke, with nine
ty pounds boiler pressure, it is of nearly forty
horse power, and has two plants, one of q hui
dred and sixty, aud the other of sixty lights. It
will make $50 revolutions a minute and is work
ed by steam from the main or donkey boilers.
Each light is of the same power and brillianey
as sixteen candles and there are two hundred and
forty lights on board, all of which, however. it
is not necessary to use at the same time The
electic supply is conveyed from the engine by
two wires. the positive and the negative, which
run along each side of the ship, branch wires
leading to each individual light. Elch light has
its Independent cut out, 50 that it may be gradu-
ated and that no damage may occur by FIRE in
case of there being too much light when the wire
would fuse. Each light has a switch connection
or turn out and any one jet can be extinguished
at will in the same manner as gas. Arrangements
are also made by which whole sections in various
parts of the ship can be extinguished ia the same
way or by turning and unscrewinG the lamps.
The burners are made of csrbonized bamboo aud
one will burn for five or six hundred hours when
II muSf he raplana3 nv hurnaro II iS nm
incandescent light and burns in a vacuum and
the admission of any air whatever would i'm
extinguish it. In the saloon there
are t~hirty-six separate burners and there is
one in each cabin which can be lighted and ex-
tinguished at night at the will of the passenger
simply by turning the tap on or of. The officers
cabins, smoking room, engine rooms and the
sailors quarters are all fitted in the same way,
in fact every portion of the shin is suppIied with