The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-19
THE CHINA ARRIVES.
THE MAGNIFICENT OCE N
GREYHOUND.
What She Has Done in Record Break.
ing Description of the Vessel
Specimen Menu.

The Pacific Mail Steamship China
steamed into the harbor this morning
at 6 O'Clock, and an hour later was
snug alongside the company's dock
A salvo Of artillery, consisting of
twenty.one guns, Numbered out vel
come as she entered. The salute
was fired through orders Of the Govern
ment, by Lieutenant Coyhe and a de-
tachment of regulars from Company E,
National Guard.
The old veteran, Captain Sheppard,
acted as pilot for the China, as he did
for the other big steamship, Oceanic.
The vessel drew twenty-three and one
half feet and never even stirred up the
sand at the bottom of the harbor,
although there was only half tide.
The China is by far the most mag
nifcent steamship on the Pacific
Ocean, and was built in Glasgow in
1880 by the Fairfield Shipbuldng
Company. Her length is $50 feet,
beam 48 feet and depth 40 feet Her
engines are 800 horse power, and she
carries a crew of I67 men, and in the
engine department besides the chief
engineer, there are six assistant engi-
neers and sixty-one fremen, oilers and
water tenders. The engines have six
foot stroke, with dimensions as follows:
High pressure 40 in. diameter, inter
mediate &c in. diameter, low pressure
100 in. diameter She has complete
refrigerating, and ice, and electrical
plants, and has Accommodations for 1872
cabin and 1000 steerage passengers,
The China carries 1900 tons coal in
her bunkers, and the daily consumption
at speed of I5H knots is 90 tons.
She has attained a speed on trial Of
1917 knots and at sea of TX knots
and has made the quickest trip be-
tween Yokohama and San Francisco
and Honolulu and San Francisco.
The former trip she has made in Il
days, II hours and 80 minutes, and
the latter in S days, II hours and so
minutes, this beating all records. She
has also record of 9 days, 7 hours and
fifteen minutes between Honolulu and
Yokohama.
The passengers on this palatial YES
sci are looked after by the most ex-
perienced steward on the Pacific
Steward Goodchild--formerly of the old
Shanghai Steam Navigation Company
With a French chmf de cuisine and
and his assistants and with twenty
walters he sets on table such a din
ner as this one:
DINNER S. s. CHINA.
Menu.
Soup:
Terapn
FISH:
Boiled Salt Cod and Butter Sauce.
BOILED:
Corned Pork and Cabbage,
Mutton and Caper Sauce.
ENTREES:
Fricandeau Fillet of Beef and Trufiles,
Quail and Spinach,
Ok Tongue la Jardineire.
RoAsTs
Lamb and Mint Sauce,
Pigeon and Giblet Sauce,
Rib Of Beef and Yorkshire Pudding.
CURRY:
Giblet
VEGETABLES
Boiled and Mashed Potatoes,
String Beans, Stewed Ceeries.
PUDDING AND PASTRY:
Plum Pudding, Chocolate Russo,
Ice Cream, Fruit and
Lemon Pies, Cakes Assorted.
DESSERT:
Bananas, Oranges,
PruneS, Nuts,
Raisins,
Coffee Crackers and Cheese Tea.
The elegant cabins are all arranged
in the latest approved fashion, and
upholstered in crimson plush. The
saloon and ante-rooms are filled with
luxurious divans and marvels of easy
chairs. The finishing of the entire in.
terror of the vessel is of the highest
order OF the cabinetmaker's art, and a
trip on the China makes one long only
mot for the other shore-but for
another just like it. Punkahs which
lull the passengers into the dolce fan
nieHte of an ocean voyage are feature
of this beautiful vessel
The China has been the object Of
hundreds of sight-seers all day as she
lay at the dock, and at five o'clock this
evening, when she departs, there will
be many to wish her hearty aloha
and quick return.
The officers of the China are al
Americans, and consist of the following
Captain, w. B. Seabury; chief officer
J. w. Saunders chief engineer, Geo
H. Ferguson purser, VIM. M. Minton
Surgeon, A. Nelson Beach M. d.
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