Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-01-20
NE BROKE ALL RECORDS.
aUEENsTO TO SAN FRANCISCO
In NINE AND A HALF DAYS.
Colonel Macfsrlane Met Princess Ks
snIani and British Statesmen. but
the Latter VIII Not Aid Hawaii.

Among the overland passengers
registered last night at the Cali
iornia Hotel was Colonel G. w.
Macfarlane, wife and infant, from
England, their little party having
completed the long journey from
Queenstown, Great Britain, in the
unprecedented time of ten and a
half days, while the actual travel
ing time was only nine and a half
days, fifteen hours having been
lost in New York waiting for the
fast Pennsylvania limited train to
Chicago, and nine hours in Chi
cago waiting for the westbound
train, the Northwestern limited.
This loss of time would have
been saved if the steamer Lucania,
in which Colonel Macfarlane
crossed the Atlantic, had docked
III New York two hours earlier,
which would have enabled him TO
catch the New York Central limit.
ed Tor Chicago the night of his
arrival there.
In reply to a question Colonel
Macfarlane stated that he first
sonceived the idea of making a
record trip across the Atlantic to
San Francisco when he boarded
the crack fast steamer at Queens
town, and learned that the Cunard
Company had instructed the cap
tain to make record trip, as the
steamer had been delayed eighteen
hours at Liverpool, with the Unit
ed States mails abroad, by a dense
log prevailing on the day sche-
Suled for the steamer to leave.
Good weather was experienced
On the trip, which was accomplish
ed in five days twelve hours and
eight minutes. The average speed
of this wonderfully fast boat was
twenty-one and a half miles an
hour for the entire trip.
SOlOutl NhdCluIldLS CulIl WIFI
him a printed log of the Lucania's
voyage, which was furnished by
the captain to each passenger.
The daily runs we're 514, 511, 519,
j21 and 531 miles respectively.
Of the railway runs the Pennsyl-
rania Limited to Chicago was
made in 90 hours, and the Chica-
go and Northwestern line, via
Union and Central Pacific, from
Chicago to San Francisco, was ac-
eomplished in 3 making in
all 81 days actual running time.
Colonel Macfarlane is much
pleased with this achievement,
and his little II months old baby
girl stands alone in the world
probably as the only child who
has ever covered such a distance
by steam and rail in the time
named. The trip has been very
hard on the little one, who has
lost fully five pounds of flesh.
Mrs. Macfarlane, however, is quite
veil.
Colonel Macfarlane says his
last trip should give the Rostmas-
ter food for reflection snd should
enable him to very much reduce
the time in which the San Fran
cisco and the Australian mails
should reach England, as Colonel
Macfarlane's experience in Lon
don was THAT San Francisco letters
took fifteen days to get across, and
.he Australian mails after arriv-
ing in San Francisco invariably
took eighteen days.
Colonel Macfarlane disowned
having gone to England, where he
has been for the past six months,
Tor the purpose of getting British
aid in seating Princess Kaiulani
on Hawaii's throne. He said,
however, that he had met the Prin-
cess and Mr.. Cleghorn, her father,
ms we'll as leading statesmen, and
had dined with several of them.
II am convinced, however," he
added, shat neither England nor
Salisbury will have anything to
do with the affairs of Hawaii"
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