The San Francisco call., 1896-10-01
ANOTHER OCEAN
RECORD BROKEN
The Mail Company's China
Beat Her Own Best
Time.
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IN Ninetv Tons nr roo1 q nov
On Ninety Tons Of Coal a Day
the Vessel Made a Very
Fine Showing.
a QUICK RUN FROM HONOLULU
Two Sailors on the Cruiser Boston
Robbed the Paymaster of $1,000
and Then Deserted.

The officers and crew of the Pacific Mail
yesterday. The good ship has again
broken her own record and with an aver
age of 1877 knots an hour for over 1000
miles it easily beats any showing made by
vessels on the other lines.
From Yokohama to Honolulu the China
beat her own record by two hours. her pre-
vious best showing being days II hours
and IL minutes. From Honolulu to San
Francisco she made the run in days 8
hours and 20 minutes, beating the best run
on record from that port by 2 hours and ~
minutes. She was delayed off the Farall-
ones for an hour by the fog and had a
little heavy weather leaving the port of
Yokohama. The showing made by the
steamship from day to day was a remark
ably good one. Leaving Yokohama on
September 10 she logged 343 knots the first
day out. That was about the average
until September "a. when run of 2I5
miles brought her into Honolulu.
The run from Honolulu was a particu-
larly good one. Leaving port at IL :46 P. NJ.
on September "a she made on the 25th
203 knots, on the 26th 382 knots, 9th $50
knots, 28th 393 knots, 18th 3S9 knots and
Both 337 knots, arriving in port IA A. NJ.
The runs were all made on consum ptlon
of 80 tons OF coal day and with an allow
ance of 125 tons day the chief engineer is
confident that the vessel can make 90
| knots over continuous run.
During the voyage Chief Officer Saun-
ders was a very sick man. He began to
mend as soon as Honolulu was reached
and is now in fairly good health. Among
| the passengers were: Miss Helen Stubs
,,I IN daUo Uoht tar IF
| J. G. Stabbs; Mrs. Or. Cushing, wife of
the wellknown physician; Miss t. A.
! Fields, Professor J. NJ. Schaeberle, DR.. j.
| E. Shuey and L. G. Masten, the astrono-
mers who went to Japan to view the
! eclipse, and G. A. SprecKels The latter
has been on a visit to Honolulu and says
he thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Mrs. F..
H. Frank also returned on the China.
| She has been on nine months visit to
| her sister in Japan, and is enthusiastic
| over the beauties of the country.
! The China brings the news that the pay
master of the Boston is a serious loser by
the cruise. While the vessel was in
| Shanghai he drew considerable money in
| gold coin with which to pay various debts
contracted by the cruiser. Two sailors,
named Henrickson and Mooney learned
| that the money was in the pavmaster s
room and succeeded in getting aFray with
5000 of It nke.s III .saE - yls. frossa
, is44ua, 6as we're caught at Nagasaki while
the China was at Yokohama; not how
/ ever, until they had spent all the money.
/ Tho9 were put on board tbs gnnbuat
Yorktown and will be sent to San Fran
cisco for punishment. Both men joined
the vessel here and are well known at
| Mare Island.
The Occidental and Oriental Steamship
] Company's Doric sailed for the Orient yes
terday with heavy cargo and full list
of passengers. Among those in the cabin
was Chung Liang Wong, Chinese Vice
! Consul at this port.
The officers on the Doric assert that on
their return trip they will easily beat the
| China's record. Captain Seabury and the
men on the crack Pacific Mail boat laugh
at the idea.
GoodalI, Perkins & Co. have no further
particulars from the wreck of the Una
tilla. Captain Hunter wires that she is
resting easily and will be got off. The
| City of Puebla is the next vessel to sail for
the Sound, and the Mexico will take the
Umatilla's place on the route. An investi-
CATION will be held at Port Townsend into
the cause of the trouble, and the blame
will be fixed where it belongs. From the
| telegraphic accounts it appears that Cap
tain Hunter was using extraordinary pre-