The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-02

back into cold weather, and the pas
sengers, especially the Australians,
! feel that worse than anything else
The vessel is comfortable. The only
thing we miss is a properly heated
| saloon. The ladies suffer more than
| the men in that respect, for the
! smoking room has y steam register in
it. We are we'll fed and other wise
we'll cared for. OF course We have
| not got the elegance of the Atlantic
liners or the great 2. q o. and Oriental
| lines; but we have all the essentials
| for comfort. AS a pioneer line it is
away ahead of any other, at the same
8 age of its existence, that now runs
TO Australia, and when it is once
established as safe and reliable pas
senger route 80 AS to command the
bulk OF the passenger traffic from
| Liverpool to the Orient, there is en-
terprise enough at the back of this
line to make it equal to anything
| af1oat. [ will keep you posted on
our progress as often as | can get
| chance to write. Love to all.
DECEMBER 20, 1895
We are still drifting and are now
| about 200 miles from land, little
south of the Columbia river. All day
yesterday was spent in Intellectual
efforts 10 pass tOw-line to the
"Strathnevis." When darkness came
on the work had to be abandoned, and
our captain sent up signals to inform
the derelict that we would stand by
until morning. All night the "Mio-
vera" was running after the drifting
| vessel, keeping her in sight, and this
morning the work of passing line
was resumed. The sea is still heavy
and it was only about noon that we
succeeded in picking up buoy thrown
over from the Strathnevis with line
attached. After hours of work the
cable from the Strathnevis came in
| sight, and just as we were all con-
graduating ourselves on succeeding,
SNAP WE. T THE LINE AND AWAY
| WENT THE CABLE,
and we were just in the position we
were thirty-siX hours ago. The
anxiety of Captain StOtt and his Off
GERS can be imagined. AS a last re
course crew of six picked hands, in
charge of chief mate (all with life belts
strapped round them) powerful man,
were lowered in a small boat under
the lee of the Miowera and they
| managed to secure a small line thrown
over to them by the Strathnevis. By
| means of it we have at length passed
the wire cable, and after forty two
hours of delay, just as night is falling,
we are under way again with the
| sStrathnevis following in our wake
[ do not see any Cinnamon on her
deck. Some think that they are
battened under hatche-; but others
who know the Chinese character best
aliege that they are below Of their
OVID free well, sleeping, or playing
'fan TAM" awaiting death or deliver
ance, as fate may send it. Captain
| Stott's course may he challenged as to
whether he has done right or not in
| taking upon himself the respOnsi bility
in delaying Her Majesty's mails and
| involving the Miowera's owners in
damages for breach of coutract. On
| the other hand there are 204 souls
new vessel and cargo drifting rapidly
on lee shore to their inevitable de
struction within four days. The pas
sengers all back him up in the course
| he has taken, though it involves loss
| and Inconvenience to them Ali. For
my part do not think there is civ
| iliZed community iu the world that
would not endorse the ca ptain's action.
| If he takes the vessel in safely twill
| be one of the most unprecedented
events of the kind in the history of
navigation on the Pacific. and will be
big advertisement for the Canadian
| L
Cape Fiattery tomorrow night, and
will land in Victoria on Sunday.
GREAT SCOTT! ANOTHER BREAKI!
5P. NJ, GOTH
Our cable parted again half an hour
after we had started and every body
was ia despair. Fortunately, as the
sun declined, the wind and sea went
down. A boat was lowered, and be
| tore it became too dark 10 see we had
| a ten-inch Manila hawser and an-
other wire cable fast to the tow. We
are now steamiDg aloug at the rate of
about seven knots per hour, and If we
do not strike gale off Cape Flattery
| (the entrance to the Straits OF Fuca)
We shall reach Victoria by Sunday
evening. L can imagine The disap-
pointment of the several tugs aud
steamers that are out north looking
for the missing vessel when they Ee-
turn and find her safe in port. l learn
that we were 320 miles from Victoria
when we made our last start. A
track chart of our steamer for the last
forty eight hours look something like
chain with turns and twists Every
thing is now running smoothly and /
am going to bed.
Sunday night, Dec. 81, 1895
We were anticipating safe arrival
in port this evening, but our hopes
have been blasted 10y heavy gale,
with rain, that is making the vessel
roll and pitch in a way that renders it
exceedingly difficult to keep ones
seat aud write. Captain Stott has
changed our course ami we are now
steaming out to sea, off Cape FIattery,
in the teeth of the gale. His object is
to get away as far from land as pos