The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-03
COMMERCE THE PACIFIC australia ROUGH TRIP GROVER D0GD NQEN JOHN RATS FEA
CAPTAIN HOUDLETTE PRESENT
ED WITH RESOLUTIONS.
The American and Hawaiian CONNER
cial Company to Operate a Line of
Steamers Between Hilo and Frisco.

The Oceanic steamship Australia ar
rived alongside her dock at s o'clock
last evening, after an unusually rough
trip. She left San Francisco on jan
uary Goth, deep in the water with
freight, and with her cabins well
filed, and that same night encount-
cred very heavy head winds and high
seas. About o'clock in the morning
heavy sea broke over her port rail.
and crushed the heavy plate glass Win
dow of stateroom No. 8 like an egg
shell, carrying away the sash and
shutter and flooding the room. C. A.
Griscom, Jr., manager of the Interna-
tional Navigation Company of New
York, who occupied the room, was
awakened by the icy water that
drenched him from head to foot, and
leaped from his bunk into water al
most knee deep, in which his baggage,
books and papers floated in hopeless
tangle. Luckily the flying glass did
not strike him, and he escaped with
nothing more serious than a severe
ducking. The wave was sufficiently
heavy to spring the upper deck.
The Australia had heavy weather up
to Sunday noon, so heavy at times that
she was obliged to run under ''slow
bell" The seas broke over the decks
repeatedly, and more than one ven
turesome passenger got an unexpected
ducking. The rough weather would
for the unremitting efforts of Capt.
Houdlette and his officers to make the
passengers comfortable. They sue
ceeded so well that during luncheon
hour yesterday the following resolu-
tions, neatly gotten up and tied with
pink ribbons, were presented to the
commander:
1--WE, the passengers of the rolling
steamship Australia have adopted the
following resolutions:
Whereas, we, one and all, desire to
in general, be it resolved:
"1st. The ladies unanimously vote
the commander and officers handsome
and well behaved.
''2nd. 1t is the unanimous vote of
all that the officers have been untiring
in their efforts to contribute to the
comfort and happiness of all on board.
''3rd. We offer our sincere thanks
for bon voyage, under adverse wealth
er circumstances, and forgive the cap
tain the rolling of the ship.
1T is further resolved, Inat it is the
concensus of opinion of the passen-
gers of the trip from San Francisco to
Honolulu, that for efficient service,
kind attention and gentlemanly treat
ment, from the executive to the cabin
boy, is an example that is heartily
recommended for imitation by other
steamship lines"
ID. G. Camarinos, famed in San Fran
cisco, not less as royal entertainer
than as an importer of fruits, was a
passenger on the steamship. He has
just recovered from long and painful
| illness, which confined him in the
French hospital at San Francisco for
several months. He has come to Ho-
nolulu to complete the final arrange
ments for the launching of the Amer
lean and Hawaiian Commercial Com
pany, the object of which is to open
up extensive orchards and plantations
on Hawaii and to establish a line of
steamers between Hilo and an Fran
cisco. During his stay in the city Mr..
Camarinos will be a guest of his
brother, p. g. Camarinos, of the Cali
fornia Fruit Market.
Among the passengers of the Aus
tralia were: William NJ. Hopkins,
prominent railroad man of Mime
apolis, and his wife, on pleasure
tour; c. A. Griscom, Jr., manager of
the international Navigation Company
of New York, en- route to the Orient on
pleasure bent; ii. A. Greene, a banker
of Monterey, CAL; Mrs. c. Fairchild, a
Southern lady, and her niece, Miss 5.
Beesley, on tour of the Islands and
the Orient Mark Ezekiel, a business
man of San Francisco; j. Hoover, a
banker of Spokane; S. +. Laidley, the
Sydney coal man; w. A. Mackay, of
/ Oakland.
Chief Steward Seeley is accompanied
by his wife, who will spend month
| in Honolulu.