The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-02
BEATING RECORDS
The Fine Passage of the
AmeriCa-Maru.
Partially Guaranteed and Fumigat-
ed by Federal Authorities and
Then Sued by Soldiers.

The Japanese steamship America
Maru arrived this morning days. g
hours and 90 minutes from San Fran
cisco, having made the record round
trip between here and the Coast and
back. Purser J. V. c. Comfort gives
the following record of the trip:
Sailed from Honolulu July 18th sos
p. m. Had fine weather to San Fran
cisco, arriving July 10Th 4:37 p. m.
Time from Honolulu days, II hours,
minutes.
All we'll on board except one Japan
csc with pneumonia. After thorough
examination of passengers and crew,
| the State quarantine officer gave a
clean bill of health, but the Federal
| quarantine officer ordered the ship
moored to the quarantine station off
| Angel Island, to allow him to test the
| blood of the pneumonia patient, for
| signs of bubOnic plague. On the morn
ing of the 10th the steera2e passengers
were removed to the quarantine station
for usual fumigatiCn, and at p. m.
the Federal officer allowed cabin and
European steerage passengers to land,
he being satisfied no bubOnic plague
existed
The ship was then moved alongside
of the hulk Gold L. S. S. Omaha) and
fumigated thoroughly, and allowed to
come alongside the wharf at 80 p. m.
on the 21st, and commenced discharg
ing cargo on the 22d at 10 a. m.
We sailed from San Francisco July
Goth at A. 6 p. m. July 9th a. m.
passed steamship Australia bound for
i n r,+D ,.>1,,
Moana for San Francisco.
The transports Newport with 400
troops and Ohio with 800 were expected
to sail July Goth or 9th.
Had fine weather and moderate sea. |
San Francisco to Honolulu, time D
days, 8 hours, 50 minutes. At IL p. m. |
July 81 passed the transport Tartar |
bound for Honolulu, which left San |
Francisco three days ahead of us. We
arrived off Honolulu 2:45 a. m. Aug |
ust l.
The daily runs were 80, 377, 1893, 1856,
3S3 and 24O knots; total 2,OS9.
On the 25th twelve soldiers, Euro
pean steerage passengers, commenced
suit against the America Maru and
owners for alleged poor food and ac
on the voyage from
Hongkong to San Francisco. These
at their own earnest solicitation. The
regular European steerage accommoda-
tons having already been sold, the
agent did not wish to take them, but
they begged not to be left behind, as
they would have to remain in Hong
kong nine days until the next ship, the
City of Picking, sailed; SO to help them
out we bought mattresses and fixed up
good quarters for them in the forward
part of the ship, hired extra help to
wait on them, furnished them first
class food, and all they could eat, and
his is the return the Togo Kisen ka-
sha gets for assisting American sol
Tiers to return home.
While the America Maru has made
he fastest rOund-trip passage ever
made between Honolulu and San Fran
cisco, she has failed to break the rec
ord for the single trip, which is still
held by the China, of the Pacific Mail
Line. In September, 1896, the China
went from Honolulu to San Francisco
n ) days 8 hours, % minutes, which
vas the record until last December,
when she took Vice President SchWerln
10 to San Francisco for his Christ
mas dinner in days, hours, Al min
ties. 1t should be remembered that
he up-trip is considered the harder by
1t least four hours, so it will be seen
hat in spite of the splendid run of the
Japanese vessel the China is still con-
,iderably ahead.