The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-01

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~HE arrival of the Siam in port
reminds an automobilist of a sea
voyage he had on that United
States transport. just a year ago.
- 1t was the voyage between Homo
lulu and Manila in which $50
valuable Army mules and horses were
killed in one night during the terrible
typhoon which struck TIE vessel off the
north coast of Luzon. The automobilist
was aboard the vessel and enjoyed the
sensation of attempting to feel happy
while the vessel turned somersaults
and other acrobatic gyrations to the
grand requiem of a bowling typhoon.
He did feel happy-when the storm
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animals were heaved overheard to the
school of sharks which followed in the
vessels wake. That first voyage of the
Siam would have been record breaker
had 1t not been for that typhoon. The
vessel had battled in the tail-end of
one typhoon which almost made her
touch at Guam several hundred miles
out OF her course. Despite the rough
usage which the animals received in
the first storm, Captain O'Neil, the Ar
my quartermaster. had an opportunity
to make a record trip. Luzon had been
sighted and the ships captain was
cruising around slowly. waiting for the
lighthouse lamp to flare up. 1t never
came for the Filipinos had destroyed
the light. At IL o'clock the night of Sep
TENDER 30, the typhoon came-with a
rush. The vessel pointed into 1t to the
northwest and stayed with the hell
blown blasts for four days. and came
out of IL all right, but without the valua-
BILE cargo. All but sixteen animals were
killed. They lay in heaps about the
decks with broken necks, impaled on
stanchions. crushed beneath the weight
Of others, while down below decks,
Some had been smothered by the bat
Touchdown matches. The fifty-seven
cowboys who composed the pack and
wagon trains worked like heroes DUR
ing those four night of peril, assisting
the MANNED animals to their feet, TAX
ing shifts in the fire room until bruised,
cut and worn out physically they were
called off by Captain O'Neil to places
of safety when the storm became fierc-
est. That was when the vessel refused
to answer her helm and lay tossed in the
trough of the sea and at the mercy OF
the terrible cross seas. Waves would
smash her bow causing her to tremble
like an aspen leaf and suddenly a mon
ster wave would lift the stern high out
Of the water and then as suddenly slam
her down upon her side. At nights
when the roar of the waves and wind
made 1t impossible to hear or speak,
when the electric light plant had been
demolished and lanterns were crushed,
when the means and groans of animals
could be heard In every part of the ship
-veritable nights of terror-and when
the smell of purifying flesh made
strong men faint, where were the ships
officers? Captain Reicich, and his two
mates. xigga and Stepanovitch, en-
yeloped In oil skins through which the
spume from the water drove to their
skins, stood upon the bridge directing
the helmsman, watching the compass
and staring out ahead as far as the
waste would allow them. There were
rocks ahead, the needle Ballingtang
rocks which were dreaded. Not for an
instant did the three officers leave the
vessels bridge during the first twelve
hours of the storm. Two remained up
on the bridge and the other caught a
few moments sleep in the chart room,
and so II continued. Captain Xigga,
who now commands the Siam, looked
aged and careworn when the fight was
finished. He said never in his twenty
five years of sea experience had he ever
Teen in such a typhoon.
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The automobilist yesterday met
theater goer who had attended the Or
pheum the night before. He is a
stranger in Honolulu but has seen the
sights. The hula was witnessed by him
the night after his arrival in Honolulu.
What strikes me as q queer thing"
said he, sis that it is allowed to be
danced upon the boards of a public
theater. 1t is all right in its place with
the proper surroundings, but when a
coon actress who has been in the city
only a few weeks, attempts to render
the hula in rag-time. think 1t is about
time to draw the line. III fact. when
performed by an amateur and In such
a public place as the Orpheum, 1t is
not far removed from being disgusting.
Almost every motion made by this
coon actress is patterned upon the
hula but Is five times more disgusting.
/ have learned one thing, and thet is
a foreigner in attempting to dance 1t,
lacks the elements which give any
modesty to 1t. What have seen upon
the Orpheum stage is enough to make
anyone blush and am OF the opinion
that the management had best curb
the hula aspirations of its actresses
and actors"
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The two women approached a rem
nant counter in one Of Honolulus dry
goods stores. They came from opposite
directions. and each. oblivious of the
other. had her eyes glued to a small
piece OF pique. simultaneously they
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