The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-23


w these Islands, the Oceanic
steamship Zealandia, Captain
Dowdell arrived in port early yester-
day morning from port Los Angeles.
She was eight days coming from the
Coast and brought, besides the 545 inn
migrants, nine cabin passengers for
Honolulu.
Two of the passengers died on the
trip down. One was a child and the
other a man. Both bodies were buried
at sea.
A birth also occurred during the trip
and three marriages were celebrated
so that there was no lack of excite
ment to relieve the monotony of the
ocean journey.
Purser McCombe's report is full of
interest and is as follows:
Left San Francisco March u, at
1905 p. m. Arrived at Port Los Ange-
les March Is at ASS p. m. Left Port
Los Angeles March IA, at 9:1S a. m,
with nine cabin and 545 Porto Ricans.
Experienced moderate to light variable
winds. March II to port, fresh to gen
tie winds, from NNE. to ENE. Arrived
March %, at a. m, Time days, %
hours, 46 minutes
Died at sea, March 16, 1901, at 9 "a
m, Frederick Beltran, aged 9 years;
native of Porto Rico; buried at II noon.
March %, at a. M, Vicente Cruz, of
pneumonia, aged 20 years; native of
Porto Rico; buried off Island of Oahu.
Born at sea, March IL 1901, at 500
p. m, TO the wife of Juan Babtista
Dominis. a daughter. Christened Zea
landia Patricia Dominis. in honor of the
ship and st. Patrick's Day.
Married at sea. March y, 1901, Ra
mon Patinao to Ana Muniz; Francisco
Beauchamps to Mariana Pagan; Loren
20 Gimenez to Dolores Beauchamps."
Captain DowdelI officiated at the
marriages. There was a very amusing
side TO the splicing operations. After
the genial skipper had united one
couple in the bonds of matrimony, he
spread before the bride and groom
bottle of wine and some choice cake.
This was their wedding feast. The
newly married ones were exceedingly
happy and were more than delighted
with the wine and cake part of the pro-
gram Captain Dowdell was happy to
be the instrument of making others
happy and, after watching them get
away with the cake and wine for a few
minutes. returned to his cabin
! 1t was not very long, however, be
fore two other couples approached the
captain and asked that he make them
one. Always obliging, the gallant skip
per willingly complied and soon had the
other two couples tied hard and fast
| He set wine and cake before them too.
and once more retired to his cabin
J After this, however, there was such
a rush of couples wanting to get mar
ried that the captain had to swear off
marrying for a while. Besides, he half
suspected that the wine and cake were
proving too strong temptation and
! thought that perhaps some of the i'm
migrants were getting spliced just for
the sake of a fancy feed. So he imme-
| diately put stop to the epidemic of
marrying by issuing a proclamation to
/ the effect that no marriages would take
place unless at least ten days notice
was given by the contracting parties.
Those who observed the Porto Ricans
when they arrived yesterday morning
were of the opinion that the present
consignment of immigrants is the best
looking lot of laborers which has been
brought to these Islands for a long
d! time
! They seem to be in a better condition
than any previous that have been
! brought here They are both cleaner
! and are better, clothed. They seem to
be in very good spirits and are con-
tented-more than contented They are
happy to be in the Paradise of the Pa
cific and look forward to their homes
on the plantations of these Islands with
great delight.
Most of the lot which arrived on the
Zealandia yesterday We're for the Eva
and Waialua plantations on this Is
| land They We're put aboard the cars
at the Railway wharf and shipped right
\ down the line. This is convenience
/ that many a larger port than Homo
lulu cannot boast: the Zealandia went
alongside the Railway wharf, the cars
We're brought alongside the ship and
the immigrants went direct to the train
which was to take them.
Those who were not for Eva and
Waialua were for the other islands
/ There was an event aboard the Yea
landia which must not be passed by
A death occurred, a birth took place
and there We're marriages, but that was
not all. divorce case had it's say in
the program. woman went to the
purser to lodge a complaint against her
HuSpdnu 1t seems that the man had
undertaken to beat his wife with the
buckle end of a strap. A court was
formed aboard ship and the stories of
the man and the woman were told
AS neither of the two wanted to live
with the other any more, a separation
was granted and they Immediately pro-
/ ceeded to separate. the man taking the
starboard side of the steamship as his
| little world and the other taking the
port side for her domain
Boss on the zsalandia.
/ The steamer Zealandia the regular
/ passenger steamer between here and
Honolulu, arrived yesterday from the
Islands with one passenger. says a San
francisco paper of late date
Only one.
The passenger list contains the name
OF Madura, not Colorado Madura, but
just Madura, F. J.
Madura in Havana means strong. The
passenger had to be srrong to travel
1000 miles over the sea with nobody
to talk to but himself when the officers
were busy
There were some advantages to be
sure. He had the choice of the state
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