The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-22

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THE largest steamship ever built in
| 4 America is the Korea, of which
n the above is an illustration. She
| is owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and was launched at Newport
News in the latter part of last month.
Her length is 572 feet. 4 inches; beam
6S feet She will displace 1880 tons on
a draft of seventeen feet. She will ply
between San Francisco and Hong Kong,
making Honolulu port of call. She
will accommodate 1450 passengers. The
Korea may be expected at this port
some time in December or January.
Zealandla From Los Angeles.
The Zealandia of the Oceanic Steam
ship line arrived off port on Saturday
might from Los Angeles, bringing over
eight hundred Porto Ricans to work on
the plantations in these Islands.
She remained outside of The farbor
all night, coming into port about
clock yesterday morning and going
to the railway wharf
The Zealandia sailed from San Fran
csico on the 18th instant, arriving at
Los Angeles on the following day, early
in the afternoon. She sailed from the
latter port at daylight on the 18th. max
ing the run to Honolulu in seven days,
fourteen hours and fifty-f1ve minutes.
The steamer left Los Angeles with
$40 Porto Rican immigrants, men, wo-
men and children. Six of the children
died on the voyage and were buried at
sea. The cause Of the deaths was
anaemia.
Yesterday about 200 of the laborers
went down the railway line to Waialua
and other plantations. The remainder
Of them will be shipped to the other ISL
ands on the Kinau and other island
steamers.
The Zealandia has about 400 tons of
cargo for this port. She will remain
for San Francisco.
While the present lot of laborers Is
anything but pleasant to look upon, it
is not the worst crowd which has come
to these Islands by any means.
The people are dirty, very dirty, to be
sure, but that perhaps may be laid par
TALLY to the fact that they have been
cooped up on board ship for a long
experiences on the train overland.
The majority of them are thin and
sickly looking They seem to possess
considerable stamina, however, and
may recuperate soon under favorable
conditions.
They were all very hungry when an
Advertiser reporter saw them aboard
ship yesterday and proved that they had
appetites when several dozens of punches
Of bananas were brought aboard.
Those who happened to be on the su-
gar wharf when the bananas went
aboard the Zealandia saw sight which
was both amusing and pathetic. There
was a wild scramble for the fruit, men,
women and children making a rush for
the bananas as fast as they We're taken
aboard.
A man would be going up the gang
way with box of the fruit on his Shout
der when, the crowding and pushing la
borers on the deck, those who were near
est would reach over the rail and grab
at the yellow punches, filing their blouses
and dresses and hats, so that by the
time the man arrived on deck there
would hardly be a banana left in the
box.
Some of the fruit was carried aboard,
two punches at a time, a man walking
up the gangway with bunch in either
hand. When he arrived on deck there
would be scramble and the bananas
would be torn from the punches, one by
one, or by the handful by old men, young
men, young girls, women with babes in
arms and children ranging from the age
of just learning to walk to long trousers.
There were fights and yells and cries of
youngsters while the distribution of ba-
nanas was going on. One would make a
big haul of fruit only to have it taken
from him or her by some one who
was bigger or stronger or hungrier or
more selfish.
There We're enough bananas to give an
of the laborers a sufficiepcy They ate
them fast and furiously, as If they had
not had anything to eat for a day or
two. They have been well fed on the
steamship. however, and their excite
ment over the bananas was perhaps ow-
Ing to the fact that they had not tasted
fruit for a long time.