The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-04
SEEN BY
OTHER EYES
A Tourist Tells of
Passing Call
Here.
IMPRESSIONS
< OF A WOMAN
Life in Paso-Pago and New Zeal
and Bright Comment of
a Traveller.
The Salt Lake Tribune contain. tn,

| The Salt Lake Tribune contains the
following:
MELBOURNE, Australia, March Is.
sons directions TO the Sandwich Is
lands, You leave San Francisco and
| it's the first turning to the left"
Now there is the same humor in that
as in the judges story of the man who
took bath in a boiling spring some
where out in Nevada. then hid him
self on the other side and waited joy
fully to see his companion come along
and share the same fate.
The airy direction carries with it all
the grim humor of the first dip in the
hot bath-we had no idea of anything
but q calm journey to the first turn
ing when we left San Francisco on the
afternoon of the oath of January. Many
| friends were gathered on the wharf to
wish the fifteen passengers from Salt
Lake bon voyage. five of whom were
to stop at Honolulu. the other ten to
journey on till the south pole blocked
the way.
The humor of the situation began to
manifest itself as soon as we had
passed the Farallones, thirty miles out,
No one dreamed of anything but
smooth seas neither did tue men who
built the ship. OF surely they would
have saved our feelings to the extent
81 putting in thicker glass, for, quick
err than 1 can tell it, we were in the
midst of a terrific storm, wind howl
ing, seas roaring and dashing on US
mountains high, broke every window on
the starboard side, letting in tons of
green water, flooding the dining saloon
and drenching the cabins. Every body
sick, from the captain down and up
again, stewards and stewardesses too
much taken up with their own troubles
to look after anybody eise's.
When night came on I found myself
prone on the floor. knocked there by
every lurch of the ship, and there I
lay, too I'll to rise above it. I heard a
voice. and looking around saw D
at the head of the eompanionway her
face a. sickly yellow-green, saying.
What dandy lot of idiots we were
ever to leave Salt Lake" If had
lived among the British as long then
as now I would have answered, Hear.
hear" but I was too weak TO say any
thing. and too Ill to care much.
The next morning was no better. 1
noticed a perky-looking Israelite. and
asked him as he lodged the flying
chairs and tables if he had ever
crossed before. "Oh. yes; dis is my
forty-sixth trip. Dis is holdings: we
always have dis wedder out for tree
hundred miles; den it's alride again
May heaven bless him. he spoke the
truth. The limit passed. we entered
into all the beauties our fancy had
ever painted of the limitless blue Pa
cific. Two days of perfect weather
landed US at our first stopping place.
+ Honolulu, over two thousand miles
from the Golden Gate. Here we parted
with Mr.. and Mrs. Newell and son, and
NEARLY a hundred passengers, and here
we met Mr.. and Mrs. Kahn and daught-
or and Albert Taylor formerly of Salt
/ Lake, but nowhere in sight was the
/ late lamented Conway. though here is
where he left the ship ''Mariposa.'
sailing some time before the ''Sonoma. -
This is a fine vantage ground for a man
/ TO settle down, but no great shakes
when it come to settling up" at least
with the fellows left behind.