The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-23
THE JOHN 5. KIMBALL
NEW STEAMER ARRIVES FROM
SEATTLE.
Her Terrible Experience After the First
Start, Which Was Almost Repeated
This Time

The new steamer John S. Kimball,
Captain Thwng. arrived from Seattle
yesterday afternoon. Her second start
was i'm almost as had weather as her
first, after which she had to put back.
This time she lay to i'm Neah bay for
about two days, unable to proceed in
the storm. Captain Thwing reports
terrible weather along the Sound.
The Kimbalrs actual sailing time was
eleven days, the first two or three in
very bad seas. During the last part
of the trip she had fine weather She
is a steamer of 1908 tons net register,
just built having bilge kees that keep
her steady in the water, and very good
first class passenger accommodations.
Her stateroOms on deck are very large
and well fitted up. She can carry 12J
first class passengers.
The Kimball was built for the Wa
terhouse line. between Seattle and Ho-
nolulu and San Francisco. The COM
pany has made a rate of $50 for first
class passage to or from the coast
After discharging here the steamer
goes to Kahului for cargo of sugar.
returning to Honolulu to get passen-
gers for San Francisco. She is to make
the trip to San Francisco in nine days.
The Kimball brought 1900 tons Of
general merchandise from Seattle, %
tons being cold storage stuff. She dock
ed at the old fishmarket wharf, where
many people went to look at her Her
large, comfortable-lo looking cabins We're
favorably commented upon
Danger of fire from her cargo of lime
caused the vessel to put back after her
first start from Seattle in December
She had a thrilling encounter with the
storm off Cape Flattery and was forced
once to run for shelter before it was
decided to return to Seattle. Heavy
seas swept the vessel from stem to
stern the water penetrating to the en-
CINE rooms, and for nearly two days
when the boat reached Port Angeles,
the pumps were constantly working
barely keeping the leakage under con-
troll. Gallant work was done by Chief
Engineer Macintosh, who worked for
eighteen hours at one stretch in the
engine room, standing nearly up to his
knees in water, and encouraging the
stokers
After the Kimball passed Cape Flat
terry, the violence of the gale, which
had apparently subsidized, increased,
and the boat ran back to shelter A
few hours later she again put to sea.
There was lull in the storm, but It
began again and the vessel commenced
to leak while a regular hurricane was
blowing from the southeast AT TINS
time she was about forty miles off the
cape and was laboring heavily. All the
apumps were put in action, but the leak
ago gained steadily so long as the
steamer faced the seas. The stokers'
under the personal direction of Engin-
eer Macintosh, worked hard under ex-
tremely adverse circumstances to keep
the fires going. Some of them were
on duty twenty hours.
At length the increasing seriousness
of the situation, as the storm showed
no signs of abating, compelled the
steamer to run for Port Angeles. AS
soon as the bows were turned from
the angry seas the pumps gained on the
inflow of water. They were operated,
however, until the arrival at Port An
geles, on December 16.
The seas, which swept over the boat
besides inundating the engine rooms,
entered the saloons and stateroons,
with the result that the carpets had
to be removed because of their damp
condition when Port Angeles was
reached.