The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-06
Engineer Little
of the Ventura
Praised.
Made Ia Knots With One
Screws Striking Mates
Still Hold Out.

Coast at 4:18 a. m. of Saturday, Marcf
80, making the run in a little over six
days.
When three days out of San Fran
| cisco the high pressure cylinder head
burst and the vessel was slightly delay
ed on this account. After the accident
the Sonoma proceeded on her journey
I to these Islands, using only one en-
CINE.
! Strong northwest winds were expert
eneed for the first thirty-six hours out
tof San Francisco, thence to the ship s
arrival here moderate winds and fine
weather prevailed
The passengers aboard the Sonoma
so much appreciated the work Of Chief
Engineer A. D. Little in getting over
fourteen knots out of the Sonoma with
only1one. engine that they addressed
the following communication to him,
the majority of the passengers attach
ing their names to it:
Archibald D. Little, Chief Engineer S.
S. Sonoma:
Dear Strive, who have been pas
sengers on this eventful voyage of the
good steamship Sonoma. beg that you
will accept this evidence of our sin
cere appreciation of the consummate
skill and rare good judgment with
which your duties have been perform
ed. We feel that no praise can be too
high for the engineer officer, who, find
ing one engine disabled, with the re-
naming one gets above fourteen knots
an hour of speed out of his ship, ana
we believe also that to your we'll known
ability and capacity this tribute is due.
We beg to assure you, sir, of our deep
est consideration and esteem. Your
friends"
One of the passengers for Honolulu
on the Sononfa who has a considerable
knowledge of engineering informed an
Advertiser representative that the
handling of the engine after the upper
head of the high pressure cylinder burst
was one of the prettiest pieces of work
he had ever Witnessed and that great
credit was due to Engineer Little.
The Sonoma was scheduled to sail
from San Francisco at p. M. on Fri
day, the 29th of March. 1t was sus-
pected, however, that there was some
thing wrong with the piston of the port
engine. The consequence was that the
ship was detained at San Francisco un-
til o'clock the following morning while
the engine was gone over in the at
tempt to remedy the defect.
It was shortly after o'clock in the
morning of Monday, April 1, that the
upper head of the high pressure cylin-
der burst. Most of the passengers wera
arising and heard the noise created by
the crashing steel and escaping steam.
There were six men in the engine room
at the time but none of them were in
jured in any way.
The assistant engineer was compelled
to cover his face in order to get TO the
throttles and shut off the steam.
After the accident the Sonoma pro-
ceeded to port with her starboard en-
CINE.
AS soon as the vessel arrived at this
port arrangements were made with the
Honolulu Iron Works to have the neces-
sary repairs made to the port engine so
that it could be used from here to Aus
stralia as a compound engine instead
of triplicate engine.
The Sonoma will get away for the
Colonies this morning about O'Clock,
the starboard engine performing its US
ual work as a triplicate and the port
engine acting as compound. In this
way Engineer Little says that he will
take the Sonoma into Sydney not a
minute behind schedule time.
The Sonoma brought a great many
passengers for this port The follow
ing is complete list of people for
Honolulu, and also of persons going
through to Samoa and the Colonies:
Honolulu-W NJ Armstrong, w, A
Backhouse, R. l.. Beckw1th E. NJ
Boyd, C. A Bruins, A. Buneman, L.
Burrows, Miss c. J. Carter, Miss w. A
clark, ID. j. Coleman, wife and child:
). II. Comstock, Mrs. c. B. Cook and
two children. Mrs. Charles J. DeerIng
L. F. Dredge, wife, three children and
maid; Miss n. Eaton, George d. Gear,
Mrs. r. c. Geer, c. p. GrImwood and
wife. Miss F. Hall. George Hammer,
Miss Jean Harwood, r. G, Henderson.
Miss H. Hitchcock, J. Frederick Hos
ken, Z. Irish, Richard Johnson, Mrs
r. A. Judson, Miss c. Judson, David
Lawrence, r. 7. Lees A. L. Louisson,
A ID. McBryde and wife, J. T. McCros-
SON SC ID. j. Mckay, G. F. McVeigh, Miss
Il. Meyer, G. H. Miller, NJ D. Monsar-
rat, 5. A. Monsarrat, Mrs. c. Nichols
and child, Miss E. c. Potts. J. P. Rich.
Mrs. L. Nj. Robertson, DR.. w. W. Rob
lee and wife, Mrs. A. w. Rogers. Miss
4. NJ Rogers, n. S. Sachs and wife,
- Ao1olb anu vile, y. M. Smith and
wife, ]. G. Smith, wife and child: Mrs
+. 0. Sodergren, ]. S. Splitter. w. NJ
Warren, n. NJ. Whitney Jr, Miss e
Wilson.
Sydney-William Aitchison, Douglas
n; Ancelon, F. Ash, Mrs. E. Baume,
Miss M. Bruno, Miss A. Byrnes, H. Blu
chanan, Miss E. NJ. Cameron. w. w.
Danley and wife, G. Dobson, Finlay M.
Drummond G. A. Fraser and wife
Miss Dorothea Fraser Miss Roma Fras-
er, Master Fenwick Fraser E. Har-
grove and wife, Mrs. Nettie Hart, Mrs
b. G. Human, DR.. krulle, DR.. J. A
Langrill, Miss G. E. Leavy, Hon. DR.
w. H. Montague and wife, DR.. Oron-
hyatekha, F. Passmore, Arthur II. Pol
lard. Robert Rankin, Mrs. NJ. Riley,
Rev. j. Sicily, ]. Vertag.
Page Pago-Robert Tibbitts
Auckland-J. D. Harris, James Mar
tin.
Join at Honolulu for Sydney-Mrs. S.
G. Ainsworth, Mrs. John Barneson and
child, Miss NJ Barneson, S. Brown,
wife and child.
Among the passengers arriving for
Honolulu on the Sonoma, was Mrs o.
wife of Captain Sodergren,
of the American bark Hesper, which
arrived in this port from Newcastle on
the 31st of last month.
H. NJ. Whitney Jr, Of the firm Of