The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-24
SHE SHIPPED A
TERRIFIC SEA
Alameda Comes to Port With Pilot
House Steve in and Steering
Gear Smashed.

After 4 week. battle with vino aHt
wave, the Alameda got in early yes
terday morning nearly two days over
due The trip was the toughest tina
Captain Herman has ever experience
de; in fact, it blew a gale all the way
from San Francisco to Honolulu.
When the pilot was discharged or
the afternoon of the 18th thick fog
prevailed. and the wind which had un'
til then been moderate. started tc
breeze up. At 4 a. m. on the 18th a
moderate gale was blowing, with high
| seas. and at noon a fresh gale pre-
vailed, with the wind backing to the
isouth-southeast.
The gale continued until p. M, at
which time the Doric. which had left
an hour ahead of the Alameda, was
sighted. On the 18th a high, confused
sea was running, with the wind mod
crate, but at midnight it breezed up
again from southerly to a fresh gale.
About a. m. on the 18th the en-
gines were going very slowly, and at
forward, which stove in a forward
scupper and the skylight window and
front of the pilot house, breaking the
wheel of the steam steering gear,
washing both binnacles away, and
flooding the deck cabin of the saloon.
AT noon on the 18th it was blowing
fresh gale from the north, and this
condition of weather prevailed, with
continual showers of rain until 8 a. m.
of the 18th, the vessel going dead slow
all the time.
During the afternoon of the 18th the
weather moderated slightly, and at s
a. m on the goth it commenced to blow
again from the west-southwest, and at
noon there was a fresh gale which
westerly sea running all the time.
From midnight on the Goth to port,
moderate to fresh southwesterly
breezes were the rule.
The time of the trip was days and
Is hours, or from $40 p. m. on the 18th
to ZIP a. m. of the 23d.
The terrific sea which wrecked the
and carrying it clean over the length
of the ship deposited it aft. The man
in the pilot house had a narrow escape.
So great was the force of the rushing
water that the glass of the window,
which was three-eighths of an inch in
thickness, was smashed like an egg
shell, and fragments of it were found
imbedded in the woodwork on the OPP
posite side of the house.
Just what damage was done to the
cargo will remain unknown until the
work of discharging has proceeded fur
ther The Alameda brought LOO tons
of freight. and an unusually large num-
Der of sacks of mail, there being $50
bags of papers alone. Sam Parker had
three horses on board which luckily es-
capped any worse injury than a chafe
or two.
Among the notable passengers were
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Parker and
Prince and Princess Kawananakoa.
Washingtons birthday was celebrat-
ed on board by an entertainment in
honor of Americas first President. The
program was as follows:
Song-"America,' Passengers.
THE Day We Celebrate" Col. u. 8.
Spaulding.
Song (Hawaiian)-"Mik East Ka-
hulu.
Banjo Solo-G. Goodsell.
Short Talk-Capt. c. F. Herman.
Guitar Solo-H. A. Morrison.
Stunt-Messrs Sexton and Kooser.
Song-Princess Kawananakoa and
Miss Alice Campbell.
Song-"Aloha oe," Passengers.
The toast of the President Of the
United States was responded to by Col
onel Spaulding, and drunk standing.
King Edward VII and Governor Dole
were also toasted, and the toasts were
responded to by Captain HERMAN
and B. F. Dillingham;, respectively.
The Alameda will sail for San Fran
cisco next Wednesday afternoon.