The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-22
BROKE RECORD
AROUND THE HORN
The Magnificent Ship erkins n.
Phelps Made Voyage In
Ninety seven Days.

lne fnHHi sailing fhip ~ ~" Mnflu
De- now az the Navy wharf discharrinE
nearly nve thousand tons Of coal for
the Government This IL the Amerl-
can steel four masted ship Erskine NJ.
Phelps. captain Graham. from Norfolk.
and her skipper Il today telling the
story Of how his magnificent vessel has
broken the record from Atlantic coast
ports to Honolulu. The Phelps maze
the trip 20 Honolulu In ninety-seyen
days. two days quicker than II has ever
been made before by any sailing craft
/ The Phelps is conceded to be the
finest built and pretuest merchantmen
on the sea today and looks more like
an enormous pleasure boat than a ship
carrying such a dirty kind Of cargo as
coal. But there Is another reason why
one should be proud OF this ship ana
that Is because she is American built
from keel to truck jib boom to spanker
boom, and with her great mass Of snow
white canvas, her white painted hull,
and out before "A stiff breeze Sae is a
/ sight for the gods.
sailing ship. Her length over all is
$3.50 feet. and her length on the deep
load line 312 feet Her breadth is forty
/ five feet two inches and her depth
twenty-five feet six inches Her gross
tonnage Is 5000 tons and she has a
dead weight carrying of nearly five
thousand tons The masts average
about two hundred feet in height
above the keeson. They are thirty
| two inches in diameter at the part
| ners and twenty-slx inches at the heel.
Her lower yards are ninety-four feet
long: lower top-sall, eighty-five feet six
inches: upper topsail, seventy-eight
feet: topgallant siXty-five feet; royal
hfty-five feet; and skysail yards forty
six feet. The bowsprit Is also of steel
and is sixty-eight feet in length. The
deck fittings are built on the same
sumptuous scale but II Is In the cabin
chat ones eyes rest on what might be
termed luxurles for merchant ship.
When one first enters the commodi-
Gus after portion of the ship he is sure
to make some sort Of exclamation. The
idea, Such magnificent quarters ON q
coal carrying vessel. They are for 6
prince to reside in and many a prince
sails yacht that Is not as nicely Mt
ted as this sailing ship. Captain Ora
: ham has his wife and little daughter
aboard his sea mansion They lead
them a very happy life. The cabin Is
! divided into many rooms and each Is
| painted with white enamel while the
floors are of highly polished hardwood
!, The captain takes great pride in hi:
l dining saloon and parlor. These two
rooms are connected by a folding door
The parlor is luxuriously furnished
: There is a piano, fancy and unusua
: chairs, odd pieces OF bric-a-brac, fin'
% rugs over the polished floor, and pic
- lures of life upon the sea hanging
> about the walls. The dining saloon il
t furnished with an oak table and GAL
; chairs and is spotlessly clean. Tit
= lockers contain an expensive dnne
= service. Big skylishts make the cabin
X as bright as one would wish for. AL
. the bed rooms are furnished in the
u same magnificent manner and the sit.
ting room, sewing room. and Other
% apartments OF Mrs. Graham are a:
cosy as one could wish for. The bed
% rooms for the officers of the vessel are
= also finished in the same manner anC
I life i'm the after part of the Phelps
= must be very pleasant.
< Captain and Mrs Graham are wei
4 known in Honolulu and have a host OF
| friends here. During the stay of the
: ship In port they viii live ashore and
i their handsome apartments aboard the
u ship will be carefully sealed up so that
: no coal dust may get into them while
1 the ship is discharGing.
p Captain Graham has a crew of TWEEN
l ty-slX. mostly Americans. He says life
aboard the ship would be very pleasant
We're 1t not for the fact that a good
cook is very hard to obtain. If there
! Is n good cook in Honolulu who is anN-
ious to take a turn on the sea II is
: quite likely that the captain will dis
cover him and take him away.
During the vessels passage around
the Horn she met with fine weather
t during the greater part of the time bu'
Of course suffered a few days of rougf
weather during which icy spray sweep
{ continuously over the vessel.