The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-24
MAIL STEAMERS
OFF YESTERDAY
Alameda for the Coast and
Ooric for the
Orient.

With two ocean liners to sail during
the course of one afternoon and a mum,
Der of well known people to leave OF
each of them. matters were rather live
| ly on the water front yesterday. TIL.
| 0. & O. S. s. Doric sailed at p. m
for the Orient and the o. s. s. Ala
media an hour later for the Coast. Tn,
Hawaiian band played for an hour a
the Pacific Mail wharf for the Dorit
and for another hour on the Oceani,
wharf for the benefit of the passenger
departing on the Alameda
The Doric had only been alongside
the dock since O'Clock in the morn-
ing. She brought two days later mai
from San Francisco. She was late II
arrival and did not reach here on Tues
day night as was expected, her officer:
finding that they would be unable tc
get in before midnight, slowed dowr
the harbor until about o'clock. The
doctors put off to her about o'clock
but it was O'Clock before the vessel
got alongside the wharf, as the doctors
had to investigate an alleged case of
smallpox in the steerage. This was
looked into and found 70. be chicken
pox. The Doric had a large list OF
passengers. Thomas D. Mckay, pas
senger agent for several of the Orient
Steamship lines. is returning to Yoko-
hama L. w. Irwin, ex-Hawaiian Min
lister to Japan. is making trip to that
country Miss Elizabeth Waite. from
the East. is on her way to Manila TO
marry Lieutenant George a. Duncan of
the Fifteenth Infantry. Another pas
senger going over to be wed is Miss
Louisa Becker of San Francisco, whose
future husband is a Yokohama BUSH
ness man. Mr.. T. w Stevens, the well
known counsellor of the Japanese Iega-
ton. is on one of his usual trips. Of
the passengers going from Honolulu
the best known We're Messfs. C. Shio-
zawa. proprietor of the Hawaii Shinpo
and I. Ishikawa of the Yamoto Shim-
bun, who go to Japan in connection
with the japanese fire claims. Dozens
OF their Fellow cOuntFyn1en gave INefn
an enthusiastic send off.
Mr.. F. c. HubbeIl. the well known
Iowa capitalist. and Mrs. Hubbell. who
stopped over from che China. were also
pa ssengers for the Orient. Mr., Hubbell
had some very nice things TO say of
Hawaii. Your whole island teens
with beauty and commercial possibilf-
ties he said, and even when leaving
the place your native band tells us in
music not TO forget the Islands I think
your band and the custom of friends
decorating visitors with flowers one OF
the prettiest things 1 have ever seen.
The Doric carries $500 tons of general
and silver bullion valued
At $500. 900. She took quite a large num-
Der of Japanese and Chinese steera ge
from this port.
The Alameda carried a big list of
passengers and her sailing hour pre-
sented pretty scene. On board
everyone was decked with flowers, |
while on the dock there were hundreds
md the band had the usual assortment
IF good things to offer. Just as the yes |
sci was leaving the wharf, after all the |
ines had been taken away, a man
anne running breathlessly up the |
wharf. He had a bundle of letters and |
he accommodating quartermaster onl
he Alameda threw out line to which |
he letters We're attached and pulled !
lp. The Alameda got away promptly |
IT o'clock and carried a fair amount |
# cargo.