The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-29
HELD THE
HONGKONG
GOODMAN KING CAUSES ALL
SORTS OF TROUBLE AT THE
JAPANESE NAIL BOAT.

The Hongkong Maru was delayed
fully twenty minutes this morning in
sailing for the Orient. When the Ori-
entail boats are posted to sail at "A Ger
tain time, it means that they are to go
on the stroke of the minute. The Hong
kong MaTu was ready to get under way
at 10 o'clock this morning. A few min
utes before the gangway was lowered
it was discovered that there We're fully
hah a dozen passengers not aboard.
The vessels syrene was blown a num-
Der of times and finally all but one ap-
peared and hurried aboard. The miss
ing Individual was Goodman King OF
St Louis.
Mr.. King is a director of the st.
Louis exposition and as ne has num-
Der of letters to prominent persons
throughout the Orient. it was desired
that ne should be taken along on the
vessel. The vessels whistle was blown
in long and repeated blasts but no Mr..
King appeared. Messengers on foot
and messengers in hacks We're dis
patched in quest of him. The telephone
wires hUmmed and buzzed with the de-
mands of Wharf Superinte tendent Riley
to be connected with various places
where / was thought possible the miss
ing man. might be.
Up on the bridge Captain Filmer was
becoming uneasy His vessel was be
ing delayed in sailing an almost un-
known experience with the HOngkOng
Maru Down on tae main deck stood
Mrs King, scanning the wharf en-
trance for some trace of her husband.
! She was in an awful situation. She
| did not want to leave the steamer, yet
| she did not wish to leave her husband.
we can't wait any longer, Mr.. Free
man." called Captain Filmer to Purser
! O. X. Freeman, who was pacing the
wharf at the foot of the gangway.
! While the passengers and officers and
! spectators at the vessel were in state
| of fevecish excitement Manager Lake
of the Young Hotel, in an equally ex-
cited frame of mind was under great
difficulty, urging a delapidated looking
| Japanese hack horse into a wild lope
along the Esplanade in a last frantic
! endeavor to find Mr.. King
Sauntering along as cool as If there
was no such entity as time, and least
i unawaiting mail liner was the
the missing Mr.. King. He wasn't like
John Hays Little Breeches and
wanted to. chew a tobacco, but some
thing after the fashion of Helen's Ba-
bles, was looking at the little torpedo
boat destroyers at the Navy wharf.
Mr.. Lake got the strangle hold onto
| the exposition director, threw him into
| the hack and again under a dead lope
. dashed DdCh W lllt CudlluGl NHdIlt JISI
| as the last whistle was being blown.
There was a gasp of relief as the miss
| ing King appeared, and then went up
a round of cheers as he went rushing
up the gangway, barely in time to get
me boat. ......
|, There was a very big crowd on the
| wharf when the vessel departed. Mrs.
| NJ. Il. Doyle who has been visiting her
sons Chester and, Walter Doyle OF this
| place left for. Shanghai to attend to
some business She was covered with
! leis and a large number of friends
were present to bid her aloha
DR.. Imamura and family were de-
parting passengers for Yokohama. He
was the superintendent of the Japanese
Buddhist church i'm these islands. A
very large number of Japanese were on
the wharf to bid them farewell The
| Hongkong got under way at l0:30 a. m.
for the Orient. She does not s. 10 Ma
-nila this trip.