The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-26
At Fast Clip With
Heavy Head
Seas.
Capt. Seabury Rates
Ills Ship to Cut
Off an Hour.
"Four, twenty-five, hfty-three."

Four, twenty-five, ntty-three!
Thus Captain Seabury from the
bridge of the Korea as the big Pacific
Mail liner swung to her berth at Navy
Wharf No. to a friend whom he dis
tinguished particularly among the thou
sand friends who had gathered to greet
the ship, and a cheer went from ship
and shore that showed the popularity
of ship and skipper.
"Hurrah for Seabury." was the
friends answer to the hail.
mo: for the ship" responded the
bluff seaman.
And then there was another cheer
For the Korea had broken all records
for the passage from San Francisco to
Honolulu, and everybody in the city.
when she was reported off Koko Head
at noon had hurried down to the dock
to see her come in and to greet friends
and congratulate the officers. 1t was
a notable arrival of the big liner, in
more ways than one. She had broken
all records on the North Pacific. She
carried about the biggest passenger list
that any boat ever brought into port.
And of her large list in the cabin, about
$50 all told. there were seventy-seven
booked for Honolulu. They were most
1y we'll known people, and all had
friends down to meet them.
And so it came that the crowd on
but was also representative of all that
is best in the city. There was not a
prominent family in Honolulu that had
not it's representative there, and all
cried greetings back and forth as the
ship came to her mornings. 1t was,
in effect, a social function-a function
that was continued on the dock as the
passengers disembarked, and that
spread itself all over town with the
dispersal of the crowd.
1t was three o'clock when the big
ship docked. She had arrived off Koko |
ing outside for an hour and a half. !
steaming back and forth and blowing
her siren, and yet despite this vexa-
tious port delay she had done so well
that few complaints of it were heard
even from those who stood waiting In
the sun for hours for her to come along
side. The Korea had made the run
from San Francisco to Honolulu, from
point to pilot. in the marvellous time
of four days, twenty-five hours ana M
ty-three minutes, and held her title OF
Queen OF the Western Ocean against all
comers. The ship had her anchor
up off Point Lobos at AIS on
Tuesday. and dropped her pilot at
the lightship off the Golden Gate at
455 p. m. the same day. She picked up
her pilot off the harbor of Honolulu at
noon yesterday, beating the best pre-
vious record-her own, made on her last
trip down-by four hours and fifty-sev-
en- minutes. That trip was made in hVe
days. three hours and fifty minutes
81 have only just begun it" said
Captain Seabury, standing on the deck
of his splendid boat and watching the
passengers file down to the floor of the
dock. far below II will show these
people better speed than this yet. am
q record breaker, and I'll keep up my
record I used to smash all the records
with the China, you see, and 1 have
to do better than that now. And she
was a pretty hard boat to beat. But
wen make them all dizzy, see II we
don't Why. yes, we had pleasant
run down. There was a head wind 1or
he first two days out, and maybe
Dit of a sea but not such as you would
notice on the Korea. What is head
Wind, anyway! The ship rides smooth'
8ut she made something of gale her-I
elf, going through the water so fast
md so there was not much doing in the
way of social functions. There was not