The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-01-27
KOREA SETS PACE FOR PACIFIC LINERS
MAKING THE RUN UNDER FIVE DAYS
At Fast Clip With
Heavy Head
Seas.
(From Mondays daily)


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 snip
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 frienfs
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
ly we'll known people, and all hao
friends down to meet them.
And so 1t came that the crowd on
the wharf was not only big crowd
but was also representative of all that
is best in the city. There was not a
prominent family in Honolulu that had
not its representative there, and all
cried greetings back and forth as the
shin 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.
It was three o'clock when the big
ship, locked. She had arrived off Koko
Head at noon. She had been kept wait
ing outside for an hour and 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 1t 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 and hf-
ty-three minutes, and held her title OF
corners. The ship had her anchor
up off Point Lobos at AIS on
Tuesday, and dropped her pilot at
the iightship off the Golden Gate at
4:55 p. M the same day. She picked up
her pilot off the harbor of Honolulu at
noon yesterday, beating the best pre-
yious reoord-her own, made on her last
trip down-by four hours and fifty-sev-
en- minutes That trip was made in fiVe
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. 81 will show these
people better speed than this yet. am
record breaker, and I'll keep up my
record. / used to smash all the RECORDS
with the China, you see, and l have
to do better than that now. And she
was a pretty hard boat to beat But
we'll make them all dizzy, see II we
don't Why, yes, we had pleasant
run down. There was a head wind for
the first two days out, and maybe a
bit of a sea but not such as you would
notice on the Korea. What is a head
wind. anyway! The ship rides smooth
But she made something of gale her.
self. going through the water so fast
and so there was not much doing in the
wav OF social functions. There was not
even concert. But the passengers had
good sociable time among themselves
and everybody got acquainted with ev-
ervhodv else The wind she made COM
ing along kept them pretty well under
their rugs, however
All the officers say the ship hac
smooth weather and smooth water fo'
winter passage. 1t was more like
s,r,mer than winter. although the boa
did raise something of a breeze by hel
sneed The first day out the run was
37O miles. the second day AGO. the third
42s. the fourth 4s2 and the last 451. II
was on this last day, a short day, that
the ship fairly picked up her heels and
flew through the seas, and she had good
weather to do 1t in.
There was, In fact, a general desire