The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-18
SIBERIA CARRIES
MILITARY RAIL WAY

Filled with passengers and loaded
| ooWn with freight in her holds the big
Pacific Mail steamship Siberia arrived
| in port yesterday forenoon and moored
| alongside Naval Dock No l. The YES
| sci left San Francisco on the afternoon
| OF June IL and the trip down was pleas
ant. On Wednesday night the passen-
gers enjoyed a dance on the decks which
| were as even as if the vessel rode a
| mil-pond A weeks later mail and
newspaper files We're brought to Homo
lulu.
A large number of passengers were
landed at this port. Associate Justice
f. NJ. Hatch and daughter arrived from
the East, the latter being home for her
summer school vacation. Mr.. Hatch
was first appraised that he was now a
supreme Court Justice when the YES
sci was lying outside. Col. Thomas
Fitch returned from a long absence
spent mostly in Southern California
Mr.. and Mrs. s.. E. Damon returned
from San Francisco where the former
had gone to look after Olaa plantation
interests. j. NJ. Dowsett is back from
az<two-months' absence on the main
dand.
Col. and Mrs. z. S. SpaIding and r. s.
Spalding came from Europe This is
Mrs. Spalding's first visit to Hawaii in
sixteen years. She was one of the Ma
kee girls and was met on the steamer
by Mr.. and Mrs. Tenney, DR.. and Mrs.
Herbert, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Macfar-
lane and Mrs. Helen Noonan. Mrs.
Spalding is an invalid and was carried
from the steamer in her invaffd's
chair.
Mrs. F. J. Lowrey and children were
welcomed back from a years absence in
Europe, spent largely in Belgium and
Holland. Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Macfar
lane and their two daughters returned
from California, where the young ladies |
have been attending school. Mr.. Mac |
farlane did not go east to the st. Louis !
Exposition. L. a. Thurston returned |
from a business trip to San Francisco. |
Arthur K. Jones and bride also return
ed from the Coast. Mrs. G. A. HutchinS |
and daughter, who were with Mrs. DR.. |
Mcdonald when the latter died, came to
Honolulu to remain some time.
J. S. McCandless returned from trip |
to the Exposition. z. Hedemann, son |
of Mr.. Hedemann of the Honolulu Iron |
Works, is home from school. j. A. M. |
j johnson is back again. W. H. Heen !
came back from business trip to the !
Coast.
Among the passengers joining here
We're Godfrey Brown, who will make
the round trip voyage on the Siberia.
Prof and Mrs. Cook, the musicians,
departed for China to take up a per-
residence. Mr.. and Mrs. Helm
rich Renjes, who have been visiting
with relatives in Honolulu for the past
two months, resumed their tour of the
world
A large amount of the through cargo
is for the Japanese government COM
prising 5000 steel rails, for Kobe, eleven
fiat cars for Yokohama. The railway
is said to be intended for the
new military railroad in northern Ko-
rea There was also $172, 1880 in treas
ure for Japan and China. The Siberia
started from San Francisco with 1900
sacks of mail, 312 of which were for
Honolulu.
Among the through passengers is H.
8. Pointing, who goes to the seat of
war for the Harpers and the H. c.
White Company, publishers of North
Bennington. VT. After the war is over
Mr.. Pointing is to travel over Japan,
writing and illustrating for these two
concerns. Mr.. Pointing, who formerly
acted as correspondent for Golfers
Weekly, is one of the most expert pho
ographers in the country. The beauti-
vi pictures of many places in Manchu-
ia, Korea and Japan, which are in the
collection of Underwood & Underwood
# New York, We're taken by Mr.. Pom
ing several years ago.
The Siberia sailed for Yokohama at
l o'clock last night.