The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-29


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With the passengers and mail from
the S. 5. Mongolia. the L. s. A. T.
Buford returned from Midway yester-
DAY. entering the harbor shortly after
noon. She was locked at the navy
wharf. but her passengers We're not
allowed to land for some hours, pend
ing arrangements by the agents for
their accommodation while in Honolulu.
Everybody on board was in a most
happy. state of mind, happy at arriv-
ing once more at a peopled port and
glad that the experience of shipwreck
with as little discomfort as they had
had to undergo had been afforded them.
The passengers had been all taken
aboard without accident of any kind
on the day following the arrival of
the Buford at Midway, the steam
from daybreak until after six o'clock
in the evening Fortunately the sea was
particularly quiet on that day, allow
ing the work to go on without inter-
ruption, although what is called quiet
sea at Midway was alarming enough
to many of the passengers.
During their stay ashore on Midway
the passengers suffered not the slightest
there having been shell
ter available for all and food in plenty.
Every possible courtesy was extended
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marines and the days We're spent in
fishing, bathing, games and other
amusement.
1T was the least expensive ship
vi eck | ever heard Of" is the way one
of the passengers expressed himself,
" lille one of the stranded young lady
members of the company declared she
would not have missed all that fun for
Only few of the sixty cabin
passengers were on business trips re-
quiring any degree of haste, and even
these yielded to the inevitable with
good grace and bore their part in max
ing the time pass pleasantly to ALL
ARRANGEMENTS FOR PASSEN-
GERS.
All the passengers and their baggage
were shifted again last night, going
back aboard the Mongolia. Here they
passed the night and this morning VIII
have a conference with the agents re
garding their passage from Honolulu TO
San Francisco. 1t has been decided
that as many as desire will be sent on
the Alameda, sailing from here on Oc-
tober g. While those who prefer VIII
await the arrival of the Doric, due to
arrive from the Orient on October o.
In the meanwhile it is expected that all
will move to hotels.
ALAMEDA IN PORT.
After an uneventful voyage, five days
and twenty hours, the S. S. Alameda
reached port yesterday morning. she
brings a small list of passengers ana
1850 tons of freight. One days mail
was carried. In returning the Alameda
will have a good many of-the paSseh-
gers of the Mongolia, arrangements
having been made to book as many OF
them as can be accommodated and who
do not wish to await the sailing of the
Doric. the next Coastbound Pacific
Mailer. 4 NE
The steamer Iwalani returned yes
terday afternoon from the Sheridan,
where the conditions have been I'M
changed during the past two days. The
Iwalani brought in the water barge
which Topped from side to side in nee
wake and made a snake trail through
the channel as it was towed in. the
barge was refilIed with water and taken
down again to the Sheridan last night.
Ten battered life RATS were also
brought up by the tender. They had
been drifting around the Sheridan ana
had been badly damaged through
humping each other in the swells.
BARK EDWARD MAY IN COLL
SION.
The schooner Robert H. Hind came
into collision with the bark Edward
May on the evening of September lS'
off Harbor View, carrying away the
boom and fore gear of the latter, and
loosing it's backstay. rail and stanch-
ion on the after port side. Mrs. Erick-
son, wife of the captain of the schoon-
err was struck by the main gam, put
was not seriously injured.
The Robert H Hind was sailing up
the bay. when off Harbor View she
became suddenly becalmed and dritted
hopelessly about in proximity to the
Edward MAY. The crew strove in vain
to control the drifting vessel. but she
finally brought up against the bark.
The sea was smooth and the impact OF
the two vessels was greatly leSSened
NV this facts F. Chronicle.
RETURN TO ATLANTIC SERVICE
Captain William Finch, for years IN
command of the Occidental and ORR
entail steamship Gaelic and more re-
Gently on the Coptic. running between
here and the Orient. will leave today
overland for New York en- route tc
Liverpool to re-enter the service of the
White Star line on the Atlantic. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Finch.
Chief Engineer John Richardson. also
formerly Of the Gaelic and Copuc. Is
,---.,z. 41y7ar- NTH his family for I4iV-