The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-29
DETAILS ABOUT
THE MONGOLIA
Continued from Page One1.

will reach the mainland ahead of that
by the Mongolia. The secondary pumps
erected in hold No. are able to keep
the water down in that compartment.
She is leaking a foot an hour, but the
water is not gaining on the pumps.
None of the passengers on the vessel
will be allowed to depart with her. They
will go to San Francisco by the Ala
media or Doric next week and booking
arrangements are to be made at the
office of H. Hackfeld and Company the
local agents, on Monday morning at 10
o'clock. The Asiatic passengers will
also be sent by those vessels. The
cabin passengers of the Mongolia took
dinner and slept aboard her last night
but today they were allowed $3.50 a
day each and left the vessel to go to
various hotels and boarding houses
about the city.
In his explanation of the accident at
Midway, Captain Porter says that the
vessel went aground as he could not
see the reef. The vessel had been
making soundings for some time be-
fore the disaster and had been going
dead slow when she struck She went
on while going about the rate of 3
knots an hour. About 800 tons of
cargo were jettisoned.
The evident intention is to rush re-
pairs on the Mongolia as soon as she
reaches San Francisco so that she can
go out again on her run. Certainly
the accident to the Mongolia will not
prove very costly. The damage to
her hull is not thought to be extensive.
Whether Captain Porter will be retain
ed as commander of the vessel is not
known The unwrten rule of the Pa
cific Mail Company seems to be that
the master who is so unfortunate as to
put a ship ashore, loses his berth.
Captain Porter, like Captain Saunders
of the Mongolia, has received many
cablegrams of sympathy and friend
ship from personal friends as well as
former passengers of his vessel. The
passengers of the Mongolia have ex-
pressed the utmost appreciation of the
considerate treatment given them by
the ships people and the officials at
Midway. during their stay there The
chief steward of the Mongolia took a
force of men ashore and cooked for the
passengers of the Mongolia until they
went aboard the TRANSPORT Buford.
In regard to the treatment given the
Mongolia by the Anegawa it is report
ed that some of the Japanese on the
Mongolia were so indignant that they
prepared an article stating the circume-
stances, for publication in Japanese
neWSDaDer i'm HOnoIuIu
Here is what Captain Porter saws Off
his crew: 81 can not say enough in !
praise of the Chinese crew. They
worked splendidly In fact all of the !
officers did good work. Capt. Kilt
gard, one of my passengers, stayed |
by me and was of the greatest assist
ance to me-"
u. S. Commissioner George A. Davis |
went aboard the Mongolia this morn
ing to take the marine protest, as the |
report of a disaster Is called, from |
Captain Porter.
Admiral Very, the commandant of |
the naval station, was a caller on Cap
tain Porter.
The cable S. S. Restorer left Midway
last night for Honolulu and the u. S.
S. Iroquis left on September q for
Honolulu. The naval S. s. Lawton had
not arrived at Midway from Guam.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Kahuku Plan. Co. 6s,... 10000 ......
Oahu Railway 6s .,..... 10000 $685."
paia plan Rs .... 100 20 .