The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-13

raised and numerous questions as to
the nature OF the trip Were fired w tn
out any apparent waiting for replies.
Once alongside the wharf and the
gangway lowered, the crowd surged
aboard, helter-skelter, Inter-Island d.
rectors and officers, stevedores, people
from the transport Thomas, folks who
had business and they who had none
but anxiety to see something new and
something of which they had heard
much. Allow and aloft, it seemed. the
crowd swarmed and oh and ""Ah''
and "Auwe'' were expressions gener-
ously distributed from fore to aft and
back again.
a negro soldier from the transport
Thomas discovered the handsome and
brilliantly Illuminated social hall and
made for the piano, soon having a
crowd at the doorways listening to his
impromptu concert of patriotic airs
and rastime
Captain Freeman received many con-
gratu1at ons on account of the good
time made on the run down and ev-
erybody who viewed the noble vessel
made up his or her mind to soon take
a trip aboard.
The company intends next week
giving an excursion, though arrange
ments have not yet been settled. The
Hilo-Volcano run has now a vessel
not only up to the needs of the times,
but ahead in many ways.
The Mauna Kea averaged about
twelve knots on the trip. She made
sixteen and one-tenth knots on her
trial trips in San Francisco bay. BY
contract she was required to make
fourteen knots. She has five decks, is
roomy and comfortable and elegantly
furnished. She is the largest and fast
est vessel ever put into this inter-
island trade. She is 246 feet in length,
So feet and inches beam, with
depth of hold over II feet. Her load
line draught measures Is feet. She
has FIVE water tight bulkheads. Her
engines are triple expansion, q, 81 1-2
and 81 inches diameter of cylinders,
with 8 IA stroke of piston, with two
boilers II ga feet in length and 1856
inches in diameter, made of Lawful"
steel last year and allowed IT'S pounds
pressure. She is boated to tonnage
and the boats properly equipped for
emergencies. She carries two metal
and six wooden life boats and a work.
ing boat and is supplied with $50 life
preservers, sufficient for full load OF
passengers and the crew, allowing
about 100 for crew and extras. She is
furnished with fire-extinguishers and
surplus hose and otherwise more than
meets all legal requirements.
The Mauna Kea was built by the
Union Iron Works. Her gross tom
mage is registered at 1866. The she 81
staterooms and double that number of
berths, and 81 settees, or two berths
and a settee to each stateooom. She
can therefore carry 153 first-cIass pas
sengers.
She is certifcated for thirty deck or
steerage passengers on ocean trips, for
she is licensed for deep sea as well as
for inter island traffic. Between these
islands she may carry 270 additional
deck or steerage passengers, making
a total of three hundred steerage pas
sengers and total passenger list of
453.
For crew she can carry mas
ter, three mates, two quartermas-
ters, three assistant quartermasters,
fifteen seamen, a chief engineer three
assistant engineers. three water tend
ers, three oilers, three fuel tenders, a
wiper, three watchmen and fifteen
others. when needed, to serve in the
stewards and other departments. She
will be the first vessel of the Inter-
Island Company to carry stewardess.
In San Francisco she was inspected by
W. Howe, assistant inspector of bulls.
and c. F. Lehners, assistant inspector
of boilers.
Her master, w. X. Freeman, has
for years commanded the Kinau, the
boat which now resigns as flagship,
and he is we'll known and liked by all