The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-26
MARINE

The Dresden Germany Daily Record
Of July % contains an interesting ac-
count of a travellers impressions of
Honolulu and the s. 5. Tenyo Maru.
His article IS as follows:
With the columns and columns that
appeared ana still appear in the press
of all countries with regard to the re,
cord breaking feats of the new Cum
arders fresh IN one 5 memory, one may
yet rest assured that a record achieved
upon another Ocean viii attract little
Tor no attention in Europe And yet to
US. who have crossed the Pacific from
Yokohama to San Francisco in faster
time than ever man has done before,
the advent of the new transpacific liner
is a matter OF considerable Importance.
II was our fortunate, good or other
wise, but on the whole good to assist
in the maiden trip Of the S. S. Tenyo
Maru. and by so doing to be among the
first passengers ever carried by tur-
bine-driven steamship in Oriental
waters The Tenyo burns oil fuel and
to that fact is due, according to experts,
the circumstance that as the fuel was
consumed the huge vessel developed an
almost alarming list, and when we en-
tered Honolulu harbor and anchored,
the inhabitants, seeing our list to port,
began to imagine we had grounded!
But the removal of our deck cargo, the
filing of the oil tanks, and the taking
in of 600 tons of water increased our
stability, and the remaining portion of
the trip was infinitely more comfortable.
AS far as speed went the ship gave a
coed account of herself. We beat the
Yokohama Honolulu record easily, al
though only doing Is knots. The Homo
Iulu-San Francisco record of five days
two hours we were confident of break
ing beyond repair. but although we were
doing fifteen and quarter knots, dense
fog outside the Golden Gate delayed
us, and four days nineteen hours had
elapsed before we dropped anchor. Good
enough, though, on maiden trip.
While most of the officers are pukka
Japs. the captain and head steward are
English; while the purser and doctor
upon whose heads, especially the lat
ters, be peace for eVermore-are
Americans. / say especially, for upon
the occasion of a fancy dress ball on
board (and here let it be mentioned
that the deck space f0T dancing on the
Tenvo could not be beaten for size
on an Atlantic floating palace) the
writer was foolish enough to light the
fuse connecting with the magnesium il
luminant necessary for a tfashlight
photograph of the costumed dancers.
Result owing to far too short fuse,
two badly burned fingers, treated with
infinite skill by the doctor aforesaid.
The japanese, needless to say, re-
iected all advice in the building of the
new ship, with the result that her lines
are too fine and in even q moderate
beam sea she pitches to cheat the
band, - as the expression goes in these
parts; while rumor, for which l can
not voueh, has it that the fact that the
grouse at dinner one night were I'M
mistakably "high' was due to the
circumstance that the ships designers
had Inadvertently run steam pipe
through the refrigerating room!
7 have vet to meet the man who does
not rejoice when a day at sea reaches
its conclusion. and we were all of US
moved to much grumbling when one
Saturday evening we reached the lS0th
| longitude and had to realize the awful
| fact that Saturday was to be repeated
|
| time as we had been going steadily
| eastward. None the less, CHEEKY
crowd aboard made the long hours pass
pleasantly enough, though one has to be
at1oat to realize how men of all ages ear
ignore their dignity and summon up
sufficient energy to push an olive with
tooth-pick along one particular deck
lplank.-an event which was the VERT
able cIou of our deck sports.
| Despite the various methods OF be
quilting time on board ship, there was
not a passenger who did not welcome
the chance of spending a hours or
terra frma in Honolulu.
Honolulu is the very paradise OF
| flowers. and remember we had seen M
flowers as Europeans understand the
term save in CevlOn, and azaieas ane
| rises in Japan. since we left England
| The Hawaiians revel in their flowers
and are prone to make a wreath OF
| some brilliant hued blossoms and wea
them round their hats; and there i!
no more significant example of "whel
in Rome doing as the Romans DO, - thai
10 see ones fellow passengers, male
| and female, returning to the ship witt
hat ribbons. belts, boas- etc. formed
of exquisite 2fo-ers.
The main attraction to passing tour
isis as we'll as. evidently enough, Il
MANY residents is the surf bathing a
Waikiki which is reached by electro
J ear. the route passing numerous exquisit
tropical gardens all afame with bios
, SONS. Here we find long beach o
soft yellow sand upon which, all day
breakers one behind the other dasl
thunderousIy. One is sn7pled with
fat board about FIVE feet long, an
one endeavors, lying on this board, t
ride shoreward on the crest of surf
;, TONED wave Practice brings extra
ordinary dexterity at the game, an
, one native boy was able to stand on th
: board and thus, erect, was carried alon
for twenty or thirty yards. 1t mus
:, not be forgotten that year IN yea