The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-02
MARINE

Two Togo Kisen Kaisha steamships
in port in one day is an unusual oc-
currence. and Captain Riley, wharf
superintendent for Hachfeld, will tes-
tify that there is something doing
when the sisters America Maru and
Hongkong Maru hit the harbor within
less than thirty minutes of each other
At 11:25 o'clock yesterday morning
the America Maru. Captain w. E.
F1lmer, was sighted off BARRIERS Point
from the Orient. Ten minutes later
the Hongkong Maru,, Captain Ernest
Bent. was sighted off Koko Head from
San Francisco. There appeared to be
a race to see which would first get off
the harbor and catch the quarantine
officers. and the America Maru won.
entering the harbor first and docking
at the Hackfeld wharf about O'Clock.
Twenty minutes later the Hongkong
Maru locked at the Oceanic wharf.
She would have locked at the Cham
mel wharf had it not been that the
French S. s Ceylan was there.
The America Maru sailed for San
Honskong Maru left for the Orient at
IL o'clock last night.
LINER FROM THE ORIENT.
The S. s. America Maru brought lbs
passengers for Honolulu, though there
were none in the cabin. All arrivals
were in the steerage and consisted OF
11s Japanese and eight Indians, Chi
nese and three European steerage. The
Indians will take a hand at plantation
work to find out whether or not they
like it and If they do they will ac-
Quaint others of their race with its
advantages.
Ninety-four tons of freight and
thirty-seven packages of mail were
brought for Honolulu. The vessel is
light on account of the Chinese boy
colt of Japanese bottoms.
C. Lacy Goodrich, who was her
purser, was ordered off the America
Maru at Yokohama to take the pur-
sership aboard the splendid new
steamship Tenyo Maru of the I. K. Is,
which sails from Yokohama for Ho-
nolulu and San Francisco on June z.
Freight Clerk S. NJ. Williams is act
ing purser. He will probably get the
pursership of one of the line. 1t Is
said that Freight Clerk Edwards or
the Hongkong Maru, who is acting
purser aboard the Hongkong, will be
put purser aboard the America Maru.
Commander r. Smith, u. S. NJ. who
was commanding the u. S. S. Chatta-
nooga, is a through passenger aboard
the America Maru.
Consul A. Nightingale has been in
the British consular service in the ORR
emf for number of years and is en-
route home. accompanied. by his wife
and her maid. There are forty aye
through cabin passengers aboard the
America Maru.
CARRYING ARMY SUPPLIES.
There is great cargo aboard the
r. K. ks. S. Hongkong Maru, en-
sroute to the Orient. The bulk of her
freight consists of government stores
and Army supplies for the Philippines.
There are several hundred tons of
flour. a large number of military car
RAG loads of magazine rifle access
series and 100000 feet of lumber in the
ARMY stores. There are about 1000
tons of cargo and two hundred pas
sengers aboard. Sixty are travelling
first cabin.
DR.. William, E. Cell. a through pas
senger, is the noted African explorer,
who is en- route to China to carry out
a series of scientific observations near
Thibet.
John G.. Stubs, assistant general
freight agent of the Southern PACING
Company, accompanied by his bride,
who was Miss Alice Westfall, are on
a honeymoon trip.
A large number of government en-
ployes are travelling to Manila on the
Hongkong Maru.
Half a million dollars worth of sill
ver bullion are being shipped to the
Orient
Just before the Hongkong Maru sail