The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-07
ALAMEDA BRINGS A
BANNER LOT or MAIL
Liner Arrives With Jolly Crowd
of Passengers and Much
Freight.

Owing to rough weather on the way
up to the Coast, the Alameda failed
to reach quarantine at San Francisco
in time to have q medical inspection
by the quarantine officers, and she had
to lie out in the stream all night and
therefore did not actually get into her
slip until last week Wednesday morn
ing. Then the federal inspectors of
bulls and boilers wanted to examine
the vessel, and they took their time,
and therefore the good old ferryboat
did not leave the Coast port for Ho-
nolulu until Sunday noon. She made
good time on the way down, five days
and nineteen hours, and was off port
at her usual time yesterday morning.
A number of young people must have
sat up all night waiting for the Ala
media, for they were off Waikiki in a
launch when the boat passed up to the
quarantine, and they literally poured
leis over the side. These were for
the young ladies who represented Ha-
wall at the Seattle fair. 1t was
graceful tribute to number of very
pretty young ladies.
There was plenty of music all the
way down, for Ernest Kaai and his
band of Hawaiian musicians who play
ed in the Hawaii building at the Sc
attic fair, and made that building one
of the most attractive in the grounds,
returned AS the Alameda left the San
Francisco dock, the musicians played,
and they played all the way down, and
took a large part in a concert given
the night before the liner arrived at
Honolulu.
The fair girls looked extremely at
tractive in their smart modish gowns,
and with their abundance of leis it was
observed that no prettier set of young
ladies could have acted as hostesses for
Hawaii. The young ladies had good
time at Seattle. They Were greatly ad-
mired and entertained in the homes of
Seattle folk, and the young ladies de-
clare that no people could have shown
them more courtesies.
The Alameda brought Lightweight
cabin and twenty-five steerage passen-
gers. Although this is a large crowd,
| for about 120 cabin passengers. She
| also brought over 1900 tons of freight
! and COZ bags of mail, which is practi-
| cally record delivery. The postoffiee
| people have had to make special ar
| rangements to handle this big lot of
stuff Five new big autos were brought
| on the steamer.
Among the returning passengers were
| Mrs. Will J. Cooper, wife of the act
ing secretary of the promotion commit
| tee, who has had charge of the young
| Hawaiian ladies at the fair; Ralph G.
| E. Forster, the British Consul, return
| ing from vacation in England Ar
| min Haneberg, the plantation man, .nd
Mrs Haneberg; Miss Mary Lowe, of
| the law office of Magoon s. Weaver;
Willie Morgan, who was one of the as
| sistants at the Hawaii building, Seat
tie fair; G. E. Spens, a c., B. & @. Ry
| official, who will spend few weeks
here rusticating; Mrs. W. c. Forde OF
| Eccles. California, who will spend q
| few weeks here with her sister, Mrs
| Egbert Roberts; Mrs c. F. Chilling
| worth, wife of Senator Chillingworth
who has been enjoying few weeks in
California; E. A. Berndt of Dimond &
| Co, returning from business trip;
Mrs. Commissioner Estill and Mrs
| Colonel French of the Salvation Army
who will make a brief inspection visit
| in Honolulu and assist in the formal
| opening of the new women s and chill
| dren s home; and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
| Halstead, who have made an extended
| visit to Europe.
The Alameda IS wireless plant worked
perfectly under the direction of Oper
ator Baxter.
| The Alameda viii return to San
| Francisco on Wednesday morning at
| ten O'Clock. and will have a large re
| turn cargo of Island products.
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