The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-25
Hill NIAN'S COLD ROOM
HOTTEST IN THE SHIP

There was considerable CONSERVATION
among the officers Of the Matson liner
HiIonian when they opened up the
steamers cold room-not the refriger-
ator-and found it to be the hottest
room in .he entire ship, save, possibly,
the engineroom. There was a quick
investigation of the causes leading TO
this transformation in the tempera-
ture Of the compartment, and care
full inspection disclosed the brine pipe
clcgged up So that the fluid could not
mass through. The result was that the
cooling system failed utterly.
There were few tons of vegetables,
eranne-ries and berry decorations for
trees in the compartment They were
all a sorry mass when the room was
opened mp. The vegetables had be-
come mushy, the cranberries were fit
only for sharks, and the Christmas tree
decorations looked like the day after.
The loss of these consignments was
felt bv consignees who had banked on
the stuff and claims have already been
fled.
Wanted a Shore Christmas.
Captain Colcord of the American
Hawaiian steamship Virginian was a
very heartsore seafaring man yester-
day. when his big steamship was held
up by the quarantine officers because
he failed to produce clean bill of
health from Salina Cruz The vessel
left Salina Cruz and stopped at San
Diego, San Francisco, Tacoma and Sc
attic, and was passed by the quaran-
tine officers of each port, but on ar
irving at his final destination yester-
day she was held up. The little four.
by-six-inch paper document, which
means so much TO a city at which
vessel from a Mexican or Central
American port arrives, was not in the
captain s cabin. The vessel was held
outside and cablegram was sent to
San Francisco. where Captain Colcord
believes the document is in the keep
ing of a quarantine doctor who took it
and probably failed to return it to the
Virginian S master.
Agent Morse sent the cab1egram to
Doctor Trotter of the quarantine ser
vice, asking if he did not have the
document in question, and an answer
was expected last night. Doctor Ra-
mus who examined the log of the Vir-
ginian, states he found no record of
fumigation at Salina Cruz.
Captain Colcord is a real down east
er and, like all New England men, tries
to be ashore or near wharf on Christ
mas day. The captain comes from a
little town in Maine which is described
as having the area of bar of soap,
which sends out a big lot of seafaring
men, who generally get to the top of
their vocation. In fact, most masters
of the American Hawaiian line are old
stock Americans.
The Virginian has a cargo of gen.
eral merchandise, some of it New
York via Tehuantepee, and the re-
mainder from San Francisco, Seattle
and Tacoma. Included in the cargo is
a shipment of $4,000 sacks of feed, TO-
600 eases of kerosene oil, 1000 sacks
of flour, 1000 barrels of cement, 425
kegs of white lead, 500 eases of sal
mon, 5000 sacks of oats, 1000 bales of
hay.
The Virginian IS cargo viii be dis
charged at the railway wharves, and
after taking on sugar here, she will
also load at Kaanapali and Kahului,
and take on her final lot of sugar at
Hilo. She viii carry about $4,000 tons
of sugar to Sa1ina Cruz.