The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-11-12
SAYS CONGESTION
IS NOT A FACT
E. D. Tenney Finds Apparent
Rush of Passengers Is Due
to Duplication.
tFrOm Thursdays Advertiser.)


"The report that steamships for
Honolulu are overlooked is not liter.
ally fact, although it may seem to
be" said E. d. Tenney, president of
Castle & Cooke, agents for the Matson
! steamship company, yesterday. "You
can find bookings duplicated at nearly
all the steamship offices, and when
vessel leaves that port for Honolulu,
many of the passengers booked at all
Offices are aboard that steamer. The
trouble is with the duplicate bookings,
and there should be rule that with
every name booked deposit should
be made, and if the booking is not
taken up and ticket purchased, the
deposit should be forfeited as they do
at the New York steamship offices.
This rule applied here for while,
but now intending passengers book at
all offices, no deposit being required.
| know of only two instances in San
| Francisco where people were unable
to get passage. They were Honolulans
who had not booked. They arrived
from the East but one came on one
| steamer and the other on another
vessel.
Therefore, there is really only an
apparent congestion of passengers. The
| Wilhelmina of the Matson line will car
| ry $50 or more cabin passengers, and
| being a new boat should be able to
relieve the congestion, if there be any,
! AS to building more boats, / do not
| know what may be done but the stu
| alton has not been studied out
altogether as to what the policy is this
regard may be.
"The Wilhelmina is a very large YES
sci, about two-thirds as large as the
Korea and Siberia and with cargo
capacity of six or seven thousand ions,
with room in the cold storage for about
400 tons. She has steerage accommo
dations for about one hundred. This
space is arranged so that hunks can
be put in as the bookings require, and
movable partitions can be installed,
so that if all the space is not used by
passengers it can be used for freight.
In my opinion, if there happens to be
any overplus of cabin passengers single
men will find tina dolmitory fitted
up for them in this section will be
very comfortable.
"The Wilhelmipa will be a very
! comfortable vessel, with a diningroom
capable of accommodating the entire
$50 passengers at one sitting. Her decks
are roomy and it will take about seven
laps to the mile around the promenade.
The rooms are splendidly fitted up,
some with brass bedsteadg L am sure
that patrons of the line will find the
table service of the best.
"She was launched without mishap.
The builders notified Captain Matson
that she would be launched at eleven
o clock on certa' day in September.
AT two minutes to eleven one of the
builders standing next to Wilhelmina
Tenney said "Now!" and as the bot
tie of champagne struck the bow,
thrown by Wilhelmina, the boat start
ed down the ways easily and slid into
deep water exactly on time. 1t was
the first time l ever saw such big boat
launched and it certainly was an i'm
pessive sight.
''The builders will turn the boat over
to the owners about December l, al
though she was not due for this cere-
mony until about the 18th. / believe
she will develop a trial speed of about
Is knots. She should maintain n speed
" II VI ~ hhoIo VI tne lSSuidi iun
between Honolulu and San Francisco.
If she leaves here on a Tuesday she
should arrive in San Francisco the fol-
lowing Monday, and leaving San Fran
cisco on Wednesday, for instance,
should arrive here the following Tues
day. At present our boats leaving here
Tuesday arrive at the Coast the fol-
lowing Tuesday.
~ do not know what schedule will
be arranged for the Wilbelmipa. Owing
to her great cargo capacity and the
length of time required to load and
unload her she can not be put on a
triweekly run like the Alameda, for
instance"