The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-20
WATERFRONT NEWS
WlLHELMiNA SOON READY
FOR OWNERS TRIAL

In few days Castle & Cooke, the
Matson line agents, expect to receive
a cablegram from Newport News that
the new steamer Wilhelmina has had
her speed test and been turned over
to her owners She is now loading at
Newport News, and Is scheduled to
leave that port for San Francisco and
Honolulu on or about December 5.
The voyage around South America to
san Francisco will take about forty
FIVE days, and she is expected to arrive
here about the first part of February.
The Wilheimina has a cargo capacity
of about 1000 tons and passenger ac-
commodations for about lao people in
her cabins.
Lurline in Smooth Waters.
\ wireless message received by
Castle & Cooke, agents for the Matson
line, dated eight o'clock Thursday
night, gives the position of the Lur-
line as 40 miles out from Honolulu,
steaming at the rate of about thirteen
and half knots. The sea was smooth.
Asia's Interesting Passengers.
Captain Gaukroger and Purser Thorn
of the good old Pacific Mail steamship
Asia are personally conducting across
the Pacific a large list of passengers,
and there are some very interesting
people on the list The Asia arrived
anI
leave for San Francisco at eight
Z clock this morning, after discharg
ing about a thousand tons of general
japanese and Chinese cargo.
Purser Thorn is generally fortunate
in the people he carries along in the
cabins. This may be due to a large
extent to the popularity and geniality
of Mr.. Thorn, whose effort is to make
his wards comfortable and have a
pleasant trip. There are pursers and
pursers, and Mr.. Thorn, with his long
service in the Pacific, is entitled to a
first place IN the honor list. Princi-
pal among the passengers this trip IS
Hon. Goro Tsudo. who is en- route TO
Paris as secretary to the Japanese EN-
bassy. He is accompanied by Madame
SuuO. IL. u. COHiSE. WHO mas pScH
connected with the Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific Dredging Company, at Manila,
is on his way back to the mainland.
Mrs. Edgar Allen, wife of a prominent
American attorney of Tientsin, is GO
ing back home, accompanied by her
niece, Miss Whitelock.
Martin Lynch is a wellknown Amer
lean Jockey who has been in Siberia
~, 4
with the famous Doubolsky stables. He
is en- route to Chicago to visit his
mother and sisters, and will return to
Asia in few months. He says Rus
fla is a good country for an American
Jockey, but the language sis tough. -
Mrs Da9i2 Silverados is an aero
battle athlete, who keeps her muscles
in trim at all times, and every day
exercised aboard the steamship. A.
c. Bramwell is a well-known English
man in the Far East who is going to
England to supervise the building of a
steamship.
James H. Mackenzie, the we'll
known Honolulan, returned from
three months visit in the Far East,
taking in Manila, China and Japan
ports. "'They are fine cities, all
right, SAID MI. MackenEe, DuI, L
tell you, it's good to be back to old
Honolulu again
Moving pictures were one of the
amusements furnished the passengers,
the machine being the property of the
captain, while Purser Thorn supplied
the photograph which gave excellent
music while the pictures were being
thrown upon the screen. 81 don t
know of any other steamer in the
world which has moving picture
outfit aboard for the use of the pas
sengers, added the purser.
The Asia just missed the typhoon
which struck Hongkong, being out OF
the port one day when the blow came.
LOCAL OFFICE OF THE UNITED
STATES WEATHER BUREAU.