The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-14

Will HELMINA LEAVES FOR
HONOLULU FEBRUARY 9

John Drew. Castle & Cookies agent
for the Matson company, states that
the Wilhelmina viii leave San Fran
cisco for Honolulu on February on
her maiden trip. She VIII pick up the
HiIonian's schedule, which is arranged
on a 29-dav basis. AS the Wilhelmina
is a big ship, with extra large cargo
space, she will require all the time pos
sible to empty and load her holds. I'M
mediatelv upon the arrival Of the Will
helmina at San Francisco the Hilonian
will be put on the Seattle-TacOma-H
noIuIu route. She win leave Seattle
for Honolulu every twenty days, al
ternating with the steamer Enterprise.
Their route will be from Seattle and
Tacoma to Honolulu. Kahului, Port Al
len. Honolulu, and thence direct to San
Francisco.
The Lurline will at that time be put
on the run from San Francisco to Ho-
uolulu and Hilo, returning from the
latter port to Honolulu and sailing
hence for San Francisco, alternating in
a direct service between San Francisco
and Honolulu with the WilheImina.
Tt is expected that number of Cal
ifornia Shriners will come to Honolulu
on the first trip Of the Wilhelmina.
Celtic Chief Here Before.
The Celtic Chief, which was recent
" pulled off the reef near the channei
entrance, has had many pilikias in the
course of her career. Her bow is al
most entirely new one. On leaving
Hamburg once she collided with a
French steamer. The latter's bow
crushed its way through the steel sides
of the Celtic Chief, causing the fore
mast to fall A new bow was built
on. Tt is reported, also, that the Gel
tic Chief on former visit, arriving
after dark, attempted to anchor in
Waikiki bay and came perilously near
the reef opposite the Moana pier. A
safe position.
Could Book One.
The Pacific Mail steamship Korea is
due here next Monday morning from
Yokohama. The liner has only three
hundred tons of freight for Honolulu,
I but very heavy cargo for San Fran
cisco. There is room aboard for one
hundred and twenty-five passengers
from this port, and so far about sew
! enty persons are booked with the local
agents 1t is expected that many more
will be booked before the vessel
reaches here.
When the last steamer left for the
/ Coast she had accommodations foI
| about one hundred and took away
! about eighty. Travel from the Orient
/ is always light at this time of the
year, but Honolulu is contributing al
+ most enough to fill the cabins. When
oriental travel is heavy, as it is about
/ nine months in the year, aecommoda
tons for passage from Honolulu dwin
dies down to room for fifty and
/ twenty-five, with generally about
eighty or a hundred people desiring tt
! get away.
General Agelx Kerrell of the Pacific
Mail company at San Francisco is in
forming prospective passengers for Pa
cific Mail liners that the liners arr
booked up full to February, although
in his letters he does not indicat
whether the bulk of the passages book
ed are for oriental ports. In one let
ter, copy of which was sent to tn
promotion committee, Mr.. Kerrel
states that he can accommodate on
applicant for the steamer leaving Sa
Francisco on December 81. This
the Mongolia.
The Alameda is believed to have
good-sized list of passengers aboard
! Now that the opportunity has been al
forded mainlanders, who want to visi
Hawaii, to get here, as they did on th
| Manehuria, the steamers will hav
larger passenger lists going back t
San Francisco.
Norwegian Steamer Coming.
H. Hackfeld & Co. have been a,
vised of the sailing of the Norwegia
steamer Selia from Yokohama for III
nolulu and the Sound She has 15C
tons of cargo for Honolulu and a DO
tiun for the Sound This will be Il
first visit of the Selja to this port.
Coal Oil for wilhelmina.
NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Mover
Der 29.-In her official trials today t
big freight and passenger steamer w
helmina, built by the Newport Ne1
= Shipbuilding and Drydocking Conpar
developed speed of Il IL knots
hour, two and one-half knots in c
cess of the contract speed.
Coal oil was used as fuel. The stea
err will use this fuel during her r
| of $4,000 miles to San Francisco a