The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-04
SECOND LARGEST
CARGO BROUGHT HERE

With the second largest cargo Of orr
entail freight ever brought here in a
passenger vessel, the Mongolia arrived
Yesterday afternoon at three clock
from Yokohama and China ports Her
local cargo comprises about $500 tons,
just 200 tons less than the very largest
ever dropped off here.
Owing to the heavy cargo the yes
sci could not be brought alongside the
wharf and the diseharging of freight
was attended with extra effort, until
early this morning when. the vessel
shifted to the wharf at high tide. In
spite of the delays in getting quick
dispatch Of the cargo, Captain Rely
the wharf superintendent, expects to
have the vessel ready for departure at
u clock noon today. The hour of de-
parture, however, is subject to change
and information on the subject may
be had by calling up Hackfeld's steam
ship office.
The passengers are not many this
trip and for the most part are made
up of the suite of His Excellency Chang
Yin Tang, the new Chinese minister to
the United States@ The entire party
numbers over fifty persons.
c. Dryer, is prominent tea mer-
chant of Formosa. c. A. Freer is a
Detroit millionaire who is returning
home from a pleasure trip. Mr.. and
= Mrs. George Hellar and son and Miss
3. H. Smith form a party of Seattle
people, who will remain here short
time before proceeding to the Coast.
C. a. Stephens is connected with the
San Francisco customs service. He
went to the Far East recently, it was
generally supposed, in order to gain
some knowledge of the opium traffic.
That is merely a rumor. However, he
believes that the time is not yet ripe
for attempts to smuggle opium on a
large scale, believing that the big peo-
pie interested in smuggling it will
work up their business gradually until
the eontraband stuff is worth about
500 pound. He was interested in
the recent seizures of opium here and
the manner in which the hui had been
run down.
DR.. Armstrong Smith returned on the
Mongolia looking almost European.
He was greeted by number of old
friends at the wharf and was given a
cordial welcome home again. Doctor
Smith attained prominence during the
cholera outbreak here in 1895 when he
volunteered as a nurse, and again in
1899 and 1900 when he was once more
a volunteer nurse during the plague
epidemic, having charge of the pest
house at Kakaako. For his services IN
both instances he was rewarded in a
tangible way, and he then lett for
Great Britain where he pursued medical
studies and has been practising physl-
elan for several years. He may decide
to remain here.
III, The cargo of the Mongolia includes
about 1900 bales of raw silk.
Eighty Passengers Leaving.
When the Mongolia leaves about
noon today for the Coast she will carry
about eighty passengers from here
Among them are exQueen Liliuoka'
lani, J. Cal Ewing, the California
baseball magnate; Col. z. S. Spalding
the Kauai millionaire planter; Harold
Dillingham; of the Dillingham; company
and Oahu railroad, who was recently
appointed as general director Of the
1910 Floral Parade; Miss Hazel He'll
bron, who goes to San Francisco tt
marry Mr. Child, the travelling repre-
sentative of the st. Francis Hotel
Clarence Drown. the California theat
rical magnate; R. j. Bentley, secretary
of big California fruit-packing asso
citation. who has been here investigat
ing pineapple plantations, and, 1t Il
said. may recommend his own com
pany getting into the local field; Mrs
Charles G. Long. wife of Major Long