The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-25
law All WINS
RACE FROM
COAST
Covers the Course in ID Days
3 Hours and 2312
Minutes.
NOT BEcALMED OFF ISLAND
Was Five Miles in Lead Eight
uo,rs After Crossing the
Starting Line.


On the wind which was specially pro
vi5sd TO bear her home, the winner of
NJ transpacife race of 1910, Her Ma
;,,tv Hawaii, with all sails set, ghded
PEACEFULLY along at twelve-knot clip,
sti-ting the island from Koko Head ard
,ipped over the finishing line off Din
na1d Head at twentythree and half
minutes past three o'clock Yesterday
afternoon. making her time from San
Pedro IA days, 3 hours, % minutes and
80 seconds.
The Hawaii was first sighted off
Eoko Head at twenty minutes past two
o'clock BY the Hawaii Yacht Club look
AMI posted around Diamond Head The
three tOOts Of the whistle announcing
Inc approaeh of the Island representa-
i've, sent thrill through the hearts of
al oraI Hawaiians and IN less than
an hours time men, women and chill
dreD we're scurrying from all directions.
Long before the Hawaii came into the
harbor the Alakea street wharf was
lined with citizens eager to grasp the
hand Of Charley Wilder and congratu-
late him and his gallant crew for max
Ing good the assertion that the Hawaii
. 10 hold her own against the Coast
fleets and that the amateur yachtamen
Of he local club are competent to
handle her and accomplish better re-
suits than professional navigators. As
so0H as the trim vessel was made fast
TO the wharf her deck was aswarm with
friends Of the captain and crew who
received most pressing welcome as all
trisd to force their way aboard at once
and get the first truths about the long
v0rage
Mrs Smith. wife Of Commodore r.
{. P Smith, of the South Coast Yacht
Club, who is in command of the Sweet
heart and Mrs. Hazard. both Of Los
Angeles, were on the wharf to greet
the winner of the race. Mrs. Smith
vas somewhat disappointed that the
South Coast representative was not the
one to arrive first, and she made inquiry
ahaut The commodore 5 boat. Charley
Wider told her that the last seen of
NE Sweetheart was when the Hawaii
lost Der astprn south of San CIemente
Island.
Beat Launch to Finish Line.
The instant the whistle sounded the
glad tldings that the Hawaii was sight
"a commodore James f. Jaeger, of the
hasal Yacht Club. Chairman L. NJ.
'ellesen, of the committee in charge
o. local yacht race arrangements, Har-
y kyefoft, R. P Spalding, excommo-
dolf Of the South Coast Yacht Club,
wa few friends of the yachtsmen,
made haste to get under way in the
haaeh kulamanu IT, and % out to
lee' the incoming craft. The Hawaii,
AoEeFer, beat them to the finishing line
~ diamond Head The launch circled
a'Vuad the racer couple of times way
~ welcome to Captain Wilder and
rev *hO lined the deck of the slick
Ial'. There was not mark nor 4
. ~ OF any kind on the Hawaii
rneH sae sailed into port. Her hull
80 Sho" white, her deck and wood
'TiA saane with a subdued gloss and
!, rel brass trimmings glistened in the
=. ali'sAt' Many said She must have
n, IA outside to dress for the occasion.
l /. Aaaled IN all sails and Law too off
- haioor' waiting for the doctor to
rb ky aboard The launch ran in. mean.
en- ,,s ana picked up a few more pas
,a5 and then returned to cruise
~ ,.ld the queen of the seas. As the
,, ,;r. II. passed close along SIDE
\, lug g upd leaped over the rail. land
-. @ooafd the launch near whore his
! 81 was seated with a party If friends
all; 'le stern The Prince seemed q
! "a good sailor and wa, held M
s,S Snse by an array Of outs-ratrheI
! 1 -, extended 10 be taken in his grasn
s''a fellowship.
Prince Hardy Seaman.
on ~ showed no III effects from tbe
sen rseh'Gay trip and the har4Sbrrz Of
ssS anan before the mast. As The home
and S's ~ offered the Prince the clad
ues s 'aey shot vollev after vorrcE Of
an9,,' about the voyage all Of which
nile, S sFa, without once Ios,yg his
So we even when he was pres-a7 for
' an ,'e ,5 On the prohibition question
viii Aa ~ reporter and rasnorI,.
% t - ,1 the assurance that he wa. 90
L E, r ias Hawai- Ia proceeded IN toward
lise9 "s a. In tow of a small fur She
last .n me i Hawaiian flag at the fore
sspop sa4 the throngs aIong 4ss shore
rit6 t5a With an outburs- Of ,fae~-
tba i ~" STARS and Stripes f--t.rf1s,
ham, freeze from her stern +ra T.ra~7
sde fss+ came NJ to the wharf and
Az, Light Winds Prevail