The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-01-30

tceable extent as the sugar is lignrered
by the Rover company of Hlo The
steamer kaala. once in the Inter-Island
/ ;. y. Company was bought from the
! Nalalua and WaIanae companies. She
| used TO run down there and bring the
! sugar from those plantations to Ho-
! hoIuIu for shipment TO the Coast She
! was wrecked on Oahu near Waiaiua.
| In the old days all of the steamers for
! kaual ran to NaIanae and then across
! the channel. One time there were two
men on one of the little steamers who
| had been rather heavy dealers in
! opium. One day the cook touched them
for a valuable package and disappear
ed. Arriving at Waianae these men
went to the captain and said they want
| ed to 90 Back to the city. Permission
was granted and they walked the en-
tire distance caught the Chinese and
recovered the value of the dope.
The ke Au Hon was another steam
er on the line and then the Kiohana
which was wrecked between Lahaina
and kaanapali on the Island Of Maui
The Mauna Eoa was built by the
Halls of Port Blakeiey and when she
arrived here she was considered the
best ever. She was put on the Kau run
and has remained there ever since For
many years prior to the construction of
/ the volcano road from 1ilO. the Kau
| run was the favOrte one for the vol
cano passengers, and a bigger boat was
deemed necessary to accommodate the
travel. The last and the pride of the
fleet is the Mauna Kea. An easv-going
boat that makes good speed in any
weather, has good set of officers and
is a comfortable boat in any condition
of sea. Some persons have expressed
the opinion that the company should
carry passengers in her to HiIo for
about three dollars. but they are per-
sons who make inviduous comparisons
and who only imagine they are acquaint-
ed with the details of steamship man
agement.
President Kennedy of the Inter
Island company does not pose as a
; philanthropist. If he did ne would
probably be back in the Honolulu Iron
Works where he spent many years in
aiding in building up that business His
management Of the Inter-I Island com
pany shows him to be the right man in
the right place and he has a staff
around him that works in harmony
There are captains in the steamers
who have worked up from the bottom
: rnng Of the ladder and there were 9th
, ers who passed away before their DAYS
-. of usefulness had ceased One of these
, was Captain Bates, a New Highlander,
with courtly manners and a presence
that passed him into any society He
made staunch friends among the peo-
\ pie of wealth in the Islands and thew
e showed their friendship III a way that
. made a iingling soothing sound when
= he most wanted to hear it, He left the
' company after many wears Of service
Y and for a time up to the day Of his last
e illness. had charge Of the ship chand-
: lery Of F. O. Hall 4 Son. Everybody
+ in town knew Bates. and liked him
. The Wilders
No more progressive man lived IN Ha-
wall than Samuel &. Wilder, and his
| death was a loss to the c0mmunitv
. From his little line Of cOasting schoon-
ers grew line of fast sailing steamers
that made a lot of money. This com
panv had big steamers and little ones
from the MokOlii, not much larger than
a motor boat, to the Kinau which has
e carried many thousand persons between
e Honolulu and TIilo beside the many
= who stopped at the way ports \ vov-
: age on her was not always pleasant for
, the reason that She always showed a
X penchant for rolling at the very time
v every lady passengers on the steamer
o most wanted her to keep quiet. For
q wears she was the largest steamer run
e ming between the islands and there was
n always a good deal of rivalry between
e her captain ana the captains Of +h'
]. Inter-IsIaud companys steamers that