The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-19


of crude oil to the Union Oil Com
pany. She is berthed at the railroad
j wharf, and it is expected that the
whole of the oil will be pumped out
by tomorrow afternoon, thus permit
ting her to leave again either tomor-
row night or early Wednesday morn
] ing. She will then return to Port
San Luis for orders.
INQUIRIES on board this morning
( developed the information that the
trip down was an excellent one. It
was fine throughout, and nothing un-
usual occurred to mar the trip. But
stay-there was. Captain Boyd AMI
some of his officers had a bath. Now
this, on the face of it, does not seem
extraordinary. But it was not the
regular kind. A large swimming
tank was fitted up, and in this the
men would disport themselves dur
ing their spare time Owing to the
coldness on leaving the Coast, warm
water was procured from the con-
denser-water that otherwise would
have gone into the Pacific direct, but
it was sent the same way via the
water tank One morning Captain
Boyd and Chief officer Jordan were
swimming about enjoying themselves
in a childish manner, when suddenly
one of the tapes, or something gave
way. The next thing was, the aston
ished crew saw several naked bodies
struggling on the deck, and being
hurled along by the heavy volume or
water that had been let loose. The
crew giggled as the Marathon CT
naked forms began hustling for their
respective rooms. Captain Boyd was
somewhat handicapped by the fact
that he had the farthest to go in the
daylight, for he had to scamper up
the steps to the bridge deck to his
room, and he was in full view the
whole way.
Chief officer Jordan has since had
fitted up fine spacious tank that
can now be swum in. It is twenty
five feet long by fifteen wide. with
depth of water of about five feet.
1t is about as good as any on even
the transpacifc liners that call here.
Chief Officer Jordan is an ardent
photographer, and he has an excel
lent snapshot of a big sea that hit
the Santa Rita on one of her trips
from here to the Coast. Judging by
the volume of water over her deck, it
would seem that she would never re-
cover. The picture is a splendid
one and has some wonderful details
in it,
The Santa Rita holds the record
for the biggest shipment of oil in one
bottom ever taken into Seattle She
took in $4,000 barrels on her last
trip. This is only 5000 more than
she has for Honolulu.
Kinau From Kauai.
The Kinau arrived yesterday from
Kauai with 5000 bags of sugar, sixty
three bundles of hides, 100 bags of
rice, 100 bags of bran, sixty-eight
empty barrels, fifty cases of honey,
twenty-one sacks of cocoanuts, six
cases OF pears, one crate of chickens,
four bags of potatoes, six cases OF
fresh fruits, fifteen cases OF papers,
116 packages of sundries.
AustraIia'n Fleet Gains Distinction.
The surprise of the battle practice
of last year, says the London and Chi
ma Express, is the fact that the much
derided Australia Squadron took pre-
mier honors with a really creditabl2
ave;tee, and some very fine shooting |
nmongst the individual ships. The
China Squadron had to content itself
with the third place, and the honor Of !
having the second best ship at this
practice, the flagship Minotaur. The
practice made by the cruisers Bedford.
Monmouth, and the Kent, whose aver
age scores per gun were 1914, 1868.
and 1893 points respectively, was de-
'idedly poor. The scores of the AS
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lulu, ar San Francisco, June 10.
Am. S. s., from Honolulu
ar Yokohama, May 21.
CENYO MARU, from Honolulu, ar.
San Francisco, June 8.
Am. S. s., from Hilo ar
Saint Cruz, June 13,
VADDoN, Or. S. S. from Honolulu
for Newcastle. via Ocean Island,
April IA.
WILLIAM P. FRYE, Am. ship, for
Delaware Breakwater, May 22.
NILHELMINA, for Hilo from Homo
lulu, June IA.
V. H. MARSTON, Am. schr, from
San Francisco to Honolulu and