The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-05
New Dollar Liner.

big steamer Robert Dollar, now being
completed in Scotland for the Dollar
Steamship Company, is reported as
soon being ready to begin the trip to
San Francisco. Accompanied by Mel
vile Dollar, Captain r. L. Morton will
leave for Glasgow in a few days to
take charge of the new vessel. To be-
gin the run under British registry, the
Robert Dollar will take on a cargo Of
European freight and start for this
country in July. She is APO feet long.
fifty-four feet wide, twenty-one feet
deep and will cost about 100000. The
addition of the new ship will make
seven vessels in the Dollar fleet, three
of which are run under American reg
istry.
Mongolia Floating Zoo.
San Francisco Examiner, May o.
Safely boxed and Grated on a lower
deck of the liner Mongolia, the largest
menagerie Of rare wild animals and
reptiles ever shipped across the Pa
cific arrived at San Francisco yester-
day. The specimens are owned by
Maurice Rucker, a collector, who was
personally In charge.
Rucker eXlects to present a few
specimens 10 Golden Gate Park
The shecimen which probably ex.
cited more comment than any other
was a huge python from Sumatra, the
lqrgost IF its kind known to be in
captivity. Thirty feet long, nearly
fourteen inches in diameter and weigh
ing more than 400 pounds, it is said
that fully a score of the Mongolias
passengers signed a pledge upon see
ing the big snake.
As it went without food during the,
lassage, it was hungry python that
was dumped on the dock last night.
An ordinary meal consists of five
twenty-five pound pigs. Several of
these were loaded on the steamship
at Yokohama, but they died of sea-
sickness a few hours from port.
Rucker is mourning the loss of a
highly educated Borneo orang outang,
which died on Thursday and had to be-
buried at sea the next morning. It
would sit at table and eat with a.
spoon and knife and fork like a.
human being.
Rucker bought the animals from a.
sea captain. From the moment the
big monkey came into the possession
q its new owner, it refused to eat.
until it actually starved itself to death
Other freaks in the strange cargo
include three cassowarys from the
Isle of Cream, which weigh from rs to
175 pounds. These birds, said to be.
the missing link between bird
and beast, possesses no wings, re-
semble an ostrich, have horn on top
of the head and have the body covered
with long hair.
Then there were hundreds of diff
ferent kinds of monkeys and apes.
fowls possessing tails more than
twelve feet long, strange pigeons, a
full grown dwarf COW and bull, each
weighing only forty pounds, and sew
eral tons of other specimens.
Passengers Booked.
Per Mauna Kea to Hawaii via ports.
June 6.-Major Willis, Adj. Lewis, Mr..
and Mrs. C. w. Rhodes, }. A. Palmer,
Judge Kingsbury, Mr.. and Mrs. w
Chillingworth, Mrs Crowther, Mrs. H.
McLane, Mr.. and Mrs. R. T. S. Duston.
{. Walters, E. Pollitz, Mrs. w. c.
Aston and child, Mrs. Ghalson, C.
hedemann, Miss Mcintyre, Miss F.
Harrison, Miss V. Buckland, S. & J..
Hubey, j. E. Vandestock, F. w. Bolk.
J. W. Ramaer, E. Fernandez, w. Nc
jlanahan, D. Carey, ]. Schoening.
J. Deacon, o, Williams, Rev. R. E.
smith, A. Mason, A. Napolion, B. Koo.
'uni, w. and S. Lindsay, Misses M.
md M. e. Putney, Miss E. Coldera,
n. M. Giffard, ]. Moir, Mr.. and Mrs.
?. G. King, Miss e. Riley, Miss C.
tohe, H. Busher, H. S. King, NJ. Will
OK, ]. Wilcox, NJ. Dunn, A. Hussey.
u. Campbell, X. Stewart, NJ Percy, j..
pal, A. Kinney, j. Desha, E. Murray.
Per Kinau for Kauai, June 6.-P-
4. Greig, H. P. Faye, A. Garvie, Mr..
nd Mrs. A. S. Deas and child, F.
Velch, H, Brandt, G. Brandt, Julia
nd Amy Mohukoa, L. Miller, Ellen
nd Emily McKeague, A. Wright, D.
NJ, Keawe, H. Horner, L.
iartin, w. H. Rice, P. O'Brien, w.
Wright, s. Peahu, ]. Leleiwi, Mrs. M.
. Carvalho, J. S. Smith, r. II. Withing-
on, |, Togama, Mrs. F. Gay, Mrs. S.
nd Miss A. Kaulana, Mr.. and Mrs l.
ona, H. and o. Robinson, Mr.. and
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