The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-15
EXCURSION DE LUKE ON TIE
SPLENDID NEW S. S. KILAUEA

Imagine 10 yon win ne hnesi boat
that miis these seas, a crowd Of In.
ylied guests that knows delightful
time ard bow 20 have ID, stretch Of
weather quite as eharmlsg a. Nature IN
her most pleasing moods b. wont 10 give,
and you have the elements Of the De
luxe excursion given by iho Intor-Isl.
and Steam Navigation Company TO the
crater Of Kilauea In the newer ship Of
that name. over eighty lucky ones,
invited, looked after, entertained, ard
all made to feel as II miilionairos BY
President Kennedy, were given the trip
Of their liyes-indecd the most wond.
rous and fascinating Of excursions pos
sible upon Mother Earth-and-Water.
And also, by way of postscript--Mother
Lava.
Twas on Friday evening, at five
O'Clock, that the stanch Kilauoa
slipped her moorings and headed for
off.shore. Her happy freight load lin
ing the rails waived hands, hats and
handkerchiefs to the throngs upon the
piers-the hundreds who, while regret
/ ting their inability to be included with
the outgoing voyageurs, wished pleas
ure AMI education to the Inter-Island Is
guests.
And it was, indeed, a joyous throng
aboard the ship. 1t was a cosmopolitan
party, with a sprinkling of ladies, a
shower of capitalists, a drop here and
there of lawyers, doctors, estate man
ayers and owners and mere dampness
Of newspapermen. But it was all rep
resentative of newer and bigger Ha-
wall.
Though Capt. A. c. Simerson was
down as ships master, Captain Free
man, who brought the Kilauea down
from San Francisco, was the man on the
bridge during the outgoing trip and
carefully handled the new boat to Hilo
The seas we're not the smoothest ever
and numbers of the guests ignored the
existence of the dining room. But the
Kilauea refused to respond to old
oceans capriees and plowed steadily
forward at an average of sixteen knots
She could do even better if she tried
averred Mr.. Kennedy, but, he added
they did not propose to let her try unit
she was older at the game. However
for several hours on the return trip
even pushing her way through the
! trough of the sea off the coast of the
Big Island, the ship bettered the six
teen knot clip and Captain Simerson
then on the bridge, clapped his hands
with a glee that might have been hi
when as a barefooted plantation lad h,
secured his first Job as deck boy aboard
ia little interisland schooner.
!, And of course the passengers rejoicet
in the splendid conduct of the ship
She is wonderful" commented j. F
Cooke, "and has been well named. Blu
we only hope that the original Kilaue
will be trifle more boisterous. -
Leaving Honolulu at FIVE o'clock Il
the evening, the party arrived in tn
bay of Kailua about four O'Clock Sal
urday morning. A breakfast a la Wa
dorf Astoria was followed by the goin
ashore of the tourists, already precede
~ tSe automobiles. Mr., Ksn BBssy i An
:, eettf iRfa But the arrangements were quit
letter perfect and machine followed ma
chine in rapid succession, out of th
charming little burg. The townspeople
white, brown, black and of undecide,
color, waved hands and jigged feet a
the honkers sped through the villap
and climbed to high roads overlookin1.
the sea.
1t was fairyland ride and for tn,
nonce none gave thought to the Vol
cano. To the left, as the machines
forged forward, the rich and verdanf
fields of Kona reached slyward-cane
coffee, fruits, flowers-a bewildering ar
ray of vegetation, the kinds that glad
den the eye and put flesh on the banl
account. On the right, for thousand
feet down and miles away, the land rar
to the ocean. There, too, were plan
tations sloping away until their far
thermost acres were fringed in the toss
ing surf-lingerie to Miss Hawaii, as
1t We're; white and delicate and so fas
einating from 'way-off; terrible and
loud it must have been nearby. Beyond
the furbelows stretched the countless
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