Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-13
IMMIGRANT
SHIP HERE
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] arenas from blDfallaf, ana exactly
another twenty three days from the
Argentine port to the Hawaiian ISL
! ands
Fortunately, I have discovered no
! stowaways in this company" cont
nued the skipper. 81 want to say
; further. that found these people a
very decent lot to handle We had
a little trouble the first few days out
! from Gibraltar owing to a intermin
! Cling of Portuguese and Spaniards
| When We found that II was a hard
| proposition to mix oil with water. we
| segregated the races, putting the
! Portuguese forward and the large
number of Spaniards in the after
| quarters.
BY the aid Of her triple expansion
engines, the Orteric can easily steam
between twelve ana thirteen knots.
She has machinery capable of gener-
ating 5000 indicated horse power.
| Orteric On Maiden Voyage.
The new Weir freighter made her
plunge into the waters of GreenOck
England. ON January 2Sth. She is
entirely British build. Representing
the highest type Of cargo carrier, the
! vessel is Also tons net register. She
Is in every way a sister ship to the
new steamer l.uceric which has been
placed on the Puget Sound, Oriental
run. The Orteric will later join the
fleet of Weir steamers that operate
between Seattle Tacoma. the Japan
ese ports, Shanghai, HongkOng and
Manila, making the Philippine port
their terminal.
The Orteric shows her encounter
with seas as she arrived this MORN
ing with her paint considerable dis
cOlored Otherwise the vessel was
kept It's clean as circumstances would
| permit. The steamer has length
overall of 400 feet, breadth 81 feet,
and mounded depth of % feet. On a
maiden voyage, the vessel was sup
piled with considerable cargo ut Bri-
fish ports.
Down in her spacious holds she has
5000 tons cement for Vancouver and
Victoria. While at Honolulu the ves-
sci will discharge some 500 tons sui
phatc of ammonia. There Is also
some smaller COnsignmGnts of mer-
chnndise for Puget Sound ports. The
steamer uses both oil and coal as fuel.
In ad addition to nearly Il dozen Eng
lish officers. the vessel carries CHI
nese crew of SO, supplied before the
vessel left Great Britain.
Battle of the Equator"
The Orteric officers now smile ms
they refer to the great battle of the
Equator" which developed into u
lively scrap between the Spaniards
and minority of Portuguese. The
fight was rather one sided but bore
indications of resulting seriously UNI
til the officers and ships stan took Il
hand In the melee. .... -..
II appears that some days after
leaving Gibraltar. and as The steamer
approached the line. trouble began Ia
brew between women from the Por-
tuguese and Spanish camps. III feel.
ing developed into wordy encount-
ers finally leading to taking mp the
cudgels by the aid of fists. With the
women, the usual hair pulling and
scratching proved fruitful means oI
settling supremacy.
1T may have been a mixture Of 4
little too much wine" so commented
one officer this morning in relating
his version OF the mix up. At any
rate the stewards department was no
titled to cut down the issue of the
vino" as a regular ration, and while
the immigrants were not entirely de
prlvGd of the national beverage, tht
supply to each family was consider,
able reduced, thereby Obyiating tht
possibility of chance jag.
How They Spent the Time.
Games, music, dancing, cards an
other diversions afforded the immi
:. grants considerable pleasure. There
were but three or four days that tn,
people were obliged to remain below
decks because of bad weather. The
company kept to the upper decks dur
ing the days. The Orteric Is pro
, nounced by many of the Immigrants
as very steady ship. Every effor
was made to keep the party contentet
with their lot ana cramped quarters
, Several Spaniards came aboard n
, Gibraltar with musical instruments
, Among them are a number of grace
full dancers. The Portuguese wer,
not lost for occupation. The womer
: managed to keep busy with sewing
4, or other duties. The ships ofiiceri
Impressed some thirty of the younger
children into service as assistants II
, the galley and waiting on the passen
=, gers. The Orteric was supplied will
, "a gramophone with u pleasing ARA!
? of records before leaving London
. This instrument was never ending
source of amusement and entertain
, mcnt to the people.
: What They Ate.
. To attempt to enumerate all thu
items Of food stun that was cOnsum
: ed by the large crowd would be likr
u publication of the list of mer
chandise carried by large genera
+, store.
: Before leaving the Orteric store
=. keepers took on many large quaint
y ties of staple provisions. For in
= stance there were 100 hundred weigh
:, of sugar 90 tons potatoes, 240 gal
Ions salad oil, 200 gallons Of pickles
On the forward and after decks. som,
thirty or forty head of beef cattlt
were carried.
"To feed these people, we used on
, bullock, two barrels of salt pork an,