Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-19

OouIH anu southwest squalls INA
swept San Francisco bay on the day
OF departure of the Togo Kisen Kai
sha liner America Maru for Honolulu
and the Orient caused fourteen hour!
delay and considerable damage to the
liner which was however repaired be-
fore the steamer finally left the Paci
fic coast port.
In an attempt to pull the japanese
liner away from her wharf the Paci.
nc Mail tug Arab dropped a steel ca.
Bile which became entagled in the re.
volving propeller of the America Maru
The steamer was unable to proceed
further and before the length of ca
BILE had been removed, the services
of diver were employed The America
Maru left her wharf at one o'clock in
the afternoon but it was after three
o'clock the following morning before
she steamed out through the Golden
Gate and away for Honolulu. Several
large liners had dragged their an
chors on account of the terrific blasts
of rain and wind
The smallest number of cabin pas
sengers found on board a trans-Paci-
fic liner passing through Honolulu in
many months are included in the list
of but seven carried in the America
Maru now enroute to Japan ports and
Hongkong.
The liner was an arrival off the
port late last evening after a voyage
of five days, twenty-one hours from
San Francisco lightship. Considering
that the vessel steamed for three days
in the very teeth Of gale the stanch
liner averaged 1854 knots per hour,
The America Maru is making her
first trip across the Pacific on the
new joint schedule with the Pacific
Mail. With the commencement Of
hostilities between Japan and Russia
the America Maru was withdrawn
from the Oriental and San Francisco
service. The vessel was made a
scout ship and she did valiant work
in patroling the China and Japan
coasts on the lookout for blockade run
ners during the war.
Some years ago the America Maru
was refitted and placed on a run be-
tween the Far East and Central and
South American ports. While in this
trade the steamer has made occa-
oil Of 1tI1,I fp
cargo.
For the past eight months the Anne
RIGA Maru has been in the hands of
shipwrights and builders at Urayo Ma
val Yards, Japan. There the liner
was given a thorough overhauling.
She came alongside Alakea wharf
early this morning bearing the APP
pearance of brand new steamer.
Captain A. G. Stevens, formerly in
the Nippon Maru and with the Ame-
RIGA Maru while she was on the South
American run still retains command
of the fast vessel. He is assisted by
Chief officer Maxi, an old hand with
the T. X. K
G. Ishii Chief Engineer is senior N
the service of the company and is no
stranger to shipping men at this port.
Local waterfronters and newspaper
men were made glad to welcome F. B.
Cavalry, formerly of the Tenyo and
Nippon Maru as purser of the Anne
RIGA Maru. Cavalry was some ten
years ago regular visitor to the port
as an officer with the Oceanic steam
er Ventura He is at present making
his eighty-f1rst visit to Honolulu as an
officer of trans-Pacific liner.
DR.. Schaffner, the ships surgeon is
making his first trip to the East by
the vessel.
Freight Clerk Baker is another well
known steamship official who greeted
friends at the port this morning.
Chief Steward Lehman was former
ly connected with the Siberia and
those who swear by the cuisine of
that popular liner can readily appre-
ciate what is in store for the travel
er in the America Maru with Left
man at the head of the culinary de-
partment
Six second cabin and IS steerage
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