Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-23
EVERYBODY'S
DOING II
Eyerybody's doin' 1t.


Doing what?
Staying at home these days.
Woe and CONSERVATION is rampant
famong officers in the Matson liner
Eurline. Captain Henry Weeden
sometimes known as Midnight" Wee
den, and the Wizard of the Pacific
is worried. Purser Harry Meyer
wears blue raiment and an expression
of like hue when seen lingering In
the haunts of prospective passengers.
Joe Lombardo may be found, bent in
pensive meditation instead of lowering
lovingly over the array of pots and
pans, or at his desk deyising tempting
menus for seasick travellers. s..
The Lurline Is to sail at o'clock
tomorrow evening. San Francisco is
the destination.
Two-count 'em-two passengers
are to embark for the mainland in the
Matson liner
Twenty willing and ambitious young
men, in the stewards department,
will dance attendance to the pair of
travellers who are elected to hold
forth in royal state on the trip to
Frisco town. o
At noon today, the twin names still
adorned the immaculate white pages
Of the passenger register, maintained
at the Office of Castle & Cooke.
A treat Is sure in store for the duet
OF travellers to the coast in the Lur-
line. For once, the scramble for a
seat at the captains table will re-
semble a Republican love feast.
Happy voyager, whoever, he or she
may be, will doubtless be greeted at
the foot of the gangway by presum-
ably Weeden himself The rank and
file of handsome young men, VINO SO
well display the Matson uniform, will
be becomingly grouped in an artistic
semi-circle.
The passenger ascending the gang
way and stepping on board Is to be
met by q score OF assistants prepared
10 extend further courtesfes and hon
ors. For instance, one viii De dele
gated to take the gentleman-s. hat,
another his cane, still another his suit,
case, and several others his tips.
Going down the line, the favored
passenger is to be met with q pha-s
lanx of white clothed stewards, stand
ing attention and ready to jump at
the slightest signal of command.
Just think of it, being the guest
of honor on board steamer, with
ten or more servants at your instant
heck and call, unused one reflective
officer in the Lurline as he cancelled
an order for more than q dozen
Christmas trees.
While the Lurline Is expected to de
part for the coast with two cabin pas
seagers the Pacific Mail steamer 81
IBERIA scheduled to sail for San Fran
cisco at ten o'clock tomorrow morn
ing will probably take less than TWEEN
~ travellers, from this port.
Over at the Oceanic Office, where
they expect the arrival OF the liner
Ventura from the antipodes, seven
prospective passengers have called for
transportation.
The Ventura is coming here with
room for two hundred additional tray-
elers, and from the present outlook
II would seem that there would be
about dozen stewards to each pes
senger in this vessel. III
Siberia Sails for Coast in the
Morning.
The Pacific Mail liner Siberia. for
San Francisco will in all probability
be dispatched through the agency Of
H. Hackfeld and Company for San
Francisco at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
morning.
The Siberia is destined to leave
here With a very small list Of travel
ers. While there is ample room for a.
hundred or more passengers from this
port, less than twenty persons had
booked this morning. The Siberia is
to be discharged of 1900 tons oriental
freight upon arrival here on or about
O'Clock this afternoon from China
and Japan ports. The Siberia will
berth at Alakea wharf. sd
WaiIele Back With Cattle.
Cattle to the number of sixty head,
and cargo including 65 sacks rice and
a quantity of sundries, arrived from
Hawaii ports today in the Inter-Island
steamer Wailele. This vessel is re-
ported to have met with northeast
winds and heavy swell while steam
Ing along the coast Oh the big lSlanu.
Kauai Sugar Report. "a
Sugar awaiting shipment along
Kauai, as reported with the arrival;
of the Inter-Island steamer Kinau, in
icludes the following consignments:
/ X. S. NJ. 200, V. X. 1000, G. & R.
800, NJ. A. K. 4159, Mob. $500, K. P.
tl240, L. p. 5000.
cIaudine An Early Arrival
With the shortening of a schedule
under which the Inter-Island steamer
Claudine is now operating, that vessel
lis destined to return to Honolulu from
the regular calls along Maui, on or
about ten O'Clock Saturday night, in
stead of an early hour Sunday morn
ing ..-.
II is now proposed that passengers
in leaving Kahului or Lahaina last
Saturday afternoon will have the op-
portunity of leaving the vessel at this
port at time in the evening, suffi-,
GENTLY convenient to secure lodgings