Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-17
MELODY AND
COLORS REIGNED

Confetti and bright-colored stream
ers of paper added much to the pie
turesque scene at the departure of the
Matson Navigation liner Wilhelmina.
for San Francisco, promptly at ten
O'Clock this morning. HackfeId
wharf presented an animated picture
with its hundreds of spectators, and
ieibedecked passengers.
The Royal Hawaiian band PLAYED
many of its happfest selections ait an
impromptu concert rendered a half
hour before the liner pulled away
from her wharf.
One hundred cabin and 6S steerage
passengers departed for the mainland
In the Wilhelmina. The steerage pas
senger list was made up mainly of
Spanish and Portuguese who are en-
route to the States to take up work
with lumber and fish canning CON-
panies.
The Wilhelmina. carried a fair-sizeG
cargo Of products of Hawaii including
1900 tons sugar, 500 tons molasses in
bulk, 5000 lunches bananas, 500 cases
canned pineapples and quantity OF
sundries.
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There is no neat from the engine
room, which is a great advantage ito
passengers, and this is also of great
importance as regards cargo in the
tropics. Then in her double bottom
the Selandia can carry nine. hundred
tons of fuel. Think of that only 600
tons necessary for a round trip to the
East, or to Vancouver through the
Panama canal. Each engine takes
less than five hundred pounds of fuel
per hour, or about nine and ashalf
tons In twenty-four hours. / believe
that, working at full power, 800 tons
of oil will last for seventy-fve days or
about 10000 miles, a distance which
almost circles the globe at the equa-
tor.
For big yachts the increased RAJ
dius of action, as demonstrated by the
Selandia. is to be considered through
the additional comfort, due to the
absence of coal dust, ashes and
smoke. Furthermore, yacht can be
started five minutes notice, where
as a steam yacht requires twenty-four
hours to get steam up, or to be kept
ready with banked fires, which adds
to the cost of maintenance.
"a
Pitcairn Islanders Seldom See an
Ocean Liner.
Mariners are beginning to speak of
the British ship Dunsyfe as "a vessel
which is providing a regular service
between the Columbia river and Aus
tralia." She is loading lumber at st.
Helens for Sydney, and after the car
go has been delivered she will take on
coke at the latter port for San Fran
cisco. From the Bay City she is ex-
pected to. come to Portland to load
another cargo of fir for the Antipo-
des
1t was not generally known that the
DuHsyre would return direct from
Sydney to this Coast, says the Port
land Telegram She is owned by Ash
en- & Minor, of San Francisco, who
have kept her in the offshore lumber
trade since purchasing her about Is
months ago. If she comes to Port
land on her next trip it will make the
third time since she changed hands
that she has taken lumber from the
river to Australia. 1t is said the own
ers prefer lumber to wheat as a car
go for her. On the coming passage
she will be under charter to j: j.
Moore & Co.
When the Dunsyre was returning to
this coast on her recent voyage she
hove to for two hours off Pitcairn ISL
and, where she was boarded by two
boatloads of natives. In the party
there were fifty-two men, women and
children, nearly half of the white pop
ulation OF the island. Captain Smith,
master of the Dunsyre, says the ma
tives are in good health and in a. pros
porous condition.
1t was night when the ship passed
the island When the captain saw the
lights from the approaching boats he
decided to await their arrival. They
do not get an opportunity of boarding
a deep-water vessel more than two or
three times year, which they regard
as a great event. The women look at
these little episodes in their lives in
the same light as their kinswomen in
a city do to making shopping tours
among the big stores. With them
they brought oranges, bananas, vege-
tables and other tropical fruit for the
officers and crew. In turn they were
fitted out with clothes and other ar
ticles which could be spared.
Captain, Smith says that he had
made five other attempts while pass
ing that latitude to get into commune
cation with the Pitcairn Islanders
without SncpaSS He Classes them 40