The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-19
STEAMER NILE
REACHES PORT
Latest Addition to Pacific Mail
Fleet Reports Rough Trip
From Yokohama.
(FrOm Sundays Advertiser.l

(From Sundays Advertiser.)
Completing trip from Yokohama all
of which was rough with the exception
of the last two days, the British
steamer Nile, Captain F. g. P. Ecclo.
stOn, arrived yesterday afternoon and
anchored at Alakea wharf. The Nile
was formerly Royal Mail Packet liner
plying between Great Britain and
South America ports and is making her
first trip to Honolulu, as is her skipper.
The Nile arrived of port shortly
after noon and her passengers were
quickly looked over by Doctors Sin.
clair, Marshall and Gillespie, and the
vessel given pratique in less than an
hours time. Captain Macaulay, the
veteran pilot, brought the Nile to the
Waikiki side of Alakea wharf in fine
style, being complimented by the
master of the vessel for the way in
which he handled the ship.
For Honolulu the Nile brought five
cabin, one second class and 140 storage
passengers, 107 Filipinos in the latter
class for the planters association. She
had sixty-seven tons of cargo for this
port, and a shipment of forty-three
sacks of mail. While in Honolulu the
Nile will take on 900 tons of coal fol-
her trip to the Coast and back again
to Honolulu.
With the exception of her master
who has been with the vessel for two
and one-haf years, Second Officer Soul
is the only officer who came out with
the ship from England, when she was
to be turned over to the Pacific Mail
company.
Her first officer is F. Leach who was
transferred from the China, when that
trim liner was in Hongkong, Thomas
Crombil, the chief engineer is new
man, and John Bloomer, the purser of
the Nile, joined the ship at Hongkong
going out as a passenger on the Man
churia last trip. He was formerly on
the Panama. run of the Pacific Mail
company, and is making his first trip
in the transpacifc trade. n. Cowlrich,
the freight clerk, was transferred from
the position of storekeeper in the Man
churia, and Chief Steward H. E. Rem
wick went to the Nile from the posi-
ton of second steward on the Siberia.
DR.. F. H. Cookimham, the ships sur
geon, is a new officer, having gone out
by the Manchuria to join the Nile.
Fine Cabins.
A trip over the liner reveals some of
the finest accommodations to be found
in any transpacific steamer. Her
cabins are numerous and well ventil.
ated, and equal in every respect to
those of the larger steamers Of the
Pacific Mail feet, which are in the first
class trade, while the Nile is only an
intermediate passenger carrier.
There are FIVE suites in the first
cabin, and the vessel can carry 215
passengers in this class. Her second
cabin accommodations will accom-.
modate thirty eight passengers, and
then in the steerage she has room for
400.
All the cabins on board are large
well ventilated and each has an electric
fan in addition to the regular port and
deck ventilator. In addition to the
regular two.berth cabins and suites
there are several single-berth cabins
which are so popular in the Atlantic
trade. The cabins extend from way
aft to the chain locker forward.
On the promenade deck is the large
social hall, the smoking room, and
there is plenty of deck space here fol-
the passengers to get out-of-doors life
The dining saloon is on the main deck
and then on this deck the room between
the rail and the cabins for n promenade
of no small proportions. Below with
the cabins is large children's dining
hall which opens out forward ON the
deck again.
Way aft are the accommodations fol
the second class passengers, there be
ing a small children's dining saloon
below, and another saloon for adults
above on the same deck as that of the
first cabin passengers. Second cabir
passengers have the privilege of the
poop deck and there is a small boudoil
for the ladies there as there is one fol
the women in the first class amidships
The Nile will not sail until tel
o'clock this morning, and from tn,
time she was made fast to the docl
until she sails she will be thrown opel
to the inspection of the public of Homo
lulu.
Is Still East.
The Nile still has speed to burn al
the saying goes, although she went init
commission first seventeen years ago, be
ing built at the Thompson yard a
Clyde Bank. The steamer was built TO
an armed cruiser for the British ad
miralty and her contract speed wal
seventeen knots. During the time she
received her subsidy from the govern
ment she had TO make rorty-eight ho1rI
steady running at sixteen and one-hali
knots every trip. How well she car
perform her duties at the present time
can be seen from what she did over the
admiralty course at Hongkong before
she was turned over to the Pacific Mai
Company. Over the measured fve-milt
course the steamer did III knots fol
the first two miles, and 1876 knots fol
the last three. One knot and six-tenthi
over her contract speed reuuired seven