Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-06
Shipping
COTTON SKIING ONBOARD
j.: BIG PACIFIC MAIL MONGOLIA

! Cotton is kin ;4cge !:gG n japan
and also aboard tae a. o. trans
Pacific liners that pass t~.ou&h liono-
{ lulu enroute to Tie land Of Tie sun
rise flag
The Pacific Mail liner Mongolia
steamed 10 d bci tn at Alakea wharf
I this morning, setting very low in me
water, approximately ten thousand
! tons of the through freight being
baled cotton. for discharge at the sew
eral japanese ports OF call.
Car loads of this product were left
behind with the departure Of the MOB-
golia from San Francisco. The eX-
portation OF cotton to the Far hast
Z this season is declared as much larg-
er than any previous year The spin
ming mills at Tokyo and Osaka are
said TO be large consumers OF the
product from the southern states.
There was not an inch of available
/ passenger accommodation in the Mon
golia after the one hundred and
twenty-four first, % second class and
steerage passengers for Honolulu had
been provided with quarters.
The through list OF passengers en-
route to the Orient include 80 cabin,
20 second class and 400 Asiatic steer
age.
Many missionaries are numbered
with the travellers for the Far East.
IL Is safe to say that at least one
{ half OF the number of passengers
leaving the liner at Honolulu This
morning were tourists, many mukilA
their first trip to these islands, {
The sea was characterized as q iniFl
pond during the passage of the, Mon
sgolia to Honolulu. Despite the large
family aboard the Mongolia, there
was little doing along the line of gen.
-eral participation in a program of en-
tertainment or deck sports.
A late mail for Honolulu, including
195 sacks, was received hg the local
, postal officials.
~ Tim Sullivan, for years chief en-
gineer in the Mongolia, has left that
vessel. He is remaining ashore for
at least one trip and 1t is limited that
he may not rejoin the Mongolia on
: the return to San Francisco. Sulli-
vans office is now being filed by r.
s. Paul, we'll known in the Pacific,
who for some time past has been con-
nected with steamers in the San Fran
cisco and Portland trade. III
Chief Engineer Paul was much in
the public eye at the time of the
disaster of the Great Northern steam
ship Dakota, which went ashore some
fifty miles from Yokohama, five years
ago. -..
Paul was chief in the big Dakota,
and is one of several officials who
stuck to his post TO the last, though
he narrowly escaped giving up his life
In his devotion to duty.
M. II. Hunt Oil Mose) as he is
known around the circle formed by
the Pacific, is now presiding over the
purser's Office in the biggest liner in
the fleet. Hunt will be remembered
as having figured in shIpwreCk at the
time the Asia went to her doom on
Finger Rocks off the coast of China.
Hunt was finally induced to make his
escape from rapidly crumbling ship
with little else than a pair or highly
-priZed pink pajamas and his pleasing
personality. Many are the deeds of
daring rescue credited to the tall,
handsome officer, who for years has
been prominent ard commanding
figure in the ranks of Pacific Maildom.
The Mongolia is to, sail for the
Far East at FIVE o'clock this evening,
taking about one hundred oriental
passengers destined for Japan and
China.