Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-06
TOURISTS FLOCK
TO THE ISLANDS

from being considered as q thlng Oh
the past, or to be relocated to the win
: ter months. The Matson Navigation
( liners are booked to capacity with
travellers. who in a great many in
stances are making their initial trip
to the Paradise of the Pacific
The steamship WilheImina, now on
the way from San Francisco to Homo
lulu and due to arrive here at an early
hour on the morning Of May -, is re-
ported by late adyices received
through the agency of Castle & Cooke,
as bringing nearly one hundred tour
, lists, with sprinkling of kamaainas.
With the arrival of the steamer Lur-
line from the coast this morning was
received an advance list of passen-
gers booked for the Wilhelmina that
included the following persons:
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ii. Brown, Mrs.
James Murray, Miss A. Murray, Mrs
L. Sloan, Mrs. Henry ]. Lawrence and
child, VIM. Hay, Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. w.
Porter and children, ID. w. Spear, r..
K Ashford, Miss Elsie Ogilvie, Mrs.
Fl. L. Sauers and children, Miss d.,
Spinny, Mrs. John T. Gulick. Mrs
II. M. Rogers, Miss Helen Peterson,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Wakefield. Miss
f. A. Parker, Miss B. Steffens, Ed
ward w. Barnard, w. +. Hebron, J. L.
Poindexter, Miss E. Poindexter. Mr..
NJ. B. Clark and mother, Miss Sophia
l.. Cloves, Miss Dorothy Effinger, Miss
Jessie Flanagan, Mrs. T. c. Spencer
and infant, Miss Nora Swanzy, Mrs.
Dillingham; and servant, Miss A..
Girard, c. " Hodge, S. E Statler,
Hugo Monnig, F. Dohrman Jr., Miss
Florence Roberts, Mrs. B. Ogden, Mrs.
L. Taylor, nurse and mother, Miss
Margery Tilden, Miss Evelyn Tilden,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Tilden, Miss Mae
O'Hara, Miss Jewel O'Hara, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. F. Wichman, Miss L. Mills,
Mrs. Easton Mills, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G.
Heath and child, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E.
Rhodes.
Having more business than it can
handle with its regular line, the China
Import and Export Lumber Company
chartered the Norwegian steamship
Tricolor to make the round trip be-
tween Portland and Shanghai. On
the outward voyage she will carry
cargo Of lumber amounting to about
100000 feet.
About month ago the China I'M
port and Export Lumber Company es-
tablished a regular line between Port
land and the Far East. Four steam
ers were taken on longtime monthly
service. Hardwood and general
freight will be brought in this direc-
ton, while fir will make up the out
ward cargoes.
The Norwegian steamship Bangor,
another of the regular fleet is expect
cd to arrive in May. The next of the
line to put in an appearance will be
the British steamship Baron Napier.
due in June. Each OF She steamers
will carry an average of 100000 feet.
of lumber a trip The steamers will
make three or four trips apiece in the
course of a year. Consequently they
will handle in the aggregate some
thing like 100000 or 50,000.000 feet
of lumber during the period of their
engagement.
Diamond Head Filled With Fuel.
The veteran bark Diamond Head,
which at one time graced the local
waterfront as one of several lumber
carriers, has degenerated into an oil
hulk, and is now being towed up and
down the coast in the service of the
Union Oil Company. The Diamond
Head was formerly the bark Gains
borough The barge will be used by
the Union Oil Company in the traffic
out of San Francisco. The vessel was
soil to the oil company by the TyceI
Whaling Company. which operated
her for a season in Alaskan waters.
As the barge Gainsborough, built at
London forty-seven years ago, the
Diamond Head sailed the seas for
many years under the flag of Hawaii,
and with the annexation of the isl
ands came under American register.
kona Liner Makes Port.
The usual large general cargo OF
products firm the Big Island were re-
ceived with the arrival of the Kona
and Kau liner Kilauea this morning.
The vessel met with fine trip and
brought shipments of 1895 sacks SUI
gar, 100 sacks coffee, IL sacks gin
ger 200 pineapples, $50 pieces koa
lumber, ia sacks corn, one auto, 81
COWS, 8 calves, horses, several
crates chickens and go packages sun
Tries The steamer Helene is predict
cd will load sugar at Kailua for Ho-
nolulu and calling at Kawaihae for
cattle, should arrive here on Satur-
day.
Windjammer Off Laupahoehoe.
A four-masted schooner which NAV
have been the J. H. Bruce. thirty-twol
days out CT Hilo, was sighted some.I
miles off Laupahoehoe by Captain
Freeman and officers in the Mauna
Kea that returned from trip to Hilol
and way ports this morning. Thei
flagship returned with cargo including
l26 packages sundries. 80 packages
lumber 10 bales hides, 10 cords wood, |
an auto and incidentals. The steam