Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-12
VENTURA men
STICK At POST

IN the least delayed in departure from
The coast because of the more or less
general strike among wireless tele-
graph operators. The corps of opera
tors with the Ventura are said to have
stuck to their posts, favorable ar
rangements having been effected with
the Mafconi company at the time OF
sailing.
Buffeted by strong head winds and
some rough seas, many Ventura pas
Fengers failed to emerge from the
soclusion of their cabins until the
liner was within couple of days
steaming of the Hawaiian Islands.
All attempts upon the part of a con-
genial staff of officers to arouse lat
ent interest in deck sports, theatre
Gals and other forms of entertain
ment were not enthusiastically receiv-
ed, while Old Neptune kept company
with the ship.
The Ventura appeared off the port
at daylight and was berthed at Gee
anic wharf before eight o'clock. A
new medical officer in the person OF
Dr. j. c. Evans, who has spent years
ID the Panama canal zone and some
eight years ago was shipmate with
Purser Frank Baker.
DR.. Evans has a fund of interesting
experiences at his command, in tell
ing of his experience in living in
countries where a revolution became
about as familiar in the daily routine
as the breakfast food. While fire.
quently in the thick of leaden hail,
the Ventura's medical officer still
possesses most of his vital organs in
tact Later DIR. Evans was identified
with the public health service at Co
Ion.
The Ventura brought 80 cabin,
second class and steerage passen-
gers for Honolulu. Through to the
colonies are 3S cabin, 81 second class
and IS steerage travellers. Several
passengers will leave the liner at
Page Page. A trodp of theatrical
people, numbering fifteen persons, is
to enter an extended engagement upon
arrival at Australia. A number of
Hungarian dancers under the direc-
ton of Frank Rigo are making their
first trip to the southland.
The Ventura is sailing for Sydney
at three o'clock. Three thousand bar
rels of oil are to be pumped into the
Ehip's storage tanks, while 40 tons
general and refrigerated cargo are to
be discharged in the meantime.
In the list of through passengers
are numbered f.. G. Lukens of Oak
land, who is going to Sydney, accom-
panied by his wife. 1t was Mr.. Luz
kens, who, years ago, induced the Pa
c1fic Mail company to establish a
he 81,
poes.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. McPhee of Den
Yer will make the round trip on the
liner. Among the passengers to Sgd
ney is a theatrical party from New
York, which will include Miss
Schmolz, the Russion dancer, and M.
a. VoliHin Of the Genee company. ii.
M. Wilson, who was chief electrician
on the little old liner Alameda when
that vessel was launched at Philadel-
Dhia, is passenger to Sydney. The
Alameda was the first vessel on the
Pacific equipped with electric lights
80 that Wilson was the first seagoine
electrician in this corner of the seven
seas. Professor r. w. Doane, wife
and son. are passengers to Page Page.
David Bispham, who is going to Sgd
ney, will join the Ventura at Homo
lulu.
Fortnightly Trans-Pacific Service.
Although announcement has been
made that the Blue Funnel line in
tends TO establish a fortnightly SER
vice across the Pacific, Dodwell e.
Co, Pacific coast agents for the Brit
ish company, report they are not i'm a
position to confirm the report. For
the present the sailings of the steam
ers comprising the Blue Funnel line
will continue from Liverpool via the
Orient to the coast every twenty
eight days. The steamer Ajax, how
ever, is to be operated in an auxiliary
service between North Pacific ports
and Hongkong.
Much freight Left Behind.
At the time the Oceanic liner Ven
tura left San Francisco, thousands of
tons of cotton destined for Japan
were awaiting a place aboard trans |
Pacific liners. The Nippon Yusen
Kaisha is planning important addi-
tons to its transpacific fleet, and by
the end OF the year at least one of
the big European liners operated be- .
tween Yokohama and London will be
seen in the service to the Coast.
Japanese advices state that trade
both outward and homeward, among /
the Pacific steamship services is very /
brisk, especially that from the Paci- :,
fic coast to the Orient.
Thousands Of Sewing Machines for /
the Orient.
The British steamship Ixion. which
sailed from Seattle on April 16, car
ried 5000 sewing machines consigned /,
to ports in China and Japan.
japanese Fishermen Now Heavily
Taxed.
Japanese fishermen must pay a
license of 800 a year to fish for the
market hereafter under the provi-
sions of bill passed by the Califor-
MIA State Assembly on April 16. Alien