The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-07
HILL LINER ENDS /,
TRIP FROM COAST
IN RECORD time
Splendid Steamer lnaugI.-ates
Triangular Service That Prom
i misses Much For honolulu .
REMARKABLE LEONE
EXTENDED BY CITIZENS
Strangers Who Are Guests Of
City Are Charmed With
Greeting ~


4 on the Pacific Ocean, the Hill ,tur-
u biner Great Northern arrived from
San Francisco, San Pedro and Hilo
Friday mU"ning
IL was her first voyage over the tri-
angular route from San Francisco to
Honolulu. She will sail for San Fran
cisco direct at eleven o'clock Monday
evening, taking full despatch of mail
which is expected to reach San Fran
cisco in less than four days. She will
carry mail regularly. E.r.r
This new service Of the Great North.
ern may be permanent; il will continue
until April or May, at least; further
sailings after thGt will depend upon the
passenger and freight business received
by the steamer f~om the Islands. Pros
poets for business from San Francisco
and san Pedro are described as exeell'
ent. r.
In the Great Northern were 146 first
cabin, ffty.one second and eighteen
third cabin passengers for Honolulu
from the two Coast cities. There were
three first cabin, one second cabin and
one third cabin for Hilo. Three booked
at Hilo for San Francisco via HOnolu-
Ia and eight came in the steamer from
Hilo. Total passengers for the Islands
we're 220. OF them, fifty first cabin
were from San Pedro.
Cargo was $50 tons, of which sixty
tons was icehouse. There were thirty
automobiles ten of which were for pass
engers, who Will use them here. The
remainder was general freight. Mail
was 80 sacks from San Francisco and
three from Los Angeles.
New SCANNING Record
Two new stea!ning records were set
by the liner. She made Hilo from San
Pedro in four days and twelve hours,
and Honolulu from Hilo in ten hours
and TWEEN ty seven minutes. She also
holds the record from San Francisco to
Honolulu, four days, ten hours and for
ty.three minutes, made in the voyage
Of February %, 1915, when she arrived
here on her first call. Her Echedule
from Honolulu to San Francisco will be
four and one-halt days. ,
The steamer IL advertised to continue
to the end of April on the run to the
Islands, according to Hugh Mackenzie,
chief clerk Of II e general traffie depart
mPnt. San Francisco, q passenger, Fred
l. Waldron, Honolulu agent, expects the
service to continue at least to the end
of May. Printed schedules were for voy-
ages only to the end of February, the
last sailing from Honolulu for San
, Francisco being February 20. Advices
to the postofice are that mail will be
handled from November "a to April 30.
Mr.. Mackenzie was the spokesman
for the Great Northern Pacific Steam.
ship Company, owner of the steamer.
He discussed possibility of the service
being made permanent Briefly. he put
it up to the Islands. Adequate sup
port was an expression he used FIRE,
quently.
adequate support given the Great
Northern in this new run will influence
my superiOrs greatly when they come
to consider making the service permap
ent, " he said. "You may state author
itatively that she will be on the run
until the end of April, at least. We
have advertised that. After that, it rs
up to the Islands TO say whether they
wish it continued.
Want PASSENGERS and Cargoes
eve are well satisfied with the bust
ness we will do on the voyages from
San Francisco and San Pedro after the
holidays. We will bring 500 passengers
q trip. We want 500 back. We have
room for 5000 tons of freight, weight
or measurement and we want cargoes.
Without adequate support, running
this steamer from the Coast to the Isl
apds would be like Twentieth Century
Limited from Los Angeles to Tijuana.
Bnt the Islands bave the business to
give; if they WISH this service eontin-
ued we must get it, for this is an ex'
pensive ship TO operate. "
Mr.. Mackenzie was asked whether the
relatively small passenger list was a
disappointment.
lit is not at all,'' was his reply.
Eastern visitors do not go to CalifOr-
MIA until after New Years, generally.
They wait at home for the holidays.
When they begin arriving we will bring
to Honolulu q class Of visitors the Isl
ands do not get in great numbers now
They will be those who have the time
for a voyage AT sea, who wish the re-
Taxation of the ocean, but who do not
wish to spend a week coming down. a
week here aud week returning.
"The Los Angeles Examiners party
will come. 1t has been postponed only
until after Christmas. Understand, the
Examiner did not have more than two
weeks TO work up the group 1t would
bring
Advertising Will Bring Results
Advertising that we are doing will
bring the results We are advertising
extensively throughout the States, but,
fs ! said, visitors to California do not
begin to arrive in large numbers until
after Christmas. "
In this connection, Mr.. WaldrOn also
said that the decision to send the ship
ha 10 40
business to the maximum at once; what
was accomplished within six weeks was
gratifying, he said.
He could not explain. he said, how
exaggerated reports Of the number Of
passengers that would come on the frs
VOJ age had got circulation in San Fran