The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-09
Great Northern Apparently Fear
| ed Big Island Channels and
II E% Arrived Late
AFRAID 70 DOCK IN
! !. .35 FEET OF WAFER
Tourists Were Sadly Rushed and
Missed. Their Meals Ships
80. Order Absurd

Editor George r. Henshall Of the
lilo Tribune, who made a flying trip
10 Honolulu on the Mauna Kea, artiy'
ing saturday morning and returning in
the same steamer that afternoon, said
that in. many ways the much talked-of
visit Of the steamship Great Northern
and ,hsr 200 exeursionists to Hilo waS
4 disappointment to the Big Island PEG.
et,ie, II not to, the excursionists them
selves. The fault, he said, was on zae9
loupt Of the Great Northern not keep.
ing TO her schedule. 49, ttf'f 50 Htta
{, In the last Tribune Editor Henshalt
had the following to say OF the Great
Northern 3 visit: -. .,s}ts
uThe visit Of the Great Northern
sourists to Hilo was long series OF
|mishaps, delays and diseomforts, most
E1f them, due primarily TO the peculiar
'dahdlihg Of; the ship. Leaving Hoei-.
Einm TO arrive here At eight In the morn
ling; she. went. far out Of her way, 10.
zause Captain Amman was apparently
tfraid Of the island channels which are
being travelled constantly By bigger
tteamefs than his, and through which
the American battleship fleet thought
nothing Of passing. She arrived three
aours late, and during the three hours
|Ioubtless burned fuel costing far more
ehan the services of an inter-island
Ipiiot would have cost, The captain
fyould mot, dock at Hilo wharf and is
i inOted as declaring that there was not
ieep enough water. There Is thirty 1--we
Feet Of water and his ship was draw
/. -. a
/ Rys began, The passengers hal to stay
On board, but were. not given lunch,
though they didn't all get ashore till
gwo o clock. At the Volcano House q
lunch ready for. them at noon, per
ichedule, had been put away, and
shortly before three they began to ar
kfive--fort lunch. y The order when they
Left the. ship was 10 sail at six o'clock,
Eina after Inch they hastenedN to the
rater and .bsck to Glehwood, to catch
me train, IN which they waited about
hree hours, as she didn Y pull out till
line- fifteen. And they had no dinner
Ibecanse there Wa no way TO get any,
"a view Of the absurd order TO be. back
IN board at six. They didn I SEQ the
splcano at night, as promised, When
hey got TO Hilo Il was raining and
hey were towed In open barges to the
rteamer and got, aboard at about eleven
clock, dfehehed TO the skin, and still
without dinner Every item in this list
VI haTdships would have been avoided
Ef this 23,knot steamer had kept her
schedule, instead of taking as much
time between Honolulu and Hilo as the
dauna Kea would need IL she tried "a
peed, and IL she had gone TO the wharf
md landed her passengers comfortably
IN to 4 train, and taken them on again
n the same way. F' .E
"Hilos hotels, transportation com
9anies, the Volcano, House, and the
public bodies should discourage tbs
Ian Of having large crowds of tourists
come here on an excursion, as did the
1Ireat Northern, with the idea of edo
ing" the town and the volcano In ter
" q dozen hours4-this Is said without
any thought Id. mind whatever, of tn,
'ecent sad accident: that might have
Happened just the same il the Great
Northern party had been going to stay
| a week---but the fact Is that the SEIZED
uledl arranged or attempted, for thu
Great Northern, was highly unsatisfac
tory to all concerned, and resulted IL
Ia large body Of tourists comiEk here
and leaving practically without seeing
what they came 10 see.