Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-22
new PACIFIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Is i,
.THEBlGLINER GREAT NORTHERN
Douglas White Writes of the Trip and Some of Its incidents
Speed Steamer Can Do Even Better Than Its Present
Record-NeW Queen of the Pacific" -

ing to pieces of several Pacific ocean
records and as Mr.. Stone figured 1t,
the carrying of the largest excursion
party that ever made Hawaii its ter
minal. Some of the wise ones said
neither of these objects would be ac-
scomplished but tonight the Great
Northern is swinging at her anchor on
Honolulu's quarantine grounds with
241 excursionists sleeping in her cab
ms and only awaiting the early morn
ing arrival of the quarantine officials
to begin their sight seeing amid the
marvellous beauties of the Pacific's
paradise.
Big Broom is UP.
/ The former records between Pacific
coast ports and Honolulu exist only
as a tattered memory, the big broom
Z is way up aloft at the truck of the
Great Northern's foremost, and her
passenger list shows the largest num-
Der of purely island excursionist ever
landed at this port 4
= From first to last the cruise island
/ ward has been ideal A rapid run
down the coast from San Francisco
to Los Angeles and then a beautiful
midday departure from the end of the
great breakwater.
Right there the Great Northern as.
sumed a handicap for the steamings
distance from Los Angeles ,harbor to,
Honolulu is 2246 miles as against 20S0
from San Francisco .-s I'D -.
First day out clear with bright
cTfspiness n the air and a smooth sea-
I Time Nof departure, 1856 p. M, We'd
nesday. February II. Record for first
% hours, 22.S knots per hour. Pas
sedgers delighted and surprised at the
rsuperb excellence ct the service and
cuisine ~
Down Comes Gale. r,
4 Then the old Pacific seemed to
think it had made things altogether
too nice for this stranger from, the
eastern seaboard, and sent down a
bowling gale from the west that tore
along at 60-mile gait Nothing do
ing" said the Great Northern as she
shook her head and dashed the spray
over her masthead. Nine hours of
this grind and then the Pacific gave
it up, for not only had the ships speed
Increased to pa knots but she had
ridden every sea so easily as to not
shake anything adrift either in cabins
or on deck Record for full second
day, ZIG knots per hour.
So it has gone until tonight the
glitter Of Molokai's light greeted us at
1898 p. m. with the light on Kakapuu
raised just 13 minutes later and an
arrival recorded at 80 a. m, giving
to the Great Northern the record pas
sage from the California coast of four
days. 10 hours and 43 minutes. =
:. The best previous record stood at
four days 10 hours made by the ST.
IBERIA in her palmiest days when Com
mcdore Seabury drove her to the linn
it and that too over the course from
San Francisco. 1t is not hard to fig
>ure how much lower the new record
would have gone had the short course
been, followed instead of the Los An.
geles-Honolulu pathway. 1t would
have meant lowering of the figures
to about an even four days. Still the
present is plenty good enough for the
first try and /. desire to put one thing
on record. At no time was the Great
Northern even let out, to say nothing
OIL DRIVING.
What Can She Do?
r. j had a little confab tonight up IN
the captains quarters with Captain
Amman and Chief Engineer Spencer
. What can she really do, gentle
men?' l asked these officers who
have watched this ship like baby
ever since steam was first turned into
her tubes.
ITO tell you truly, | do not know"
said the chief, for even on, her trial
trips she never had less than two boil
els in reserve | have never tried to
get her best but am satisfied to clip
a few slices off any Pacific records
that we run against"
Il will tell you what she will do, )"
interrupted the captain. She win |
steam rings around anything that now
sails the Pacific and more than that,
she will do any such speed trick in |
any kind of a sea. There is not :
ship like her In the Pacific for stsadi-
ness and comfort and as to the speed.
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