The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-12-24
GREAT NORTHERN
Brings BIC LIST
Sets Record For Run From HiIo
To Honolulu, Eight Hours,
Thirty-Four Minutes

With 29S frst-eabin, cighty-six sec
ond cabin and forty.eight Storage pas,
sengers' for Honolulu, the HIN liner
Great Northern. locked Mt Pier at
ten O'Clock yesterday morning, on
time, from San FRANCHISE, San Pedro
and Hilo. OF these passengers, sixteen
first cabin, four se"cc;;.o-cabln and thir-
ty-three steer@ge were from HiIo, max
ing the through passengers 2S2 first
cabin, eighty-two second, abin and if
teen steerage.
Except for about fifty, they were
from San Francisco. This is the largest
passenger list that has been landed at
Honolulu.
Cargo was 9s5 tons, which included
fifty five automobiles, of which seven
were cars Of passengers, who will use
them here. Mail was 354 SACKS.
Sails At Eleven Sunday
The Great Northern will sail at
eleven O'Clock Sunday evening, taking
mail, passengers and freight for San
Francisco. Mails will close at the post
office at nine o'clock.
Fred L., Waldron of Fred l.. Waldron,
Ltd, agents, said that the steamer
positively would sail for San Francisco
at eleven o'clock Sunday evening. If
the sailing hour of four clock in the
Afternoon is approved by the San Fran
cisco Office it will be put into effect on
the next voyage!
A new record for the run. from
HiIo was set Steaming from Hilo
at twelve forty.fve O'Clock yesterday
morning, the. vessel made Diamond
Head at nine-nineteen clock, eight
hours and thirty.four minutes out, an
average speed of a little more than
twenty two and one-half miles an, hour.
The course from Hilo was between
Maui and KahUOlawe and Lanai and to
the leeward, of Molokini.. The passage
from Hilo on the former voyage was
nine hours and twenty one minutes.
Fifteen hours and ffty-two minutes
was the time between San Francisco
and San Pedro and four days, fourteen
hours and ffty.six minutes from San
Pedro to Hilo. On the former voyage
the time between San Pedro and Hilo
was four days and twelve hours and
between San Francisco and San Pedro
fifteen and nehalf hours.
Capt A. Altman brought the steamer
to dock. not using a pilot.
Passes Steamer Shoshone
Seven hundred miles out from San
Pedro, the Great Northern passed the
| steam schooner Shosh0ne bought by
the Iqter- Island and now bound to
Honolulu. ) This was 'tearly Sunday
=.
about Monday.
Ships officers said that bookings for
other voyages were good, especially for
the more expensive suites. The first
voyage she brought 22O in all for the
Islands and $50 tons of cargo, so that
a good gain has been made.
A heavy swell reported by the Mat
son liner Wilhelmina was met by the
Great Northern.
John s. Ford is purser.
or am advised by Mr.. Anderson OF
the Territorial Marketing Association
that our experiment in the handling OF
bananas and pines from Honolulu OF
our first voyage was an unqualifie'
suceess,' said a letter from Cal f
Stone, general traffic manager OF thu
line, to Fred L. Waldron, Ltd, agents
referring to fruit shipments.
"The fruit arrived in San Franrisc'
in perfect condition; out of 2l0t
bunehes of bananas only one buncI
was spoiled, and among the pines les
than one per cent damaged.
"Our handling of this fruit ship
meDt esta blishes new world s recor,
ACCORDING to the statement of the Ter
ritOrial Marketing Association"
This confirms previous advices from
the coast.