Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-08
China Is TAKING
GOLD TO THE
Orient

Carrying enough gold in her strong
box TO shame the proudes; OF Span
ish galleons. the China Mail steamer
China arrived this morning from San
Francisco en- route to Japan, China
and the Philippine !slands. She ar.
rived off port at daybrea,:, locked at
Pier Z at 1880 and will sail for the
Orient at O'Clock this afternoon,
taking mail
Passengers for Honolulu numbered
only two first-cabin, three second cab
In and one storage, and freight left
here was five tons and 81 packages of
express matter. Through freight Is
1000 tons and passengers are 122 cab
in, 80 second cabin and 260 steerage.
Mail for Honolulu was $50 bags.
Through freight consists OF steel,
building material and canned goods.
From here the China will take three
cabin, two second cabin and so steer
age passengers and approximately SO
tons of freight. -. ~
Incoming passengers were VIM. l..
Morgan and C. A. Woodward. Pas
sengers booked are Mrs. N. Lamberts
and two children and Miss Emma
Weaver.
Fortune In Strong Box :.
In the strong box the China has
100000 for Shanghai and $750,000 for
Hongkong. This money is being sent
from the mainland banks to those in
China, as the money supply there Is
low, according to Purser G. p. James.
Two new officers are on board the
China this trip, J.. e. Farrell, for a
number Of years chief steward on the
Matson steamer Manoa, holds simi.
lar position on the China, and Karl
A. Heyum is the new freight clerk.
interned Vessels Not Wanted.
When asked concerning the report
that the China Mail Steamship Com.
pany was planning to buy two Of the
three interned Austrian steamers ly-
ing In Shanghai harbor, Capt. T. J..
Dobson said: The steamers were
offered to the company and was or
dered TO examine them, and found
that they were not suited for our SER
vice. One is an old passenger boat
and the other Is freighter II the
company does buy any more steamers
they want new passenger liners and
not old ones, which these are"
Among the passengers on the China
are six Pacific Mail agents who are
going TO Japan and China to take up
their duties AMI prepare for the Pact-
fic Mail service, which, according To-
these men, has been put back on the
Pacific to stay. The company VIII not
be owned by railroad. They are:
y Z. Gardner. T. Thorp and 5. 4.
Sheppard, who viii be stationed at
Yokohama; r.. L. Goldsmith and H. F.
Palmer, who have been assigned TO
Kobe, and w, B. Davenport, who Is
going to Hongkong, Davenport for
many years was general passenger
agent at San Francisco for. the old
company and is well known in Homo
lulu, where he has often visited. His
family will follow him on latter
steamer.
Best Of Services Promised.
These steamers" said Davenport,
care absolutely new and the service
will be the very best A special fea-
ture of the service will be that not
more than two people will be placed
In a stateroom. The steamers are
1900 tons gross and the service mas
come to stay"
When asked concerning former re-
port that the MsnchIria and Mongolia
are to be put back on this run he said
that Il was in the hands of the direc-
tors and he had nothing to say.
Other passengers on the China
were: Miss Mildred Robertson, who
Is going to Yokohama to marry I. +.
Cobbs, manager Of the British-Amerf
can Tobacco Companys Joseph Eicn-
void. also connected with the tobacco
company, who is returning with his
bride; ". Moroai, late manager OF the
Astor house in Shanghai; L. |. Sher-
man, real estate man of New YORK
who Is going to India, and zee Ling,
director Of the China Mail Steamship
Company.