Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-23
CHINA RUSHING
HER STUDENTS
TOSTATES
Steamer More Than Makes Up
Delay From Yokohama Over;
Capacity List Aboard

Il y
4 Putting ON all the speed the staunch
old craft has, in order to get his So
young Chinese men and women stu
dent passengers to San Francisco so
they can enter American universities
with the least possible delay, Capt T.
III. Dobson, commander OF the China
Mail liner China, brought the steamer
In this morning. some six hours ahead
OF her schedule, and posted her time
OF departure at o'clock this after
noon. when the scheduled time is
Sunday morning.
Steamer Makes up Delay
Although the China left Yokohama
September IA, day behind time ow-
ing TO difficulties I'm getting bunker
coal aboard, such good weather was
met all the way over that Capt Dob
son made the run In about days and
is hours, where the China.s schedule
allows her IL days for the distance
from Yokohama TO Honolulu. No call
was made at Nagasaki out or In ow.
ing TO the cholera epidemic there.
Arriving off port shortly after 8
o'clock, the China locked at Pier
soon after 9:45. with capacity pas
senger list in al three classes She
could not have carried many more
comfortably, as she had grand total
of 6S5 passengers aboard when she
glided alongside the pier. The steam
er brought to Honolulu five first-cab-
in, four second, and 20 steerage pas
sengers. and her through passenger
list IL 131 first-cabin, SO second and
4S9 steerage, the latter all Chinese.
Mrs. Tong Phono Back
Among the firstcabin Chinese pas
sengers coming to Honolulu were Mrs.
Tong Phpng, wife Of President Tong
Phongfof the Chinese American Bank,
Ltd, of this city. their son and
daughter, and their sons wife, daugh.
ter OF Long Kwo Wing, former Chi
nese consul in Honolulu several
years ago.
NAH from the Orient brought by
the China was 50 bags, and freight
for this port 81 tons. Through freight
Is light, 400 tons all told. The
steamer at once began loading 1000.
sacks OF Kona coffee and 100 bags of
island rice, TO take to San Francisco.
She may not steam until O'Clock
thia nfternoon or later, but the hour,
set TOR her departure Il 2 O'Clock
Quarantine Measures oeed
Owing 70 the hsiatic cholera quar-
antlne regulations in effect at this
pori, only firsteabin passengers were.
allowed ASHORE on passes obtained
from Purser G. p. James when the
liner locked. Second-cabin and steer
age passengers conducted long-dis-
lance conversation from the steamer
70 the wharf. rs no Honolulu people
were allowed on board except news
papermen or those having official busi-
ness with the ship. Others had TO
stay outside the gate.
Filipino Music Rescunds
Music burst forth from the upper
Ieck as the China locked. II was the
hips Filipino orchestra, armed with
weird musical instruments resembling
4 distorted uluiele, an overgrown gai-
|1r mounted ike bull fiddle, " and
@&pernl mand0iinB The music the,
''Itie brown men made. however, was
|xcellent. and they saluted those on
ne wharf with the strains Of On the
each ct waikiki
Nile 10 Run In January
Officers Of the steamer said they
Inf heard Ia the Orient that the
.|bSner Nile. now in use by the Brit
.Sh admiralty as troop ship plying
between Marseilles and other ports,
WIN be released from that service
shout the first Of the year and viii
then 20 on the transpacific run, un-
Der control Of the China Mail.
eloen Farrell on Job
Chief steward Joe Farrell, form
&c chief Of the Matson steamer Ma
noa. Is completing his first round trip
- chief steward OF the. China. and
passengers said the menu shows big
Improvement under his administration.