Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-01
BY ONE OF THE LEWIS PARTY

BY ONE OF THE LEWIS PARTY
Our party took the trip around Man
haitian Island, a distance Of forty
miles, by steamer, and on our trip the
Island OF Manhattan was on our left,
and the sky line Of the tall buildings
of the city were always in view, and
the first of the tail buildings that come
into view after leavin.; the wharf is
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany building, fifty stories high. or
700 feet from the level of the street.
On the opposite side OF the river is
the State OF New Jersey, and a little
further down on the same side OF the
river is Hoboken, with population OF
10000. "Hoboken" IL an Indian name,
and means tobacco pipe" Nearly
every city has some other city which
IL uses as butt for all Of its Jokes
and ridicule. Hobokeu Is such city
for New York--as Hilo Is for Honolulu
and guess that you have all heard
the story about the family that was
about to move from New York 10 Ho-
boken. The little boy, aged five, said
IN HIS prayers, "Good-hye. God, tomor-
row we move to Hoboken." .
Italian Was First.
The first white man to set foot on
Manhattan Island was an Italian. in
1924. In the following year a Portu-
gHese pilot came to New York. In
1909 Henry Hudson sailed his vessel,
the Half Moon, up the river. In. 1907
Robert Fulton ran the Clermont, the
first steamboat 10 60 up the river, and
today on both sides of the river can
be seen great piers for the saccommo-
dalton of the great steamers OF the
world.
The White Star Line Company is
running the great steamer Olympic
between New York and Liverpool. She
Is $50 feet long The ocean gray.
hounds Of the, Cunard line, the Aqui.
tanic and the Mauretanic, sister ships
to the Lusitania, that was sunk by the
B-boat May z. 1915, have crossed the
Atlantic in less than six days, and are
moving palaces.
The North German Lloyd company
had the following steamers in New
York harbor at the beginning of the
war: The Princess Irene, George
Washington. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Cross
er Kuerfurst. Barbarossa, and Freder-
lex der Crosse. and they have been
taken over BY the United States
Some Boat.
Next come the piers OF the Ham
burg-American line, the company own
Ing the Imperator and the vateriand,
the two largest ships ever built. The
lmperator Is IN Germany today, Is s19I
feet long, and when running carried
$500 passengers each way. But the
Katerland Is tied up on the New Jer-I
sey side Of the river today She has
three large smokestacks, and each one
Is large enoughs II placed on the
Ground, for two railroad trains run
ming side By side to pass through them
at the same time Then he nine
decks above the water line: N. the.
first cabin are two passenger ele.'
r1tors. in the second cabin one eleyas!
tor, running through six decks. and
al Of the cabins are heated and light
cd by electricity, with enough lights
aboard to li6ht up q city of 200. 900 In
hebitants, and instead OF "a CAPTAIN.
they have commodore and four can
tains on board. and seven officers, and
each Is manned by crew Of 1884 men.
and Is valued at $10.000.e00. Each is.
$50 feet long, 100 feet wide, and when
travelling uses q ton OF coal minute
On the opposite side Of the river Isl
Jersey City. with 267. 900 population.
At the water edge Is the old station Of
the Pennsylvania railroad. Just be.
yond Is the Colgate clock. the largest
III the world. 38 feet IN tIialnafais. ~,