Floridians sail for South Seas

FLORIDIANS SAIL FOR SOUTH SEAS

THE MIAMI DAILY NEWS AND METROPOLIS MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1924

M. R. Kellum, Retired Capitalist, Takes Family on Cruise

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.27- The Kellums have solved the weather problem.

No overcoats for them this winter, nor Palm Beach suits next summer.

They have outfitted a four masted schooner and set sail in quest of warm winters and cool summers. They headed out through the Golden Gate for the South Seas, there to loll through the winter under a kindly sun.

Next spring they will return to San Francisco to take aboard a new supply of provisions and then they will sail for a summer in Alaskan waters. They have mapped cruises in friendly weather for the next two years.

M. R. Kellum is a retired capitalist of Fort Meyers, Fla. He bought the lumber schooner Kaimiloa and made her into floating palace.

The ship is lighted by electricity. Aboard are an ice manufacturing plant, powerful radio station, library, baths in every cabin.

Two 125-horsepower Diesel engines which will propel the boat when adverse winds blow.

Between decks is a well equipped laboratory for six scientists from the Bishop Museum who will join the party at Honolulu.

With Kellum are his wife and four children, his friend Dale Miller of Miami, Fla. And Mrs. Miller, tutors for the children, a ships doctor, a nurse, maid and crew.

While the scientist explore in their fields, the Kellums and the Millers will hunt and fish. When the scientists are at work in the “labs,” the Kellums and Millers will be amusing themselves to their hearts content.

The Polynesian islands, Samoa, Fiji,-that is the general, that inclination may change at any instant. For the Kellums and the Millers have nothing but time on their hands. What they don’t see this winter they will get to take in next winter or the winter after.

The Kaimiloa (the name means Far Search in English) is well defended in case of hostilities.