The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-07
The Pacific Mail Company.

The following particulars OF the resources Of this
company, (Which has been in existence some twenty
five years) will be Of interest at the present time.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company owns a feet
Of thirty frst-class steamships Of wood and iron.
with an aggregate carrying capacity of nearly one
hundred thousand tons, and constantly traversine
regular routes whose total length nearly equals the
circumference Of the globe, present an array Of naval
statistics OF which several highly respectable second
class nations might well be proud. Among the
latest additions to its feet of iron steamships the
Guy Of Picking and the Cdy Of TOXIC, in size,
model, strength, and speed surpass anything yet
known in the merchant marine service Of the world.
Iron p~ropellers four hundred and twenty three feet
long, forty-eight feet wide, having a registered ton
mage of 5000 tons; passenger accommodation for
$50 in the cabin and 1900 in the Storage, arc parti-
culars which convey to any mind familiar with
nautical matters some partial idea Of the positive
grandeur of these monarchs Of the seas. In per.
fectness Of proportion, beauty Of model. and strength
Of construction, the shipbuilder's art has never sur
passed, probably never equalled, these ocean levia-
thans, while in the indispensable point Of speed they
easily rival that Of the earlier railway trains. in
fact, the terms of the contract require, and the
builders-John Roach g. Sons--bind themselves I'M
der a heavy forfeit, that the ships shall make fifteen
mle 81 uOuT Ut feh. ms WOuiQ give tncm a daily
speed Of three hundred and sixty miles. At this
rate the seven thousand-m mile voyage from San Fran
cisco to Hongkong will occupy less than twenty
days. Besides these ocean monarchs, the company
have contracted with the same builders for three
more frst-clsss iron-screw ships for the Great China
Line, each of which is to be three hundred and
~sixty-two feet long, with a carrying capacity Of eight
hundred Storage passengers and three thousand tons
Of freight. The builders contract that these ships
shall be the fastest in The world, having an average
speed Of sixteen knots an boGr. Two others, Of n
different class, are also to be added TO the lina. The
five ships will cost over $4,000, 900. The company
runs four different lines. The oldest and best known
is the New York and San Francisco Line, commonly
called the Istbmus Route. Four side-wheel and Eve
iron-screw boats, Of over three thousand tons each.
constitute this line; a ship leaves New York every
other Saturday and San Francisco alternate We'd
~nesdays, at noon. The only way port at which these
ships regularly touch is the Mexican port Of Acapul-
CO. Its Central American and Mexican Line CON-
prises four iron screws, Of two thousand tons each,
and three siie-wheelers. This line makes regular
trips between San Francisco and Panama.
calling at some twenty Mexican and Central Aneri-
can way ports; a ship leaves San Francisco at noon
every other Thursday. The Great Japan and China
Line, which might properly be called the America
Asiatic. or Great Central 1rans-Pacifc Line, embrace
ing a larger arc Of the earth's circumference than
any regularly established route has ever before
attempted, is that upon which this great Company
seems now concentrating its chief attention, and
stocking with the largest and Gnest ships ever known
TO the naval or merchant marine service Of the word.
II has four immense iron screws, some Of them Of
over five thousand tons each, and four wooden side
wheelers Of nearly equal size, and five iron screws
Of FIVE thousand tons each, now in process Of con-
s%truction aud equipment. From this feet Of thirteen
steamships, with an aggregate carrying
capacity Of seventy-hve thousand tons, the company
a ship from Can Francisco at noon Of
every other Saturday, and one from Hongkong upon
Wednesdays. The company's fourth and
last line is the Shanghae BrsDeh Immediately con-
Meeting with the preceding. 1t comprises four wooden
Of two thousand Eve hundred tons
each, one Of which leaves Yokohama for Shanghae,
BY the way Of the inland sea Of Japan, and calling
at Hiogo and Nagasaki. four times a month. The
connection with other lines than its own
are as follows At Hongkong with English
and French steamers for the upper ports Of India,
Ind, by the way Of the Sues Canal, with the Medi-
erranean and Atlantic ports Of southern and west
.rn Europe. The New York and San Francisco
Line connects at Panama with the Pacific Siesm
Navigation Co.'s lines to all the important Pacific
ports Of South America. 1t Aspinwall It connects
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., TO Hamburg!
With the Compsguie Generate ans-Atlsniique, V
rance I,