The morning call., 1893-04-04
A BIG ONE READY.
The Keweenaw Is in Her
Dock.
FREIGHT WILL PILE IN NOW.
The Third Steamer of the New Line.
Sample Pacific Mail Extortions
in the South.

The North American Navigation Com
pany's third steamer. Keweenaw, locked
at Lombard-street pier yesterday at $3.50
o'clock to load freight for Panama, Mexican
and Central American ports.
The steamers purSer has not yet been
appointed, but tile Work Of receiving freight
has been under the supervision Of the
freight clerk. As yet no great quantity of
cargo has been received, but to-day lively
times are expected.
The Keweenaw will stop at ChamperieO
and Acajutla, ports which will probably
not be touched by the Pacific Mail steamer
San Jose, which sailed yesterday morning.
A great part OF the Guatemala coffee crop
Is shipped from Champerico. and it is said
that shippers at that port have agreed to
give the new line most all OF their business
The san Jose sailed with very light
cargo. as shippers have been holding back
20 patronize the Keweenaw.
The heweenaw is a vessel of 5000 tons
register and it will take great deal of
freight TO I'll her. but from present pros
poets there does not appear any chance OF
her having 10 sail with any spare room in
her hold.
One OF the points to be made by the North
American Navigation CUmpauy's line is
the reduction of fares between way ports.
uc dCluC -u14l bdoSGAsCl as Ncll no
freight charges betw cen local ports in Cen
trail America are simply eXtortlon. For
example, from La Llbertad, Salvador, to
San Jose, Guatemala, distance OF little
over 100 miles, S25 gold Is charged for first
cabin passage. More money Is charged for
passage from San Jose, Guatemala, to
San Francisco than Is demanded for a
through passage to New oTk.
1t Is understood that the new company
viii not take the aggressive toward sailing
AIlo n 9 mazda nv
owners in the Central American trade re-
garding the manner in which The Mail COM
pany has tried to force them out Of the
business. thus injuring not only the ship
ping interest OF this port, but of the
country.
Recently the captain of the schooner Fall
con owned by Wright, Bovine IL Co., who
has Ueen for years in the Central America
trade. told a story of Champerco coffee
planter who had agreed 10 give the schooner
Wright, owned by the firm mentioned, a
cargo OF coffee.
The Pacific Mail people got wind o the
agreement. The Falcon WAS DELAYED by
Gains. and the slipper was obliged To try to
make arrangements w!th the steamship COM
pRuy 10 remove his crop.
An excuse was offered for not receiving
this independent merchants freight on
board Of any of the Mail COmpanys YES
sells until the coffee had lain on the wharf
for several months and the market had IN
"a
planter TO lose money and thenceforth, to
insure himself against such losses, 10 ship
altogether by the Mail steamer and give
sailing vessels a wide BERTH
definite schedule of rates between way
ports Will probably be adopted before tue
keweenaw sails, which will be on the
morning Of the Sth.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
steamer Corona arrived Sunday, from san
Diego and way ports, bringing large mis-
40 r. n NJ mr.
An immense amount of freight is being
handled between San Francisco and south
ern ports" said one OF the steamers Off
GERS. Business with the south is iucreas-
ing rapidly. l don't know how 1t is, but it
seems to me that we are doing about as
large q freight business as was dOue during
boom times"
Apropos or business all the old water
front men say that times are Frightening in
shipping circles. six months ago" said
one of them, very little freight was han
died on the docks, and the wharyes seemed
actually deserted. Now there is nearly
double as much business being transacted
on the front"
his unusual activity may be accounted
for by the fact that the Merchants line Of
sailing ships operated by Messrs. Grace &
Co. and Balfour, Guthrie & Co., have been
keeping the stevedoTes- busy and have piled
the water front with merchandise, a great
part OF which had, prior TO their establish
ment gone to the railroad companies.
A large fleet of vessels have recently been
loading for the northern fisheries and the
sealers and whalers VIII soon be demanding
cock rom.