The San Francisco call., 1896-08-10
CUT RATES TO
ORIENTAL PORTS,
Bold Invasion of the Terri
tory of the Pacific
Mail.
JAPANESE COMPETITION
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha Has
Opened an Office in San
Francisco.
ITS LOW SCHEDULE OF FARES.
Will Soon Be in Position to Bid for
Freight Against Huntington's
Line.
ITS LOW SCHEDULE OF FARES.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha Japan Mail
Steamship Company. Regular steamers
to all Asiatic points,
This is the announcement that appears
on Montgomery-street show window in
handsome letters of gold and black. 1t is
the first announcement of the evident pur-
pose OF the new trans-Pacific steamships
to make an aggressive fight against the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the
Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany for Oriental business.
The local agent of the Japan Mail Steam
ship Company will be Mr.. Price, the local
general agent of the Great Northern Rail-
way, with which the Japanese company
has just made q traffic arrangement, with
Seattle as the United States terminus of
the steamship line. This makes it possi-
bic for through bill of iading to be Issued
from Yokohama. Japan, to Buffalo, n Y,
practically over one line, extending one
third the distance around the earth.
r. @. Stevens, the general Western pas
senger agent of the Great Northern, ar
rived here Friday night from Seattle, and
was busy all day Saturday arranging de-
tails for the handling of passenger busi-
ness to the Orient and famlliarizing him
self with the situation, as the trans-Paciic
business is entirely new to him.
"The other northern lines running
between the United States and the Asiatic
ports" he said, sare getting business in
this City, and 1 see no reason why we
should not be able to get share of it,
particularly as the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
is in much better position to secure and
handle it.
"We shall compete for both passenger
and freight business. w. B. Benham, the
Western freight manager of the Great
Northern, will be here in few days to look
after the freight arrangements.
"Our company now has traffic arrange
ment with the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company for the transportation of passen-
gers and freight to Seattle, which is to
move over our railroad line from that point,
and so far as the passengers who desire to
leave here for the Orient via Seattle, the
same traffic arrangement will hold good
Passengers will be taken to Seattle on the
vessels of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company and there transferred to the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
THE first of the Japan mail steamers
will leave Seattle on the 5th of September.
1t will be the Mike Maru, which is due to
arrive at the American port on the 25th of
the present month. She is q vessel of 1900
tons, will accommodate about twenty-five
cabin or first-class passengers and an un-
limited number of Chinese or Japanese in
the steerage."
The schedule of passenger rates from
Seattle te various Asiatic points has al
ready been issued. 1t shows most marked
reduction from these OF the Pacific Mail
and the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
companies from this port to the same
points across the Pacific. The rates from
this City to these Asiatic points, via Seattle
and the Nippon Yusen kaisha's steamers
are made up of the local rate from the City
to Seattle, and the rate from Seattle to the
point OF destination.
Herewith is a table of rates comparing
the first and third class rates respectively
of the two rival companies from San Fran
cisco to all the points to which the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha is at present prepared to
carry passengers: