The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-10
Steamers All Crowded With
American Staples.
75,OOO,OOO CIGARETTES
In Two Vessels = One Carries
$4,000 Sacks Of Flour
And a Shipment Of $4,000
Gallons of Pure Alcohol.

Tacoma, Dec. 10.-A grand rush of
American productsis on from Pacific
coast points to Japan. The object is to
get large stocks into the country before
the new Japanese tariff goes into effect.
January L
Tacoma is enjoying her share Of the
rush traffic, and the Northern Pacific
line, running from here to Japan and
China, is making every effort to dis
patch its next steamer as soon as pos
sible.
From Vancouver, San Francisco and
Portland the same rush is on, and all
the lines crossing to Japan have an aV-
a1anche of Japanese consignments.
1t is not many months since that the
TranSpacific lines were racing across
the Pacific ocean the opposite direction,
bringing post haste tea from Japan with
hope of getting it into port before duty
could be imposed upon that article. Now
it is the other way, and some are ask
ing themselves if the. first race could
have been the cause of the necessity Of
the second.
The next steamer out by the Northern
Pacific line will be the Glenog1e. She
will carry 5000 tons of general freight,
the greater part of which will be for
Yokohama, Kobe and other Japanese
ports. Work of loading the ship is be-
ing hurried day and night, and McCabe
& Hamilton, the stevedcres, have near
" 100 men at work. Five large hatch
es Of the ship are swallowing tons Of
flour, tobacco, pig lead, alcohol, cigar
cites and other staples. 1t is received
as fast as a ceaseless procession of
Iongshoremen can pour it over the
cOmbings with chutes to drop it in with
cargo lines, manipulated by the noisy
Winches.
The rush has been in progress quietly
for several weeks, but has not become
intensified until within the last week or
two. The time for getting cargo into
Japan before the duties become effect
i've is short, and the last ships on this
side of the ocean and their cargoes for
Japan, tax their capacity.
Northern Pacific liner Olympia, which
sailed THURSDAY, carried a full cargo of
Japan. Usually the flour shipments from
this port by these liners are far heavier
for China than for Japan. The Olympia
carried 81 600 sacks of hour.
The cigarettes alone in the Olympia and
Glenogle for Japan number 1900 900. They
5000 cigarettes each.
Another heavy shipment on the Glen
ogle for Japan comprises eleven cars OF
5oOO bars. each weighing 100 pounds, or
pig lead from the Everett smelter. The
lead is from ore mined in British ColuTn-
bia and is to be used for tea lead The
Six hundred and fifty barrels of high
grade alcohol Will also go on the Glen
Ogle. Each barrel contains fifty gallons.
Leaf tobacco shipments on this steamer
amount to many tons. The product goes
in bulky wooden casks, containing from
800 to !, $50 pounds OF pure leaf
The Canadian Pacific line is making
extraordinary heavy shipment of tobacco
of the product at Vancouver Friday.
The new Japanese tariff will impose
heavier duties on nearly every commodity
Notable among the exceptions is cotton,
and whenever exceptions are made they
are nearly always on the raw products. 1t
was said some time ago the heavier duties
were to be on IuXur1eS.