The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-19
NATIVE MAN IS BLOWN Up OVER FIFTY TRANSPORTS
DEPARTMENTS HEAVY
OUTLAY HERE.
Fifteen Hundred Dollars a Day Spent
in Honolulu-A' Hundred and Twen-
ty-Seven Steamer Loads.

Now that the transport business fs
drawing to an end, except for the ship
ment of horses and mules, 1t is inter-
esting to note the extent of the busi-
ness the War Department has been do
ing in Honolulu since Deweys victory
in Manila bay resulted in the military
operations in the Philippines. a hun
dred and twenty-seven transport-loads
of men, animals and supplies have pass
ed from San Francisco to Manila,
through Honolulu. They have taken
from here 1909 tons of coal. over
S600000 dollars has been spent by the
government here in connection with
the receiving and discharging of these
vessels. 1t is estimated that the daily
expenditures of the War Department
here since November 1898, have been
and are now about $500 per day This
for labor, supplies, repairs of vessels.
etc.
The transport business was in charge
of Consul General Haywood until No
vember, 1898, when Colonel Ruhlen,
Quartermaster, L. s. A., took charge.
The colonel is still running the bust
ness and he has piled up a record as
a hustler that would be hard to beat.
Not an office in the city has been bust
er than the coloners headquarters dur
ing most of the months that have
passed since the rush began, but every
vessel has had quick discharge and not
an accident has occurred in connection
with the entire work For a time there
was a bad shortage of coal and Colonel
Ruhlen was a heavy borrower, getting
loans of many tons of coal from nearly
all the local shipping firms and from
the Navy station here. Shiploads are
coming in now and the debts will soon
be paid off.
The heaviest month of all since the
beginning was last month, when 81
transports passed through, taking 5464
tons of coal with them from here. This
month there have been ten already,
loading 5000 tons, not including that
taken by the Centennial. During the
other twelve months the business vari-
ed very much, though it has been quite
lively ever since last August.
over fifty different steamers have
been employed in the service, most of
them being still under charter, some at
the rate of thousand dollars day.
Strangely enough the Centennial,
which had such difficulty in getting into
the service, has made as many trips
as any in the list, having called here
five times.
The Senator is the only other one
that has made five trips, The others
in the service are the Valencia, Ohio.
Hancock Indiana Zealandia, Pennsyl-
vania, City of Puebla, Newport st.
Paul, Warren, Tacoma, Morgan City,
Roanoke, Portland Connemaugh, Clev-
Gland Charles Nelson, Leelenaw, Sher-
man, Grant, Sheridan Wyefeld, City
of Para, Relief Tartar, Siam, Column
bia, Belgian King, Aztec, George w.
Elder, Glenogle, Rio de Janeiro, Sikh,
Manauense, City of Peking, Athenian,
Westminster, Olympia, City of Sydney,
Pathan, LennoX, Port Stephens, Ben
Mohr. Garonne, Duke of Fife, DalneS
| Vostok, Victoria, Flintshire. This enor-
! nous fleet of big carriers includes a
large proportion of the whole steamer
| fleet of the Pacific.
| From now on there is likely to be
constant shipment of supplies through
here, as well as of horses. Immense
quantities of supplies will be needed
| for the troops in the Philippines and
many horses are wanted, so that trans
ports will not cease to come here for
| some time.