The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-26
AGENT PROGRESSES IGNORANCE.
KNOWS Nothing Of the ChanSs Oh
Rcuse Of the Oriental steamers

Srscsa1 v,sSns,cb TO the Post-Intslii gencer-
TACOMA. Jan. A-Wish references 70
...ssayfs report Of tns Fost-intelsigsneer
concerning intended Changes n ,Hs , I1@.e
"a she Northern Pacific steamers. SOM
,rsent il rife among local Shippers None.
however. have any Information po'htins
10 the inside facts. despite that all show
a decided interest In the reported pros
As the only Official Of the company now
her, IN an.SssS 'G p nasa he Of the
steamship company. was seen When has
attention was called 70 the Post-ipsellt-
gencer report he said he had read il. and
he then replied that If any such move IS
under way he knows nothing whatever
about IL
SO far as know" said Mr.. Pritchard.
'sour vessels the Tacoma. Victoria. Co
luuahsa and Olympia, are 10 continue On
the same run as at present scheduled
They will run 20 the Orient without
change
When attention was called to a para
graph noting that new vessels, four or
six In number. recently built in Scotland
were 90 be chartered by the North Amer
lean Mail Steamship Company tsgccsssor
TO the Northern Pacific steamship Com
pany) Agent Pritchard said:
That's made out Of whole cloth SO far
as am informed, and / believe / would
know were such proposition in conten-
psation. Then again. that statement 60
Ing to show that bat two vessels are run
ming out OF San Francisco 10 Honolulu
is incorrect. All the Oriental steamers
out OF San Francisco stop at Honolulu.
First there are the Pacific Mail vessels.
under American registry, the City OF Rio
de Janeiro. the city OF Picking and the
China
Then come the vessels OF the Occidental
and Oriental Steamship Company all Of
winch foaca at and do business cut OF
Hawaii These are the Coptie, the Gaelic
and the Doric. Then again. the Japan
csc steamers OF the Togo klsen kaisha
lire. out OF San Francisco. also pur IN at
Honolulu; This line has three vessels, the
Hengkong Maru.
NO. / have no knowledge Of any pros
pective change OF our vessels To new
route; INCLUDING the Golden Gate. Honolulu
When asked when Mr.. Dodwen. one of
the heads of the steamship line. would re-
turn to Tacoma. and where he had been
since his departure. Mr.. pritchard replied
that Mr.. Dodweil is expected here within
three or four days. However, he evadeff
replying 10 queries as 10 where Mr. Dod-
well had been. All he would say was that
Mr.. Dodwell had been out OF town. In
quiry develops that he Is supposed TO have
been in Washington. u. c., and other
Eastern cities, where II Is runiores he has
been engaged in arranging for material
changes In the business OF his company,
including change OF route. as today re-
ported by the Post-Intelligencer. IT Is be-
Dodweil and the Northern Pacific to Sc
cure mail subsidy for the proposed route
20 Honolulu and Manila
II seems quite plain that II the present
fleet OF the North American Mail Steam
satp Company, composed OF the Tacoma
Olympia, Victoria and Columbia. is TO ply
between the Sound and Honolulu via the
Golden Gate. the company has reason TO
avoid making the facts public at this time
Aside from Agent Pritchard. there Is no
one in Tacoma in authority frcm whom
authentic information Is TO be gathered
The water front aggregation. including
shippers, are deeply interested In the Post
Inte,ligencer report OF today hut no one
pretcnds 10 know anything about the pro-
posed entrance into the Hawaiian island
trade or the addition OF new vessels TO put
on the Oriental run.