The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-19

timber resources are, it is claimed,
enormous, and the chances for coffee
goG3.5 The railroad schemes,
electric hgAt. propositions and oEher
matters, including the opportunities for
the smallef capitalist and investor,
should furnish interesting matter
or Pacific Trade. /
1 have slready seem some striking
evidence @ the wonderfuie increase
which is ta6ing place in Our Trade with
the Far East. All the steamers which
are now going between Hawaii, China,
Japan and Australia are loaded to
their fulle4 capacity. l came. to Ho-
noiulu on the China, the largest of the
Pacific MaN steamships. 1t is packed
with. freigN for Ching, Japan and the
Philippine#tp such am extent that a
part of itsEkoal space isi filed with
goods, and H has to steam much slow
er in consequence. 1t was "a day late
on this accW Want in coming to Honolulu,
and will p&obably be still later In
reaching Yokohama. It left on the
docks at san Francisco a lot of freight
which it was not able to carry, and
this is, an told, the case with nearly
every ship &bich leavek that port. The
passenger Accommodations are, strain
ed to theft Utmost. / found thes ship
full wheuM arrived at San Francisco.
and was only able to seizure my pas
sage by aHaerth being given up al the
last moms! I was told thatssix 9TH
er passengRfs were waiting for berths
and that tase only safe way now is to
engage yoSf cabin weeks in advance.
The japanese are stpetchingso soHt for
their shatAs of the trade and begin
ming withsfhis month the government
of the MikAdo will, for the next+ ten
years, paEAanniaf subsidies Of more
than 4,00&D0 yen a year to- the Nip
/ pom YuseHKaisha and the Toyo Kisen
Kaisha litSSS running to Europe. and
also between Japan and the: United
States. These two lines will get more
than b5O&4e0 yen a year from the
governr1e ehts for 5 their United'' States
ships alo1ie.9 The ,Feyo<Kisen Kaisha
has three >6bo0-ton ships, which run
from San FranciscoSto Hongkong, stop
Iping at Hoselulu, and the japanese
ports en- robxe;sin conjunction with the
Pacific MailSand the Oriental & Occi-
dental lines $50 that with these lines
they furnfsR sailings from San Fran
cisco to japan every eight days. The
Japanese ships have English officers
They are the finest ships now on tht
Pacific The Nippon. Yusen .-Kaisha
ilass 9Ieof steamers of 5000 tons. The
ECanadiar Pacific ships are large. They
run, as do ali the Puget Sound ships
to Japan, by the northern passage, no
calling at Honolulu. The Canadian
Pacific has, however, a line to Austria
| liza, which calls here. There is also {
line to Australia from San Francisco
which calls at Honolulu. 1t is owned
by the Spreckels, the sugar million
| aires, and makes weekly sailings tt
the Sandwich Islands.
What it Costs to Cross the Pacific.
AS to sailing rates, they are abou
> the same on the different lines. TIL
passage to Honolulu from San Fran
: cisco is SIS for the first cabin, $35 fo
. 1.-The intermediate and $25 for the steer
, age. The rates to Yokohama are $40
e first cabin, S100 intermediate, and $S
5 steerage, and to Hongkong or Shang
: hal, 1925 first cabin, S115 intermedi
: ate, and 800 steerage. To Manila tn
first cabin rate is S255. The steerag
3 lrates are especially profitable. The ac
! commodations are only fitted for Chi
nese, but there are from 500 to 100
e of these on nearly every ship. We ar
D carrying on the China $50, which. a
e 500 each, makes cash receipt of $65
. 900 for this class alone.
0 America in the Mid-Pacific.
: The increased trade of the Pacific
r in evidence here in Honolulu. / hav
8 never been in town of this size whic
! showed so many signs of prosperity.
= is town of rich men and no beggarS
' The streets are full of business, an
). : the stores are as fine as those of
!, city OF four times its size in the Unite
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