The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-21

SAN DIEGO, July 10.-The Sun says:
William Waterhouse of Pasadena, who
returned north yesterday on his yacht
Alert, was for many years resident
of the Hawaiian Islands, and as a large
property owner there, is greatly inter-
ested in the coming California Hawaii
an steamship line, an account of which
was given in the Sun a few days ago.
Mr.. Waterhouse has kept himself fully
posted on the movements of this line
and he says that the vessels will not
on their return trips but only on the
outward passage from New York
They will sail from New York with
general cargo for Honolulu, San
Francisco, San Diego and way ports,
and all along the western coast of
South and Central America and Mex
leo they will pick up and discharge
cargo till they get to this port, from
where they will sail direct to San Fran
cisco and thence to Honolulu.
At the islands the steamers will load
full cargoes of sugar and sail direct
for New York possibly touching at the
most important South American ports
for passengers only. The first vessel
of the new line will probably be
launched about September 1 from New
York.
Whether the c. & H. line will have
any effect on the Kosmos line does not
appear yet. When the first steamer.
the Tanis. called here last January
the prediction was fully made that the
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that but one or possibly two more yes
sells would call here. Six months
have passed, however, and still they
come with little apparent encourage
ment, either from the Santa Fe rail-
road or the city of San Diego, although
every intelligent citizen must know that
the permanent establishment of the
Kosmos line at this port would eventu-
ally mean the Pacific Mail and newt
ably result in a direct eastern railroad.
UP to date six vessels of the line have
called here, having an aggregate net
tonnage of 1915 tons. The first vessel
brought three tons of freight and three
passengers. The second thirty tons of
freight and five passengers, the third
125 tons and three passengers, the
fourth 100 tons and four passengers,
the fifth sixty-five tons and nine pas
sengers, and the sixth sixteen tons and
nine passengers, a total of 1913 tons and
thirty-three passengers. The fact that
no time schedule has been announced
and no apparent attempt made to have
any regular sailing dates, has no doubt
initiated greatly against the business
of the line. Nevertheless quite re-
spectacle amount of freight has been
handled, and as most of it was coffee
and high priced hides, the value repre-
sents a good many thousand dollars.
The passenger trade shows a healthy
increase from the start, although this
is a little late for travelling on the Mex
lean coast, most of those able to do so,
having left that country a month ago
for the summer months. Captain
Richert of the Scraps told a Sun rep
resentative he believed that If a regu-
lar monthly sailing schedule could be
agreed upon and carried out, San Diego
would in six months time have the
lions share of the east bound passen-
ger travel.
THE JOHN WILLIAMS.
APIA, Samoa, July Says the "Ioi
Karanga," Rarotonga: The London
Missionary Societys S. S. John Will
liams" arrived on Sunday, IS days out
from Sydney. The Board of Health re-
fused to allow any communication be-