The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-06

~ -&aEW -
and Japan at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. Seven rejected Chinese,
brought here by the Hongkong Maru
on her last trip, We're sent back to the
Orient yesterday.
According to schedule, the next mail
is due to arrive on the Sierra on the
18th instant
The next mail for the Coast goes by
the Moana on the 18th instant.
Some blooded cattle occasioned
great deal of excitement on the Inter
Island wharf yesterday afternoon.
They arrived recently from Australia,
and were being put aboard for trans
portation to Hawaii big bull, when
lassoe 1, became infuriated and would
most probably have hurt somebody if
| it had not been for the prompt action
of the cowboy, who succeeded in tax
ing a turn around a post with a lasso.
When the bull started to charge the
crowd people sought shelter on the roof
of the shed, behind piles of merchan-
! disc, and anywhere where the angry
animal would not be likely to follow.
FRENCH LINER LA LORRAINE.
| The La Lorraine, the latest addition
to The fleet of the Compaguie Generate
| Tran Satlantique, arrived at New York
on August 10 from Havre. Owing to
delay caused by the stiffness of her ma
lchinery the steamer arrived somewhat
| behind her scheduled time. The new
steamer measures II, coo tons gross, has
engines of the triple expansion type
with four cylinders which were built
to develop $4,000 horsepower. She is
$50 feet inches long, 60 feet 212 inches
beam, and 80 feet 4 inches deep. The
best days run was 493 knots, and at an
leverage speed of Il knots. La Lorraine
has five decks, SO cabins de luxe, and
accommodations for 1913 first cabin, lis
second cabin, and 953 steerage passen-
gers. Her crew consists of 3i2 men. On
her recent trial trip and on previous
trips speed of % knots was main
tanned. She is expected to develop
z, 900 horsepower and maintain an av-
lerage speed of 20 knots. The cost of
the vessel is about 100000.
A SUCCESSFUL REBELLION.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2S.-The
big Norwegian steamer Eidvold, now
discharging her cargo from China and
Japan, has caused connection among
the shipping concerns making up the
transportation trust, which arbitrarily
advanced freight rates from % to 90
per cent on May 18TH
The large importers sent up a pro-
test at the advance, but they found
they were contending against monop-
oily that insisted on .'all the traffic
would bear" The Increase in freights
averaged 81 per ton and meant $4,000
on a 5000 ton trip.
The Eidvold represents the successful
rebellion of one firm which dared stand
out against the combine and risk a
possible loss of $4,000 to $4,000, and
perhaps more, in a contest with the
combined strength and influence of the
Pacific Mail, Occidental and Oriental,
Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Can
adam Pacific, California and Oregon
and Togo Kisen Kaisha. steamship COM
panies. This firm was M. j. Branden-
stein & Co. Eugene d. Bates, one OF
the partners, was in Shanghai early in
the year when the companies began
refusing to make contracts for freight
at ruling rates after May 18th, although
no combine had then been effected. Mr.
Bates found that even the heaviest
shippers were given no consideration
The steamship agents refused to yield
in any particular.
There was only one recourse. This
was to engage a steamer whose tonnage
was enough to warrant the expense OF
the voyage from China to San Fran
cisco. But this would require the car
rying of about 1900 tons of freight more
than the firm could supply. The ques-
ltion at once arose whether this freight
could not be obtained in the face OF
the active opposition of the seven great
steamship companies.
Mr.. Bates acted promptly. He found
that the Eidvold, which was then load
ing at Puget Sound with lumber for
Shanghai, was open for engagement
q rf mir q
months from April LIST until January
LIST. Although the Pacific Mail cut the
lcombine rates, and great pressure was
used to induce merchants to place their
freight with other boats, the Eidvold
was able to get a full cargo at Kobe
and Yokohama and sailed on July 14th,
Preaching Honolulu on August 10th. She
discharged about 1900 tons of her cargo
there, and, not flying the American flag,
was not able to add to her cargo, since
the Islands, being part of the United
States now, are subject to the law tina,
provides against the carrying of freight
between two American ports in foreign
bottoms.
The advent of the Eidvold into the
lOriental trade has occasioned some
thing of row among the traffic mana
gers. When the Pacific Mail began cut.
ting rates there was a general protest
And, although rates went up to the
combine notch Immediately upon the
sailing of the big tramp, there was 6
shaking up of dry bones which will be
likely to be repeated, since the success.
of the Eidvold's venture forms an invi.
tatlon for the incursion of Other
freighters who, If they carried the Am.
erican flag, could add materially t.
the profits of the voyage by gettinf
cargo for the Islands in San Francisco
and picking up a few hundred tons a.
Honolulu on the return trip for China
The Eidvold is now under charter t.
the Russian Government to carry sup
plies to Port Arthur She will be II
shanghai again about October lst
when her managers will once more fine
themselves arrayed against the powel
I or the trans-Pacific steamship comb
lnation.
SHIPPING NOTES.