The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-23
SEA AND SHORE
Seven Island Steamers
Get Away.
Busy Day on Water front United
States Islands Trade--Navl-
cation Congress,

Yesterday was Island-steamer day
with vengeance. No less than seven
boats departed for the other Islands.
Shippers were kept hustling ON the
waterfront and the streets and wharves
were damned with drays and carts
carrying all kinds of merchandise to
the vessels and hacks and carriages
taking passengers to the different
docks from which the various steamers
left. The lei women were on hand as
usual and did thriving business.
The Mauna Loa left at about 10
o'clock in the morning on her regular
route for Lahaina, Maalaea, Kona and
kau, carrying many passengers and a
large cargo. The Kinau left shortly
after noon with many persons for Hilo
and other Hawaii ports.
At O'Clock the Claudine and Lehua
got away for Maui and Molokai res
pectively. About fifty lepers went to
the settlement on Molokai on the Lee
hua the account Of which appears in
another column.
Steamers he Au Hou, W. G. Hall and
Waialeale also left port for the other
Islands
u. S. Islands Trade.
Commerce of the United States with
Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian
Philippine and Samoan Islands contin-
ues to show rapid gain. The Deem
Der figures of the Treasury Bureau OF
statistics show for the sing.e month OF
December exports of considerably more
than two million dollars to Cuba, and
imports valued at 81 1855 900 from Cuba;
to Porto Rico, exports valued at S312,
600, against $lS3,0O0 in December, 1898;
to the Hawaiian Islands, exports eX-
ceeding one million dollars in value,
against $936,000 in December, 1898,
and to the Philippine Islands, 1919 900,
| against $4,000 in December, 1888. TAX
ing the entire year and the five islands
or groups of islands, Cuba, Puerto Ri
co, and the Hawaiian, Philippine and
Samoan Islands, the total for 1899
shows an increase of more than 100
per cent in exports to those islands
over the year 1898, while the imports
from them show an increase OF nearly
30 per cent over those of 1898. Natural
| ly the commerce of Cuba would show
very material gains compared with
that of 1898 or 1897 when war prevail
ed in that island, but an examination
of the earlier figures of our commerce
with that island shows that the ex-
ports from the United States to it in
1899 were larger than those of any
earlier calendar year, and very much
| greater than those of any save the rec
| iprocity years 1892 and 1893. The
same is true of Porto Rico, while the
| exports from the United States to the
hawaiian Islands are more than twice
| a &c in nrinr RI 1909
and the imports from them fifty per
| cent in excess of those of any preced-
| ing year In the case of the Philip
! pines, the increase is much larger so
! far as relates to exports which reached
! in 1899 81 ,663, 900, as against an annual
! average of about 100000 during the
preceding decade.
! A pretty clear idea Of the class of
merchandise being sent to the islands
| in question is given by detailed table
! printed by the Treasury Bureau of Sta
| tistics- showing the exports by principal
! articles to each of the islands during
| the month of December. OF the 81 co.,
! 900 worth of goods sent to Cuba in
! December, 1922 1922 was wood and man
uGactures thereof, chiefly lumber and
| furniture; $4,000 was provisions,
| chiefly lard, bacon, hams, fresh beef
| anu SohuSAASCu hiiih, YooO,OOO w do
ufactures of iron and steel, including
rails for railways, locomotive engines,
pipes and fittings for steam works
electrical machinery, builders hard
ware, and wire for fencing; $253,7 1877
breadstuffs, chiefly corn and oats, and
$169,000 live animals, INCLUDING CATTLE
mules, hogs, and horses in the order
named. To the Philippines, the most
important items of exports in Deem
Der were chemicals, $13,56S; coal, $12,-
! 649; electrical machinery, $S4 1908; boil
ers for steam engines, $40, $50; total
manufactures of iron and steer, $751;
! 277, and wood and manufactures there
! of, $16,766, OF which S12,oo4 was lum-
! Der.
The following tables show the total
value of the exports to and imports
from Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Ha-
waiian, Philippine, and Samoan ISL
ands, in their commerce with the Unit
ed States during the calendar years
1897, 1898, and 1899:
Exports from the United States to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Philip
pine aud Samoan Islands
| 1897. 1898 1890
Cuba $930S, Sis &c. 751, 257 s24 SCI, 26l
| Porto Rico -. 2,023, ISL 1,404,0O4 3677 564
Hawaiian Isl. :. 547S.224 6,S27,S4S IL 300, 5Sl
! Philippines 69,459 1885 1853 213
samoan Isl. 1856 1887 "a, 400
Total ...S16 922, 305 49, 172, 1856 s41. 5s1. OS4
Imports into the United States from
Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian,