The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-10
ELEGANT VESSELS COMING FIRE CLAIM COMMISSION
ToYO KIsEN KAIsHA TO PUT ON
NEW BOATS.
Will be 10000 Ton Liners Capable of
Making 1917 Knots-Present Fleet
Goes on Vladivc stock Run.

Within eight months the Togo Kisen
Kaisha proposes to double it's fleet. The
addition will consist of three of the
fastest and most elegant vessels that
have ever been on the Pacific. Already
orders for the vessels have been placed
with the ship builders. The new ves-
sells WILL 1t is promised exceed any
thing on the Pacific when they are put
into commission. They will be placed
on the run from the Orient to San
Francisco via Honolulu. The othr Ves-
sells of the line, which now stop here,
will be taken off and put on an entirely
new run which will soon be inaugurated
| between Vladivostock and some port in
America.
The news of this decision of the Toyo
Kisen Kaisha was brought by the Off
GERS of the Nippon Maru which arrived
from San Francisco last evening. Dur
ing the month of April special meet
| ing of the directors and managers of
the company was held in Yokohama for
| the express purpose of considering the
! advisability of increasing the size of the
| fleet on this run. The managers from
| San Francisco, Hong Kong, NagasalSi
Kobe and all other places with which
| the company has affiliations were call
| ed to attend the meeting. The man
| ayers were questioned closely upon the
future prospects for business in their
| respective districts it being the purpose
of the directors to definitely ascertain
| the extent to which they would be JUS
| titled in ordering new boats. The busi-
ness has steadily increased for months
! past and the America Maru, Hong
| Kong Maru and Nippon Maru were
| found to be unable to accommodate the
| business.
The conference lasted several days.
| The final meeting was held in Yoko-
! hama on April Sth when it was finally
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] steamships of the most approved type.
Plans for these vessels were considered
| at the conference and the style was
| selected. They will be of 10000 tons
each with a speed of 1919 knots. They
will be fitted in the most elegant and
approved style and be exactly like the
| Atlantic liners. There will be extensive
room utilized for the promenade decks
and there will be more cabins on the
| upper decks, cabins will also of course,
| be in the hull of the vessel as in the
case with the present boats of the Jap
anese line. The freight capacity of the
| new liners will of course be much
| greater than the boats now plying here
and the passenger accommodations,
| both cabin ana steerage, will be much
| larger. The Toyo Kisen Kaisha has
found the earnings from the steerage
department very extensive and the new
vessels will be so arranged as to ac-
commodate all of the demand that is
likely to be made for room in this de-
partment. Inasmuch as the meeting
was held on April Sth, the day before
| the Nippon Maru sailed from Yoko-
| hama for San Francisco, the orders for
| the new vessels have beyond doubt
been placed by this time. Two of the
vessels are to be built by English firms
while the third is to be cons structed in
Japan.
The advent of the new vessels and the
removal of the present vessels of the
fleet will not mean that the officers of
he present boats are to be taken from
this run. The officers of the America
Maru, Hong Kong Maru and Nippon
Maru Will, it is said, be given similar
4 positions with the new boats and will,
in fact, be sent to England to bring out
the new vessels. Work will be rushed
upon the boats and it is expected they
will be in commission within eighteen
months. They may, indeed be rushed
to completion in a less period as the
Vladivistock railroad is likely to be
soon completed and then the company
may decide to establish the new route
at the earliest possible time.
The advent of the new japanese YES
sells and those of the Pacific Mail fleet
will make quite an epoch in the ship
, ping of these islands. With the intro
! duction of the new and fast vessels
of the Pacific Mail and Togo Kisen
!, Kaisha, the Occidental and Oriental line
will have to put better vessels on the
: Oriental run than she now runs in or
= der to compete with her rivals. The
White star line is constantly adding
to it's Atlantic fleet and will no doubt
be able to spare some of the fast yes.
sells from that side to compete with its
= rivals for the Oriental business. The
Pacific Mail will be the first to have
: new boats on the Oriental run as th'
|, Korea and Siberia are expected to b'