The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-02
seattle-Manila Steamship Lines.

The Colonial Steamship Company of
New York and Seattle and the China
Mutual Steamship Company are pre-
pairing to establish regular steamship
ines between Seattle and Manila. The
former company has already made its
arrangements and will give to Seattle
the first regular line between the Coast
and the Philippines.
In April monthly service will be
inaugurated and the steamship Strath-
gyle will be the first boat to make the
trip. F. w. Smythe is the Seattle agent
of the line In a communication which
was received from Smythe by NJ ].
Bissell, the Honolulu agent with Alex
ander e. Baldwin of the Waterhouse
line of steamers, the following informa
ton concerning the service is given:
Seattle is to be first in the field of
Pacific trade with the Philippine is
lands, with a wel!-equipped and finan-
ciaIly responsible line of steamships
operated by the Colonial Steamship
Company. of which the principal owner
lis the well known shipping firm of c.
T. Bowering & Company, Limited, of
London and New York. A month ago
left Seattle for New York to COM
plete negotiations which have had I'M
der way for a year past, having as
their object the establishment of line
| of steam vessels between this city and
Manila The project would have been
linaugurated some time ago but for the
Boxer outbreak in China and the con-
seauent disturbances in the Orient,
which raised the charter price of steam
vessels materially.
"As a result of the negotiations the
! firm of which Mr.. Bowering is the head
decided to at once make preparations to
place at least three vessels on the Seat
tie and Manila run. We have made
traffic arrangements with transconti-
mental railroads to carry our freight
! from the Atlantic seaboard to Seattle
where II will be transshipped by steam
Ter to Manila. The freight win be billed
through from the East to the Philip
tpines.
THE steamers employed on the line
will have a carrying capacity of ap-
iproximately 5,Uu0 tons each. The
lStrathgyle will carry 1000 tons and viii
sail Immediately on her return from tbs
Orient on her present voyage.
After the Strathgyle we will load the
steamship Royalist, capacity 5000 tons
land she will be followed by the Belgian
King, vessel of the same size as tht
tRoyalist This viii give us at least {
monthly service.
From Seattle to Manila we will have
full cargoes as a rule the prineipa
: commodities to be carried being -four
feed, beer, lumber and staples, includ
ing manufactured products from tn
East I do not believe there will b
lany difficulty in getting all the freigh
we can handle from Seattle to tn
philippines.
Coming this way our principal car
goes will be hemp. at least at first. /
lis not expected that the steamships vii
have full cargoes coming east, at an,
rate not until peace has been perma
lnently restored in the Philippines an
the country is again made productive
In a short time we will be able to oh
ltain shipments of hard woods for fur
. niture manufacturing and interior fin
ish of buildings and railroad passenge
tcars For these uses there is a goo
; demand even now
The Overdue Sierra.
I The Sierra, one of the magnificen
new vessels OF the Oceanic STEAMSHIP
Company, was scheduled to arrive a
this port from Pago Page, Aucklan
land sydney on the 18th of last month
1T viii be remembered, however, tina
lowing to delay in leaving San Fran
tcisco on her down trip and unusuali
trough weather on the voyage. she wa
1.-TWO DAYS behind when she arrived her
Ion her first trip from the Coast. BY
recent mail her agents were notifie
That she was three days late in sailin
from Auckland, so that she was nj