The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-07
NEW Line 70 HONOLULU
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CAPITAL
TO CHARTER VESSELS.
Lumber Schooners Returning in Ballast
To Seattle from San Pedro viii Call
Here with Freight

According to advices from Los An
geles, California, a new line of deep sea
vessels is to be established between
Southern California and Honolulu The
peculiar conditions arising from the
trade winds is responsible for the con-
templated addition to the fleet of yes
sells touching at this port.
The following gives the details of the
scheme" Los Angeles, April 26.-The
Wharfage pool at San Pedro, Redondo
and Port Los Angeles is broken, and the
next thirty days will see the Inaugural
ton of competing line of freighters
from East San Pedro to Honolulu. For
years past a competing freight line has
been impossible for the reason that the
companies that own the wharfs at Los
Angeles three ports have held wharf
age rates at a prohibitive figure. Every
time an opposition line has started the
wharf rates have been put up to such
figure as to drive it out of business,
and Los Angeles and hundreds of east
ern shippers have almost given up hope
of any relief.
Local capital long ago took cogni-
zance of this condition. and a few
months back formed the Crescent
Wharf and Warehouse company. I'm
der this title it acquired, after consider
able opposition a piece of deep water
front property at East San Pedro, and
upon this it has erected long wharf
and all warehouses necessary for a
heavy traffic. The price the members
of the company paid for the land was
$4,000; what they paid for the erection
of wharves and houses they decline to
say.
While they were figuring on water
front they were also dickering for deep
water vessels, and these they now have
secured. They will not buy outright,
boats of their own. Railroad and other
sea-going competition is too strong to
make such policy profitable. Others
have tried it and failed after the first
two or three trips
On the contrary, they have made a
contract with a big line of Seattle
schooners, which is already in profit
able operation, and they will take ad-
vantage of certain meteorological con-
ditions which have not been considered
up to the present time.
Every few months there are deep
water wind TANNERS which land at
San Pedro lumber laden from Seattle
After they have unloaded they buy bal
last at the rate of 81 and $3.50 per ton
and start northward unloaded for an
other shipment. Because of landWard
winds they are compelled to beat off
shore from San Pedro until they are
within 200 or 300 miles of Honolulu,
where they find direct winds to Homo
lulu and then strike northward.
The new company proposes to utili-
re these vessels. Instead of sending
them back to Seattle in ballast it will
load them with freight for Honolulu,
and they will make that port before
rounding into the regular course for the
northern port.
The new line will prove a consider
able saving to eastern shippers. The
handling of freight at the VIII lrvrs will
cost so cents per ton as against SLIPS
and beside that the freight between
Los Angeles and San Francisco and the
state toll will be saved Eastern bust
ness is already looking for placement
with the new concern"