The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-21
VAN ORSDEL-
TO SUCCEED
COL. BAIRD
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/ pass
upon the verdict of the court-martial
and then report to the President. It
lit recognized that the offense is grave
lone, as Lieut. Howell was on duty. No
indication is given as to whether leni-
lency will be shown him.
While Acting Governor Cooper's re-
port was in proof weeks ago and was
given to the public in the States over
a week ago, it probably will not be
Iprinted in pamphlet form for some time.
There has been considerable delay IN
getting proofs of the Illustrations for
the report. Some interesting pictures
lin a pamphlet, entitled The Hawaiian
Islands" prepared by the territorial au-
thorities and printed by the Press Pub
Fishing Company in San Francisco, were
to be included in the report, besides a
large number of photographs brought
by Mr.. Cooper. However, the cuts were
sent to Washington by freight instead
of by express, and there has been so
much delay that they can not be gotten
into the report, as it looks now.
The report of the Commissioner of
Navigation advance proofs of which
have been furnished the press. state
that there are sixty-four vessels in Ha-
wall with a total tonnage of 81, 149. The
arrival here of a few members from
the far west and from the Pacific coast
indicates a strong sentiment there in
favor of a subsidy bill for shipping
this winter. but for subsidies chiefly on
| tonnage and not on speed, whereby
much of the benefits of the measure
! would go to shipping on the Pacific.
subsidy on speed would give much of
the appropriation to the fast Atlantic
liners, plying between New York and
Philadelphia and European ports.
The annual report of the Second AS
sistant Postmaster General says that
during the last fiscal year the reor-
ganization of the mail transportation
service in Hawaii was completed on
the lines followed by the mail service
in the states. The cost of the Hawai-
ian mail service up to July last was
paid out of the special appropriation
provided therefor but since that time it
has been included in the general appro-
priations for carrying the mail. The
Assistant Postmaster General gives the |
following summary of the mail service |
in the Territory of Hawaii, as it ex-
listed July l last: There were twenty |
four star routes with an aggregate |
length of 472.S0 miles, on which the an
nuaI travel amounts to 129, 1868 miles, |
at cost to the government under ex
eleven steamboat routes in the Terri
tory, over which mail is carried, the
aggregate length of these routes being
3,64S miles and the annual travel POS. $50
miles when carrying mails for the gov
This service costs the govern
ment $35,l60. There are also two rail- /
roads in Hawaii on which mail is car i
ried, these two routes being S1.2S miles
long and the annual pay by the gov
for this service, $3,474.71. There
are twenty mail messenger routes in
the Territory with an aggregate length
of 1877 miles. this service costing the
government $5114, annually.
Summing up the Department shows
that there are fifty-seven mail routes of
all kinds in the Territory, with an ag-
gregate length of 4.349.O5 miles and that
the cost of all this transportation of
mail in Hawaii each year costs $780,
'1771. 1t is plain that the postal bust
ness in the Territory must be very
leavy to prevent large annual deficit
The Department states that such mail |
acquisitions as were made during the r
oast year for mail equipment for Ha- e
vail were promptly filed. Orders have t
'een issued for material for the manu- 2
acture of an additional quantity of =
distinctive equipment for the Philip
line Islands.
The following statement about ocean u
nail contracts of interest to Hawaii. a
5 made by the Second Assistant Post
MASTER General Mr.. w. S. Shallenbar- h
er: =,
"On November /, 1900 there went into tc
feet contract with the Oceanic Steam b,
hip Company for carrying the mail from m
an Francisco to Sydney. New South CO
Vales calling at Honolulu, Page Page %
nd Auckland once every three weeks &C
uring a period of ten years This serv- T
e is performed in American-built steam or
hips, complying with the requirements Iii
the act of congress of March 3, 1891, ! bl
nd these steamers being larger and 81
lster than those formerly carrying such III
rails, the time from San Francisco to in
ydney has been reduced from twenty
We days to twenty-one days. de
There are now in operation six CON ii
act routes for ocean mail service, IN NJ
er the act of 1891, at d cost of s1,4fS,96S fu
er annum, five of them being on the At in
mite and one on the Pacific. On May re
! 1901 a domestic contract took effect in
Or service by the Oceanic Steamship IN
inc between San Francisco and Homo 20
liu, one round trip every three weeks 90
Negotiations are now pending which it of
expected will result in placing postal Sc
erks on all the steamers of the Oceanic So
Line which ply between San
rancisco and Honolulu, for the pur- mr.
ose of asserting the mail while in tran m
t in either direction. This will avoid in
alays in the terminal postoffices and IA
litate the prompt delivery and dispatch a.
: mails upon the arrival of the steamers m,
terminal points. n
Attention is invited to the fact that IN
lis department has no contract for di- Go
,ct mail service between the Pacific !
'dst anu the fhllipplhe Islands. Mails ne
70 oTci carried between San FRANCIS by
} and Manila by government transports. Iat
Id Philippine mails have also been car "a
ed by steamers between San Francisco, 90
lcoma or Seattle, and Hongkons. Chi On
l. oul IoF transporta between TIL
, eAOiS anu mamma theSe mans nave in
depend upon the steamers of other wi
untries. -.
In view of our importatn interests in IN
e Philippine and Hawaiian Islands. and m.
the fact that the EnNerrnrr1er1t IN L. =