The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-10
An Airshlp War File ct.

NEW YORK, January 31.-A fleet of
airships, each manned by eight men, to
defend our coasts, is what ]. Franklin
Cameron, member of the firm of Con
rad & Co., dealers in linens. proposes.
For more than thirty years he has been
interested in the problem of aerial navi-
CATION, and he has perfected the idea of
what he believes will be more poten
than any fleet that ever sailed the seas
Dynamite bombs could be dropped -
he said, with deadly effect and every
thing below demolished. / have devised
ana patented a machine that consists OF
two spindle-shaped hulls 400 feet long,
the diameter of the largest section being
nifty feet and the diameter between hulls
being 135 feet in all. The capacity of
each hull is $4,000 cubic feet. making
$4,000 cubic feet in ALL This will carry
5000 pounds of hydrogen gas the buoy
ancy power being based on Renard and
krebs' balloon La France.
The machine can go in any direction
and its two vertical screws are propelled
by two oil engines of 800 horse power
EACH
-AsS'A Reaching for Trade.
TACOMA. January 31-During the
present year the Northern Pacific is to
be one of the greatest factors in the
growth of Tacoma shipping. The amount
of freight which is handled on the docks
in this city is already reaching proper
tons which have demanded addition to
the warehouse capacity along the front
The company is known to have plans for
greatly increasing the size and strength
of the fleet which it operates between
TINS city and the Orient, and IL is stated
in reliable quarters that by the end of
the year the Northern Pacific will be
shipping 100 per cent more freight than
it is handling at this time Plans have
been consummated for an in
creased fleet of steamships doubling the
number which piled between Tacoma and
the Orient during 1901
A Freeze Out.
HILo, February 6.-The cold storage
schedule on perishable goods made out by
the Matson Navigation Company for the
new steamer Enterprise are reduced TO a
point that it is hoped will fill the ninety
ton space set aside in that vessel for cold
storage freight The schedule is as fol- |
lows: Eggs. &c per dozen; butter, fish
anu Irult, &c per pound; fresh meat, PIC |
per pound In large shipments even bet
ter rates than these will probably be |
,na Inc company has spent over s75,-
w In adding the cold storage and pas
senger facilities to the equipment of the
Enterprise. 'e
In certain seasons of the wear tbese
Ia.eS VIII make eggs a staple instead of /
L luxury, and the price of steaks win
also be materially affected
Sold the Line.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 3l.-The
Leather Trust. according to a dispatch
rom New York, has obtained control of
ne Observation-Disclosures Steamship Com /
Dany, Charles r. Flint having disposed
IL his interest to l.. II. Lapham. vice
PRESIDENT of the trust. When the Amer |
can-Hawai:an line Went into the com |
petition for the carrying trade between |
san francisco. Hawaii and New York. |
,ecently, big cut in rates was made |
. ne new competitor brought steamer
relsht rates down to the level of the |
alllng vessels rates. The reduction was l.
promptly met and the war is still on.
The yacht La Paloma has been taken L