The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-02-04
RATE WAR
COMING
Honolulu Freights
Are to Be
Cut.
Especial to the Advertiser.)

q AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-Ha-
waiians are to have the benefit of
~ a rate war now on between the
Oceanic Steamship Company and the
n-American line. The Hawaii
an-American line cut the freight tariff
from IS to $3.50 a ton some weeks ago,
and the Oceanic Company followed
suit on January 10, much to the graft
fication of Hawaiian shippers. Now it
is believed that the Hawaiian-Ameri-
can Company will go lower and will
start a battle with the Spreckels peo-
PIE, which will be to the advantage OF
the islanders.
The Bulletin says that something Of
the sort has been brewing for year
past, ever since the advent of the Tla-
waiian-American line, into the fast
freight trade between San Francisco
and the islands. Before that the
Spreckels company had things pretty
much it's own way in the matter of
rapid transportation. Commodities not
requiring speedy delivery were left to
the sailing craft.
Then the new line started with
number of immense freight carriers,
ranging from 5000 to $4,000 tons register
and began to cut into the island trade.
Another small but increasingly impor-
tant factor in this business is the Globe
Navigaticn 20. "s G.s'.ic, which now
has two steaxers, tbs Egreka and the
Tampico. plying between the Sound
port and Honoals1. The line is getting
a good share cx the trade. 1t is ex-
pected, too, that the Dollar Steamship
Co. will soon put on three steamers,
the Robert Dollar. the Melville Dollar
and the John S. Kimball. These boats
would make San Francisco the port of
departure.
That the Hawaiian-American line is
an important competitor for the
Spreckels fleet and that the former
company has entered upon a vigorous
fight for the Honolulu trade is shown
by the ships it already has in opera
ton. The steamers run from New
York to San Francisco, Tacoma and
Honolulu and include eight vessels. five
of which have twin screws. Last Tues
day another steamer was launched for
the company, the Nevadan, built at
Camden, N. ]. With this addition the
Hawaiian-A American fleet now includes
the following steamers:
American, $500 tons; Hawaiian, $500
tons; Oregonian, $500 tons; Californian,
$500 tons; Alaskan, $4,000 tons; Arizon-
ian, 1900 tons; Texan. 1900 tons; Ne
braskan, 5000 tons; Nevadan. 5000 tons.
DEATH OF S. NJ. SMITH.
Hawaiians will regret to learn Of the
death Of Sidney NJ. Smith, a millionaire
of San Francisco, who was the father
in-law of the late Philip Lansdale,
whose brother Is resident of Homo
lulu, and engaged in the real estate
business. Philip Lansdale was the
brave young lieutenant who was killed
in Samoa three years ago. He married
daughter of Sidney NJ. Smith.
Smith was president of the Cutting
Packing Company, and the Pacific
Sheet Metal Works of San Francisco,
the Phoenix and 'Maricopa railroad,
and was heavy stakeholder in the
Alaska Packers Association, and other
corporations of California
He would be alive today in all prob
ability. if he had not been in hurry to
get back an umbrella he had left in a
train. He went to San Jose from here
on Wednesday, to attend a meeting of
the directors of the Fig -Prune Cereal
Company He and his wife had left
the train, and boarded a street car,
When Smith suddenly recalled that his
umbrella was in his seat in the Pull
man he had just left. He was unac-
customed to exercise but rushed with
1uli speed to the train. He had Just
stepped off the platform of the car,
with the umbrella in his hand, when
ne dropped from heart paralysis
lie had enjoyed excellent health, and
neither he nor his family had ever sus-
pected heart trouble.
PORTO RICAN LABORERS.
The yellow Examiner continues to
make capital against Hawaii of the mis-
fortunes of the Porto Rican laborers
VINO We're brought TO Hawaii to work on
the sugar plantations. The Examiner
seems to have a correspondent In Homo
lulu as yellow as the journal for which
he writes.
Ihe Examiner publishes a dispatch
from Honolulu under date of January Is,
which conveyed the impression to its
readers that the Porto Ricans had been
brought to Honolulu and then abandoned
TO starve, while rich and hard-hearted
planters looked on In deris,on
The Honolulu article pictures TWENTY
four men standing before High Sheriff
Brown and begging pteously for bread
for their dying wives and children.
Put US in JAIL said the Porto Ricans,
according to the Examiners yellow cor
respondent, but for Gods sake. Civ, us
something to eat"
The Honolulu correspondent says that
out OF sixty souls In the Porto Rican
quarter, 1t is doubtful IL a third had
tasted food for twenty-four hours"
AS l failed to find in the Advertiser
that the plight of the Porto Ricans was
as desperate as pictured by the Exam
liner man, / am led to believe that it is
but another of the lying fakes of the
Examiner. which has neglected no means
to asperse the character of Hawaiians
A LEPER HOME.
A dispatch from Washington says that
United States Senator Plat has intro