The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-23
BIG LOSS on EUREKA's SUGAR
CARGO
Globe Navigation Company's Steamer
Makes a Loss That May Amount to
Nearly $4,000 on one Cargo.

Advices received from San Francisco
indicate that the last trip Of the Eure-
lSa Of the Globe Navigation Company's
fleet of freight steamers. is not likely
to prove quite so profitable as it's own
ers anticipated. No less than 5000 bags
Of sugar are said to have been damaged
on the voyage from Nahului but no
details regarding The ownership Of the
| sugar have as yet, been received
The Eureka left here I'm March and
went to AnahOia and loaded about 10000
bags of sugar from the Makee Sugar
Company. The master of the steam
ship decided not to take any chances
however of getting his vessel wrecked
at such a dangerous place as AnahOla,
So after getting the partial load he
returned to Honolulu where some ad-
ditional sugar was put aboard the yes-
sell on March 1S the Eureka left here
for I[ahului and there took on about 2S,-
600 bags more. She had in all about
10000 bags Of sugar leaving Kahului
for San Francisco on March "a. She
arrived at her destination April 4.
Whether she encountered rough we8-
,her on the way up or whether the hat
ahes leaked, or from some other cause,
is not known at the present time, but
1dyices were received here announcing
that no less than 600 bags of sugar
.ad been taken out damaged.
Figuring on the basis of 6 bags to a
..n this means that about $50 tons was
damaged, which, a the rate of $50 a
ton, means close onto $40 600 loss 1t is
Of course possible, that the loss if any
may not be so great as all of this dam
aged sugar may not be a total loss. IL
is not known now, whether the damag-
ed sugar belonged to the Makee Sugar
Company or to Alexander and Baldwin.
Additional advices will probably be
Fv,ta
then the exact extent of the reported
loss may be ascertained. Five thou
sand damaged sacks of sugar is an un-
usually large amount of cargo to be in
jured by water The vessel took eleven
days in which to make the trip, which
is very slow time for a steamer 1t is
possible, of course, that the report
which was received this week, may
prove to be incorrect but at the present
time. nothing definite is known The
report did not even state whether the
damage had been due to the careless
ness of the Globe Navigation people or
to some other cause.
The Globe Navigation Company en-
tered the Island trade some months ago
with quite a flourish of trumpets as to
what it would do and the changes to be
wrought in freight transport between
these Islands and the coast. In direct
opposition to the judgment of pract-
cally all the experienced navigators or
these waters it announced that it would
load at AnahOla, considered one OF the
most unERrtain landings on Hauai, and
ship direct to the coast 1t made con-
tracts to this end, contracts which it
has been announced have been abau-
doned. The Eureka only loaded a COM
paratvely small part of its cargo there,
and now seems to have been unable to
get that cargo to market in good con-
dition. Since the Eureka discharged
her sugar i'm San Francisco, she has
made one round trip from San Francis
co to Eureka and return, indicating
that she has been withdrawn from this
trade, or that with her record she might
not be able to get another cargo.