The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-19

ROYAL BAKING POWDER co.. NEW YORK
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mus of Mexico. Some time ago the
American-Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany contracted with the railroad to
transport its freight across Mexico,
! thus avoiding the long and costly voy-
age around the South American con-
tinent via the Straits of Magellan.
The Arizonan, whose freight capacity
is l1,O0O tons, will be the first vessel
of any great size to enter the harbor Of
Salina Cruz the Pacific coast terminus
of the railroad. Her cargo from Puget
Sound, Hawaiian Islands and San
Francisco will be discharged at Salina
Cruz. loaded on cars there and trans
ported to the port Of Coatzacoalcos. the
Atlantic terminus. Thence the mer-
chandise will be loaded on other vessels
OF the American-Hawaiian fleet and
shipped to New York.
| Conditions at the harbor OF CoatZa-
coalcos, according to the San Francisco
Daily Commercial News, do not as yet
warrant the general opening of the
isthmus route to the worlds unlimited
commerce, owing to the incompleted
harbor facilities at the gulf terminus
| with the insufficient depth of water
now available.
A new dredger of large capacity is
en- route from England and on her
arrival the outer channel of the Coat
zacoalcos harbor will be deepened as
rapidly as persistent effort will allow.
The autumn floods are also depended
upon not only to maintain the depth al
.. de-, 90 to
ally in increasing it. The harbor Of
Salina Cruz, on the Pacific Is COM
plete as far as dredging operations
are concerned; and the Arizonan. which
draws from 2S to 20 feet, will have
no difficulty whatever in reaching her
berth or in leaving it again, for that
| matter. The American Hawaiian
Steamship Company's fleet will be for
| the present the only line having official
relations with the road and regular
dates. The opening OF the route to all
| Vessels must be deferred until the har-
bors at both terminals are in condi-
tion to allow the full extension of
traffic.
| The American-Hawaiian vessels. in
| Guiding the Arizonan Alaskan and Tex
an, all of IL 900 tons, with the Hawai-
tan, which is to be taken off the At
lantic route and permanently assume
her place on the Pacific, will be rein
forced by :he stea eamships Nevadan and
Nebra askan, of $500 tons each, and soon
after the first of the year by the new
steamers Mexican and Columbian twin
screw and of the same tonnage as the
large steamers of the fleet, and now
n ha Nn rI. ,f h,
Union Iron Works I'm San Francisco.
In addition the steamer Isthmian, of
the Nevadan and American class, is
now building and will be in service
the latter part of next year, when the
Amercan-Hawaiian line will have eight
steamers aggregating nearly 10000 tons
engaged in the triangular service be-
tween Salina Cruz, Hawaiian Islands,
Puget Sound, San Francisco and San
Diego. The schedule of the line will be
announced at an early day, just as
soon as complete.
The Atlantic connections will con-
s!st of the steamers Californian, Amer
lean, Hawaiian and Oregonian, ample
for all the traffic the Pacific steamers
OF the company can deliver, owing to
the increased number OF trips possible
due to the shortness of the Atlantic
route as compared with distances the
West Coast steamers are Obliged to
traverse
NEW sHIPYARD FOR SAN DIEGO.
The Carse Company, boatbullders, of
San Pedro, has secured n franchise for
the erection of Il shipyard and wharves
at San Diego. The plant will be capa-
BILE of handling the largest vessels.
Construction on the plant must begin
by December l. 1906, and the company
is required to eXpend in the construc-
ton, including materials and machin-
cry, not less than 200 by December
l, 1907; an addition sl5,O 900 by December
l. 1905; an additional $4,000 by De-
cember l, 1909, and an additional $780,
600 by December /. 1910.
The company is further required to
complete not less than 1000 feet of
wharf. pier and marine ways by De
cember l, 1908 and to complete the en-
tire plant by December /, 1910.
THE MONGOLIA'S CONDITION.
The condition OF the S. S. Mongolia,
on arrival at the Coast, Is thus de-
scrlbed In the Chronicle:
The heavy plates on the Mongolia's
bottom forward We're crushed and per-
forated. in both the outer and inner
bottoms, and water poured into holds
l and 2. The engineers force dis
played remarkable fortitude and daring
in rigging pumps in the hold and in
this work was ably assisted by the
Chinese stokers and firemen, every
man OF them going into the hold m-
hesitatingly to labor with the pumps
These pumps are still In operation.
II is estimated that the grounding of
the Mongolia, with all that It entails,
VIII cost the Pacific Mail Company
more than $500.O0o including actual
damage, loss of 1900 tons OF freight,
loss OF time and other important items.
1t is generally believed that Captain
Porter will be suspended by General
Manager Schwerln. Much sympat thy
has been expressed for Captain Porter.
who is one OF the most experienced
commanders in the Pacific. At Homo
lulu. when the Mongolia left for this