The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-18

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The O. & o. Coptic arriving yester.
day morning from San Francisco. was
late owing to head seas being encoun.
tered almost from the day she left the
| Golden Gate. Her bow was buried in
= the seas nearly all the way, the wind
being mostly from the west and south
west. The captains record of the daily
rum posted for the benefit of the pas
sengers was almost invariable marked
Rough
The Coptic sighted the Rose Grams
towing the bark Marion Chilcott. Both
vessels We're making fine Roadway as
they had the wind almost astern ana
both had all sails set.
There We're no lay-over passengers
for this port. The largest number of
people are boo ed for Manila Several
passengers were taken on here. among
them being Walter Gassett of Honolu-
lu, who recently received an appoint
ment as American vice-consul at Kobe
Mr.. Gassett has lived in Honolulu for
several years
Among the through passengers were
Mr.. j. L. Arundel head of the Pacific
Guano Company, whose steamers oc-
casionally come here with guano from
PSc'nc Island in the South Seas. He
is accompanied by his two daughters
capt u. w. Connor formerly connect
ed with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line,
is homeWard bound, accompanied by
Mrs Connor DR.. Arthur Remington
and DR.. Rufus Scarlet are two Amer
lean physicians en- route to Hongkong
to look over the prospect of starting a
medical college and hospital. NJ. r.
Matteson, ticket agent for the Harri-
man lines at Yokohama, is returning
from a trip to the Coast. He went
over with the Taft party on the Ko-
rea. M. Shibusawa, said to be related
to the self-made merchant prince of
that name in Japan, is returning from
a diplomatic mission
Alexander Morphy has succeeded w
A. Chapman as purser of the Coptic.
Eight years ago he was storekeeper
on the boat, and later was freight clerk
on another steamer. Chapman is to
the T. K. K. line.
Fourth Officer Stuart Matthews has
left the Coptic to go into business
ashore at San Francisco. The young |
officer, whose father is a prominent |
of the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce, was married seven months |
ago to Miss Elsie Cooper, of Des |
Moines, Ia, and the young couple kept |
their secret until recently. They met |
while Miss Cooper was sojourning on
the Coast for her health. Ivor S. Paley, |
a lieutenant in the British |
Navy, has taken Matthews place. |
William Russell Mcclellan, relative |
Of New York's mayor, is now freight |
clerk on the Coptic.
The Coptic departed at p. m. for |
he Orient.
MORE STEAMERS FOR ISLANDS.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.-The Times
will say in the morning:
Another steamship line, and one of
ng directly from San Pedro and Los
Angeles, and a battle royal between
he transcontinental railroads and this
company will be waged for the con-
roI of the freight traffic between the
Cast and West when the contract be-
ween the Hawaiian-American Steam
hip Company and the Tehuantepec
National Railway goes into effect on
'uly 1 of this year.
The eleven big freight liners of this
teamship company have an aggre-
ate carrying capacity of about 1O0,-
co tons. All of the ships are prac-
ically new, and all are of steel
At the present time this company
perates these ships between New
york, San Francisco, Honolulu and
ack to New York, the steamships
assing from the Atlantic to the Pa
if1c by way of the straits. The big
ners all have a speed of twelve and
half knots an hour, and make the
OO0-mile voyage between New York
nd San Francisco in an average OF
ixty days.
When the Tehuantepec National
and the freight liners begin to
rork together, however, the distance
7ill be cut to about 5000 miles. and
he time from New York to Los An
eles will be twenty-five days, or about
he length of time required to ship
eavy freight by rail between the me-
ropolis of the East and the South
-est. AS the water haul will be but
tile longer than the route by land |
lie entrance of the Aforementioned
IN line into the fast freight field viii |
ring about a tremendous struggle
etween the steamship company ana
lie transcontinental railroads.
This contract becomes effective July
1906. J. B. Alexander of the Spree
els Brothers Commercial Company,
he local representatives of the Amer
line, stated today That