The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-27

| Henry J. Croker returned yesterday
from the Orient, and as a result of his
visit to Japan a new line of tanl
| here and the Far East and the market
| for California oil Will be wider by ar
annual output of at least 500 900 gal
| Ions. The new steamers will be not
less than 5000 tons each and there viii
| be ten of them. Crocker signed the
contracts for the oil before he left
Japan and he must have the steamers
to deliver it.
This new customer who orders the
| California product on such lavish scale
| is the Togo Kisen Kaisha, the Japa-
nese company that owns the three
"Maru liners that run to this port.
Croker left here about three months
ago with w. L. Stewart and w. S.
Porter They represented different
California oil interests and each went
to the Orient for the purpose of secur-
ing the big contract for his own COM
pany Croker won. The contract is
an enormous one, however, and Croker
/ said yesterday that the companies rep
probably other California companies
would share with his own the benefits
of the big deal.
Croker, who is interested in the
California Petroleum Refining Com
pany, Limited, and the Graciosa Oil
Company, was highly elated yesterday
at the success of his mission and fairly
beamed as he told what a delightful
time he had in Japan.
There is no market in Japan" he
said, .'for refined oil. Japan has her
own ref1neries, and her protective
tariff, which amounts to about cents
a gallon. is prohibitive. The duty on
the crude product is 20 per cent. ad
valorem. That's for revenue, and it is
all right, as Japan has no oil of her
own.
Our contract with the Toyo Kisen
Kaisha calls for more than 100000
gallons year, and to get this to
Japan we will buy or build about ten
tank steamers of about 5000 tons each.
Our steamers will load their oil at
Port Hartford and will discharge their
return cargoes here or wherever will
be most profitable"
Grocker was accompanied on his trip
to Japan by his wife and five children,
who returned with him yesterday on
the Hongkong Maru.-Call, Aug. IA.
STRIKE AvERTED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, IA set
Element of the longshoremen demands
was early effected yesterday, thus
averting a strike, which would have
taken place had the demands not been
met during the day.
As reported Sunday morning, the
Riggers' and Stevedores Union de-
manded an increase of 10 cents an hour
for day of nine hours, and overtime
It the rate of rs cents an hour. The
.ormer wage was 40 cents an hour, and
80 cents an hour for overtime. With
little ado the employers granted the
.iew schedule.
At the Pacific Mail, dock no longshore-
men appeared for duty in the morning,
but at 10 o'clock the company having
given in, $50 men We're called in by
Captain Wilson, and Immediately put to
work on the Manchuria and the Pana-
ma liners.
On the Broadway wharves the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company also granted
the new schedule, and at / clock in
the afternoon the American Hawaiian
Company put 200 men at work. All
along the water front the new scale of
wages was recognized by the employers
1t is reported that the employing
are to form an association i.
with capital of 100000 for the pur-
pose of better controlling the business.
The Longshoremen Lumbermen s
Union, which made demands for in
creased pay, was granted the new rate
yesterday, and resumed work. The
wages are now so cents an hour and
IS cents an hour for overtime.
OAKLAND, Aug. 13.-The strike of
the stevedores on the water front was
settled today by the men returning to
work. The settlement was brought
about by an agreement that the men
should hereafter receive SO cents an
hour and IS cents an hour for over
time.
TENDERLY CARED FOR.
W. II. Avery, general manager in this
city for the Togo Kisen Kaisha, who
yesterday from Japan on the
lipar Hon kopu Morn ouaS RI CaI;for