Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-04-20
PART THREE
Continued from Last Saturday,

FROM the Chinese ports come raw
End manufactured silk, tea, hemp,
opium. hides. bristlcs. wool, wax, and
CuriOs.
The Pacific Islands, particularly
those Of the Hawaiian group, export
sugar almost exclusively The Phil
irpine Islands have not sufficient
trade at present to make IL profitable.
for many vessels out bound for Hong
kong, Shanghai, and Japanese ports
to make a dctour to Manila.
Moreover there are at present no
wharf accommodations for large vcs-
sells in Manila and nearly all the
traffic must be handled by lighters.
Without doubt all OF these obstacles
to great commerce will be removed
in the future and with the develop
ment of wharves and the adjustment
of lighters. Manila will become very
vulnerable disease center After the
Panama Canal Is opened Il Is predict
ed that the Puget Sound ports will
become important Ccnters for the dis
tribution Of japanese and Chinese
goods. The reason Of this lies in the
fact that the great circle route he.
tween the American isthmus and the
Orient runs close to the coast of the
United States and with the exception
of those vessels that desire to call at
the Hawaiian Islands this route will
be the one naturally taken by vessels
to and from the Orient This great
circle route will also have the advan-,
tage of enabling steamers TO coal on
the west coast of the United States or
at Vancouver. In addition to being
near an ocean highway. along which
n large quantity of imports will
travel, the Puget Sound ports will he
able to supply steamers with coal.
Thus will communication between
the yellow fever ports on one side
and the plague and cholera ports on
the other be probably modified by pas
sage through the Puget Sound quar-
antinn stations, just as the danger of
the present Trans-PaCiiiC traffic Is
modified by the Quarantine work at
Honolulu.
Another disease route to which tho
opening of the Panama Canal will
give rise will be that between Chill
and the Southern States of America.
The South will buy nitrate of soda
from Chill and with their great stores
of phosphate rock sell manufacture
ed fertilizer to all Of the countries in
the Pacific Arena. This trade will
form one Of the connections, through
the Panama Canal, between the yell
low fever and malaria zones of tho
Southern part of the United States
and The plague ports of South Amer
lea, Australasia and the Orient.
Again the Gulf ports will export cot
ton, cotton goods. lumber, and manu-.
featured iron and steel in exchange
for the tea, silk, mattings. curios and
other manufactured articles OF the
Orient. The result of this intercourse
may be the exchange OF malaria and
yellow fever on the part of the Gulf
ports for the plague and cholera of
the Orient. The North Atlantic ports
from which the major part of the
general manufactures will he sent
will also be exposed to such disease
exchange.
1t is predicted that after the 18TH
milan canal is completed, a large part
of the worlds commerce will be done
by tramp steamers.
II is probable that nowhere will
Of "a. l..
more profitable than in the Pacific
Arena.
Such steamers will carry coal from
Australian and japanese ports to ev-
cry other port in the Pacific Arcna
II the mines of China are ever devel-
oped, coal may be shipped by tramp
steamers from Chinese ports to all
parts of the Pacific Arena. This pros
pectiye intercourse between Chinese
and other Pacific Arena ports by
means of tramp steamers will tend to
Increase to a marked degree the
chances OF the interchange of the
quarantinable diseases, as the tramp
steamer as a rule is more likely to
ger steamers or sailing vessels
II is claimed that Japan's indus
trial revolution has only begun, and
that she will require more and more
of the products of the United States.
AS the South Carolina phosphates,
iron and steel fixtures, raw cotton,
leather goods, and -four will probab-
ly come through the Panama Canal,
and the raw silk from Japan go back
by the same route, the danger of the
interchange Of quarantinable dis
cases between the Southern States
and Japan will be still further in
creased. Although Japan is very eff
ticient and progressive, both in her
internal sanitation and quarantine,
her steady imports from China of
rice, cotton beans, and peas will be
a constant source of danger from in