The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-23
BIC STEAMER;
SMALL CROWD
SwanIey Bringing Less Than
Third of Number of Passen-
gers She Might.

Reports from Special Agent A, NJ.
Campbell, forwarded from the Azores
just as the British steamer Swanley sail
ed with emigrants for Hawaii, indicate
that there has been a sad miscalcula-
ton somewhere. The Swanley is large
ilnmg grant steamer, with carrying
capacity of twenty-six hundred souls in
addition to the crew. Instead of bring
ing that many, or anyW here near that
many, she is now driving along some
where near the strait with only eight
hundred homeseekers.
As the board of immigration is pay
ing the steamer fat charter rate, in
tending to have divided up the rate
among at least twenty-five hundred peo-
pie, the cost to the Territory per head
for the eight hundred being brought is
going TO be three times and more what
had been contemplated. Instead of
there being a full shipload. the passen-
gers of the Swanley have more room
than they know what to do with and
probably rattle around in the vesse!
during stormy weather like a handful
of pebbles in a gourd.
Agent Campbell was led to believe
by emigration agents in the Azores
that there were always enough people
ready to sail to Hawaii to fill the big
gest steamer he could send along. So
urgent were these local agents and so
insistent that there would he no pill
kia, that Campbell hustled back TO
London and picked out the biggest
thing in sight in the way of steamer,
which happened TO be the Swanley,
nj h. had
sent the Heliopolis here before.
just what the charter price of the
vessel is has not been given out, but
it is high figure as one of the condi-
tions of the charter is that the vessel
has to sail away from Honolulu empty
so far as passengers are concerned. The
immigration board has not forgotten the
| trouble there was over a steamer that
came here with Portuguese and was
Immediately chartered to carry away
japanese for Vancouver. If toe board
can prevent it there is 10 be no repeti-
ton of that business, bu5 naturally the
owners asked bigger price.
A big demurrage price was also in.
sisted on, the terms of the charter be-
ing that five days time was TO De given
at the Azores port to put the emigrants
aboard; at the conclusion Of the FIVE
days the ebarterers were 10 commence
paying demuTage at the rate of five
hundred pounds sterling day. This
was an item 10 be taken into consider
alton, but Campbell, relying on the as.
iuTaDees Of the agents that the emf
grants would flock on board through
every port hole snd cram the ship in
a few hours, signed the charter and
sailed away with the Swsnley for the
port where his lab0rers were elamornR
for him.
The clamor died away before be got
there, however, and instead of filing
the boat IN one day he only had one
third Of her filled IN fye days, Will
HE 5000 q day after that staring hin
10 the face, There didn't seem 10 bs
any great prospect Of getting The othei
keYenleen hundred emiRrants IN d hurry
either, and be was accordingly obllgea
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