The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-27

Yesterday many of the deep water
vessels left port. The British ship Glen
holm left the harbor and went to the
outside anchorage. The American ship
Dirigo with a full load of sugar left
in the afternoon for Delaware Break
water via Cape Horn The auxiliary
schooner Flaurence Ward of the Pacific
Commercial Cable Company, departed
for Midway Island carrying supplies
for the cable colony. The oil ship
Marion Chileott, after diseharging her
load of oil, sailed for Gaviota in the
afternoon. The schooner Prosper, load
ed with ties, did not leave for Redondo
as anticipated The American barker
tine s. G. Wilder has also left for San
Francisco with load of sugar.
Abs New Ships.
Seattle Times, June 9.-The Amer
lean Hawaiian Steamship Company has
awarded the contract for three 9000-ton
steamers to the Pennsylvania Steel
Company of Sparrows Point, Md. An
nouncement of the proposed building Of
these steamers was recently made in
The Ledger following the return of
officials of the company to New York
from an inspection of the Pacific Coast.
According to the advices received
yesterday from Philadelphia, the steam
ers are for the Pacific trade instead
of the Atlantic, as originally stated.
The company is at present operating a
line from Coatzacoalcos, the Atlantic
port of the Tehuantepec National rail
way. to New York, and two lines in
the Pacific trade, one along the coast
to Salina Cruz and one from San Fran
cisco and Puget Sound across to the
Hawaiian Islands, returning by way of
Salina Cruz. Recently the company es-
tablished an utilization with the newly
organized Mexican Oriental Steamship
Company, operating from the Orient to
Salina Cruz, whereby the freight
brought by the latter company s line
would be transferred to the American
Hawaiian vessels on the Atlantic. Ship
pers believe that when the new steam
ers are constructed they will be placed
in the Pacific trade and three of the
smaller ones taken from the Pacific for
the Atlantic.
The business interests of the Hawai-.
10, TcIn do -. e
a direct line between the islands and
Puget Sound and shippers have under
stood that when the railroads now build
ing into this port were completed the
direct service would be possible.
great part of the through business from
the islands will then come to the Sound,
the railroad time across the States from
Puget Sound will be quicker than in
the past and the Hawaiian island Puget
Sound line, it is said, will be one of the
many new steamship services which
will follow the building of the railroads
to the Sound
The steamers to be built at Sparrows
Point will be of the same type as the
newer vessels of the American Hawai-
ian feet and will cost $1,750,0o0 each.
Shipping Notes.
The German ship Alexander Isenberg
sailed June 20 from Hamburg for Homo
lulu with a cargo for Hackfeld & Co
and the Pacific Fertilizer Company.
C. P. Morse, general agent for the
American Hawaiian company at this
port, plans to take vacation abou;
next October, spending much of his time
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direction the All. line has built uI
splendid freight traffic to and from
the Hawaiian Islands.
The cruiser st. Louis brought no mail
from the Coast.