The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-05
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CUTTING LOOSE FROM
PACIFIC MAIL

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-BefOre
sailing for Japan yesterday on the !
Tenyo Maru, w. II. Avery, assistant |
general manager of the Togo Kisen |
Kasha, said that he had been called TO !
Japan to confer with the heads of the |,
Yokohama company on steps for the
canceling of the operating agreement
between the Japanese line and the Pa
cific Mail company.
The reason given for the proposed
divorce from the Hartman interests
was that the Togo Kisen Kaisha was
not being treated fairly by the com
pany, the executive head of which is
r. p. Schwerin.
1t has been known for long time
that the Japanese were not satisfied
with the Schwerin square deal and
Avery's announcement would tend to
indicate that the camels back has suf-
fered a fracture.
IGNORANT OF RUPTURE.
r. p. Schwerin, vice president and
company, said last night that he knew
nothing of the threatened rupture.
We have given the Japanese" he
said, "by far the best of it. Without
us they could do nothing. The agree
ment under which we operate together
can be terminated after 80 days no
tice | saw Mr.. Avery today and he
gave me no intimation that the I. X.
K. was even dissatisfied with the ar
rangement. ! do not believe that there
is any intention or desire on their part
to break away
It will take more than Schwern's
avowal, however, to convince the 7. X.
K. that they are getting the best OF
the baragin Whether Schwerin knows
it or not. the fact that the Pacific Mail
has been rubbing it in" on the Jap
anese line, has been common talk in
the steamship world, both here and in
the far east.
The Japanese ships and the Pacific
Mail liners to the Orient run on a
Joint schedule Pacific Mail officials
arranged the schedule and, whether by
design or accident, so ordered the sail
ings that one of the Japanese ships
always has one of the big Pacific Mail
liners Immediately ahead of it to skim
off the cream.
JAPANESE PAID BILLS.
During the war with Russia the Jap
every
month a bill was received from the
Pacific Mail company for the 7. X. X.
half of the freight and passenger de-
partments pay rolls
1t is said by travellers that at all the
Pacific Mail agencies here, at New York
and in the Orient, a system is in vogue
of discouraging travel by the ships OF
the japanese line.
Here's how they work it," said a
steamshipman yesterday. you go to
a Pacific Mail passenger agency ana
ask for a berth on the Tenyo Maru.
THE agent looks up with a smile and
says;
Must you go on that date? I'm
afraid the ship is pretty full and l
will not be able to fix you up very
comfortably. If you can wait for the
Siberia or the Korea or the Mongolia
or oven the Asia or China ! can fix
you up all right
you insist and he gives you berth
on d deck, where some Of the very few
undesirable staterooms on the new
liners are located If you go to the
ship and look at the room perhaps you
will take the agents advice and wait
for a Pacific Mail ship. If you go any
way, as | did, the purser will come to
you wnen you get to sea, express sur
prise that the Office gave you such a
berth and move you into one of the
perhaps 40 still vacant staterooms on
the upper deck That's one OF their
methods. They have others and they're
all more or less effective
TENYO HAS LIGHT CARGO.
The manifest of the Tenyo Maru,
which is carrying Avery to Japan, is
likely to carry more weight with Presi-
dent Asano of the Il. X. X. than r. p,
Schwerin's declaration that the Japa-