The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-30

ger boats on the Pacific. The local
agents believe that when she is placed
on the run between San Francisco and
Honolulu she will easily maintain six.
teen knots per hour. which would
bring her down in about FIVE DAYS. All.
though the Wilhelmina is a freighter.
her passenger accommodations have
been carefully planned out and she
will be a handsome vessel, with the
finest of accommodations for the pas.
sengers, both in the staterooms dining
saloon and lounging cabins. Her decks
are wide and afford quite a promen.
ade, not very many laps to the mile,
and her engines, like those in the Lur.
line, are placed aft, so that there is
very little vibration in the vessel. The
Wilhelmina may sail from Newport
News for San Francisco via the Strait
of Magellan about December 5. and
VIII be out here early in February.
The vessel, as is well known, is named
after Miss Wilhelmina Tenney, daugh.
ter of E. d. Tenney, president of Castle
& Cooke. Ltd.
Mongolia Has $500 Tons.
The Pacific Mail steamship Mongolia.
due here December 3, from Yokohama,
has $500 tons of cargo for Honolulu.
instead of 1000 as reported. This is
next to the banner cargo which was
ZOO tons some time ago. The Mongo.
liza will have accommodations for about
hundred passengers out of here
The Manchuria is due from San
Francisco on Monday morning, bring.
ing passengers and mail.
Explosives Embarrass Captains.
The fact that freighters carry explo-
sive shells from San Francisco to Ho-
nolulu for the big guns at Fort Ruger.
has called for protest from the ship
ping authorities at Seattle One of the
.Matson boats loaded shells at San Fran
cisco and on the way here called at
Seattle The freighter's master was
notified that in future if his cargo
included explosive shells that the au-
thorities of Seattle would be compelled
to keep the vessel out in the stream.
Sierra for Island Run.
Chronicle, November 1S.-The action
of the officials of the Oceanic Steam
ship Company in preparing for the over.
hauling, of the liner Sierra, which has
been out of commission for nearly three
years, is looked upon in local steamship
circles as significant move on the
part of the Spreckels company to COM
petitively meet the effect which the
installation of the new Matson passen-
ger liner Wilhelmina has had on the
Hawaiian traffic, and it is prophesied
in shipping circles that a rate war to
the Islands is likely to be brought
about in next February, when the Mat
son liner will be placed on the run.
Denying that they have let any con-
tracts, the Oceanic company officials
admitted yesterday that the matter of
refitting the Sierra and converting her
into an oil burner has been seriously
contemplated, and she would probably
go on the docks before the Christmas
holidays. AS reason the officials de-
clare that the Sierra will be placed
in relief of the Alameda to Honolulu,
which will be taken off the run for the
regular overhauling which during the
past she has undergone every two
years. 1t was also admitted that if the
Sierra is placed in commission, in all
probability she would be kept ON the
media.
Steamers, Texas to Hawaii.
The San Antonio Light Gazette of
November 10 had the following:
If the mission of DR.. C. c. Higgins
and Alexander Hume Ford in Mexico
is successful steamship company, own
ed and directed in Texas will operate
from Houston and Galveston to Homo
lulu, Japan and China via the Tehuan-
tepec route. These gentlemen leave for
Mexico City tomorrow morning on bust
ness connected with the project.
Speaking of his visit Mr.. Ford said
81 consider the opening of the Hous-
ton Galveston ship channel matter of
| the greatest Importance to all Texas.
Personally, l am interested and have
been in communication with Doctor
Higgins for the past eighteen months
concerning the extension of the service
| of the Southern Steamship and Import
ing Company to Honolulu and the ORR
ent via the Tehuantepec route. think
now that this will be accomplished.
"Great changes are in progress in
Hawaii, and if Texas is to reach out
she can best serve her purposes by hav-
ing Texas colony in Hawaii, the
Crossroads of the Pacific, to further her
interests there.
"Hawaii is raising cotton that she
gets twenty-five cents pound for,
Texas farmers would best know how
TO develop this industry. now in its
infancy in Hawaii. California col
ony went to Hawaii few years ago
and is responsible for the pineapple
industry which is already enroaching
on sugar. Coffee is coming to the front,
tobacco. rubber and rice are raised.
ga line to the Orient via Tehuan'
tepec and Hawaii should pay well. 1t
is shorter from Galveston TO Hawaii
and the Orient by this almost all water
route than by way of San Francisco,
and it would make cotton rates from
any mart of Texas to the Orient drop
considerably.
"Fr0m Hawaii there is the return
cargo of raw sugar and ! understand