The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-10-29
INCREASE IN
SUGAR FLEET
American-HaWaiian to Maintain
TWeIve-Day Schedule
From Hilo.
NO STEAMERS VIA MAGELLAN
Sugar Factors Association Has
Seven Sailing Vessels
Chartered.
NO STEAMERS VIA MAGELLAN

Closer rivalry in carrying freights
| between the mainland and Island ports
during the next sugar.carrying season
for 1910 may solve all problems of
cargo transportation. Sugar for trans.
portation to the mainland will be com
ing out of the mills next month. Some
of the Alexander & Baldwin planta
tons on Maui-the Hawaiian CONNER.
cial and Maui Agricultural estates
will commence grinding about the
middle of November. Waikiki may
start grinding about November 20.
Kekaha plantation, on Kauai, is al
ready starting on its 1910 crop, and
the Oahu plantations will not get
started until after the first week in De.
| ccmber, but all mills will be grinding
about the first of the year and will
work steadily until September. At the
end of that month, when most of the
seasons crop will have been sent away
from the Islands, the entire crop will
probably amount to between $4,000
and 100000 tons. This will be an in
crease over the season Just ended of
about $1,000 tons.
Faster Freight Deliveries.
| Frank Atherton of the sugar fac.
tors association states that the most
systematic methods will be in force the
entire season to move the crop repre-.
sented by the association, and that the
| American. Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany has arranged twelve-day
| schedule for the entire season. During
the past season it ran a fourteen day
schedule from Seattle to the Island
ports, and from Hilo to the Coast. The
company liners will operate between
Salina Cruz and Puget Sound ports, as
usual, insuring prompt delivery of New
York, via Tehuantepec, goods, which
will naturally increase the steamings
from the Sound to ports in these Is
lands.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS company is
building some new steamers for the At
| lantic trade, and some time ago it was
| announced that new passenger
steamer would be built for the Pa
cific service. There is every indication
for lively competition between the
American Hawaiian company and the
Matson Navigation Company for the
| Hawaiian Island and Pacific Coast SER
vice next season. The real competition
began last fall with the chartering of
the steamer Hyades by one company
and the Pleiades by the other to OPP
crate in connection with their regular
steamers. The Matson company has
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Pacific trade, and the American Ha-
waiian company is following with the
construction of additional freighters.
In the mean time the trade continues to
grow.
Seven Sailing Vessels.
In addition to sugars exported in the
American Hawaiian steamers from Hilo
to Salina Cruz, the sugar factors asso-
| citation has contracted for seven big
sailing vessels to carry sugar to Della
ware Breakwater via Cape Horn.
These vessels are the Hawaiian Isles,
Nuuanu, Foohng Suey, John Ena, W.
| p. Frye. Erskine NJ. Phelps and Ed
ward Sewall. They will leave the Is.
lands between January and May, and
will carry about $4,000 tons.
The first steamer of the American
Hawaiian line to leave for Salina Cruz
with 1910 sugar will start from HiD
about December 10, and from that date
on until the end of next September
the All. boats will leave Hilo every
twelve days.
Horn Steam Shipments Pau.
The sugars leaving Hilo via the TIE,
huantepec route have been delivered
in about thirty.two days, on an aver
age, which is regarded as rather fast
transportation. Last year the company
sent four of its big steamers from the
Islands around the Horn, via the
Strait of Magellan, but this year, with
the new 12.day schedule in force, there
may be no necessity for despatching
steam cargoes by such n long route.
Last season the Tehuantepec railway
arrangements We're not altogether per
feet, and to avoid any possibility of
congestion, some of the sugar was di-
verted TO the long route.
With the addition of the big steam
ship Wilhelmina to the Matson feet
and new steamers for the All. line
local shippers believe that the freight
can easily he handled, both to and
from the Coast.
One of the causes of recent conges'
ton at Coast ports of freight destined
for Island ports. is said TO be due to
the usual large offerings of supplies for
plantations, generally due before the
new grinding season is on.
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