The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-14

The WllhelmIna was built for the
MatsOn Navigation Company and will
ply between Honolulu and San Fran
cisco.
CA. Subsidy.
The contract arranged between the
Canadian and Australian governments
and the Union Steamship Company of
New Zealand for monthly mail
steamship service, similar to that now
carried on, has been signed by the
Postmaster General of Australia, ac-
cording to advices just received from
SYDNEY. n. S. W. The Australian
government viii pay f26626 yearly for
the service. The conditions of the new
expired on August l last.
Market for Old Tubs.
Shipping Illustrated says: ''The loss
by fire of the passenger. steamer st.
Croix on the California coast is but
another illustration of the ill-luck that
has steadily pursued Atlantic steamers
on our western coast. Within recent
| months the Ohio and Indiana have
gone down. and hardly year passes
but the names Of several second hand
steamers purchased for Pacific coast
wise traffic are added to the list of
| total losses. From present appearances
it seems that eastern owners seem de-
| termined upon a change of policy and
| Will go in more extensively for new
! tonnage This will mean more work
| for Atlantic Coast yards and the clos
/ ing up of market for old tubs only
! fit for the boneyard and not for traf-
! ic ON the Pacific, the requirements of
! which call for class of tonnage built
/ to specifications quite different from
/ those of Atlantic Coast vessels. -
Hartman Ships and Chinese.
NEW YORK, November 29.-Coolie
crews on Pacific Mail steamships con-
troIled by the Hartman systems and
on steamships running from Puget
Sound to China, controlled by James
J. Hill, will be denounced at the fourth
annual convention of the International
! Seamen S Union of America, which
opened in New York today.
Andrew Furuseth of San Francisco,
the president, said. the union was MAX
ing a great effort to foster legislation
that would prevent the hiring of cheap
and inexperienced labor, particularly
coolie labor, in the American merchant
marine.
"Under existing conditions he
said, american sailors on the Pacific
Coast have to compete with the cheap
est and lowest type of sailors, Chinese
and coolie laborers, who receive from
s. to So month in wages. This is
a peril to every one who travels the
ocean and lakes.
Pleiades' Cargo.
| TACOMA, November 27.-The Bos-
ton Tow Boat Company's steamer Plei-
AIDES, under charter to the American
Hawaiian Steamship Company, arrived
in port yesterday afternoon to load
general freight for the Hawaiian Is
lands The PIeiades has completed a
round voyage from Puget Sound in the
triangular service of the American-Ha
waiian company touching at Hawaiian
Island ports and at San Francisco. She
left the Sound October % and after
ten-day passage was reported at Ho-
nOlulu. There she loaded for San Fran
!, cisco, arriving at the latter port No
vember IS, proceeding two days later
to the Sound. The Pleiades will have a
, full cargo when she leaves the Sound
! the first of the month
From announcements recently made
: the American Hawaiian company is pre-
: pairing to enter into lively competition
with the Matson Navigation Company
in the Hawaiian Island service and tc
improve its large eoastwise service. Be
). 1 ginning January the company viii
=. improve it's New York service and be
= gin in earnest the fight for transpor
= tation business from the Atlantic Coast
o Winkelman in Pilikia.
PORT TOWNSEND, November 30
The American barkentine Mary Win
/ kelman, Captain John Piltz, was blown
n ashore on Point Hudson while at
}. tempting to sail from here for sea to
a day.
y The vessel is loaded with 550,O
% feet of lumber and is rapidly istin
- to port with the ebb tide. She wa
bound for Tongatabu, Friendly Il
lands.
n. Shipping men are hopeful of bein
:, able to float the stranded vessel a
~ high tide tomorrow noon Shout
IL storms intervene, however, a total los
IS will result
y, In an effort to aid his crew in kee,
IN ing from the shore. Captain PiItz We
X caught in the anchor tackle, sustain
ing crushed right hand and badl,
n injured leg.
IN PORT TOWNSEND, November a.
nd At high water today and with the a
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