The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-02-04
FRISCO AGENTS
BRIGHT SCHEME
H. F. DorgeIoh, Representing the
Cleveland, Would Beat
the Law.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 24.-The
Hamburg. American liner Cleveland,
with 600 passengers on board, bound
for this port on the termination Of an
around the world voyage that began in
New York, is still in the position of
the individual who did not know where
he was going, but was on his way.
Collector of the Port Fred S STRAIT
ton says it will cost the Hamburg
American people just 5000 a head to
land their passengers here, that being
the price necessary to be paid for the
privilege Of breaking the American law
which says a foreign ship must not
take passengers from one American
port to another American port The
agent of the line says the company
can not afford to break American laws
at that price, and the Washington wire
is buzzing with requests that law.
breaking be made cheaper in this case.
Local Agents Plan.
H. F. Dorgeloh, the local agent of
the line, has been sitting up nights
trying to discover way for the Cleve-
land to circumnavigate this particular
federal statute. He declared yesterday
afternoon that he believed he had hit
upon a plan, which might be effective,
if the department of commerce and
labor should prove hard-hearted enough
to rule that trip around the globe
that began at New York and ended in
San Francisco is "coastwise voyage"
"You would have to enlarge the
earth to strain this law any further"
Dorgeloh thinks, but he has found a
way. 1t is this:
eff it becomes necessary we can
charter an American ship to go down
the bay and meet the Cleveland on her
arrival, and take the passengers on
board and bring them to the dock"
says Dorgeloh. "It's easy, and the law
would be perfectly satisfied. Why, our
passengers are accustomed to leaving
the ship before they get to port, and
they don't mind it one bit. At Jaffa
we have to take them off the ship in
row boats, seven miles from port, and
they never object. !"
The trouble at Jaffa, it is explained,
is that the shallow water does not per-
init the steamer to approach nearer
than seven miles to the shore.
In the mean time the Cleveland is
on her way. Stratton thinks she ought
to 90 to Canada, and land her passen-
gers there, but Dorgeloh has his plan
of voyage that will be exclusively
American, and which will begin at the
Seal Rocks and end at the Union-street
pier
The passengers on the Cleveland do
not know what is in store for them.
Having safely navigated the laws OF
half the nations of the globe, they are
expecting n peaceful Homecoming. But
the American law, that has done sc
much for the American merchant ma
rine, is waiting to show them what.
Buys Provisions Here.
"There IS another NATTER adds Dor
geloh. ~ have purchased some 500,
900 worth of provisions here in SaI
Francisco, for the return voyage of thu
Cleveland and don It know what an
going to do with them if the ship ha
to go to Canada
This might be considered an artfu
argument to prejudice the American
law to speak softly when the matte
of buying 100000 of butter and egg
, and mutton chops is in the balance
between the San Francisco and Can
adam markets. But the position of tn,
American law, made for the benefit o.
the American merchant marine, is tina
the Cleveland ought to be an American
vessel, or ought not to have engaged
in the coastwise business of transport
ing American passengers from on
American port to another American
port.