The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-18
|MATSON WANTS
BULK Of SUGAR
Company viii Seek to Draw the
Business Away From the
American-Hawaiian.
HAS STRONG CONNECTIONS
Older Concern Well Intrenched
and Has a Fine Fleet OF
Ships, Besides.
HAS STRONG CONNECTIONS

ho Is 10 corral the bulk OF the sugar
tonnage output this coming seasonR
captain Matson, head of the Matson
Navigation Company, is here to make n
bid for the transportation of every
pound of sugar available for both Coast
and Atlantic deliveries
General Manager Dearborn. of the
American Hawaiian Steamship Compa-
ny, is also here to renew the present
contracts which the America an. Hawaiian
company holds, and to make additions.
as the company has more vessels under
construction to put into the trade.
Captain Matson states that he is 90
ing after more sugar and hopes to land
1t. General Manager Dearborn believes
that the satisfactory manner in which
his company has carried out its con-
tracts with the Sugar Factors Companv.
will not be lost sight of and that the
American-Hawaiian will continue in the
field as powerful factor in the shin
ping of Hawaii's fortune making
product.
The Matson Navigation Company
having allied its interest with those
OF Castle q Cooke, who are agents for
the Matson line, and with Alexander g.
Baldwin and with Brewer & Co., all
three big corporations owning stock IN
the navigation company, expects to be
treated with consideration by all these
inns and believes that their weight will
throw additional tonnage to the Matson
line. These three corporations control
la large number Of the biggest sugar
producing estates in the Islands. The
American Hawaiian line draws sugar
rom some of the plantations in which
these corporations are interested.
The American-Hawaiian fleet of
freighters was developed particularly
ITO carry sugar, and as their tonnage
contracts increased, 20 did the number
of freighters. These not only became
more numerous, but each one was larger
than the older boats until now the biz
freighters are of 10000 tons, and each
is capable of carrying from 5000 to l2.-
700 tons of sugar in a single shipment.
The Matson company is carrying
much sugar in its present fleet of steam
ers and sailing vessels. The steamers
include the new Wilhelmina, the Lur-
line, the Hilonian, Enterprise and Hy-
AIDES. The Wilhelmina is the largest ana
has capacity of from 1000 to 5000.
tons, but Captain Matson recently is
sued an order to keep the cargoes down
to 5000 tons in order to insure the best
possible comfort to the passengers on
the vessel
In just what way Captain Matson ex-
poets to handle an increased tonnage,
which is stated to be a prize of about
215,0OO tons of sugar to the Atlantic
Coast, is one of the captains state
secrets. 1t takes many vessels to handle
that amount of sugar, ard even the fleet
of big American Hawaiian frcighters is
now taxed to clean up the warehouse
holdings, although a quicker schedule
is being maintained this season than
last.
The American-Hawaiian company, it
is known, would not have to lei it's
boats be tied up in ideness if forced
out of the sugar carrying business.
There is business on the Coast, the
handling of grain and general products,
exceeding the sugar tonnage handled
here, which it is said can be obtained,
but the American-Hawaiian company is
in the field and the fight will soon be
on. Captain Matson expects to leave
for the Coast in the Wilhelmina, but
it is believed he will have his plans
well laid before he ventures to leave
Honolulu. The prize is worth fighting
for, hut sugar producers know that ship
ments must be divided under the present
tonnage of the American ships carrying
the product. Just who will get the bulk
of the division remains to be seen when
the wires that are pulled have done
their work.