The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-26
WILL NOT ABANDON
HONOLULU ROUTE
Subsidy Law Prevents Dropping
Of This Port From itinerary
-Rumor Unfounded.
TWO NEW SHIPS FOR SERVICE
Avery Relates Plans OF the Com
pany-Under New Agreement
With Western Pacific.
TWO NEW SHIPS FOR SERVICE

The report that the Togo Kisen
Kaisha would quit sending its vessels to
this port was without foundation. The
law under which the line receives sub
sidy provides that the steamer shall
make this regular port, and in those
circumstances it is quite out of the
question to assert that there is any
| likelihood that the line will abandon
Honolulu. There is no known reason
to suppose that the company ever had
any intention of abandoning this port.
The statement that the subsidy law
forbids the Togo Kisen Kaisha from
quitting Honolulu was made yesterday
afternoon by Lacy Goodrich, purser of
the Tenyo Maru, now in port, having
arrived yesterday morning. Mr.. Good
rich is well informed concerning marine
affairs on the Pacific, and his statement
is taken without question.
Capt. W. G. T. S. Filmer, who is IN
command during the illness of Captain
Bent, the Tenyo's regular skipper, sara
Yesterday that he, had met NJ. Shiraisha,
general manager of the line, at san
Francisco, and that if Shiraisha had had
any intention of making the change IN
the itinerary of the three steamers now
in this service Captain Filmer would
have been told of it. -.
1t is understood there is Likelihood
that whenever the Oriental line puts
two more ships into the service there
NAV be an occasional voyage from Ho-
kobama to San Francisco by one OF the
five liners, but under the existing con
tract between the japanese government
and the Oriental Steamship Company
only two of the regular steamers could
miss Honolulu.
The management of the line expects
big volume of trade between the UNI
ted States and the Orient after the new
traffic agreement with the Gould rail
road system goes into effect By notify
inc the Southern Pacific thus early the
Japanese line will lose much of its
freight traffic during the rest of the
wear, as the Southern Pacific will throw
as much business into the hands of its
own line, the Pacific Mail, as possible.
But in the end the Togo Kisen Kaisha
!, will profit by the move, for there was
possibility of a new steamship company
entering the service and getting hold
of the Western Pacific railroads traffic
to and from the Orient.
The agreement was contaminated by
! w. H. Avery. assistant general manager
of the Togo Kisen Kaisha; NJ: Shiraisha,
managing director; X. Ottawa, vice
} president of the company, and G. H.
Schlacks, first vice president of the
} Western Pacific, and E. L. Lomax, pas
senger traffic manager.
} Many important incidents relating to
the new arrangements of the Oriental
j company appear in a recent interview
1 of Mr.. Avery with a San Francisco
newspaper.
] "Our arrangement with the Western
Pacific will be somewhat like our pres
ent arrangement with the Southern
Pacific" said Avery. "We shall have
I full and free interchange of traffic both
inward and outward bound. The West
} ern Pacific offered us very good induce
ments, and we decided to accept"
Forestalled Possible Rival.
"We have considered the matter for
i long time" said Avery, "for we
have known for years that the Western
Pacific was building into San Francisc"
81 ana LndL u new lTduSCOuJlnculdl ian
Il road was to be opened. And we knew
that unless our company took advantage
of the opportunity to become connected
with the Gould line some German OF
D other foreign company would do so. Mr.
D Stubs and other officials agreed with
us.
L "We believe we have made the best
e arrangement for San Francisco and we
believe it will be an excellent arrange
D ment for both our company and the
Western Pacific. The details of the
4 combination / am not in a position ia
announce at this time. That is, the
D appointment Of any traffic official OIL
any other future business of that ma
D ture.
"However, freight shipments may be
D made from any section of the country
through to the Orient. There will be
81 no such thing as a shipper obtaining
a rate from-say Denver, for instance
VI to San Francisco, and then from SaI
Il Francisco to the Orient. He will OBJ
tain rate at Denver or any othei
d point through to the Orient by way OF
San Francisco.
d awe shall operate five steamships
, after January 26, 1911, instead of three
as at the present time. The company il
y now building at Nagasaki a third tur
, bine that is TO be a sister ship 10 the
u Chiyo Maru and the Tenyo Maru. Tn,
:. America Maru will be the other addi
u tional steamer, We will make q strOnl
- bid for both passenger and freight bust
y ness and believe we shall get liberia
share
81 "Giye the Western Pacific six mouth
and they viii ask odds Of no road hI
earth, said Avery, at IL ono of thl
4, most remarkable pieces Of railroad con
NJ stWriiun ] have ever seen, The foai
bed II perfect, the grade easy aud al
most impeietpllble, aud the constme
lion as hnn as can be found 20