The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-27


bound freight at Drumm street sta
ton. Lombard street spur, san Fran.
cisco. Yours truly,
a. NJ SUTTON.
Assistant Traffic Manager
Notices as above have been sent TO
shippers doing business over this
line, and this means that Oakland is
now advertised throughout the world
as a direct point served by this great
transportation company the same as
Los Angeles, Portland or Seattle.
The big ocean steamship company
is the first to adjust its business so
as to accommodate shipping direct to
and from Oakland in connection with
the transcontinental lines conveying
in this city. This change has been
made necessary by the congested
condition of the San Francisco water
front and the increased tonnage which
| is now seeking water transportation
as well as the convenience and econ
omy of time and cost in the assem-
bling of commodities destined for dis.
tribution to Oakland.
Epoch Making Event.
Speaking of this new departure,
Secretary Denison said today
"This means that at once and with
out waiting for the construction uf
new dock facilities, steamship traffic
! is to be established between this city
and points served by the American
Hawaiian Steamship Company On the
Atlantic seaboard and European
countries The people of Oakland
can scarcely appreciate the impor
lance of this epoch-making event in
the development of the commerce 81
this city.
"The American-Hawailan Steam
ship Company, I am informed, a!
ready owns and employs twenty-one
steamships. and is the largest corpo
ration operating it's ships under the
American flag. This line transports
commodities between the Pacific
coast and the cities of the Atlantic
seaboard and Europe via the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec and the Nationa
railway between Salina Cruz on the
Pacific coast and Puerto, Mexico, or
the Gulf coast. At each of thest
ports most modern equipment is in
stalled whereby vessels lie alongside
of model wharves supplied with tray
cling electric cranes, which lift great
bulks of cargo from the holds d
ships, depositing them in freight cars
opening at the ton. This facilitates
shipment across the intervening ter
ritory by rail and transfer to ships
again with the greatest possible dis
patch.
Shippers throughout the country
are availing themselves to an increas
ing extent of water transportation
and the amount of increased tonnage
now being offered for shipment via
the Tehuantepec route has forced the
American-Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany to look elsewhere for additional
terminal facilities, which are not Oh
tainable at San Francisco. At the
present time they are using three o
the largest docks on that side of the
bay but are unable to procure more
space.
Enormous Tonnage.
The tonnage handled last year by
this company amounted to approx
mately 100000 tons from New YorE
to Pacific coast ports and Honolulu
and the tonnage in the opposite direc
ton, approximately 100000 tons o
California products and 100000 tons
of sugar from Honolulu.
Oakland has for some time had {
regular service for inbound business
of the Hawaiian Steamship
Company, which has been handled
over Adams Wharf, and had the com
pletion of the improvement of the N
ner harbOr been accelerated, these
larger freighters would have beer