Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-09-05
Shipping
owners Of AMERICA MARU
PLAN TRANSPORTING SERVICE
Little White Yacht" Would Continue Regular Caller at
This Port-WiIhemina Brought Many Passengers-Has
Big Railway Motor Driven Coach for Hio-Mauna Loa
From K0na and Kau an Arrival. faH#


Don't waste time in bidding fare
well to the America Maru, for she Is
very likely to play many return en-
gagements Mt this port" was a rejoin-
der of one official connected with the
Little White Yacht when asked If
it were possible that the America
Mara once the pride of the Togo XII
sen Kaisha fleet. and now In the pos
session of the Osaka Shosen kaisha.
would forever disappear from the ho-
rizon of Honolulu shipping.
The Osaka Shosen kaish2 Is one
Of the big shipping companies of Ja-
pan. They now operate a line of
steamers between Japan ports and Sc
attic. They possess aspirations for a
far greater scope of usefulness, ac-
cording TO the story that IL current
In T. X. X. circles and II Is predicted
that the America Maru. over which
silly and vagrant journalistic tears
have been shed. will yet be a factor
In line of steamers which will OPP
crate between the coast of Asia and
the Pacific coast of the United States,
with San Francisco as a possible ter
minal.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha is the
second largest steamship company
doing business in Japan. The Nippon
Yusen Kaisha comes first In line with
the Togo Kisen Kaisha, u strong third
in the race. The America Maru Is
said will make strong addition to
the O. s. X. transPacific service as
the steamers now engaged In u run
with Puget Sound terminals possess
but limited passenger accommoda-
ton. Ni.'
The opening Of the Panama canal
to traffic Is destined to work many
important changes In existing ship
ping combines. Even at this early
date the NJ Y. X. with three large lin
ers in the Japan Seattle service have
inaugurated a sweeping reduction in
freight rates which are said to have
created sad havoc with the plans and
tariff OF the Weir Line, Blue Funnel
Line and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha.
The last decentralization In rates
terminated June LIST In a truce. which
is now broken by the Nippon fusen
| Kaisha line. The rates were restored
at time when large imports were
being made to Japan on account OF
the new tariff going into effect. The
present reduction In rates comes just
before the moving Of the new wheat
crop and the expectation of large
quantities of -four.
Alakea wharf before ten O'Clock this
morning.
Captain A. G.. Stevens reported Z
pleasant trip from San Francisco The
bottom OF the steamer Is said to bt
very foul, with an accumulation O
sea weed several feet In length. Tihi
growth greatly retarded the progress
of an otherwise speedy and crack lin
err. The America Maru will have Il
go into dock but II will be at the ex
pense OF the new owners and not thu
T. X. X. which for years have oper
ated the vessel. For the present thu
America Is supposed to take rul
|, between Formosan ports and Japan
How long this will continue Is Onl.
a matter of conjecture but those II
position to speak, state that suci
: vessel will soon be transferred To
' more important mission than that II
the coasting trade. During the Russo
Japanese war, The America Maru par
ticipated to n limited extent as a scou
, and dispatch boat but the real wor'
: was performed by other liners in tn
Japanese merchant marine which YES
sells remained off the coast of Indo
China, and noted the movements q
the Russian battleship fleet whicI
> made Kamranh Bay, their rendezvous
Saigon, Cochin, China. the French ca
pital Of the Far East was poin
which during those stirring times
was alive with Russian officers.
The America Maru will depart 70
the Orient at FIVE o'clock with "A cab
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