Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-01-23
new Liners
NOW ASSURED

ship Company passed through Homo
lulu en- route to the Orient, and dur
ing his brief stay here at the reques;
of local newspaperman, gave partial
outline of a series of elaborate inn
provements for the present trans-Pa-
cihc service.
a number of innovations, many
startling in their scope have already
gone into effect, as direct result of
the famous round trip to the Far East
made by Mr. Schwerin who elected to
travel steamers represented In the
feet over which he presides In high
official capacity.
lie Is known to have hearkened at
first hand to many complaints. The
result was that many irksome and
obsolete rules ana regulations in the
Pacific Mail service were either aboI-
ished or greatly modified.
But best of all was the prediction
made at that time that the Pacific
Mail would ut no very distant date
place tour big 10000 tons liners In
commission and In ample season for
the Panama Canal opening.
Vice President Schwerin then stated
| among. other things that the new ves-
| sells were to cost the company In the
neighborhood OF five million dollars
each. Also that there was q posi-
would then be placed in a direct San
Francisco Honolulu service, making
trips between coast and Islands with
a frequency equal to that of the
Oceanic steamer Sierra. 10
| Now comes the news that really
ing the importance OF the canal Ia
New York, San Francisco and Hong
kong, President Robert $. Lovett o.
the Pacific Mail and the Eastern
bankers behind that steamship cor
line of new steamers at AN expense
of about $20.000,00O that will run di.
rect Plans for these steamers have
already been prepared and tenders ol
bids for their construction are to bG
Immediately called for from the large
shipbuilding plants In this country. 4
will take two years, a thereabouts, tc
finish them. As II is expected that
the canal will be ready for operation
late in 1914 or early in the Following
yeaI, the Pacific Mail people want Tho
, work on the new ships started AZ ex
/, peditiously as possible.
This Is the true explanation Of VIII.
r II. =. Schwerin departed for New Yorl
r to- meet President Loyett and u com
r mittee of the company's directors AM
bankers. Before he returns to Sal
Francisco, the contracts for all tn
work this big addition to the com
pany's fleet means will have been le
to one or more shipyards.
Each of these proposed steamers /
. to have gross tonnage, or displaco
ment, of 80 600. The cargo capacit
will be $1,000 tons. In design, the
. are to be the most modern kind q
combined passenger and freigl
steamers. They are to have accom-
modations for 400 frst-cabin passen
gers and $50 of the second-cabi
class. In the steerage. loo peopl
are to find accommodations, TIL
speed is to be eighteen knots.
All Modern Features.
!. The plans call, among other thing
for electric elevators throughout a
the various decks. up-to-date fei
lures for the entertainment, care an
welfare of passengers that now obtai
on the crack Atlantic liners sailing
: and out of New York will he include
= in the construction of these ships. ON
entire deck viii be devoted to u
elaborate system Of hammam, shove
: and other kinds of baths. Large gym
, nasiums are provided for, playground
for young and old. and everything
the way of modern detail for smokin
and lounglng halls. Dining and gri
rooms will, of course, be on Il mo-
attractive scale.
This addition to the Pacific Ma
: fleet will not interfere with the con
pany's present transpacilic service
and out of this port. In this serviC
there are the steamers Korea, Siberi
Manchuria, mongolia and China. NJ
will the Improvement interfere vii
the service of smaller ships of Il
company carrying freight through Il
= canal between San Francisco and Ne
York and other Atlantic seaboal
cities. Like the limited trains of Il
great railroads, the new ships VI
y constitute for the Pacific Mail
through. fast and fine service betwe,
a few large. strategic commercial ce
ters.
- New Era on Pacific.
Thirty-siX thousand tons dlsplac
ment, with cargo capacity of 800
tons, will mark new era on the p
| cific ocean, take 1t anywhere, and c
| pecially a new and significant depa
ture on the Pacific between the Pa6
lic coast of this country and the o.
- ent and between New York and Il
- Orient by any existing water route
- Each of the new Pacific Mail yess
will be larger than the Minnesota al
more pretentiOus as messenger cDrri