Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-21
WATERFRONT NOTES
risk Demand for Tonnage.

WATERFRONT NOTES
Brisk Demand for Tonnage.
| The demand for coastwise tonnage,
both steam and sail, at the present
time is very great, say Coast authori.
| ties, and has given a longer lease OF
| life on number of windjammers
which otherwise would be getting rea.
dy for the final stage of their career
that of being converted into barges
or taking last siesta on the mud Of
| Oakland creek. Misunderstanding is
quite active and excellent rates are
being paid for the transportation Of
timber from the northern lumber ports
! to San Francisco and Los Angeles
harbor. There is also a considerable
movement off.shore to Australia and
the West Coast.
Two well-known Coast sailers have
just changed hands. The Matson Nav.
! igation Company has sold the former
sugar barkentlne lrmgard to Atkins e.
Knoll and the schooner Forest Home
has been sold by Swayne & Hoyt to
the Hicks.IIauptman Lumber Com.
pany, a concern which plans to oper.
ate the vessel in tow of one of its
steamers. -
The lrmgard was built at Port
Blakcley in 1889 and is one of the fin
] est products of the Pacific Coast shin.
yards, which are now doing flourish.
ing business in turning out steam
schooners, the successors of the old.
time lumber droghers. She Is of GA
net tons, 1T6 feet long, 81 feet beam
and IA feet deep. Her capacity il
100000 feet of lumber. Under her
new management the windjammer
will load general cargo here for Tahiti
and return with copra
The schooner Forest Home is now
en- route from Bellingham for San Pc.
dro with lumber. She is wooden
vessel of 6S2 net tons, built In 1900
at Marshiield, Or. She Is 173 feet
long, 40 feet beam and Is feet deep,
with capacity for about 100000 feet
of lumber. Both vessels are consid.
cred good buys under the present con.
ditions.
Would Substitute Whites for Hindoos.
| LONDON.-There have been furth.
or conferences between the managers
and the striking workmen of the p.
& o. Steamship Company and they
have developed the real issue that has
been raised by the walkout. The Off.
Gals OF the company insist that the
real object of the strike Is to secure
the substitution of white Tor Indian
crews. This, they said, was impossible
| because the white men could not do
the work in the tropics where the
company operates many Of its steam
ers.
II was further pointed out that IL
the Indians were displaced the com.
pany would have to employ 10000 ad.
ditional whites and that II all British
ships made the change $4,000 Indians
would be displaced.
At the conclusion of the conferences
the company again declared II was I'm.
able to meet the demands Of the men.
The committee of the National
| Transport Workers Union has refer.
red the p. & o. strike to the executive
committee of the union and this action
amounts to termination of the dis.
pute.
The committee passed q resolution
declaring the question Of manning the
lifeboats was of such importance that
II could not be disposed of by strike
against the p. & o. Company.
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Shall It Be Baths or Boats7
The steamship owners bitterly re.
sent the comments attributing to them
the blame for the loss of life. They
refuse to accept any guilty RESPONSE
bility.
Don't blame us for this disaster"
exclaimed an officer of one of the big.
gest transatlantic companies. Don't
blame us. Blame yourselves and all
those who demand fast voyages, ten.
mis- courts, Roman baths, and solari'
ums' We should not hesitate to place
lifoboats on the decks of our vessels,
but they would encroach on the luXur'
les which are apparently more desired
than safety.
/ AS a matter of fact, no one could
have imagined a disaster so terrible as
that which occurred on Monday. We
were convinced that the Titanic was
unsuitable. Ship designers, since the
sinking of the Republic, have disre'
garded the importance of boats and
RATS, except as a means of transport
from slowly sinking ships to those
standing by. They argued that II
storm was sufficient to destroy a
AZ, 000-ton ship II would not permit her
! small boats to live. Therefore the
only reason for carrying boats and
RATS was to permit Of the transfer of
passengers from disabled vessel to
safety in a calm sea-"
N
Grace Company Enter Pacific Trade.
Five new steel freight and passen'
ger steamships are being built for w.
r.. Grace & Co. The Santa Cruz, a
S550,000 craft and the first of Ameri'
can register for Grace & Co., is under
construction at Cramps yards, Phila-
delphia, and will be launched early In
the winter. 1t will be on the Coast for
operation on the South American run
some time next year. The Santa Cruz
will be the first vessel for Grace
Co. with passenger accommodations,
the company making ready for the ca
nal opening. The Santa Cruz will be
of about 5000 or 1000 tons burden,
with speed of twelve knots and ca
pacity of 100000 feet,
| Four other freight and passenger