The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-08

the conveniences port Of its size
should have, according to Captain Car
ruthers of the British tramp steamer
Ikala that called in here and wanted
5000 barrels of oil.
1t appears that the Union Oil Co.
y willing enough to give the oil
and Captain Carruthers is willing TO
take it but there is no method Of
getting it on board the tramp steamer,
When he was in San Francisco some
one persuaded Carruthers that a FIVE
inch pipe aange would fit any con-
nection used the world over. He
finds. however that it will fit none
of those used in Honolulu.
Now, Carruthers wants the Union
company to have a fange made that
will fit his while the company wants
Carruthers to stand the expense.
In the meantime the morning pa
per has the Ikala on her way to Mel
bourne.
CANAL DISTANCES.
The Yokohama Economic Associa'
ton, which has been investigating the
effect which the Panama Canal will
have on shipping traffic, has come to
the conclusion that whereas the dis.
lance between Yokohama and New
York via the Suez Canal is 19,043
miles, the route via the Panama canal
is 1921 miles, the difference between
the two routes being thus 1922 miles
Taking the average speed of mail
steamers at - knots an hour, the
Panama route will save eleven days
AS compared with the route around
Cape Horn, the new route is shorter
by 1854 miles and saves rs days. On
the other hand the distance between
Yokohama and London via the Pan.
anna canal is 12,491 miles as compared
with 11.150 miles via the Suez Canal,
the difference being 1341 miles, so
that traffic between Yokohama and
London will continue to take place
via Suez, even after the opening OF
the Panama canal.
TO oUTRIVAL TITANIC.
After the Hamburg Amerika line
had announced the building of a ship,
the Imperator, of greater dimensions
than the giantess Olympic of the
hn
began planning a still bigger storm
defer, the Aquitania. The Imperator
Is designed to be 800 feet long and
to measure $4,000 tons gross, and the
Aquitania, while no longer, will be of
greater tonnage.
Shipping folk have been waiting to
hear what the North German Lloyd
was going to do. They heard today
when a cable came to Oelrichs G. Co.,
general agents of the line in New
York, saying that a new colossus had
been ordered from the Schichau Ship
building Company of Dantzig, and
that she will be completed not later
than August, 1914 Her tonnage will
be about $4,000. The new ship will
cost S1O,OOO,OOO One of her feat
ures will be the substitution of bed
steads for berths in all rooms.
Other ships of similar tonnage, or
perhaps larger, will, it is said follow
the unchristened colossus. This
naturally inspires the question as to
the disposition of the ships of the
North German Lloyd fleet like the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse and others
of somewhat less speed still in the
Atlantic service. The probability is, a
German steamship man said tonight,
that these ships will go into service
between Bremen, San Francisco and
the Far East by way of the Panama
canal
Philip Heineken head of the North
German Lloyd Company, was in New
York several months ago and spent
most of his time looking over facil-
tiles for docking ships on the Pacific
Coast and inspecting the Panama
canal. The French line has announO
ed that it will establish a service
between Havre and the Pacific by
way of the canal.
PASSENGERS BOOKED.
Per str. Sonoma, for San Francisco
June III T. Arnold, Mrs. J. F.. Ar
mold, Miss b. Arnold, Miss Caroline
Bailey, j. H. Barnes, VIM. Bellina
Mrs. VIM Bellina, Miss Belina Fred
Benield, Mrs. c. L. Bickford, Miss
Cyril Brown, Miss J. Card Miss NJ
e. Chapman, Miss A. f. Clark. Mrs
d. H. Davis and child, Mrs. Mary Fl.
Doughty, ]. NJ. Dowsett, Clarence
Dyer, F, II, Edwards, W. ~ Edwards
John Effinger Bruce Ellis, Mrs. Bruce
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