Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-02

service to the Hawaiian islands with
the first part of the new year, may
make a strong bid for the business OF
transporting immigrants from POrtu-
gal and Spain to the territory, accord
ing TO advices received at Honolulu.
The KosmOs Line. which is believed
will in a way supplant the service
heretofore maintained by the Harrison
Direct Steamship Company is also to
) open an office at this port on or about
/ the first OF 1913.
Practically all details for call Of at
least four large freight steamers -
the Kosmos service at Honolulu dur
ing 1918 were settled at the time OF
the visit of Senator Norman Watkins
General Superintendent. for the Hawai-
ian Fertilizer Company, who spent
some weeks on the coast, in perfecting
ARRANGEMENTS for the advent OF the
Kosmos line into this field.
The first vessel in the KosmoS serV-
ice is expected to call here along in
April, followed each three months by
a steamship of large tonnage. 1t is
stated that the directors Of the COM
pany have given guarantee of an
q
;rg 1913.
Most Of these vessels are well adapt
cd to the transportation OF steerage
passengers. The Kosmos Line is de-
clared. does a big business in 10th
passengers and freight between Eu-
rope and the South American ports.
The route to be persued by the YES
sells that are scheduled to visit Homo
4 lulu will include a start from Hamburg
or Antwerp thence to Leith and Lon
don. and following a long steaming
radius along the east coast of South
America into the western ocean, the
vessel may calf at one or more ports
along the coast of Chile there to take
al, shipments of nitrates destined for
/ Honolulu. -
The Kosmos steamers are to pro-
ceed to the coast following the dis
charge of nitrates at this port. The
5 Pacific ports are believed will include
, San Diego, San Francisco, and then to
Prget Sound.
In returning to Europe the Kosmos
liners II is said will make no stops
along the East coast of South Amerl-
co but will proceed to the Continent
s and the United Kingdom. as
That the Kosmos Line will open its
cwn Office at Honolulu is believed GER
tain in local shipping circles.
The vessels now engaged in four;
weekly service under the Kosmos
house flag, which liners are trading
along the west coast of South and
North America, are of varying ton
mage.
In the employment of Kosmos Line
steamers in carrying Portuguese or
Spanish immigrants from Europe to
Hawaii, IL is predicted that material
saving in the heavy expense attached
10 this class of business might be af-
feeted.
Lumber Trade Demands Tonnage.
Australian lumber exporters are
searching carefully and thoroughly in
{ the tonnage market for tramps to car
nv their building materials to the an
tipodes, but, so far, the scarcity of
vessels has worked against them. The
demand for bottoms for the lumber
trade to Australia is heavy, and char
ter rates are not the lowest. Among
steamer Frankly and the Norwegian
steamer Mathilda, both to load at
North Pacific ports. The Mathilda is
chartered by the government to carry
coal from Newport News for San
Francisco, but adyices are to the eff
feet that ii has been fixed by the 6.
w. McNear company to load lumber
for the antipodes on time charter.
The Frankly, last reported at Valpa-
raiso, has been taken by the Ameri
can Trading company for delivery
here. In the weekly bulletin of the
Ship Owners association of the Pa
= cific coast, four charters are announc-
ed. Included in the fixtures are
the schooner E. X. Wood. from Puget
Sound to San Francisco, $40; steam
er Melville Dollar, Columbia river to
San Pedro, $3.50; schooner Robert
Searles, north Pacific to Guaymas, IS:
schooner Omega, Grays Harbor to Le-
bu. 65s. The demand for bottoms on
the Pacific, as we'll as the east coast,
continues to be heavy, with the de-
mand exceeding the offerings. Fix
lures of sailing vessels on the Allan
tic side is reported as being more than
usual, the WlndlammerS demanding
. and securing a good price because of
the scarcity.-ChroniCle
+ Raising the Newport
( The salvage steamer SalvOr. Cap
] tain .sStratford, with Captain w H.
Logan and the Givers and salvage crew
of the British Columbia Salvage Com
pany of Esquimalt, have reached Bal
4 boa and are now engaged in raising
the sunken Pacific Mail liner New
Z port. The work is we'll under way, &C
3 cording to cable advices received by
the marine department Of the Cham
Der of Commerce. The Newport.
. which had arrived at the canal port
from San Francisco with a large cargo
of machinery, was lying alongside the
dock about a month ago when the big
warehouse collapsed and toppled over