Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-03


1antic and the Pacific by way of the
Panama Canal may be successful in
eVading the payment Of canal dues, is
the prediction made this morning by a
Japanese business man, returning to
the Orient as a passenger in the Togo
Kisen Kaisha liner Tenyo Maru.
In this connection il was stated that
the Togo Kisen Kaisha was generally
believed to be opposed to the payment
OF canal dues, and TO avoid this con-
tribution to the American government,
following the opening OF the connect
ing waterway, the steamship line
might evolve plan whereby through
cargoes would be transhipped at Ho-
nolulu or San Francisco to American
bottoms, and in this manner carried
through the canal to the East Coast
of the United States or to other lands.
The Tenyo Maru was an early ar
rival this morning, the huge liner COM
ing alongside the Alakea wharf short
ly after o'clock a+
Captain Filmer reported fine trip
with fair wind and comparatively
smooth sea The Tenyo is well crowd
ed with passengers in the various
classes. = Nine cabin passengers left
the vessel at Honolulu. In continuing
the voyage TO japan ports, Manila and
Hongkong at O'Clock this evening,
the Tenyo will carry 165 cabin, 81
second and nearly $50 Asiatic steer,
age passengers.
At the office Of Castle & Cooke 160#
Oriental passengers have booked for.
Japan and China
Purser II. j. Grasett stated that the
liner Is loaded to the waterline with
cotton Several thousa1d tons OF this.
commodity were left behind at San
Francesca owing to lack of space
or the passengers en- route TO the
Orient, IN the neighborhood Of sixty
are missionaries returning to the Ash
attic field for term OF duty.
One delegation of Raymond Whit
comb tourists is travelling to the Far
East IN charge OF HI Wilfrid Kelley.
The travellers win make world tour
and intend to spend some time in do
ing Egypt, the Holy Land and the Eu-
ropean capitals.
The Tenyo Maru will can at Ma
Mia on the voyage where much freight
and supplies for the army and navy
departments will be discharged
The Togo Kisen Kaisha plans to
have one steamer pay visit to the
philippine port monthly.
Among the passengers on the Tenyo1
are A. II. Messing, Chicago publish
er. and his wife; Louis Glass Of the
telephone company, who is going to
Manila. and Colonel Bowie. who is re-
turning to his home in Japan. There
are q large number of tourists among
the passengers and about 20 around
the-world travellers
Captain w. C. II. s. Filmer is in
command of the Tenyo in place OF
Captain Ernest Bent, who has been
granted vacation leave.
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Purser Grasett Tells a Sad Story.
Purser Grasett of the big Tenyo
Maru, which steamed to a berth al
Alakea wharf this morning, following
a fine trip down from San Francisco,
is withal brave man and fears not
the alleged erratic pursuit Of the .'hoo-
doc"
He was reminded this moning that
/ an anxious inquirer from shore had
failed to locate room thirteen" in tho
Togo Kisen Kaisha liner.
There's nothing to fear from mum.
Der thirteen declared Grasett, while
successfully attending to the wants OF
a half dozen passengers at one and
the same time.
"A Pacific Coast steamer from the
Sound to San Francisco was followed
by. thirteen sharks, and had thirteen
passengers aboard. The captain or
dered one of the passengers to shoot
one Of the sharks to change the luck
OF the vessel, which was making poor
time. At the thirteenth shot one shark
turned over on its back and died.
whereupon the steamship made thir-
teen knots an hour to port II is be-
lieved that the originator of the story
was thirteen years old"
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Transport Liscum to Go Into Service.
Little or no difficulty is expected
TO be found in the raising of the
United States Army transport Liscum,
which sank alongside the dock at
Shanghai, China. The vessel went
down in about thirty feet of water. A
cofferdam is being built about the
ship, and she will be raised in about
six weeks. Ii is thought that she is
little damaged by her immersion.
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Lumber Comes In Large Lots.
Two undertaken vessels from the
Sound have arrived off Honolulu with
in the past twenty-fGur hours The
American schooner Alice Cooke, with
99l,S31 feet lumber from Port Town
send was brought inside, the harbor
yesterday afternoon. This vessel and
cargo are, consigned to the local
branch of Levers & Cooke.
The schooner Ludlow was an arriv-
al at the port this morning, the vessel
hailing from Aberdeen, Wash, where
S2I,070 feet lumber was loaded Cap
tain ]. A. Anderson, master of the
windjammer, states that his time