Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-10
'CR[ISERSTERN
HAS ADVANTAGES

When one goes a.traveling one
would not, in the ordinary course OF
things, apart from official and other
obstacles, choose a man-o'war as an
ireal craft for yoyaging, and the aver
age layman would not be struck with
, war cruiser as a vessel likely to
possess advantages over the up-to-
date passenger liner for the comfort
of the people on board. But, ac-
cording to some remarks made in the
course of chat a press representa-
tive with Mr.. j. B. Allen, of the we'll
known Dominion steamship line trad
ing between Liverpool and the St.
Lawrence, the cruiser has at least
one feature which is already being
adapted by the passenger line the
build Of her stern. 1t is claimed, and
mas, in fact, says Mr. Allen, been de-
monstrated, that what is known as
the cruiser" stern minimizes the vi
bration OF vessel, besides reducing
her tendency to pitch heavily in a
head sea, while ii also increases the
roominess of the vessel in the stern
compartments. Certainly the straight
cruiser" stern does not add to the
beauty of a vessels outline, but these
are utility days and the graceful cut
water of the schooner-bow had, in its
time, to give place to the more pro-
saic-looking but practical straight
bow. Apparently the only drawback
to the "cruiser" stern is an inclina-
ton in the part of the vessel to be
what sailors term dirty" in the
bows
The first big passenger steamers
for which the cruiser" stern has
been adopted are the two new $4,000
ton quadrliple turbine boats of the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company's
Empress fleet on the Pacific Coast.
These fine vessels, said Mr.. Allen,
will probably be engaged on the
Vancouver-Japan run, and for luxury,
speed and general appointment will
establish new standard on the Pa
eific ocean. The Allan company and
the G. p. r. are now practically
amalgamated, and, to accelerate the
through service, two IL ,500-ton
cruiserstern quadruple turbine steam
ers are being built for the Atlantic
service, and will start running prob
able agout June next The Allan
line, which was the first to run
turbine steamers across the At
lantic, will thus be the pioneers on
the Herring Pond of the cruiser"
stern. These two Dominion liners,
the Alsatian and Calgarian, will have
speed of about q knots, and the
new G. p r. boats will have a speed
almost as great.
American.Hswaiian Gains Wharf at
San Pedro.
The Americana Hawaiian Steamship
Company is to be granted the fran
ohise for a wharf at San Pedro harbor,
for which it recently applied, and will
Jay the city monthly rental of 500
during the 15-year life of the lease.
Terms were AGREED on at a confer
ence between officials of the steam
ship company and the members of the
municipal harbor commission today
and the harbor's attorney was in
structed to prepare notice of sale to
he advertised at once.
Although the rental seems small, it
is partly explained by the fact that
the company will build $4,000
wharf and will be at neayy expense
of dredging to prepare the site. The
franchise is the first to be granted by
the city. The wharf will be $50 feet
long and 120 feet wide and will be
built between the Southern Pacific
wharf and slip.
The company must obligate itself to
do at least $4,000 worth of dredging,
which will be permanent improve
ment of the harbor, and teams and
privately-owned automobiles or other
conveyances are to be given free ac-
cess to and from the wharf for the
purpose of delivering and receiving
freight
Figures Show Where Sugar Went.
A review of the sugar situation from
Manager A. N. NOVEL; of the Sugar
Factors Company shows that III 900
tons of sugar have been shipped to
the mainland from the islands by this
agency for the period ending with
March 81. Out of this amount los, 900
tons have been forwarded to the At
lantic coast and $4,000 tons to the Pa
cific coast For the same period last
Year the shipments were 175,060 tons.
OF the total sugar shipped, $4,000 tons
Lave reached the market
%
New Freighters Install Wireless. 49,.
Wireless has proved such boon to
passenger vessels that companies
which operate exclusively in the
freight traffic are preparing to equip
their steamers with the apparatus, al
though they are not compelled to by
law, which requires that only passen-
ger-carrying craft or vessels having on
hoard more than fifty persons be SO
fitted
To Cruise in the South Seas. r..
The power schooner Commodore,
nsed for many years hy the Morgan
Oyster Company on San francisco
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