The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-04-22
HONOLULU DOING BIC
BUSINESS WITH COAST
Figures Show That Increase Is
at Rate of Half Million
~ Per Month.

. Trade between San Francisco aud 10.
nolulu Is increasing at the rate Of
half million dollars month over its
Inst year records according to advices
that arrived this week from the Golden
Gate.
During March of this year, according
to the compilation of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce, that city OK
ported 81 ,96S,Sl4 worth of general mcr-
chandise to Honolulu, which indicates
not only larger profits for the ncighbor
on the Coast, but a vastly increased in.
come for the steamship lines in the 10.
cal trade as well as larger popula.
ton in Honolulu. The figure for the
same month last year was $l,3S3,76l.
The advent of the Oceanic line into
the Australian field has also added to
san lFraHcisco's exporting trade con
siderabiy, practically adding Samoa to
is list of customers. Last year the ex-
portatons to this island amounted to
1896 This year they rose to S12la9
for March, tous iol Y,uhDp snt lout
apG .goi - Ikala Arrives, uouour
1.-The. British steamer Ikala, "a frequent
visitor ata the port, arrived yesterday
Afternoon from Newcastle with cargo
Of coal for the InterIsland Steam Nav.
cation Company. 4 It had on board 1860
tons of coal. 1t was twenty>one days
outs Il ,ttr 1N ~
Merton ,n Honolulan Due.
The Matson liner Honoluan is due to
atriveo ARE utoda,c from San Francisco
vithcscvsntecn passengers.'i Tho vessel
has also ass bays ofCmaii, thirteen autos
and 2004 tons ref ,eprgoafor Honolulu.
IT, has. 252 tons for Kahului, PIG tons
TOR Port Allen andi,4 3 tons for Kaar
napali.on fyB a.i,ud auomr.t4 l..
~ pa D Mariana Heard From. r..
Thee Canadian- Australian iinor Mara.
ma has3wirelessed to the agents, r. H.
Davies & Co.. that it will arrive here
from Victoria tomorrow afternoon
lbout four clock with POS passengers
in all on board. The Mariana expects
to sail for Sydney about ten o clock in
the evening.
Marine Comparisons.
owe are spending more than $780,
100000 year in connection with the
carrying of our people and our prod.
ucts on the ocean," says Lewis Nixon
N the New YorktSun, "Those who list
en- to the siren song of the Tory win
tell you that this is done cheaper than
we can do it. yet we carry ton of
freight on our own railroads with high.
CT wages at a rate which cannot be
approached in Europe, while we do the
,ame in our coasting trade.
SHUT such a reply shows ignorance
of the simplest workings of economic
avs. In 1907 we exported $4,000
900 of goods aud Imported $l,20O,O0O,-
900, so that other things being equal
balance of trade statement as usu.
ally given should indicate credit
abroad OF s600,000,00O; yet that year
every time few millions in gold left
rs on sailing days a shiver ran through
the commercial districts, so there must
be an unaccounted for drain.
This is the vast sum paid for ocean
transportation and so long as this is
not kept at homo we must dig and
delve aud sweat to produce an excess
of exports over imports to pay for it,
for commerce includes transportation
as well as trade and barter and Il bal.
ance of trade statement as usually Civ.
en- is ms misleading as would be that
of a merchant who did not include his
delivery charges. We must add our
transportation charges to our imports,
as they ale the price paid for the use
of sforeign tools, ships being the tools
of commerce just as much MS if such
product were bolt of silk or case
of wine"
Ocean Passenger Traffic.
During 1912, 55s,640 persons left tho
port OF New York for Europe, accord
ing TO steamship figures just complied
and made public, The easthound pas
senger movement for. 1912 for all Amer.
lean parts, including Canada, was, first
cabin, 0l,77l; second CABIN, l266si,
and Storage 477,667, of which Cam.
dian ports received S,607 first cabin,
26,226 ge,ond, 5000 storage passen.
gers. Compared with 1911 there wRs a
decrease in 1912 of 562 first cabin and
3T,s25 steerage passengers, while IN .
second cabin passengers increased 3,74S,
These eastbound or outgoing figure
shoY that the North German Lloyd
carried on its London.Paris'B Bremen ser.
vice 1927 first cabin; 1885 second
cabin and 39,i65 Storage passengers;
! the Cunar6 line, l2.002 first cabin; / >
| 1874 second and 26,9S9 steeraee passcl,
gers. and the Hamburg-American TO-
$40 first cabin; 1854 srcond, AMI 2S,-
Il