Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-05
FREIGHT Line TO
Los ANGELES Is
SUGGESTED

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Los ANGELES. = Tropical island
products, especially cane sugar. pine
apples. bananas and coffee. valued at
$50 .000.O 900. are seeking entrance into
the port OF Los Angeles.
Local, Eastern and English capital
Is now being organized to handle this
tremendous amount OF raw materials
from the Hawaiian Islands.
Representatives Of a coterie of Ha-
waiian capitalists, who have been con-
Quoting a quiet investigation in Los
Angeles, left equally secretiyely Mon
day for New York, London and Paris
&c confer with syndicates there.
Revelation OF the big plans now
maturing we're made known yester-
day by A. III. Wilkins. advertising
manager OF, the Janss Investment Com
pany. Mr.. wilkins spent four weeks
in the islands, partly on business and
partly for recreation. He came In df-
rect touch with the men negotiating
the big project and accompanied the
representatives to Los Angeles. He
declares himself under pledge not to
reveal the identity of the men imme-
diately interested in the scheme.
Under the present status of affairs
in the islands, Honolulu and San Fran
cisco have monopoly on the island
trade. This is because the only freight
boats of any capacity now ply be-
tween the island of Oahu, on which Is
located Honolulu, and San Francisco.
Oahu is small island. its products
are insignificant as compared with
those OF the island of Hawaii, the
chief port of which is Hilo, yet the
Hilo exports are now forced into
Honolulu, where they pass into the
hands OF the Honolulu-San Francisco
shipping syndicate.
s THE Hawaiian growers have be-
come tired of the situation declares
Mr.. wilkins, ~btH. they have been nri-
able to counteract conditions because
San Francisco has been the only port
OF moment on the west coast. They
might establish their own direct
steamship lines, but they found that
through wharfage charges and other
handicaps they could not successfully
compete with the Honolulu-San Fran
cisco capitalists.
eThe Los Angeles harbor offers the
one opportunity Of breaking the pres
ent bonds. The growers have for q
c0nsiderable>time been organizing on
the island OF Hawaii to make Los An
geles the outlet for $50 ,000. 900 worth
az products. They are now sufficiently
coalesced to go ahead with their big
plan.s
The investigators who have been
here are convinced that Los Angeles
viii provide sufficient harbor facili-
ties. with their report they have
gone East, and on their return are
expected to announce that the build
ing Of immense freight boats to ply
between HiIo and San Pedro will be
started at once.
Island Products for the Coast.
The Oceanic wharf is piled with
punches of bananas. sacks of sugar,
and cases of pines. destined for the
Pacific coast In the liner Sonoma,
that is scheduled to sail for San Fran
cisco at six o'clock this evening. The
vessel was an early arrival at the
port from Australia by the way Of
Page Pago. Between fifty and seven
ty.fiye cabin passengers have been
booked for the mainland in the yes
sell From Honolulu the Sonoma will
load $1,000 cases of canned pineap-
pies, $500 bags of sugar, 200 bags
rice, 5000 lunches bananas, fortyffiye
cases honey. sixty-five crates fresh
pineappIes, ten tons old copper. 300
empty barrels and ninety-seyen bar
rels hides.
Norwegian Steamer here for Coal.
The Christian Bors, a new Norwe-
gian freighter. laden with 100000
feet of lumber, from Columbia river.
steamed into the barbor this morning
the vessel to receive three hundred
tons of bunker coal before proceed
ing to Melbourne. -
The passage to the islands was
completed. through favorable weather
in nine days. The vessel will prob.
Ebbly sail for the antipodes this even
ing. The fuel was supplied through
the Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company, -