Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-26
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SHIPPING
PORTS HANDLING
TRADE OF
HAWAII
IU|I M H.I


Mainland ports handling the $751;.
06s,S SET commerce between Hawaii
and the mother country for the twelve
months ended June 80, 1913, with the
amounts outward and inward. are
here shown
Shipments from Hawaii.
& To San Francisco. $23.495, 217: to
Delaware Breakwater. s1s,6s5.301: TO-
New York $299 1876; to San Pedro.
1887: to San Diego. $43.1s2; to Los
Angeles, $42.475; to Port Hartford.
sSs,sS0; TO Port Townsend. $3.50; to
aberdeen, Wash, $50; total, $42.652,-
462.
Shipments 20 Hawaii.
FROM San Francisco. $20. 424.606; I
from New York, $5,567,0S1: from
Puget Sound, $685.. 221; from Los
Angeles, S241, 069; from Astoria, Ore4
$132,0S0; from Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va, $3.50; from Humboldt,
Cal, $41 ,562: from Portland. Ore,
$4,000. Total. $SO. All .S9s.
How Carried.
or the shipments from Hawaii
$41, 012,43S was carried in American
steam vessels and $1,640,024 in Amer
lean sailing vessels.
OF the shipments to Hawaii $2S,-
503.108 was carried in American
steam vessels. S1,856,SH In American
sailing vessels and $52,9S0 IN foreign
steam vessels. The last item repres
sents coal for the local naval station
from Virginia.
Il
electricity for HarnaeIes. s.
An electric process for keeping the
hulls Of ships free from barnacIes has
been invented. Boats fitted with the
apparatus. It is claimed will never
be .hampered in speed BY barnacles.
and the life Of The ships huh viii be
longer
ny means of few submerged car
bon poles insulated from the hull. |
electric currents are passed to the
hull. causing eiectrolysis Of the sea |
water. The result Is that chlorine is |
diseneaged from ne salt In the water
which Immediate ~ forms Q compound |
known as Hhypocbl prite.. and this ef- |
fectiyely kills NE barnacles Hydro
gen gas IS also generated on the hull
Itself forming IN minute bubbles,
gently diseneages the bar1acles.
which fall away INTO the sea. Coca
sional application Of the Appliance is
all that is necessary.
The installaf 81 FOR q ship Of 1000
tons '.l..l sr e3soo y0dlSS i : estimated
A1'''s Sow
Fran Ready for New Canal. /
Captain Torvald Nilsen, commander
Of the Fran, which is to convey Am
undsen's North Pole expedition, arrfy-
ed At New York On September 9. from /
Christiania on the Victoria Luise. He |
came IN response to a cable message /
FROM Amundsel, and viii 80 at once
to Colon. where the Fran Is ready |
to be taken through the Panama ca
nal Amundsen viii board the ship at |
San Francisco
Captain Nilsen said he had been adj
vised that the Fran would be the !
first ship to pass through the canal.
Colonel George W. Goethals, chief en-
gineer of the canal. said q short time |
ago that the Fran would not the first |
boat. although it would doubtless be (
one OF the frst
New AMMAN Now In the Pacific.
Another Of the new "funneiIess
freight carriers. constructed and op- /
Grated by a. Danish company, has I
reached the Pacific, the vessel having i
called at Hongkong within the past
month to take on cargo destined for
the west coast Of the United States.
The strange appearing craft awak-
ened more than passing interest
among shipping people fat the China
coest port The AMMAN burns liquid l
fuel in especially designed internal
engines This represents /
the fourth vessel Of its kind in the
Pacific.
Strathardle Ready to Sail.
Captain Lamont OF the British |
freighter Starthardle. has arranged |
for the clearance Of his vessel for |
Gray's Harbor, and it Is expected that
the freighter that arrived at Pearl |
Harbor on September 9Th with 600
tons coal from the east coast Of the
United States viii depart for the north |
Pacific coast this afternoon or tomor-
row morning. The Starthardle viii
san from Pearl Harbor direct to the
northern port.
WiIhclmins Bringing Big Cargo.
4 Castle and Cooke have been advis- |
ed that the Matson Navigation steam
er Wilbelmina from San Francisco
and due to arrive here on next Tues
day morning. viii bring 1900 tons of
freight for discharge at Honolulu and
in tfansit viii carry 1875 tons destin-
ed for Hilo.
Nitrates from South America.
Tafee thousand tons Of nftrates
are due to arrive at Honolulu in the
Togo Kisen Kaisha steamer Anyo
Maru. that is new expected to reach |
the port from Central and South
Amorica about October 18th. The yes
sci Is 10 bn herfhad af fho ,tnra,- n IL 1