Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-16
RATES
PREDICTED TO
SOAR

Despite the fact that little tonnage
is afloat or under charter to bring
lumber from the coast to the Hawaii
an islands, a reported scarcity of yes
sells is predicted as partly RESPONSE
BILE for the threatened increase in
freight rates on this commodity. That
there will be an advance Of SO cents
to 70 cents q thousand feet for trans
porting lumber from ports in the Pa
cific Coast Northwest to California
within the next two to four weeks is
prediction made by leading shippers
Of the product. IL the surmise proves
true, tho rate win he from $3.50 to
1915 for carrying lumber to San Fran
cisco and 81 to $4.25 q thousand feet
to San Pedro and other points in
Southern California. Weather condt
tions which have prevailed along the
coast the last two weeks or more, IL
Is said, will be responsible in a large
measure for the increase. It Is point.
ed out that the storms, head winds
and fogs have subjected nearly all
of the lumber carriers to unusual de.
lays. Steam sehooners, II is cited,
plying regularly In the lumber trade
have been bar-bound at Gray's Harb0r
a week at q time recently, and at 9TH
er ports vessels have been held back
for a similar reason. Three dollars
thousand feet has been the ruling
quotation for carrying humber to San
Francisco for the last three or four
months. Even at that figure some Of
the operators were unable to pick MP
full cargoes for their. craft until the
stormy season set In. Many of them,
which had been built for the exclus-
i've lumber trade, began carrying
wheat to California Other vessels
were tied up temporarily awaiting an,
Improvement in the situation. But
they finally resumed service until it
is said, there Is scarcely an idle lum-
Der carrier on the coast. Another
reason given for this is that num-
Der of the sailers which had been en-
gagged In the coastwise traffic have
been sent offshore.
The Japanese do not propose to be
beaten In the matter oil operation Of
large and fast liners across the north.
ern Pacific. A Liverpool special dis
patch to a Vancouver paper says:
Two new liners Of almost the same
size as the Empress of Asia and the.
Empress Of Russia, but slightly faster
about half knot, it is understood
--are to be built at Kobe and Maya
saH for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha's
transit Pacific service. AS the vessels
will not be ready to make their initial
trips from Hongkong and Yokohama
for two years, the company has de-.
cided to dispatch to Vancouver two
speedy 3e00-ton boats which have
been chartered from another Japa-
nese concern for the route This
departure, IL is said. Is being made in
order to secure once more SOME Of
the silk business which the new Ca
madam Pacific liners have captured.
The Japanese steamers will connect
at Vancouver with the Great North
ern railway and will be the largest
ever constructed In Japan
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha Is one
of the largest of the Japanese com
panies and already operates one
service as well as q
number of short routes 1t is pro-
posed that with the completion Of
three 20-knot liners, to include, Mani
la in. 20-day passage schedule to
Seattle. and Tacoma.
It is also possible that Manila will
be included in the Japan-FOrmosa
route, giving the Philippines nearly
direct route to Kobe and Yokohama
Manila viii probably be made a port
of call in the projected Europe-yia,
Panama route. as *f a s
Y sss. "a 81 "a "a, 5s..ttelk Il 45
coasting Steamer Goes on Rocks.
Bilge pumps squirting streams OF
water overheard to keep afioat, its
rudder smashed to kind1ing and with
q gaping hole in the stern below the
water line, the steam schooner Alea- /;
traz was towed in from Point Bonita
by a lifesaying launch from as mar [
row an escape from destruction as
ships often pass through, says the i
Examiner. ~ ri. sf5s
The Alcatraz left at sllndown for
the sound OF Point Bonita, hugging
the shore to make the north channel,
its steering gear suddenly refused to
act. - 81 g>z q II -
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