Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-14
ENNHSSEH
enter HARbOR

The biggest day along Honolulu's
waterfront in many months. was re-
! corded with the arrival Of seven YES
sells at the port today.
The American-Hawaiian freighter
Mexican, with four thousand tons car
20 from the east COGst Of the United
States came to a, berth at the railway
wharf shortly after ten O'Clock.
| The United States army transport
Logan, from San Francisco, conveying
the troopship Sheridan, was moored at
Oceanic wharf by nine O'Clock. QEer
at the railway wharf, the Sheriday,
also from San Francisco with fifteen
hundred military passengers, awaited
the letting down of the quarantine
bars.
The station oil tanker Falls of Clyde
was towed into the harbor this morn.
ing, after having been discharged of a
shipment of fuel Gil at Kahului and
kaanapali.
The Matson Navigation steamer
I.uFline, from San Francisco with sixty
passengers and three thousand ton.
freight was given berth at the
Hackfeld wharf shortly after mon
hour.
Coal for the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Company arrived here dpr-
ing the morning in the British freig 1T
tr Harlesden. This vessel steamer up
from Newcastle, N. s. W. in twenty
three days. Her cargo includes i've
thousand tons of fuel which will be
discharged into the bunkers at the
Inter-Island coal wharf.
Lumber to the amount OF over a
million feet arrived early this morn
ing in the American schooner Alice
Cooke. This vessel saflcd from Port
Townsend on December II. Captain
Burmeister, reported rough weather
for the first week out from the Sound
port, after which the schooner Jared
much better. The Alice Cooke ard
cargo is coaiigned, to the local branch
OF Levers and Cooke.
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Portland Gets New Orient Line
The Hamburg. American line will
institute new monthly trans-Pacific
freight service next month into Port
land and Vancouver, The new line
viii be an extension of toe fleet oper-
ating from Hamburg and Antwerp into
the Orient, via Suez. The first steam
Ter of the new service will be the
Sithonia, Captain B. Kotbe, leaving
Antwerp January %, Hamburg Febru-
airy 6 and arriving in Portland, via
Vancouver, in April, loading for re-
turn at the end of April.
The vessels now. operating in the
East Asia fleet are the Silesia, Sax
onia, Spezia, Scandal, Brisgavia,
Pruessen, Belgravia, Sachen and
Senegambia, and these will probably
continue in the extended trans-Pacific
service
Tho service will place the Ham
burg-American line in competition
with the Holt, Harrison and Kosmos
lines into Puget sound, the Holt line
running via Suez and the other two
via Magellan. Since the Hartman
lines abandoned the trans-Pacific
service out of Portland there has been
no regular service into the Orient
from that port, the trade being car
ried on by tramp steamers.
The decision to establish the SER
vice is the result of the recent visit
to the coast of George Giese, special
representative of the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line, who left this city a fort
night ago for Hamburg.
New Liners Collide.
VICTORIA, December 25.-While Iy-
ms at the Fairfield shipbuilding yards
On the Clyde, the new steamships for
the Canadian Pacific service on the
Pacific, the Empress of Asia and the
tlpress of Russia, were in collision
recently and each was considerably
damaged about the upper works. Old
country papers in by the last mail
state that during a gale on November
q the Empress of Russia broke away
from her moorings and was carried
by the force Of the wind against her
sister ship, which was lying a short
distance away. The vessels came to-
gether with great ciolence and both
were damaged in the collision. the up
Fer works being smashed to a consid-
cradle extent in both cases.
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Liners Sold on the Stocks
Two steamers building by A Nc
MILAN and Sons, Dumbarton, 20 the
order of l. B. Parsons & Co., Glasgow,
have been sold to Lamport & Holt,
Liverpool, for about G75,000 each.
They are each to have lightweight
carrying capacity Of 9,400 tons on a
draught of rs feet, inch, dimensions
AIS feet by Sc feet by 80 feet, 9 inches.
Dates set for Arrival Of Empress.
The new liner Empress Of Russia
for the Canadian Pacific Railway Com