The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-08-28
REFINERS WIN
LOWER RATE
u ON SUGAR
Interstate Commerce Commission
Orders Cut in Freight to Chi
cage That Means Big Gain for
Producers Of Hawaii ~ Former
Handicap Removed.


W. st,,N5om,,,,
uAoN, august 26-- Associ'
aeeu iress Dy Federal wireless The
invets'aes commerce commission today n
cut the freight rate ON California sugar II
TO twenty five cents above the New Or
leana rata "a f,b;osao ara ,,o;,,.. 49,.
J. ! ~, ~ ..'s ~ pV'H'S eass
" vno Hiissouri FlVer'
Statistics show that during 1913
seven Western States, with an aggre.
rata non,Iat;on 80 eos 40, go,
20 400 $50 q 80 paouuSr
sy,sNVV WIS - aNsnl' quantlty SUI
hcient to supply 2O,0OO,000 persons.
AZ rs generally believed that much OF
the Hawaiian sugar formerly shipped to
New York viii now 20 to San francisco
rehncries and be taken East overland.
--
The freight rate on refined sugar
from San Francisco to Chicago hereto
fore has been fftysfve cents per hun.
dred pounds. Under this new order IL
is reduced to forty-six cents, placing |
the Western refners on an even basis |
with their Eastern competitors. This |
concession comes as the result of a |
long, hard fight made by the Crockett |
rehners and the California beet sugar |
interests for more equitable treatment
by the transcontinental railroads.
Western Refiners Handicapped.
Mneb .e.+;,non,, yvas taLa,, ~, ar
Interstate Commerce communication Geoyge
M PoInL ,,,anao,os ~ ar c,oi;f...;e -
Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company. ties.
titled last January. At the time the
rate from New York or New Orleans
TO Chicago was twenty-three cents and
to Missouri river points thirty.two
cents.
The Hawaiian raw sugars have been
bought by the Crockett refinery at the
New York price Of the day preceding
the arrival of the cargo, less an arbi.
trary differential Of Ave dollars per
ton, or twenty-five cents per hundred
pounds G,
Mr.. Rolph stated that Western re-
liners were handicapped by having to I
shin IN 60,O00-pound ears, as compared
with the $4,000 to 38.00o-pound ears
from New York, Philadelphia and New
Drieaps; There was also 2 discrimina-
ton Of four to eight days in time. An.
other adverse factor was the tare on
harrels allowed Eastern and Southern
Shippers OF sOO pounds per carload,
was freo warshonsing mi insrrnnca
given Eastern sngars ~ Iake norts
an oro.s Wastarn ss,,sa ~ haa :, PsaaL
public warehouses and nav storage and
insurance.
Proved Their Contentious. s,
Yasterdav,s cableotom ;ndicates Tint
tbe interstste comm cree commission has
f,,Ilv racognizsd Tho r;gbts ~ Hawa.
iian CaIifornia and ether westcrn
snr nrad,,ears rsast.iotaS 81,
trsnce into tbe Mississ;nni Vallev mar.
tn,a 60 ~ S;a,I y az 1870
nj -, LIZ, - "Is,',. ~ -, I,,l rs'
a. 800 800 49, - So ~ ~,
iaa N VIII NAL SAL Franeiseo tha
iog;noI mari, ~ for tba cntiro HaSai;an
crop. W. !. =. M
A. M. Novel;, manager of the Sugar
Factors Company, left for San Fran
cisco Yesterday, and II is understood
that the routing of next year 8 output
is one of the matters which will be
taken M by him.
The new freight rates will make an
appreciablc difference in the returns
which Hawaiian planters Will receive
for their crops. - ~g vi
= y r.
with almost no applause. Tho major.
NV az he audience was Hawaiian, but
there wore anita q number of others.
x,hto no. tha Edge .5
~ s
The campaigning 81 carter anu
Woods ON this iEP was largey ID the
nature OF personal eahyassing, uo.n
having already held public meetings,
hanau,o ~, APpqtsn'g a ns ~ ba wost
Z. ! ~ ny I. saa,, ~ ~ ne
my ior ~u .I ~. iudma ~ boro that
' v'iii ~ wv 1890 "a "a a,,sI,ss
nuilio = MaSaad No aaa;ast Waads
ts'Sp, n' s.,,, In b;str;otI tnaicata t6at
1 NJ iI . ~ ~ i"se L 800
nu.'g sVtss ~ a IT,
nurl 'Huen y s'n 1900 ~"
Legislative contests
The contests for the legislature are
very tame. On the Democratic side
there is no contest at all, as the party
has only named just the number OF
candidates to be nominated, and a
single vote will nominate any and all