Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-17
CHIYO MARU TO
FIGURE in
SUBSIDY

To share in gigantic subsidy
awarded by the Japanese Diet amour
ting to 4,54S,025 yen for the year
1915, the Togo Kisen Kaisha liner Chi
yo Maru, one of five liners operated
by that company in the trans-Pacific
service. is at Honolulu today, bearing
several distinguished Japanese Off
Gals.
With the arrival OF the Chiyo from
San Francisco today it was learned
that the Japanese department of COM
munications had completed a thor
oUgh investigation previous to decid-
ing as to the opening of a Panama ca
nal route, namely whether the new
route would be found necessary to the
welfare of the steamship company,
that the Japanese treasury had funds
sufficient to grant subsidy for yes
sells proposed on this route, and also
its effects upon the service maintain
ed in the Pacific by the T. X. K.
Honolulu will not be made to suffer
in any event by the establishment of
new line, or the addition of steam!
ers to take care of the cana! business,
was the announcement made this
morning. g. '.'.
At first the selection of an interme-
date port was difficult. The depart
ment considered Honolulu, San Fran
cisco, San Pedro and Salina Cruz,
Mexico, but all these will affect the
San Francisco service or the South
American service of the Togo Kisen
Kaisha; and so finally chose Seattle
The call at Seattle viii mean four
more days. voyage compared with the
direct route to Panama; but this de-
lay is expected to be counterbalanced
by cargo loaded in Seattle
Eight vessels of 10000 tons each
will be employed for the new service,
mainly to carry cargo between Kobe
and New York, and will sail once eY-
cry three weeks. At the beginning,
however, five or six vessels will be
used, and when eight vessels are on
the schedule the subsidy will amount
to about 100000 yen.
The new proposal for ship subsidy
curtails about 100000 yen from what
had been granted previously. The San
Francisco route will be maintained as
before; and either the Tacoma serv-
ice by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, or
the Seattle service by the Nippon Yu-
sen kaisha, will be abandoned, or
be extended further south to the Pan
anna route. The new route for which
the y. Y. K. is to get the contract,
will make Kobe the home port and
New York its terminus. touching at
Seattle. then directly to Colon, at the
Of hn nd oil
New Orleans, then heading to New
York.
One Of the largest delegations Of
tea-buyers to pass through Honolulu
for the Far East in many months is
journeying in the ChiyO Maru. The
big liner was favored by fine weather
from the time Of leaving San Francis
co until the vessel brought up
at quarantine this morning While
but three cabin passengers will re-
main here. the liner carries so cabin.
100 second class and 124 Asiatic
steerage passengers.
Nail to the amount of 200 sacks was
landed here The ChiyO Mary is to
proceed to Japan, China and the Phil
ippines at O'Clock this afternoon.
about forty cabin passengers joining
the liner at Honolulu.
A through cargo Of onoO tons Of gen
eral merchandise is aboard the YES
sci
Edward Socley. who has been
member of the San Francisco wharf
official staff is now freight clerk. TAX
ing the place Of Clarence Ludwigsen.
who has been offered a fine position
with Coast silk importing house.
Sepley has made several trips across
the Pacific in III" TenvO Narn and is |
not a stranger to Honolulu shipping
fraternity Mrs e. Fortune is a new
st"WardesS who is making her first
trip in thu Chiyo Maru.