Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-08
new SCHEDULE IS.
EXPECTED 70 !
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at tue port sails Tor San Francisco
tomorrow on the new schedule, that
vessel viii be supplied through the
agency OF s. Brewer & Company, with
one OF the largest shipments Of Ha,
waiian products since going into com.
mission on the island rum.
More than 5000 tons of cargo will
be taken on this trip or the popular
liner, consisting OF $500 tons OF sugar,
B0G0 cases of pineapples, 300 bunch.
es OF bananas and large quantity Of
miscellaneous freight Sixtylfive cab.
In passengers have been booked and
eightyfour steerage passengers, the
majority OF whom are Portuguese.
bound for the mainland to seek their
fortunes In the fields and orchards Of
California.
Sailings In the Oceanic service have
been SO arranged that in future two
weeks will elapse between departures
for Australia from San Francisco.
When the Union line installed its
vessels on the Australia-San Francisco
run, Il arranged for sailing every
fourth Wednesday. The Oceanic line
dispatched the Ventura or Sonofna on
the following Tuesday. Both vessels
would arrive at Sydney within "a
hours. The ARRANGEMENT proved nm
satisfactory for both travellers and the
shipment OF mail. there being practi.
cally an entire month between ar.
rivals in Australia.
The officials Of both companies be-
Heye that the new arrangement, which
viii provide for the ships OF the Union
and Oceanic lines TO alternate at two
weeks intervals, Will result in an in
crease III the travel especially from
Australia To San Francisco. The 81.
ezra. which steains only to Honolulu,
viii sail about the same time as the
Union steamer.
Il Is also believed that when the
tourist Is given the opportunity to
sail for the antipodes at two weeks
intervals larger number win book
on one Of the lines. In anticipation OF
increased opportunity for procuring
business both concerns have arrang.
Cd 70 extend their agencies.
Liner Cleveland IN Collision.
Thrice q visitor at Honolulu, bear
ing large party OF round. the-world
excurEionists. the Observation-Disclosures
steamship Cleveland figured conspi-
eiou6Iy IN 3 collision IN New York,
bay, the freikhtef Carolina coming IN
contact with the passenger vessel on
April 20. The Carolina while com
ing 70 an anchorage at the Quaran-
tine ran into the Cleveland. the
freightetss stem being twisted above
the wnter line while q number Of
plates IN the Cleveland were dented.
causing her 70 leak The accident 90.
Cured 1t an hour n the morning
when the passengers we're asleep.
Lumber interests Await obsnin0.
The lumber interests OF the Paci.
fie Coast are waiting with keen inter
est TO learn what Is to be done about
the Panama canal tolls before prebar
ing to make q move which may result
IA the movement OF vast amount OF
pine and redwood from the Pacific to
the Atlantic through the big ditch. II
the American shipping Is permitted to
pass through without the payment Of
tolls, Il a expected that the lumber
industry will boom and every lumber
carrier now laid up win be put into
commission and transport lumber and
Yield profit to the owners. It Is said
that free tolls will make possible the
operation of the large lumber trade
through the canal to the Atlantic uu.
def conditions which will make a pro
III possible and put the lumber into
a.