The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-11-27
HEAVY TRAFFIC
THROUGH CANAL
Steamers Carried immense Ton
mage ID Panama waterway
During Past Two Months

During the period of two montha,
from August 10 to October IS, that
the Panama Canal has been open 20
traffic, the commercial vessels which
have been using ii have carried through
5S3,04g tons of cargo. The traffic has
followed fairly well defined trade
routes, and the course OF the great mas
iority Of vessels may be roughly elassed
n four great groups, says the Canal
Record. N fFPf
Tho heaviest traffic has been between
the Atlantic and Pacific COASTS OF the
United States. Manufactured goods OF
great variety and general merchandise
are cgfried from the Atlantic seaboard
principally FROM New York, and sec.
1ndarily from Boston, philaaelphia and
New Orleans, 10 the principal Califof.
MIA and Puget Sound ports; also 10
Honolulu. Oh the eastbonnd voyage,
these vessels carry chiefly canned fruits,
vegetables and salmon, lumber, grain,
sugar, pineapples and wine. This
trade is restricted to vessels Of Ameri.
an registry, and nearly ali the Ameri-
IAN Vessels which have used the eanal
have been engaged in IT, During the
period Of canal operation, twenty -four
vessels have passed through eastbound
on this route with ISL ,290 tons, and
twenty-five westbound with 1894
tons These passages, forty-nine IN all,
have constituted approximately forty
four per cent of all the 113 passages
through the canal The total cargo car
RED on this route, 2s6,504 tons. has
been almost exactly 80 per cent Of all
cargo. ..
Nitrates Principal Cargo
A route between the eastern coast Of
the United States and the west coast
Of South America has been second in
cargo through the canal Northbound
vessels carry principally nitrates from
the fields Of Chile, with secondary ear
60 Of raw material products Of the
western countries of South America,
and southbopnd vessels carry manufac-
tured goods from the United States and
Europe. The northbound traffic, pass
ing thirteen vessels with 90, 1870 tons,
through the canal during the two
months period, has considerably lex
eeeded the southbound consisting of
three vessels with 1880 tons, aud one,
in ballast, though the latter seems to
be getting under way, G n
Trafic to Europe
There has been a. marked, though
probably seasonal, traffic from the Pa
cifc, ports of the United States and
southwest Ganada to Europe with
grain. Ten vesseIs, each heavily laden.
have gone through eastbound, with n y,
500 tons, and eight vessels, all OF for
eign registry, haYe gone from the Az
iantic to the Paef6c, in ballast, TO re-
turn on this route with grain. in adj
iition, one vessel, which went through
the canal with 5000 tons Of manufac-
tpred goods, frsm Antwerp 10 Tacoma,
Is to return with grain.
The fourth great route has been
from the Atlantic seab0ard Of the
United States TO China and Japan, with
refined petroleum in bulk and in cases,
and other petroleum products. -Four
vessels have gone through in this trade.
from the Gulf of Mexico, with 24,93l
tons, and -four from Philadelphia and
New York, with 26,570 tons, an aggre-
gate of 5l,50l tops. No vessels have
gone in the other direction on this
route.
Atlantic Coal franc
Next TO the four principal routes
lust described, the most notable devel.
opment has been the coal traffic from
the middle Atlantic seahoard of the
United states to the Pacific Coast Of
North and South America. Five yes
sells, four from Norfolk, with 22,535
tons, and one FROM Baltimore, with 5000
tons, have carried coal to the upper
Pacific, and one vessel from Baltimore
hos carried 60lO tons to Valparaiso.
The total coal carried has been S4,545
tons. None Of these vessels have re-,
turned through the canal 10 this time
but IL Is understood they will load with
Pacific Coast produets for the eastern
United States and for Europe.
The development of a line from Liv-
efpool around South America, with yes
sells sailing both ways, via the canal,
has been arrested by the European war
The only vessel 10 have used the canal
in this route was the steamship Potosi,
which passed through the canal on Sep.
tember 25, on its way sontn, alorg the
west roast of South America. II was
held in the bay at Bnlboa, awaiting or
lers, but sailed on ,OctDber -. ..i.
The steamship Desabla, which passed
through the canal,on October ~, in bal
last, was ON its way from Rio de janet,
70 to San Pedro for cargo of fuel oil
The military service Of the United
States has used the canal for the pass.
age Of one army transport and one
navy collier, both from Pacific to At.
lhntic, tu lttA @y
ing Priscilla and the Indian was played
by John Law. a.G,..H 2,.s..,