The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-02-06

year affair, and the money TO keep ~
them going was hard TO get and had 90
TO be got on twelve per cent basis -
plus a promise Of big returns. Divi.
dends were rare occurrences.
"These men got togetherfor the pnr- ~
pose of sizing up the possibilities Of 81
the sugar business in Hawaii and made
conscientious estimate, based on past
experience and the areas apparently yet
available for cane culture the result. ~
Of their deliberations was that 100000
tons was the limit, the extreme limit.
Thus is measured, gentlemen, the power III
Of the human to look into the future ~
The Planters Line. ia,
"0ur firm, in those early so e. when -
Captain Matson was looking for a lit
tie ballast, handled about 5000 tons OF ~,
sugar, and our Planters Line of ships
| TO carry il of were the barkentine Ella
of about 400 tons, the w. II. Meyer of -.
about $50 tons, and the English bark IN
| Lady Lampson, of about $50 tons eapa
city, l recall distinctly that when the ~
i Lampson was reported as Off Koko
Head there was lot Of rustling, as Is
well as growing because she was so big
that II took long time TO load her
and the cargo came In small Jumps;
the island sehooners brought in from ~
500 to 1000 bags at a time.
First Steamer Ferry. ~,
| "In 1888 the Oceanic line put on the
first local steam service of consequence ~
and for year or two operated the
Mariposa and Alameda semi-monthly, 49,
but they were ahead ct their time aud "
were finally put in the Australian ser
vice under subsidy. From that on, we
have had monthly service by the
Oceanic line, which has been maintain ia.
i ed ever since with eommendable regular. ~.
/ ity and dependability.
| "The Matson line was Incorporated ~
In the year 1901, but a speaker, bet =
/ ter informed than !, is to follow me N,
ON the operations Of this company, Z
will not take the chance Of detraeting
anything from his talk on that subject ~
! Reaching the East. s"
Il t'In the late COS, our domestic ex- hl
ports expanded to a point where the "a
Pacific Coast could not eat up what
i Hawaii sent them and this necessitated
our employing the markets of the East
Coast, and for a number of years the \
Cape Horn clippers Of the Dearborn and
Sewall ownership particularly, were emf
ployed TO carry sugars around Cape =
q Horn, and from $4,000 TO 100000 tons ~
Of sugar went over this long run TO
market. ss
Meanwhile the traffic between the
Coast and Hawaii employed a large
sailing feet that was very prosperous, "a
in which Captain Matsoh was promi-
nently identified, but an evolution was
taking place in the direction Of steam
craft that for the moment did not fore n
doom the 'sailer' but you know today y
what has happened.
i Not Enough Ships IA
II recall very well a significant oc i,
currence, just after annexation went
into effect in 1900. AT that time the y
United States Navigation Laws were
applied to Hawaii; il meant that we
could only ship in American bottoms,
whereas before that our surplus we
could ship and did ship under any flag
4 that was available We sized up the a
situation from the standpoint of Amer
lean bottoms and found a rather alarm
ing status. What we found was this:
We required 100000 tons capacity Of 4,
sail tonnage there being no steam ton. =
mage available, to carry our quota Of
Atlantic Coast deliveries via Cape Horn,
and upon searching the records Of Amer
lean shipping, we found that in order N
to fill our tonnage requirements we n
would have to have every sailing ship
that flew the American flag, competent
TO go around Cape Horn, in order to a
take care of our shipments.
cit was rather remarkable state
of affairs, to say the least, that little,
recently aequired Hawaii should have n
commerce via Cape Horn sufficient to 3.
fill every American sailing ship ahoat 4
that could qualify to voyage around
that perilous course The unpleasant AZ
ness of the situation soon developed q
itself through a California company ac-
quiring by purchase, the larger part
of this shipping aud then sending their
head man down here to make the rate
Of freight.
supports Nations Greatest Fleet. n
cit was situation calling for some I.
boldness and front and we finally
brought the new owners to reasonable
terms by obtaining favorable over
land rate of freight; moreover, other
heads were at work and the earlier
ships Of the American Hawaiian line
were soon in the building. This com -
pany, the American Hawaiian, is prob. =
ably today the largest Institution of
its kind under the American Flag, as
understand that with the ships now
in course of building they will have
twenty-six vessels of from 5000 20 L.
600 tons capacity each, and total
Il carrying capacity of 247 900 short tons
Beginning in 1901 with the Magellan
service, this company at the present
day is doing big traffic with the Pa. y
ci6e Coast. IL is fact nevertheless,
that the underlying and principal factor
In deciding the owners TO launch this
venture was that Hawaii had quarter iy
million tons Of produce TO move yearly
, to the Atlantic seaboard, so that il can
ha said. with truth. that the lar@cst ~,
, shipping concern under the American
= Flag, today in the freighting class, was
, built upon the structure OF the CON.
MERGE of Hawaii
. ~. Still Growing
? elm the year 1912, the domestic pru.
Z 4uan nft IL q .