The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-19
GREAT NORTHERN
QUESTION SETTLED
Fast Liner Win Begin Service This
Month-BeIieve Run Will
Be Permanent

san frhnclscO yesterday that the Great
Northern Pacific steamer Great North.
ern, fastest liner under the American
flag and one of the fastest Of the world.
would come here regularly this winter
She will sail from San Pedro No.
Nember 90 for Hilo and Honolulu and
return. The voyage will be the first
Of a twenty dav schedule to be main.
lalned on triangular route between
San Pedro, viii h is the port of Los
! Angeles, HilO, Honolulu and San Frau
/ cisco. Return to San Pedro may he
made by the sister ship Northern Ia.
ciHc, according to former statements
received here by mail The Great North.
crn, will discharge cargo in San Fran.
cisco. and prepare for the next voyage
before going to San Pedro again. The
route of the Northern Pacific will be
extended to San Pedro; it is to San
| Francisco from Astoria now.
Complete Confirmation
| Yesterdays A SDciatSd Press des.
patches were the official seal on what
had been assured for weeks. 1t was
| learned when Cal F.. Stone, general
1
that the steamers coming virtually was
assured; and newspaper after newspa.
per on the Coast had stated positively
that the liner would come, the culmina.
ton coming when the October number
of Travel magazine carried a paid ad-
\ yertisement that the ship would come,
although the date Of the first sailing
from San Francisco was given as No.
vember 6.
A radiogram from H. P. Wood, OK.
nosition representative, to the promo.
ton committee, received last night, gave
more detailed information.
Initial Schedule
| "Great Northern leaves for Honolu-
In November 90; arrives San Pedro No
yember 81; Hilo December 2; Honolulu
December 3; leaves Honolulu midnight
8. Trip every twenty days. Company
believes that service will be perma nent.
Feels assured of greatest success. "
If Mr.. Wood means that the service
would continue through out each year
and for every year, this is better than
expected. The tentative plan had been
| for a six months service each winter
if the first venture were successful, with
the ship returning to the coastwise
run during the summer, when travel
there would be heavier and travel to
the Islands lighte-. Mr.. Wood may
mean that the company believes the
steamer will run here each winter, Of
course, and not all year.
Sending the ship to Hlo may be per.
manent or for the one trip onlv, a let
ter from Mr.. Wood said. This was
received when the sending of the
steamer here had not been announced
formally.
China to Return
Besides the Great Northern, the old
Pacific Mailer China will come soon, a.
announced before. A special cablegram
to the Hawaii Shinpo, received yester
day, said that the China would sal
from San Francisco October 20 or 30
to run between San Francisco aud tn"
Orient, competing with the T. X. X
Former advices had said she would
sail October IS, yesterday. She will
fly the Chinese flag and will be owned
by the China Mail Steamship Company
This line purchased her from the At
lantic Transport Company Of West Vir.
GINA, which had bought her from the
Pacific Mail at stated price Of $3.50,
| OO0
Honolulu Chinese have been asked to
buy stock in the new line. Requests
had been made before, it was said, but
"A cablegram received by the Chung
Wah Merchants Association yesterday
from Look TineG, manager Of the com
pany, formally asked for aid in. sell
ing stock.
To Help the Nation
Mailer China purchased. She will
sail within this month, Requesting your
association to give assistance in selling
stocks so as to maintain the dignity
of the nation. Other details will be
given in writing afterward.
The "dignity of the nation ma,
seem cryptic, but it may be surmisr
that it bears upon the Japanese. II
is well known that a Chinese boycott
of the Togo Kisen Kaisha has existr"
for years, long before the recent dc
mands on the republic by the empire
and those demands have intensified the
bitterness. Chinese here and in Cali.
fornia have stood together in this. Since
the Pacific Mail has suspended the onl,
ships in which Honolulu Chinese could
receive freight from the Orient were
the Togo Kisen Kaisha steamers, bu
the opening of the Chinese line will
give them vessels under their own flag
Dignity of the nation" may mean,
therefore, the continuance of the boy
! colt.
After More Ships
Other ships besides the China ar
to he bought. They will have to b
| manned by Caucasian officers, because
it Is to be doubted whether the Chi
Ucse, not a maritime nation, have man,
competent men. Inasmuch as the ap
plication of the Seamen's Law to for
| rgn ships does not come until March
aud nbrogation of treaties must pre-
rrdc, it is very doubtful whether the
Chinese will have any trouble with the
/ language provision which the Pacific
Mail asserted drove it out OF business
The law might be repealed and abro
eating treaties NAV not be SO easy a.