Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-05
GET NO NOTICE
OF SUSPENSION
BY END OF JULY
Local Offices of Pacific Mail
Still Operating Under Orders
Received Last March "
PLENTY OF SPACE LEFT -. "
IN STEAMERS TO COAST
Sierra Today Could Have Car
ried 40 More Passengers
Matson Boats Rarely Filled


ASSOCIATED Press by Federal Wirelessl
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.-Freight
engagements for the Pacific Mail
Steamship. Company are not being
made beyond July 81, according to or.
ders received at this office Of the com
pany, and all passages en9aned for the
Orient after that date are subject TO
cancellation.
The announcement corning by wire
kss from San Francisco today that
the Pacific Mail has order Il 4 can
cellatien of agreements TO curry
freight from San Francisco or ports
in the Orient after July 81, mas not
been officially received at the agency
of II. Hackfeld & Company.
The Hcnoiulu agents have for tno
months done business unIer IN ar
rangement that followed q general
order to all representatives of the Pa
cific Mail when it was said the5 com.
pany expected to suspend its trans
pacific freight and passenger service
In November.
Passengers who booked fer Homo
lulu at the mainland agencies are now
threatened with a cancellation OF
their transportation by the order.
Officers in Toyo Kisen Kaisha
steamers which have recently visited
Honolulu profess to believe the Pacific
Mail will be taken over by japanese.
II was stated that an offer of ma
jority OF PactIc Mail shares had been
made to japanese capitalists and that
the proposal had received serious con.
s!Geraticn. ~
TO lay the slump in tourist travel
from the mainland TO Hawaii, to a
eitf6fe1sfca4 sfur CT passenger travel
from this end of the. line, is ridicu-
ious,s = was the opinion expressed by
an official of the Matson Navigation
Company this morning.
The. steamer Matsonia left Homo
lIlH last Wednesday morning with
accommodation for 20 more passen-
gers in the first class, had they ap-
piled for transportation, he added.
There are g cabins in the Wilhel-
nina. II left the coast with l07 pas
sengers. Using all available berths
the Wilhelmina can accommodate 146
cabin passengers"
The challenge was made today that
existing records Of incoming first-class
passengers from the mainland to Ho-
ncluiu would show that the travel had
utilized little more than so per cent
of the available accommodation in
vessels of the Matson, Oceanic and
Pacific Mail lines.
IL is pointed out that since the first
of the year some Of the steamers have
been carrying about one.fifth of the
number for which they have accom-
mediation
with nine vacant first-class state
rooms, Is cabins with but one passen
ger each, and only two travellers in.
each of the occupied rooms, the Ocean
ic liner Sierra steamed to San Fran
cisco at noon today, taking 1872 cab
in and 20 steerage passengers.
c. Brewer & Company, represent
ing the Oceanic line, brand as non.
sense the statement that the Sierra
would leave for the mainland today
full from stem to stern and that not
as much as settee was to be had
for love or money.
On a basis of two passengers to
stateroom, the Sierra could have ac.
40 more passengers on
the present trip to the coast When
booked to its capacity the vessel can
easily accommodate 225 cabin passen.
gers.
We could have easily accommodate
ed so more coast-bound passengers
had they applied for transportation,
was stated at the agency this morn
ing.
The Oceanic vessel was well filled
with freight. It's cargo included 1000
tons of sugar, 3400 punches of banan.
as. 73S bundles of hides, and 150 tons
of sundries.
The departure of President Joseph
Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints, and Senator
Reed Smoot, who have been touring
the islands. attracted to the dock
large following of local adherents to
the Mormon church. Members Of the
Bevani Opera Company we're the re-
cipients of an enthusiastic farewell
reception by friends made during
their engagement in this city. The
Sierra carried a large coast-bound
mail.