Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-04
HAWAII TOURIST
TRADE Will get
AN AWFUL BLOW
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and two others under British registry,
all except one with a regular call at
Honolulu. In addition to the loss OF
the steamer accommodations for at
least $500 passengers to and from the
islands annually, Honolulu will lose
passengers who have decided pref
erence for big steamers like the Man.
churfa and Mongolia and refuse to
travel on the smaller boats of the To-
cal lines.
In the event that Congress suspends
coastwise legislation which now pro-
nibits foreign registered ships from
carrying passengers to and from the
islands and the mainland, then Amer
lean shipping will lose more on the
Pacific than the fathers Of the La Fol-
lette seamen's act had hoped to gain
say local shipping men.
The mail situation Is not so serious.
approximately 1000 bags of mail are
hauled each way between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu each month by the
Pacific Mail. During July 1916 bags
were brought to the islands by Pacific
Mail boats. and 244 bags were sent
back. The Matson line carries about
double this amount.
Under ordinary conditions the ISL
ands would get coast mail every Tues
day morning In the Matson boats and
every other Monday morning on the
Oceanic steamers. The T. X. X. line
carries about the same amount of
mail for the islands and from Honolulu
as the Pacific Mail.
An average of Is passenger steam
ers month visit Honolulu from the
mainland and about the same number
depart monthly. The Pacific Mail
steamers average three boats month
coming one way and two boats a
month the other direction, the number
alternating each month. Thus after
November Honolulu will get only 10
passenger steamers each way per
month, under existing schedules.
Recent dispatches from San Fran
cisco are to the effect that President
Asano Of the 4. X. X. line, who is in
San Francisco, may arrange for the
purchase Of his company of the Korea,
Mongolia and Siberia, or for con-
solidation of the two lines.
The Pacific Nah is now operating
under American registry the steamers
Mongolia, Manchuria, Siberia, Korea
and the China In the transpacific trade,
carrying local passengers for Honolu-
lu, and the steamers Nile and Persia
have been operated on the same run
under British registry The Nile is at
present temporarily withdrawn.
The Matson line operates four pas
senger ships 3 month, one coming and
going each week. They are the Mat
sonia, Wilhelmina, Manoa and Lurline.
The Oceanic rompany's two Australi-
an-San Francisco route steamers, the.
Ventura and Sonoma, carry local pas
sengers to Honolulu every two weeks
and the same icompany operates the
Sierra on the San Francisco Honolulu
run, with trip each way every month.
The Sierra is at present on the dry
dock for repairs but probably will be
back In service by the time the Pacific
Mail quits.
The Canadian Australasia line, op-
Grating the Makura and Niagara, calls
here with passengers to and from Van
couver once each month. Two T. X.
K. steamers call here going to and
from San Francisco each month, but
under the coastwise act they cannot
carry any. except lay-over passengers
between the mainland and the islands,
except under fine of 5000 for each
passenger.
The 18th steamer is the United
States army transport One call going
to the coast and one from the coast is
made each month. There are the Lo-
gan, the Sherman, the Sheridan and
the Thomas In transport service. In
addition the transport Dix, the horse
boat calls here about every two or
three months.
Il wrote to H. p. Wood, our repre-
sentative at the San Francisco expo
sition. July %, asking him to interview
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
and obtain from it 9 definite state
ment as TO its future plans" said Act
ing Secretary A. p. Taylor OF the Ha-
wall Promotion Committee, when seen
this morning relative to the situation
Il instructed him to find out ex-
actly how the Pacific Mail stands as
concerns the Honolulu service and adj
vised him to cable US II necessary. To
date I have received no answer but
am expecting one almost any day."
Mr.. Taylor has at the committees
rooms in the Young building copy
of the Chicago Commerce, the Chica-
go Chamber of Commerae's official
This organization is pre-
pairing strenuous fight against the
La Toilette seamen's bill.