The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-06
That Is Andrew Furuseth's ExpIa-
nation Of Changes In Sched-
uIe Recently Announced
TOXIC PAPER EXPLAINS
JAPANESE LINES, STATUS
Says Nippon Yusen kaisha May
Consider Amalgamation
With the Xxx.

ident Of the Seamen's Union, who is
in Washington preparing to resist any
effort that may be made for the revis-
ion or repeal Of the La Toilette sea-
men 3 bill, the withdrawal Of Pacific
Mail steamers from service under the
American flag on the Pacific is mere
ly to be temporary, for the purpose of
converting them into oil burners, and
not because as alleged of hardship
about to be inflicted upon American
shipping by law. Furuseth says that II
the President thinks FOR a moment that
the La Toilette bill will drive Amer
lean ships fom the seas II is because
he has been misinformed. 4..
He declared that the Pacific Mail
wRs not going out of business as
threatened, but was. merely divesting
itself of Southern Pacific ownership
for the purpose Of being apie TO run lbs
vessels through the Panama Canal in n
service between Hongkong and New
York. ''- r.. ~"
Take Two Months
"Tbe Union Iron Works. said
Furuseth, "has furnished, at the re-
ruest OF the Pacific Mail, specifications
for changing its steamships to oil,
burners. The change will require two
months, disarranging the schedules 80
that the company cannot make book
ings for sailings.
Thus the Pacific Mail says n par
tial truth by reporting that It will els
continue operations on November 4.
1.-THE Mongolia is the first steam
ship scheduled to be converted into an
oil burner, 1t probably will go to the
Union Iron Works in November.
ave expect a big howl from now
until that time because all of the book
ings Of the Mongolia must be can
celed.' &c..
Not More Costly
Furuseth contends that the provIs-
ions of the Seamen 3 law making it
necessary to employ white instead n
Asiatic labor aboard American ships
will not make operations more costly
as asserted by shipping interests, as
ships can be operated with fewer
white men than yellow or brown.
Another interesting light on Trans
Pacific trade comes from San Francisco.
Regarding the attitude Of the Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha toward the proposed
nmalgamation with the Togo Kisen
Kaisha, of which reference has been
previously made, the Nichi Nichi, a
prominent Toxic newspaper, learns
that once Baron Shibusawa entered
into informal negotiations on the ques-
ton with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
directors, but they ended in failure,
Baron Kondo, president of the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, stating that the time
was not yet opportune for such move.
Subsidy Falls OF
There are indications, however, that
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha management
is willing to consider the offer, and
the refusal was not the final one. Ae-
cording to the Nichi Nichi, the man,
cement OF ocean navigation by the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha recently has be,
come very difficult owing to the grad
ral decrease of the shipping subsidy.
The Nippon Yusen' Kaisha therefore is
in need of the most economical use of
the ships for its future management,
End the ships must be of such build
that they are, rather fitted for carry
lag cargo, which constitutes the main
sources of income to the company.
The Togo Risen Kaisha ships are
rather fitted as passenger boats than
os cargo vessels, and this was the rea
son why the Nippon Yusen Kaisha de
clined the offer for amalgamation for
the first time. If, however, the Togo
Kisen Kaisha find it difficult to main
tain business as an independent com
rany and deem it best to sell to the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha on some reason
able condition, the latter would con
slider the question, but the Togo XII
zen Kaisha is not yet in such difficulty
What VIII Government Dor
Nothing has yet been ascertained of
the attitude of the government, but it
appears certain, says the Nichi Nichi,
that the department of communications
could not overlook the Togo Kisep
naIsha Ding to such an extreme diff
Guilty and would attempt mediation be
tween the companies when an Oppor'
truity presents itself for such a move
u is also rumOred that certain Togo
Risen Kaisha director some time ago
approached the Osaka Shosen Kaisha
for the amalgamation, but the latte'
il said to have declined the offer on
the ground that the Osaka Shosen Kai'
'ha Is not in a position to consider the
Propositio9, "
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