Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-20

TRAMP STEAMERS
ARE FOUGHT BY
COAST Lines

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Tramp steamers have got to stop
tramping. No longer can they dodge
into this port and that pert and hold
out the lure of cheap passage to every
man with a suit case and to every com
pany with a wagon load of freight
That is, IL the men who own honest
truth ocean going boats which ply
between California ports have their
way.
I The honest-truth ocean shippers
have met with the Railroad Commits
sion at San Francisco. 1t was what
they called an informal discussion. ="
But part of the proceedings was an
extremely heated Indictment of the
men who own tramp steamers
For their self-protection the steam
ship companies, which send vessels
over regular routes. want the public
utilities act changed. They don't see
why they should be Disseminated
against. They don't see why the
"tramps" should be safeguarded By
law. -, =.-.=..
As It is now written the law at,
fleets only vessels regularly engaged
| in the work of transporting persons
and freight from one California port
to another. Furthermore, it affects
only steamships that travel over reg
ular routes" That's why the regular
owners OF regular steamships which
travel regular routes feel they have
grievance. ..sss $500 ,. z .ss='s.-.--
The law, they say. gives the tramp
! q fine chance to make all the money
that can be found on the coast of
california: The tramp can dodge into
this port and that one, make any rates
he feels pleased to make, get his cargo
and his passengers and 90. on his way
without having to do any more than
snap his fingers at the state law.
The fact that he's a tramp and
hasn't any regular route gives him
privileges that the carefully organized
and incorporated companies never
dreamed Of having. The Railroad
Commission took no action They lis
tened to the protests OF the ship own.
ers. They are going to think the
whole problem over. They promised tol
make reeomnn endations.,
Large Grain Fleet Loading.
Composing q fleet of 1888,
tons, 10 sailing vessels are heading for
Puget Sound to load lumber, gram or
cannery supplies. In addition to these
Is now en- route. four sailing vessels
have Just been chartered to load liin-
Der on the Sound Tor Australia. Two
Of these kSels have been chartered
BY }. 81. Moore & co. Of San francisco. /,
They are the British ship Dnnsyre,
which viii load 1000 900 feet for
Melbourne, and the bafkentine Georg-l
ina. which will load 1 300 feet for
the antipodes. The American Trading
Company has chartered the schooner |,
Commerce to load 100000 feet on the |
Sound for sydney. The four charter
ed is the schooner Fearless, which will
load 600, 600 feet for Australia. OF the
IL lumber carriers, the Alvera, Expan.s
sion, okanogan, Berkeley, Camano, /
Oceania Vance, H d. Bendixsen, Ariel, !
Sehome, Samar and Koko Head are
American. The twelfth craft is the /
Russian bark Lacipara from Mel
bourne. The grain carriers en- route |
to the Sound win load for the United /
Kingdom. The fleet consists Of the
Italian ship Giagio O., Norwegian ships /
Gunda and Seileren, Norwegian bark !
Shortshand, British bark Hinemea
and Norwegian bark GIitre. The /
schooner Premier will load eannery
supplies for Alaska
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Believe Ethel Zane lost.
The four-masted schooner Ethel (
Zane has probably met with disaster
in the South Pacific, It is feared by
mariners who are waiting for report /
Df the craft which sailed from Puget 1
Sound for Guayaquil 152 days ago.
Among those sharing the opinion that L
he schooner has gone to the bottom is
5. II. TietjeIl, managing owner.
Under command of Captain T.. P.
Doris the vessel sailed for the West Il
Coast with cargo of lumber. The
schooner Lurline, which encountered
j succession,of terrific gales and then
arrived safely In port, brought a re-
port that the Ethel Zane was believed
% be nearby during the hardest por-
ion of the blow, but no report was
received of the Doris command. Ii
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supply Coming to Honolulu. L,
Remaining in Asiatic waters for
months the United States naval steam
n Supply is now reported due at
Honolulu about May 1. The vessel !
las been employed in transporting
supplies between Manila and Guam
since leaving Honolulu more than a
fear ago. The Supply will steam for
Puget Sound for overhauling and dry
locking. It is reported that the yes
,el will again return to station in
he Philippines. S..s.