Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-07
II CARGO Ships
TOBE ADDED TO
PACIFIC FLEETS
New York Corporation Going
After Trade With Orient
On Big Scale
NO PASSENGERS WILL
BE CARRIED, IS STATED


Details Of the plan by which New
York company expects TO enter the
Pacific with fleet OF huge cargo car
riers, possibly calling at Honolulu.
reached the city by mail today from
San Francisco. The news had pre-
viously come in brief wireless des-
patch TO the Star-Bulletin.
The Chronicle of February Is says:
Another stride In trade between
San Francisco and the rich ports OF
the Orient Is seen by shipping men
in the announcement received here
yesterday that the firm OF CASTOR, VII
liams & Wigmore will shortly invade
the Pacific with fleet OF huge cargo
carriers.
Coming in the wake of other an.
nouncements spelling further prosper.
ity for this port, the plans of the
New York company to invade the San
Francisco field set California street
agog.
"At the same time shipping men
were busy discussing the increase OF
the Pacific Mail Panama fleet by
three new. steamers Of 500 tons ca
pacity, which were bought in New
York from the Dutch West India Com.
pany and which will soon be on this
coast. The three vessels viii be in
the Pacific within three months, and
when they will be in service the runs
OF the Mail liners will be increased to
Callao instead of stopping at Balboa
as at present
A Fleet Of FreIehters.
The CASTOR, Williams & Wigmore
Steamship Corporation was organized
IN New York to operate steamship
lines across both the Atlantic and Pa.
cific. but IL is understood that the
greater part of their efforts will be
devoted to the Pacific trade. The
company has purchased six steamers,
has chartered six more, two of which
being built on the Great Lakes
will be taken over and four others are
to be built SOON
News which is of particular inter,
est to the San Francisco shipping
world Is that the company will come
into the field here with number OF
freighters operating direct to China,
the Philippines. Straits Settlements,
Vladivostok and Japan.
in the Atlantic the steamers will
be passenger carriers and win operate |
to Archangel when navigation Is open |
and to other European ports The |
company. 1t is stated In. New York,
does not intend to enter the Pacific |
as passenger carrier.
Additions to Panama Line.
"Hiliiard ]. Rosencranz, director OF /
the Far Eastern division of the firm
Of CASTOR, Williams & wigmore, is
TO be the Orie-t representative of the /
steamship coT7nany, and VIII be here /
next month e route 20 the Far East.
He is San franciscan by birth and
is well known here. as Is his partner.
Thomas KeeS n. with whom for q !
decade he was engaged In supplying /
the Orient from Vladivostok 70 India 1
with all kinds Of American machinery
and merchandise.
The two men are known in every l
capital and seaport in the Orient and I
have hundreds of friends in the coun-
tries through which they preached /
American goods for years. Rosen.
cranz knows the export and import I
trade as do few American business
men.
While possibly not Of so great
scope IN interest to the San Francisco
shipping world as the announcement L
Of the steamers to the Orient, the fact
that the Pacific Mail is to add three
new up-to-date steamers to its Pan
anna service viii mean better service
70 the west. coast