Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-03-07
SHIPS
TO BE ADDED TO
PACIFIC FLEETS
New York Corporation Going
After Trade With Orient
On Big Scale i.
, NO PASSENGERS WILL
BE CARRIED, is STATED

Details of the plan by which a 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 a brief wireless des'
patch to the Star-Bulletin.
The Chronicle Of February 25 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.
fty 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
1. 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 Freighters.
The CASTOR, Williams & Wigmore
Steamship Corporation was organized
In New York to operate steamship
lines across both the Atlantic and Pa
cific, but it is understood that the
greater part OF their efforts viii 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 a number OF
frcighters operating direct TO China.
the Philippines, Straits settlements,
Vladiyostok 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 a passenger carrier
Additions TO Panama Line.
"Hilliard j. Rosencranz, director of |
the Far Eastern division of the firm |
OF Castor, Williams & Wigmore, is !
to be the Orient representative of the
steamship cor 9any, and will be here |
next monthst route to the Far East.
He is a San franciscan by birth and |
is we'll known here. as is his partner,
Thomas Keesa n, with whom for q
decade he was engaged in supplying
the Orient from Vladivostok to India |
with all kinds of American machinery
and merchandise.
The two men are known in every |
capital and seaport in the Orient and
have hundreds of friends in the coun-
tries through which they preached
American goods for years. Rosen.
cranz knows the export and import
trade as do few American business.
men.
while possibly not OF so great a
scope in interest to the San Francisco
shipping world as the announcement
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 Hill mean better service
10 the west coast" !.