Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-11

Australia.
Captain \. u. SnoWUen. for l. yt"r5
skipper for the Standard OIL Co.,.
has opened a school in naviHL;'un n
the Montgomery block for mCn VINO
cannot meet the government "rGui, G.
ment OF at least two years sea e\-
perienCe.
Rebuilding of the Pacific Mail
Steamship San Juan for oil burning
instead OF coal and enlarging Of pas-
senger accommodations have been
completed and the vessel is ready 10
return to her former run between San
Francisco and Central and South
American ports.
The steamer Rembrandt is due to
arrive from San Francisco on Thurs
day morning. 1t is not believed that
she will have mail as she sailed from,
the coast on the same day as the
Matsonia which is due tomorrow
morning. The Rembrandt will prob
ably sail the same day for Yokohama.
Denis Kildoyle, son of Ed. kildoyie
of Yokohama, is believed to be the
first United States citizen from Japan
to arrive in Europe for active service
in the war with American forces, says
the Japan Advertiser. According to
his latest letter, Young Kildoyle is
second electrician on the L. S. S. Mel
Vile, with Admiral Sims Mr.. KildoyIe
was born in Yokohama.
Probably the last contracts for
wooden ships under the government
shipbuilding program were awarded
when the Benicia Shipbuildiug CON-
pany in California received from
Washington an award to construct
two wooden steamers Of the Ferris
type They will carry $500 tons dead
weight. The Benicia Shipbuilding
company recently purchased the plant
of the Robinson Shipbuilding COM
pany of Benicia, which constructed
two motorships for the STANDARD Oil
Co. and one for A. F. Mah0Hey.
The Japanese government has grant
ed formal sanction to the Nippon
Yusen Kaisha, the Nisshin Steamship
Co. and other shipping companies for
the raising Of freight rates on the
European and the Australian routes
as we'll as those on the Chinese inland
routes. On the European route the
sanctioned rates are 10 to so per cent
above the old figures. On the Aus
tralian route 40 per cent is the highest
rise effected.
1t is reported here that an under
standing has been reached between
charter parties and the owners of YES
sells sent to island ports with coal
that greater speed will be enforced in
the discharge Of ships to permit an
earlier despatch. 1t is said that forty
representative shipowners and trans
portation companies have entered into
this agreement.
The Japanese consul general at
Sydney calls the attention Of business
men trading with the Antipodes to the
fact that the Commerce Act the coun
try enacted in 1905, which requires
all articles imported into that country
to be marked with the quality aud
quantity of the goods sent, is en-
forced rigidly at present and that any
articles imported without the marks
are sent back to the ports Of loading
The former German steamer J. D..
Ahlers, which was held in Hilo har-
Dor for over two years after the be-
ginning of the European war, has been
renamed the Monticello by the ship
ping board. The Monticello is now
on its way to Philadelphia by way Of
Cuba under charter to the Williams
Dimond Co. of San Francisco. Other
German ships which have been re-
named are the BoChum, now the Mon
ticello, and the Mark, now the Su-
vance.
One hundred and fifty sailor recruits
are engaged in regular course OF
training at Fearl HarboT preparatory
to going aboard the former German
gunboat Geier.: now renamed Sct,urZ.
This vessel, which was hadiy damaged
by her German crew, is rapidly near
ing a stage where she T:il be read"
for sea service. She will ba brought
to Honolulu to go on dt'::dGvk for
cleaning and painting. Her teak
wood decks, which ere PARTIAL"
burned, have been replaced. The YES
sci has been equipped with machinery
that will drive her Is knots an hour.
San Francisco shipping reports state
that negotiations are under way for
the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. to ac-
Quire a large steamer now on the At
lantic to add to the fleet now operat
ing between San Francisco and Cal
cutta and other ports in the Far East
The Colusa and Santa Cruz are al
ready in the new service of the com
pany, but the freight waiting in ORR
entail ports is so enormous the two
ships cannot nearly handle 1t. 1t had
been reported the government nigh;
allow the Pacific Mail to put the for
mer German steamship Princess Alice