The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1918-09-19
P. SIS. co. TO INCREASE
SERVICE IN ORIENT
(By E. ]. Griffith, Agent)

AS result of the success attending
its oprations to the Orient during the
last year, the Pacific Steamship Com
pany today announced further de-
velopments which will increase the
Pacific Coasts foreign trade with the
Far East by many millions dollars
annually.
The plans, as announced by General
Manager A. F. Haines, involve not
only an addition in ships on the Pug
ct Sound Far Eastern route but an
extensive increase in the company's
representation in the Orient. Ar.
rangements are being made for the
company to establish its own offices
in Hong Kong, Yokohama, Kobe, Man
ia. Singapore, Vladivostock, and
other ports.
John j. German. for many years
with Dodwell & Company in Seattle
and one of the best informed foreign
trade experts on the Coast, has been
appointed to be general agent in en-
tire charge of operations and traffic
in the Orient with headquarters at
Hong Kong. He will relieve H. K.
Laidlaw, who has been the Pacific
Steamship Company's personal rep
resentative in the Orient during the
last six months. Laidlaw will return
to the company's Seattle office.
Hugh Gallagher, a well-known rep
resentative Of the company, has left
Seattle for New York to relieve R. D.
Pinneo as general eastern agent.
Pinneo, who was formerly foreign
freight agent, will return to Seattle
Immediately and thence proceed with
German to the Orient to increase the
number and coordinate the Company's
chain of Offices. They will sail in
October.
In several ports where other COM
panies have been acting as agents for
the Pacific Steamship Company, the
latter will establish its own Offices
thus giving it a complete personal
representation in the Orient. Cor
man will take with him to Hong Kong
complete Office force from Seattle
Haines also announced that E. e.
Johnson, general foreign agent at Sc
attic, will leave for the Orient in a
short time to renew old acquaintan-
ces in the Far East and familiarize
himself with current trade conditi-
ons
The Pacific Steamship Company
has three vessels operating in the
freight and passenger business to the
Orient-the Senator, Admiral Mayo,
and Admiral Sims, Haines stated that
at least three other vessels would be
added as soon as they could b cob.
tanned for this trade.
Our offshore activities" said
Haines, will not decrease our at
tention to the coastwise service. On
the contrary, our operations between
Alaska. Puget Sound and California
ports will be improved as rapidly as
conditions justify. We have the
largest fleet flying the American flag
on the Pacific, and it is our determin-
alton to do our part to help establish
the American merchant marine on u
big and permanent basis in the for
eisn trade. H. F. Alexander, presi-
dent of the company, is now in New
York where he is taking up the de-
tails of our further development"
German will join the forces Of the
Pacific Steamship Company on Oct.
1. He is at present manager of the
import and export department of
Dodwell & Company in Seattle, with
which firm he has been connected
for ~ years. Previously he was
Dodwell & Company's manager in
Tacoma. He came to the Coast in
1904 from Fall River, Mass, and went
to work on the Great Northern Docks
at the time that the Minnesota and
Dakota were running to the Orient
Later he spent a year in Alaska with
the Shakan Salmon Company and
then returned to join Dodwell G Com.
pany. which was then operating the
Blue Funnel Line. He worked his
way up to the position of chief clerk
and from there was promoted to the
position of Tacoma manager.
In going to New York to become