El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-29

than ever was thought OF before the
war.
In its turn the Far East is sending
vegetable oils in enormous quantities
/ to this country, and vegetable oil
I tanks are an important feature of
the san Francisco waterfront facil-
tiles Increased sugar productions in
the Hawaiian islands and the rapid
growth OF the pineapple industry are
attributed as reasons for more ships
Fbeing placed on the San Francisco
Honolulu run
The "round-the-wor service from
san Francisco, operated by the Paci-
! fic Mail, was begun with three
| freighters within the last year. The
Pacific Mail and the Robert Dollar
company also reach nearly halfway
around the globe with their feeder
service OF five vessels which deliver
cargos from the trans-Pacific carriers
to the East Indies. Straits Settlements
and India itself. Struthers and Dixon.
part OF the Green Star Steamship
atorS in the Far East, having eight
shipping board freighters working
out OF san Francisco The Robert
Dollar Company has five. while the
Togo Kisen Kaisha and the China
Mail. owned BY Japanese and Chinese
capital, have four and three passeng-
Grand freight steamers respectively.
and the Transatlantic company, oper-
ate occasional tramp steamers in the
trans-Pacific trade.
Panama Canal Benefit
No great development in traffic to
Australia. New Zealand OF the Dutch
East indies IS reported, although the
General Steamship Company with two
vessels is a new competitor TO the
established lines, namely, the Oceanic
Steamship Company 3, Union Steam
ship Company 5, Australian Dispatch
Line 1 and Java-Pacific 4
The chief benefit Of the Panama
Canal to san Francisco so far. ac-
eordang to shipping men. has been
the direct water communication with
the Atlantic Coast and Europe. The
Pacific Mail. with five frelghters
on the Baltimore run and the Robert
Dollar Company with one 70 New
York already have made use Of the
canal and the United States Steel
Products company, a subsidiary OF the
g. s Steel Corporation has announced
that It expects to start dozen or
more vessels running between the
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. VIII
llams Dimond and Company are open
Ing a European service by way Of
Atlantic Coast ports.
Cuba also is becoming a market
for Pacific Coast products, the Cen
eral Steamship Company and the Jap
anese Osaka Shosen Kafsha line hav-
ing made Havana a port OF call for
their freighters-
MOtorship Lines To Europe
Two motorship lines Of three yes
sells a piece, the Norway-Pacific and
the Johnson. the latter a new Swedish
the East Asiatic Company's
two motorships and the three steam
ers Of E. c. Evans and Company,
serve European ports
The first around-South America
freight service from san Francisco is
being started by Swayne and Hoyt-
This concern has four shipping board
freighters which will go via the
Straits Of Magellan to Buenos Aires
and Montevideo. picking up Argen-
tine products. and Brazilian exports
Ike Santos coffee for the return trip
via the Panama Canal
W. r Grace and Company operate
the largest merchant fleet 70 South
America, having six or eight steamers
In the service. The Rolph Mall, with
three ships, the General Steamship
Company with four and the Pacific
Corporation are new con-
Germs invading the west coast trade I
Mexico. Central America and Panama
are served by these lines and by the
ght-and-passenEer steamers OF
the Pacific Mail and the vessels Of /
the Pacific Steamship Company and /
The Pan-American line