Evening star., 1923-09-12
SHIPS ON PACIFIC
RUSHED TO LIMIT
Japanese Disaster Partially
Responsible for Enormous
Increase in Traffic.
by j. @. RoYLE.

Special Dispatch. TO The Star.
NEW YORK, September 12.-Proba-
oility that Americas trade with
Japan will reach the tremendous total
Of $1,000 100000 within the next year
mas resulted in a revival OF Pacific
coast shipping. which is outrivaling
that of the war days of 1918. San
Francisco shippingmen today fore
cast that the trade possibilities
opened up, following the Japanese
diaster, would advance shipping at
that port to a point which it would
require twenty years of normal devef-
opment to reach.
Orders are in the market for the
chartering of twenty-five large
freighters to transport the first move
ment of American lumber to japan
and inquiries have been received,
which will necessitate a survey of all
ships in Pacific coast ports, Rice and
Grain organizations are combing the
water fronts for tonnage.
One new concern, which Will oper-
ate line of clipper ships to Guam
and Japan, already has been organ
lied and others are being planned.
All trans-pacific steamship: lines are
holding off on contracts involving
available cargo space pending further
deVelopernents.
Heavy Ocean Traffic Seen.
Executives of shipping concerns
expressed the opinion today that, not
only would Japan be in the market
Tor great supplies of provisions,
grain. lumber. steel products and
years, but that this demand would
clear out stocks in other oriental
countries and thus present additional
trade opportunities for American
- III kanes n rtatN
probably will be most quickly affect.
ed, in addition to foodstuns and
building materials, are leather, oil
and oil products, print paper and.
electrical equipment.
shipping Facilities Taxed.
A survey of the San Francisco
water front shows every available IA
cflity taxed to capacity. Six large
vessels, with capacity of $4,000 tons
of grain, are now proceeding to PortH
land, Ore. Three of these are of Dutch
registry, two Japanese and only one
American. A leading japanese inter
est at Portland is reported to be
franticalIy buying white club - or
western white wheat at SLIP a
hushel, -tidewater, in an effort to fill
the amount ii was caught short when
the news of the disaster became pub
lie.
Intercoastal shipping also will be
materially assisted by recent devel-
Opments. For some months the pre-
ponderance of freight through the
Panama canal has been moving east
ward, due to the heavy shipments of
California oil to Atlantic coast ter
miuals, and vessels have been making
the west bound trip. with partly
empty holds. The new demand for
goods to the orient is calculated to
balance this inequality
Predicts Huge Rail Traffic.
n hrd r. n
trafffc during the fall months of 1897
said President Budd of the Great
Northern railroad, in reviewing the
rail freight situation. 1T seems al
together likely that this year may
roll up the largest total tonnage ever
: handled by the Great Northern in any
one year." .t
L. NJ. Belts. Washington manager
Of the car service section of the Amer
lean Railway Association, told south
eastern shippers at Atlanta today that
railroad transportation was facing its
greatest movement The present un-
precedented movement" he added, 'is
confined to no one commodity nor to
any particular section. The inescapa-
BILE conclusion is that an era of splen-
did business is here"
Campaign to UnioniSe Packing Plants.
Announcement that the FoodStuff
Industrial Workers Union VIII fmfne-
diately begin an intensive orSaniza-
tion campaign among employees of
the big packing houses is not ex-
pected to have any perceptible effect
on the production or cost of packing
house products At the Thomas Z.
Wilson & Co. plant at Chicago it was
stated today that the reasons given
by James z. Carroll, chief organizer
of the union. for the move were err
roneous and that the movement would
defeat itself.
The larger packers say that unless
unexpected trouble develops the
movement will not be noticed by
them in any way. Officials of these
companies insist that the EMPLOYEES
in general are satisfied with the .'as-
sembly plan of representa- ton" now
in effect, and no desertions are ex-
pected from the assembly plan to the