Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 499, 17 January 1902 — SAILING VESSELS. [ARTICLE]

SAILING VESSELS.

The arrival of the bu? ship Tillie E. S arb'i'k. from San Francisco, with only enough freight to ballast the v* use I, la one of the signs of the tim<-s The advent of so many i-tf-amer- on the ran betwet-n San Francisco and Hawaiian ports will, in the opinion of many skippers, drive .-ailing vessels out of business. There are two lines of steamers now doing business with Hawaiian i-I«nd ports the Globe Navigation Company and the Hawaiian and American Steamship Company. The Eureka, of the former company, arrived here last week with ever two thousand tons of freight and sailed on Wednesday aflernon for Kahului. where -he will take in a load of sugar. Two large freighters of the Hawalian line are expected here today. The Hyades has a capacity of 2.933 tons and the Hawaiian of 3.694 tons. It is said that both steamers will bring full cargoes. In about three months the first vessel of the Empire Steamship Company will arrive at Honolulu. Although these steamers will be under a contrail with the' United States Government to carry freight and passengers to and from the Philippines, it has been announced that the Empire' line will do some private business of its own between San Francisco and Honolulu. The former transports Ohio. Indiana and Philadelphia now belong to the Empire line, and will soon again be familiar sights in the harbor of Honolulu. Between so many transportation companies, and the regular passenger steamers, carrying freight to and from Honolulu, it is hard to see howsailing vessels will be able to carryon business and make a living.