Show l JsEEK A3M JUA CONNECTIONS a Another Oriental Stcniusliiit Line i in the Field F SEATTLE Wash July 24 Following L Follow-ing closely in the wake of the Nippon t Yusen Kaisha which announced Seat I I 1k tie a its American terminus only a K few days ago comes the accredited i f i representatives tc this city of another 1 I oriental steamship line theToyo Kisen t Kabushiki Kaisha which is also seeking I seek-ing American connections The party consists of Sochiro Asano president of the company H Okawa director in the I 4 Oji Paper company near Tokio Shun jiro Tomika captain in the service of the steamship company and Hiroyukl Kobayashi interpreter for Mr Asano The visitors who represent great I wealth came to the city quietly spent the day in making an investigation I and left this evening for T koma Thence they g to Portland for a day thence to San Francisco From the I I latter point Asano will proceed to London i j Lon-don and place contracts for the construction I con-struction of twelve 5COOton vessels to 1 I f be used on the line which wiirrUh ffonTj the American terminus to Tokio and Hong Kong The result of the days investigation I while nothing definite has been announced an-nounced led to a belief that the terminus r ter-minus will be either Seattle or Portland Port-land I is thought Asano has been negotiating ne-gotiating both with the Dodwell people pIe operating under the Northern Pacific i Pa-cific steamers out of Tacoma and also t with the Semuels people who run the PortlandOriental line I was very i clear today that if Asano could secure control of the Northern Pacific Steamship t Steam-ship company on his visit to Lond nand i n-and thereby get rates as favorable a those granted t the Nippon Yusen Kaisha by the Great Northern he would choose Seattle for the terminus r His examination of the harbor location loca-tion of the city and natural advantages of this place was satisfactory I the I Portland people can make a better showing the prize will undoubtedly fall to them Mr Asano was shown A about Seattle by E H Ammidown r president of the Seattle Power preident Sete company com-pany The present visit jp only a preliminary f pre-liminary and an agent of the new g steamship company will be sent here a few months hence to perfect the art ar-t rangements now begun |