The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-07-09


steamers from British Columbia
Puget Sound; Portland, Oregon
Hamboldt Bay; San Diego, and othe1
prominent points in North America
will be inaugurated to connect will
other ocean routes from the islands
Panama in Central America, anc
Lima and Valparaiso in South Anne
rica, will also join in the genera
connection in time; and appearance:
indicate that the period of activity
in steam communications from and
to these countries and the islands
is not far distant.
The Australians are not likely tc
rest long satisfied with their present
limited steam communication to and
from America; and additional lines
from Queensland ports, and also New
Zealand ports, may soon be expected
to be formed, every steamer of which
lines may be expected to touch at
the Hawaiian Islands.
These future conditions of increase
in the steam connections at Homo
lulu, or other seaports of these isl
ands that may develope foreign
trade, will be all the more apparent
and rapid when an ocean telegraph
cable connects this kingdom with
the Eastern and Western hennl-
spheres; and the present steady
growth of various kinds of shipping
traffic has already evolved important
conditions of Hawaiian marine trade
that cannot admit of much longer
delay in laying a cable to connect
the islands with both America and
Australasia, and perhaps also with
southeastern Asia.
1t has been supposed by many
persons in the United States that a
telegraphic connection between
America and the Hawaiian Islands
would only benefit the latter; but
that this idea is an error, we shall
now proceed to show. In the first
place, if American vessels at the
Islands could connect with their
owners in America by cable, large
outlays of money and long periods
of time would be saved to both
American shippers and ship owners;
and many vessels would call at
for orders, that now have
to proceed over two thousand miles
further for the required information.
Another advantage to America
would be the heralding of storms
toward the American coast,
which timely warning might be the
means of saving life and property on
the coast or throughout the Union.
Altogether, the advantages of a
cable would be almost wholly in
favor of Americans.
The Importance of cable communi-
cation with the central Pacific must
pc admitted by every statesman of
America. In these days when
schemes involving millions of dollars
;an be carried out almost as soon as
when the details can be
worked up with the help of the tele-
graph and cable, this ocean and its
numerous groups are practically
shut out as a field for enterprise,
rom these great schemes of trade
and commerce. So too, in case Of
my hostile outbreak or declared war,
10 government can communicate
With its consuls, admirals or ships
stationed in the central Pacific, with
,ut tantalizing delay of weeks or
wen months, and the effect of such
ack of cable communication may
become a national misfortune, which
10 subsequent expenditure of money
.ould rectify.
Science also would share in its
benefits, and this is the only portion
# the globes surface from which it
S shut out. The movements of a
monsoon, or other storm, starting in
he western Pacific, and increasing
n power as it rushes on, might be
from day to day, whatever
direction it took, north, south or
asst; and vessels of every class could
,e forewarned, hours in advance, of
he approach of the destructive
yclone, in season to escape a dis
ster like that which suddenly over
vhelmed the ships lying quietly in
Apia in March last, involving loss
# millions of property and scores of
ives. A sudden fall of the baro-
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