The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-18
HAWAIIAN STEAMSHIP LINE.

A special meeting of the Merchants and
Manufacturer Exchange was held NJ II
O'Clock yesterday forenoon to consider the
question of substituting the now steamship
line to Honolulu. The meeting was called
on short notice and there was not large
attendance. The H. w. Baker Company.
agents OF the new company, submitted
the following proposition:
Gcntlesnas: Preliminary to Q proposition from
the Puget sound and Hawaiian Traffic Company
to your exchange We desire to say - follows:
The Puget Sound and Hawaiian Tra0ic Company
IL corporation organised in Tacoma and hav-
ing for it, objects the operation OF . steamship
limo between Puget sound ports and Honolulu
and the development of larger trade and general
commercial relations than exist at present, In
ways entirely indirect, between this region and
the Hawaiian islands. It 10 proposed to make
round trip monthly, operating . steamship OF
the FIRST class of 400 tons register or over with
an average speed OF fourteen knots per hour.
The Great Northern, Union Pacific and North.
ern Pacific railroads have signihed their will
ingress to Join in Q through rate for passengers
and freight to Eastern points. supplying with
the islands products that belt of country ~.
ing between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
and north Of . line east and west from the
northern boundary line OF California The
agents and consigness of the line in Honolulu
hrm OF its kind in the islanda The United
states and Hawaiian mail will be carried to and
fro BY the vessels OF this company, alternating
- far a. possible with the service 70 and from
San Francisco and Honolulu.
Experience has shown that new enterprises
OF this character seldom attain Q paying basis
until some time after the beginning Of their
operation, and a. the success Of this company
and the ultimate profits to be derived from its
operation by the very nature OF things mean .
larger proportionate benefit directly to the
business community OF this city, II II . con-
alteration not out of accord with the public
spirit OF fairness and encouragement shown BY
Seattle to public enterprises, whose successes
serve to further advance It in the eyes Of the
world as . city of commercial importance, to
ask from this city monthly subsidy for Q GER
tain length OF time, to apply a. . relief to the
promoting company in reducing the loss which
might otherwise be q disastrous burden. We
therefore ask that the Merchants and Manu-.
facturers Exchange guarantee . subsidy for
one year a. follows: $500 to be paid to the &C
credited representative Of the company within
three days after the arrival OF their steamship
in this port at the end Of each monthly return
voyage, the vessel to dock at Seattle outward
and inward bound each trip, to make the
same rates to and from foreign ports and Sc.
attic Is to Tacoma, and to divide equally
between those cities whatever trade benefits
WOulo naturally result from the 1ouuonce OF the
company - the promoter and operator OF this
steamship line on . new route. Provided.
further, that the Merchants and Manufacturer
Exchange appoint q committee of q suitable
number to act with the representatives of the
company In interesting In this enterprise citi.
gems and business firms who do not hold mem
beship in the exchange and securing from such
persons additional subscriptions to an amount
of $500 per monthly trip. We further ask that
this proposition be acted upon a. speedily a.
possible. a. the result will be factor in shaping
the policy Of the company which they will be
prepared to publish at once
The II. w. BAKER COMPANY.
This proposition was informally dis
cussed. but no definite action was taken
upon it, the matter being laid over over for
further consideration. In all probability
another meeting will be held in few days
to take some action on the question.