The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-01

the Reciprocity Treaty of 1876, but
Americans own it. In the city or Ho-
nolulu, which contains one-fourth OF
the population of that republic, the
great part of the wealth of the place,
the business, the living forces of the
city, are purely American. Outside OF
that city, Americans own the greater
portion of the land, plantations, and
farms. Late census reports show the
total valuation of these islands at $780,
0O0, 900, and of this, American citizens
own $22, 900, 900, Hawaiian-born Ameri-
cans, $4,OOO.0O0, altogether, seventy-two
per cent of the entire wealth.
These islands are distant from San
Francisco something like 2,10O miles.
The Hawaiian Parliament coded to this
government under treaty of 1884 site
for coaling station. Under this
treaty, Article H.
His Majesty, the King of the Hawai-
ian Islands, grants to the United States
the exclusive right to enter the har-
Dor of Pearl River, in the Island of
Oahu, and to establish and maintain
there Coanng and Repair Station for
the use of the vessels of the United
States, and to that end the United
States may improve the entrance to
SAID harbor, and do all other things
needful. to the purposes aforesaid.
Pearl Harbor, only few miles from
Honolulu, has been thoroughly survey
ed by Flag Lieutenant Adams, of the
United States Navy, who has submitted
! a series of soundings and estimates,
showing that the entrance can be
deepened to thirty feet and made avail
able for any fleet of the United States
| at a cost of $111,000. Hawaiian ship
| ping statistics point out that, for 1898,
| their foreign carrying trade, amounting
| to 1928, 900 tons, employed American ton
mage of III, 900 and Hawaiian tonnage
of 10000. together, $1,000, against 1885,
| 600 of all other nationalitieS. One hun
dred and eleven thousand tons of the
latter represented calling steamships
| of Transpacific lines, those of the
Canadian Pacific Company, the Ocei-
dental and Oriental, and a chartered
British steamship of the Oceanic line
from San Francisco to Sydney. There
are only.two ports in the world where
American tonnage during the year 1S9;
was as large as at the port of Homo
lulu; at Yokohama, 165, 900 tons, and al
Southampton, 1000 tons, these port:
showing large figures because of the
American steamships New York ant
Paris calling at Southampton, ant
steamships of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, making Yokohama tn,
port of call. AS a matter of fact, tn,
Hawaiian trade to the Pacific coast Il
!, the only sailing route on the face of thu
globe monopolized by the American
flag, and this entirely due to the fac
that American citizens own, as stated
the great bulk of Hawaiian propert.
, and control it's commercial interests
Our great commercial rival on the 9th
er side of the Atlantic is alive to TIN
value of this commerce, and loses n,
opportunity to score when occasion
, offers.
Having thus briefly epitomized Amer
lean interests at Honolulu, the follow
ing figures, compiled from statistics O
1898. will give some idea of the com
} parative value.
The foreign commerce of Great Bri
tain averaged $50 per capita; that Q
{ France, $50; the United States, $24
Australasia, $144; Hawaii, $40.
81 Our British competitors for the las
y twenty-five years, and especially sine
( Vancouver has become the terminal c
4 a transcontinental railroad, have neg
lected no opportunity to foster an
cultivate Hawaiian commerce. offerin
inducements to concentrate it at Brit
ish Columbia. Indeed, they have gon
so far in the matter as to negotiat
with the Hawaiian government Il
permission to land the Transpacific ca
BILE at point on the Hawaiian Island
thence to Vancouver. The Ottawa Cor
ference passed the following resolution
That the Home (English) Govern
ment be requested to take immedfa
steps to secure neutral landing grour
} on some one of the Hawaiian Island
in order that the cable may remain pc
manently under British control.
Z The Earl of Jersey, who was the
representing the Imperial governme
reported back to the home governme
in these words:
It was the decided wish OF the Co
ference that the cable should. II po
sfble, pass entirely through Britt,