The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-24
BUSINESS MEN FESTIVE.
Petition to Board OF Health to Raise
Shipping Quarantine.

Concerted action was taken yester-
day by nearly all the leading business
and mercantile houses of the city. by
which they hope 10 have the quaran-
tine restrictions raised at once on the
shipment OF American and European
goods from Honolulu 10 the other ISL
ands. A petition was circulated at
noon which was signed by the mercan-
tile houses having heavy shipping in
terests at stake, with the exception Of
Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin
and W. G.. Irwin q Co. The latter
firms stated they did not wish 10 ham,
per the Board OF Health by such re-
quest. The petition will be presented
70 the Board of Health at its meeting
this afternoon. 1t reads:
Honolulu, II. l., March %, 1900.
To the Members Of the Board OF
Health, Honolulu, II. /.
Gentlemen. The undersigned mer-
chants and shippers and others Of Ho-
nOlulu would respectfully state that
in their opinion the time has come to
raise the quarantine on shipping Of all
American and European products from
the port OF Honolulu to other inter-
island ports.
The merchants OF Honolulu during
the past three months have assisted
your honorable body in preventing the
spreading of the plague, and have at
great loss to themselves submitted TO
all Quarantine regulations promulgat-
ed. but it now seems that with only an
occasional case OF plague in the city
| land which is liable to occur from
time to time for a year, according to
| II. Of roraGfnpnfl that
| il would be but justice TO all interests
| in Honolulu as well as to the mer-
| chants on the other Islands, who are
and have been for months short of (and
in many instances entirely out of pro-
| visions and the necessaries Of life, that
/ the port be now open to shipments OF
all products not directly from Asiatic
| ports.
There are at the present time known
| to your subscribers places on the 9th
| er Islands where live stock have been
for weeks without any grain or fodder,
and thus entirely suspending the work
in the way of draying and hauling, 1t
being impossible TO supply feed from
vessels in the harboT of Honolulu. Our
warehouses are full OF grain and flour
and other goods, which are spoiling
and fast becoming unfit for consump-
l ton, W0lle our DIeluItu anu lAS i've
stock on the other Islands are in actual
want.
Therefore your subscribers pray
that the quarantine restrictions against
all goods not directly from Asiatic
ports be at once removed.
Signed-HobrOn Drug Co., Ltd, r.
w. Jordan, B. F. Ehlers & Co., II. F,
Wichman. HOLSTER Drug Co., Ltd.
Lewis & Co. Whitney & Marsh, Ltd.
The Manufacturers Shoe Co, Thos. G.
Thrum. The Porter Furniture Co., Hen.
~ May & Co., Ltd, ]. HOpp & Co.
Hoffschlaeger Co., Ltd, w. W. DimOnC
, & Co. Ltd, John Mott, f. o. Hall &
, Son. NJ. w. McChesney & Sons, NJ. 5
Grinbaum & Co., Ltd. Hyman Bros.
NJ. Phillips & Co, II. Hackfeld & Co.
| Ltd. Gonsalves & Co., Ltd, Allen 4
! Robinson, The Washington Mercantile
, Co, Theo. II. Davies & Co., Ltd, c
. Brewer & Co., California Feed Co.
} Ltd. James A. Kennedy, The vol
J Hamm-Young Co. Ltd, Henry Water
house & Co, Macfarlane & Co.. Ltd
If. A. Schaefer & Co. w. G. Peacock
Co. Ltd, NJ. NJ. Mclnerny. Pacif
= Hardware Co.. Ltd, Wall, Nichols Co
! Ltd, Wilder & Co, Ltd.