Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-16
PUGET SOUND AND HAWAII
Col. Whyte Talks Before Seattle
Chamber of Comm rec.


seattle, req. line OUTLOOK 1Or
more intimate commercial connections
between Puget sound and Hawaii was
discussed in the Chamber of Commerce
yesterday afternoon by Col. Albert
Mhyte, a director of the railroad pro-
jected across the island of HAWAII and
one OF the influential commercial men
Of that part of the United Slater, and
J. s. Mcmillan, head of the Roche Har.
Dor Lime Company, who has extensi re
trade interests in the islands. Both
speakers gave new and interesting Ena-
lyses Of the relations of the producers
and tradesmen of the two diyisl0ns.
Col. Whyte said that the first and
most important thing to be done was
to marshal the men of the Pacific
Northwest who were interested In Ha-
waiian commerce, so that they could be
in position to combine their business
with the business men of Hawaii. That
YVES the only way to make successful
inroad. He astonisheI his audience
by stating that the San Francisco.Ho-
nolulu clique was powerful in admin
istering the trade If the islands, but
that the outsiders were more power
iul, and that II they could get together
and work in har nony there would be
no doubt of the result.
COMBINATION is NEEDED.
Let the people of the Northwest
who are interested in the Hawaiian
markets unite and have their own able
representatives there, and there will
be no doubt of the result" he said.
THE day a warehouse is placed at Ho-
nolulu and Hilo, labeled Northwest
and filled with Northwestern products,
will be day of jubilee to Hawaii. The
people of the Islands want to have a
close relation with Puget sound.
There are three transcontinental rail-
roads here, which give them more di-
rect connection with the East, and will
take their products as far across the
country as those tributary to the At
lantic meet them coming this way. AS
II is now, California dealers come to
this country and buy at the lowest
possible prices your commodities. such
as fruit, ETC., and then sell them In
hawaii at enormous profits.
'The finest oranges and 2anana3 are
grown in Hawaii, and they can also
give you new potatoes and corn dur
ing January, February, March and
April, when they are not grown here.
They need your products; you need
theirs. All needed to make the eX-
change is better and more regular
transportation facilities and united ac-
ton"
The colonel said that a sugar refinery
established here would be one Of the
best things possible to do to increase
the trade. IF you can get one 1t will
solve the problem, provided, of course,
you have good Transportation" he con-
tinued. '"ihere is, of course. sugar
trust in Hawaii, but was told that out
of the 1899 crop Of 100000 tons there
was $4,000 tons that could be gotten for
Puget sound II there had been any
means Of handling it,"
CALIFORNIA A POOR MARKET.
"One reason more than any other,
perhaps, WIN you should have the fruit
trade Of the Islands Is that California
does not encourage the importation
of oranges, especially from Hawaii, as
they encroach upon the staple fruit of
that State. II was not long ago that
a cargo of Hawaiian oranges was
into the bay In San Francis
co by the fruit inspector. who held that'|
they contained germs that would re-
stroy the entire fruit industry Of CAL
ifornia. The germs he SO much feared
were the size and flavor of the Ha-
waiian orange"
Mr.. Mcmillan said his Arm had Ia |
bored for six years in building up |
trade in lime in Hawaii, and was just
getting satisfactory results. He said |
that II others intended to get into that |
! ade they would have to be prepared |
TO go ahead regardless Of profits until |
hey could get established. He said
he transportation problem had to be
better solved than 1t mad been before
.rade development would increase
much. and that one of the most i'm
,ortant things to do was to get a sugar
refinery established on the Sound. He
this point SO that he made
| strong impression.