The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-03
HE LIKES
The LAND
Edwin GoodaIl on
Local Sugar
Industry.
SAYS TOURISTS
WILL FLOCK HERE
he Talks of Diversified industries,
Water Supply and the
Sugar Tariff.

Edwin Goodall of the firm of Goodall
Perkins & Company, controllers of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, one
OF the biggest shipping concerns on the
coast. The company owns % steamers
operating along a line of coast 5000
miles in length, and extending from
Mexico to Alaska.
Mr. Goodall stated to a reporter last
night that he came here at the advice
of his physician in hopes of recruiting
his health, which has been indifferent
of late. He intends to remain in the
Islands for a month longer. He denied
that his visit had any business signifi-
canoe whatever and said that the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company did not
contemplate extending their business
TO Hawaii as had been rumored.
Mr.. Goodall expressed himself as be-
ing charmed with the country as much
as he had seen of it, and predicted a
rosy future for the tourist trade.
9 II expect to see the tourist traffic
to the Islands increase almost immedi-
ately," said he. This season there are
more tourists in Southern California
than ever before and, to put it plainly,
there will undoubtedly be a slop over
of which Hawaii will reap the benefit.
I am sure that if the beauties of this
place We're thoroughly made known in
the States, together with its manifold
and unique attractions, people would
flock here as they now do to Califor-
MIA, Florida and Colorado. 1t wouldn't
cost them a great deal more and they
would be able to crafty the Unsuitable
hungering of humankind for something
at once new and beautiful"
Mr.. Goodall does not look for any
immediate probable combination. of cir
oumstances or development in connec-
ton with the sugar situation on the
which need give those most
in the local industry cause
for alarm. A twenty per cent reduc-
ton in the tariff on sugar he is inclined
to regard as almost foregone con-
clusion. At the same time Mr.. Goodall
harps upon the much hackneyed string
OF diversified industry.
"Of course / know that any views 1
may express must necessarily be more
Or less superficial" remarked he, but
l do think that Hawaii leans too much
toward sugar. A lone industry, pros
Fer it never so much. may by unlocked
for and untoward happenings become
but broken reed to lean upon in time
Of trouble, and there is no guarantee
that while everything looks rosy at
present, the lean years may not come. |
provoked by some extraordinary cir |
or combination of circum- |
stances.
There's the question of water. L
am amazed at the quantity of water |
hat you pump from your artesian |
wells for plantation purposes. Why, I |
am told that as much water is used on
| single plantation in one month as is
consumed by the inhabitants Of a large
;ity in the same space of time. If this
s so, is there not great danger. of ex-
the subterranean supply of
water? OF course the water may per-
.ienish the constant drain. but of this
know nothing and only mention the
natter as it occurs to me at first blush.
"ChanSe or ADMINISTRATOR accorlpd-
lied by a removal of duty is another
hing which would ruin the local sugar
and which comes within the
ange of possibilities. Then again the
presence of an epidemic in
our land and the corresponding quar-
mining of Hawaiian sugar would deal
cur industry a blow which would par
1--WE il.
For these three reasons and others
-hich I could mention 7 think that
laval should set about developing
Their industries, one of which 1 have
very reason to believe could be sue
essfully and profitably prosecuted
ere, being the production of rubber.
he demand for which, today, almost
xceeGs the supply"
Mr.. GoodallS partner is Senator Per-
ms of California. Mrs. Goodall is ac- ,
her husband on the trip.