The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-17
OUR ''JACk''
TRAVELLING
Secretary Creates Fa-
vorabIe impression
In Washington.

Mr.. A.. L. C. Atkinson, secretary of
| the Territory of Hawaii, saw President
| Roosevelt yesterday at the White
House offices and later was the Presi-
dents guest at luncheon. He is one
| of the successful young men of the Is
lands, has been prominently connected
| with the publication of the Honolulu
Star and for several months of his Of
fetal career as secretary has been act
! ing Governor. The President discussed
with him several matters of Importance
to the Islands.
The Territorial secretary has been in
New York and now comes to Wash
ington chiefly in connection with a pro-
| posed issue of Territorial bonds for
about 81 900, coo. He is enthusiastic
about the prospects of shipping on the
Pacific and is much interested in an
appropriation for the Improvement of
Honolulu harbor, which will be asked of
Congress at the approaching session
That is from the Washington Post
| Clearly Our jack is making some
thing of an impression in Washington,
although nobody here at home had sus-
pected him of an affinity with the.
Fourth estate-ofl course beyond the
affinity that all good fellows, and poll
ticians, have with newspaper people.
But there were other favorable re-
ports received from Secretary Atkin-
son in the mail that came on the Ala
media. Governor Carter got fat let
ter OF a confidential character largely,
but there were some things in it that
the Governor felt at liberty to talk
about for publication. It seems that
Mr.. Atkinson ran across Governor
winthrop of Porto Rico in Washington
and they went to the War Department
together to see whether there could not
he a stop put TO the discrimination made
against island coffee in the matter OF
advertising for bids for supplying all
that part of the army of the United
states that is quartered in the Paclnc
States region. That is, Mr. Atkinson
iahored in behalf of Hawaiian coIfee
in that special region and it IS pre-
s,,rned that Governor Winthrop worked /
for Porto Rico coffee in the other end i
of the country.
1t seems that when the ComnllssdrE
Recruitment advertised for bids for the
e,,,r,111v of the army posts with coffee
- was especially made a condition
,racedent to bidding that while Java
and Mocha and other standard brands
might be blended with the cheaper
Brazilian coffee. the strong, rich, arc
matte coffee of the Kona coast must
he nut in pure in competition with these
cheap graded products. And, more than
that. it. was specified that no coffee
that had dirt and stones in it would be
considered which was understood TO
be a slap at the Island product-and
that is the cleanest on the market. The
secretary labored long and earnestly
with the War Department, probab bly,
telling the heads of it some things they
did not know before. and seems to have
created favorable impression.
In fact. he created a favorable I'M
rression everywhere. This was so
marked that he writes that he has been
urged by Assistant Secretary of the IN
terror Acker, as well as by Mr.. Burton,
chairman of the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors, to remain in Washington
during the tendency of the bills for the
dredging of the harbor of Honolulu and
other. measures in which the Territory
is interested, in order that he may
be at hand to give information-and
perhaps advice, although Mr. Atkinson
says nothing of that.
Mr.. Atkinson writes to the Governor