The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-04-23
MISUNDERSTANDING
ANDREW NEWHALL
AN ERRONEOUS STATEMENT OF
HIS PLANS CORRECTED
Some Suggestions to Bellingham and
Everett 'Expansionists' Relative
to Establishment of New Steam
boat Routes via Islands.

The Olga correspondent of the
Bellingham Herald seems to be a
persistent ''knocker" of the present
steamboat service between the. ISL
ands and Bellingham, and especially
of that furnished by Andrew New
hall He is either ignorant of Mr.
NewhalIs plans or wilfully misrepre'
sents them-probably the former.
The Herald of the 18th contained
the following grapevine special
from Olga, under the same datei
'It is officially announced that it is the
| intention of Mr.. Newhall to make a radi-
| cal change in the island steamboat ser
vice when his new steamer is completed
| in July next. The new boat will leave
Bellingham at 6 a. m. every morning ex-
cept Sunday, making the run as at pres
ent to all the island points, Anacortes,
and return to Bellingham. This will
compel all the Orcas is and people to pat
ronize the Thompson when they wish to
come to Bellingham. They will then
have triweekly service To Bellingham,
instead of the present daily service. 1t is
not likely that they will want to come to
Bellingham on Newhall's boat, as in that
case they will have to go on board of the
boat during the forenoon and ride all day
! before reaching their destination. The
new schedule will discourage any in
crease of traffic to Bellingham and will
make the island transportation service
even worse than it is at present"
The proposed route of Mr.. New
halls new steamer has several times
been mentioned in the ISLANDER. He
could not change it if he desired to,
without the consent of the postoffice
department, nor does he propose to
change it in any respect except to
Gle over" every night at Bellingham
instead of every other right at Ana
cortes. His mail contract requires
him to leave Bellingham Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 a. m.
for Anacortes, VIA Urban, Doe Bay,
Olga, East Sound, Friday Harbor,
Lopez, etc. Instead of lying over at
Anacortes on those nights about
twelve hours as at present, he pro
poses to run through to Bellingham,
returning VIA Anacortes the follow
ing mornings, leaving the latter
place as early as he is now required
to do under his mail contract.
Mr.. Newhall has for many years
been one of the county's most up
right and public-spirited citizens. 1t
is due to him that the carrying trade
of the county has not yet been monop-
olized by a single company. His. en-
ployes are mostly taxpayers. He is
building fine steamer in the county
and employing citizens of the county
| in its construction. Even granting
that the service he has given as a
common carrier has not at all times
been all that, could be desired, it
would seem that he is fairly entitled
to the good will and moral support of
every citizen and to as large share
of each individuals patronage as can
be consistently given.
The Bellingham papers are now
advocating the establishment of a
steamboat route between that. city
and Everett, via La Conner. Everett
people talk of route from that city
to Friday Harbor and other island
points. Here Is an opportunity for
the two cities to act upon the com
munity of interest" idea and encour-
age some good steamboat man to
maintain a good service between the
two cities, making tri-weekly trips
via La Conner and the islands. Such
route could probably be made a
profitable one within year or two.
Bellingham 'expansionists' would
also do well to encourage the estab-