The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-24
.FAvORS DIRECT
STEAMER LINE
E. $. GILL WANTS STEAMERS TO
RUN BETWEEN SEATTLE AND
HONOLULU-HIS REASONS.

E. 5. Gill, formerly of Honolulu, has
written for the Seattle Commonwealth
an article on The Trade Possibilities
with Hawaii" in which he shows rea-
sons why there should be a direct line
of steamers between Honolulu and
Seattle. In addition to giving informa-
ton about Hawaifs sugar exports and
her purchases on the mainland, the ar
ticle says:
ITO the query What are the POSSIBLE
tiles of trade between Seattle and the
Hawaiian Islands, I would answer,
They are good under certain condi-
tons
Foremost of these conditions would
be the establishment of a sugar refinery
here and second would be close atten-
ton upon the part of the commercial in
terests of Seattle to supplying the needs
of the Hawaiian trade Excepting for
about two years in 19OO-1-2 when the
Globe Navigation Company sent some
of it's freghters to the Islands about
once a month, there has never been a
regular line of steamers plying between
Puget Sound ports and the islands and
an endeavor to establish trade without
regular sailings is, under the circum-
stances, impossible.
"The importations of Hawaii from
the mainland amounts, in round figures
to more than $4,000, 100000 annually.
| Practically all this trade goes to San
Francisco. Why? Because San Fran
cisco has two lines of steamers with
regular sailings plying to and from the
islands. The Oceanic Steamship Com
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the Australian run making sailings ev-
cry twenty-One days. These steamers
, sail under the American flag and make
Honolulu a regular port of call. Be
sides these three through steamers this
! line runs one steamer, the Alameda,
regularly, between San Francisco and
Honolulu, making round trips every
! twenty-One days, so that this line alone
averages three steamers a month each
way between San Francisco and the
chief port of the islands.
Certainly people who do between
SAC, 1000, 100000 and $4,000, 10000 worth OF
business with the mainland every year
are people whose business We should
make special efforts to obtain.
81 am inclined to believe that the COM
mercial interests here have been so alb
sorbed in the Alaskan trade that they
neglected the Hawaiian trade when
they had an opportunity to get into
close touch with it through the Globe
Navigation Company's steamers in 1900
q In 1901 one of the agents in the ISL
ands for some of the Seattle houses
complained to me- after a visit here
that his principals in Seattle paid so lit
tie attention to his orders that on sew
eral occasions they allowed a steamer
to sail without getting their goods or
board thus causing a cancellation OF the
orders, which then went to San Fran,
cisco. This had a bad effect on trade
with this city.
Seattle is shipping some goods to tn,
islands every month by the Hawaiian
American line of steamers, but nothinl
to what she could be shipping with z
regular line plying TO ana from the ISL
lands, I'm order TO secure regular line
of steamers however 1t is importan
that they shall have return cargoes aul
i'm no way can these return cargoes BE-
Iobtained so we'll as by the establish
Iment I'm this city Of a sugar refinery
Such line ought i'm time to- Doe extend
ed on TO New Zealand ana Australia s,
las 10 bring back from those countries
IW0ol ana hides ana I'm return supply
Them with their machinery and many
other manufactured products which
they now import An investigation %
the subjects OF trade relations with TN
Hawaiian Islands Is certaaly one whlcl
! the commercial bodies of the city nigh
well take up
!