The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-14
INSTRUCTIONS ARE SENT
TO SECRETARY ATKINSON
The Board of immigration Gives Him Sailing
Orders for the Azores, Etc.--Offers From
Plantations Are Enclosed.

Igo to those islands and investigate their
labor supply.
If investigation convinces him there
! are not able-bodied laborers there in
| sufficient numbers to fill the require
ments Of the Planters Association, then
he is requested to proceed to Northern
| Italy and make a similar investiga-
ton in that district, including avail
ability of laborers for the needs of Ha-
wall.
| Their idea is that he should not do
any recruiting of labor on this trip,
but state to intending emigrants what
| inducements are offered for their COM
ing to Hawaii. After completely salts
flying himself that there is sufficient Ia
Dor of desirable class in either of the
districts mentioned, Mr.. Atkinson is
| advised to return to New York and
make detailed Investigations as to the
| date when the Tehuantepec route will
| be open, also as to all possible means
| of transportation from the Portuguese
islands to the Isthmus of Tehauntepec.
On his completion of this work they
would expect MIN TO return home at
! his convenience and make a full report
of his whole investigations.
| Reasons are given why an investi-
cation before recruiting of laborers has
| been decided on. 1. They are strongly
urged not to attempt to bring inlmi-
grants around Cape Horn, as most Of
them would be averse to exposing
themselves to the rigorous winter of
| that region. 1t is argued by expert
enced advisers that they should wait
until July in order to bring the peo-
| pie by way of Tehuantepec. 2 So
many mistakes have been made in
former attempts at Portuguese immi-
grafton that they would go very slow
to be sure they were right.
Mr.. Atkinson is advised to proceed
first to Lisbon, the capital of Portu-
gal, and if feasible obtain, through the
courtesies of the Secretary of State, a
letter from the Portuguese Minister in
Washington to his Government. This
suggestion was made by Governor Car
ter and concurred in by Signor Cana
Varro, the Portuguese consul general.
Though keen assistance in promoting
emigration was not to be expected from
the Portuguese authorities, the Com
missioners believe that they would
treat the delegate courteously and give
him letters to the governors of the
island colonies. Yet he might find in
Washington that trip to Lisbon would
not be necessary.
Letters from prominent Portuguese
in Honolulu to responsible men in the
Azores and Madeira would be for
warded to him. The United States con-
suls there would likely help him.
They enclose him a letter from the
Planters Association Offering induce
ments for 1000 families of Portuguese
or Italians.
If he needed an assistant, several
good men are available here. Their
first choice would be E. Hutchinson,
an Englishman who spent all his life
in the Madeira Islands before coming
to Hawaii. A letter with many good
points in it, from Mr.. Hutchinson to
Geo. H. Robertson, is enclosed. Mr..
Atkinson is asked to cable his wishes
and an assistant may be sent to him
by the Alameda sailing January g.
In the investigating of transporta-
ton he is advised to see Geo. S. Dear
born of New York, copies of CORE
spondence between whom and E. E.
Paxton relative to the American-Ha-
waiian steamers and the Tehuantepec
route are enclosed. He might find in
New York that chartered steamers from
the Azores to CoatzacoalcOs would be
necessary. They expect from him
full statement of probable cost of ship
ments of emigrants by regular or char
tered steamers. Information is want
ed as to the possibility of bringing i'm
migrants from Vera Cruz on the Pa
cific coast of Mexico. If he could not
find this out in New York he should
make inquiries in San Francisco. They
are informed that the cost of bringing
immigrants from the Azores via Tehu-
antepec should not be more than $50
for adults.
A letter of credit for Mr.. Atkinson's
expenses is enclosed, with a respectful
request for exact accounting.
He is asked to cable an inquiry to
the L. s. consul at Demarara, British
Guiana, to test the truth of a report
that a large number of Portuguese la
borers are available there. In the
event of a favorable reply and his
mission to the Portuguese colonies
failing, it is suggested that he might
proceed to Demarara and make in
vestigations there.
I'VE sincerely hope that you will be
able to make a very successful trip"
the letter concludes, land that on your
return you will be able to report a
large number of suitable laborers in
the Azores and Madeira Islands,
The letter from the Hawaiian Plant
ers' Association enclosed refers to, and
encloses copies of, letters from that
body to the Board of immigration and
Secretary Atkinson.
Homestead and farming agreements
are enclosed in the enclosures mention
ed, which the Maui Agricultural Com
pan, Kihei Plantation Company, Ha-
waiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany, Olaa Sugar Company and ka-
huku Plantation Company are prepared
TO make with laborers, such as Italians
from Northern Italy or Portuguese from
the Azores and Madeira Islands, either
in the United States or upon arrival IN
Honolulu.
These plantations are willing to offer
oil Inducements