The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-22

%"HHHfN - 49, "ANNHH N A. NNNIH
Ices. 'fiehisnsA loi - Spectators. ~.
eftho'if uisd % unioad ~ the same
iinie. The dream ~ wealth untold had
hssh q pleasant one. bot u vas only =
dream, the daf " nuakenine had come
the bubble had burst Vet Father Hot.
ton had accomplished his purpose, the
new town VI San pirgo was hrrnly ss-
tabiished.
For a number u years the place
grew slowly. but conditions are again
prosperous with This beautiful city,
Father Horton stu lives. and In his
niuety-third year can rest content with
the knowledge that many strong earn
est workers are following In his foot
steps, with unbounded faith In the city
Of his creation.
Today the population OF San Diego
Is about 2b.0oo. The city Is connected
with the outside world by one line OF
railway. the Santa Fe. and while | am
not given to forecasting the future, 1
nevertheless venture the prediction
that the year 1910 win see the 1876 miles
between Los Angeles and San Diego
spanned by one OF the best and most
up-to-date electric railway lines In the
United States with half hour service
which Will be taxed to its utmost oapa-
city.
The city OF today will more than
have doubled in population. Immense
irrigation systems now in course OF
construction will have been completed
adding many millions to the wealth
of tributary territory.
The long talked OF and earnestly
hoped direct line OF railway eastward,
will be fast nearing completion. The
magnificent bay now comparatively idle
will be well filled with shipping and /
most sincerely hope that Father Hor-
ton who would then be In his ninety
eighth year may still be living to en-
JOY the glorious accomplishment of
his plans.
While the entire state OF California
is doing splendid development and pro-
motion work, the southern counties are
probably accomplishing the most, in
proof of which let me briefly refer to
that mighty machine of development
and progress the Los Angeles Cham
Der of Commerce. Within the last 10
or 16 years this organization has ex-
pended in the neighborhood of a mill
lion of dollars in advertising, not Los
Angeles alone but all of southern Cali
fornia. A splendid permanent exhibit
of the agricultural, horticultural and
mineral wealth of the southern coun-
ties is maintained covering some 90
900 square feet OF space in its own
building, a structure that would do
credit to Chicago or New York Be-
tween 1900 and 1900 people visit the
exhibit daily.
The rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce are also headquarters for every
line of work that may be called public
business, its membership is now up
wards Of 1000 and not pessimist or
knocker in the lot.
According to the statements of rail-
way passenger agents, not less than
250, 900 strangers visit southern Cali
fornia every winter. who spend fully
s25, 900 100000. They have to be fed and
lodged and taken around, there are
curios and various trifies to buy so the
money is widely distributed: every
body gets little of 1t.
While San Francisco is the acknowl-
edged Commercial Metropolis of the
Pacific Coast, Los Angeles has become
the great western tourist clearing
| house, the result of years of persist
ent Judicious advertising.
BUT, WHAT OF HAWAII?
The railway across the isthmus of
Tehuantepec is ready and open for
business. The harbors OF Coatzacoal-
cos on the Atlantic and Sallna Cruz on
the Pacific are being pushed to COM
pletion as fast as men, money and the
best of engineering skill can accom-
plish 1t.
In fact the s-shipment OF the
hoped for laborers from the Azores
could be readily made at this time with
safety and fair dispatch
The United States now owns and con-
trolls a rans-continental railway at
| Panama, which is open to all traffic
upon equal terms, condition that is
bound to stimulate commerce on the
Pacific and will have a most whole
some effect upon the monopolistic ten
denotes of public carriers. We do not
have to wait for the building of the
canal to bring about a change in trade
, conditions. Take the citrus industry
of southern California for instance. A
| year ago the shipment Of oranges and
lemons to Europe was impracticable
on account of the high freight tariff.
Yet within the last month a rate of
81 hundred has been made from Los
Angeles and San Diego to European
ports. The great trans-continentai
lines are beginning TO realize that I'M
Gle Sam is already a factor in the
transportation problem and are pre-
pairing to meet the new condition.
What benefits one portion of the coun-
try helps another.
No port on the Pacific will receive
greater benefit from the Tehuantepec
and Panama railways and the canal
than Honolulu, her situation in the
Pacific ocean is one of very great
strategic Importance. To properly for
tify and defend the islands will call
for the expenditure of many millions
of dollars. A large military camp must
be maintained here and an important
naval station created
With the development of water for
Irritation which ahould hnWavar ha