The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-26
| rs ANGELES
To BENEFIT
HAWAII
Diverting Commerce to
Advantage of the
Islands.

LOS Angeles is looking to the ocean
for big business and the future Of that
rapidly rising city, with San Pedro as
its seaport, will be closely linked with
the progress of Hawaii" said c. D.
Il Willard, commercial expert and news
paper man of Los Angeles, at the Ha-
waiian Hotel last evening.
Willard sought Honolulu, accompa-
will remain six weeks or so, expecting
TO return to the City of the Angels
in December. 1t is his first visit to
this city and his first impression is
and quiet and healthfulness. ST feel
better already he confided to a rep
preventative of the Advertiser.
Honolulu and Los Angeles con-
tinued the visitor, will in a very short
time be brought close together through
the development of the seaport at San
Pedro and the increased attractions
and commercial facilities of Los An
geles. Within a year we will have
completed a three million dollar sea
wall which guards a harbor of refuge
of thousand acres of over six
fathoms capable of accommodating a
navy, and within two or three years
there will be six or seven miles of
docks, of a depth of thirty feet, in the
inner or commercial harbor, where
rail and wharf meet, which will make
of San Pedro one of the finest harbors
of the world. Just now in the inside
harbor there are good accommodations
for coast shipping purposes, where
vessels drawing p or 22 feet can find
| berths, but the harbor that is to be
will revolutioniZe commerce as far as
Los Angeles is concerned and, to a !
great extent, as far as the eastern and /
southern states trade with the Orient |
rs concerned. A large proportion of |
Ne freight that is now sent to San |
Francisco and Seattle for transporta-
tion to the Orient will be sent to Los |
Angeles for shipment to the Far East,
the distance being SO much shorter
from tide water to tide water, since
it is cheaper to ship from eastern
ports by water to Galveston, say, and
then by rail TO Los Angeles and so by
steamship to the Orient, than to rail-
road the goods to the northern ports
which l have mentioned.
''All we want is a harbor and we are
going to have one of the finest in the
world and when we realize our as
sured harbor facilities, at San Pedro,
Honolulu is going to come in for a
great share of the benefit, both in re-
gard TO commerce and the tourist traf-
fic, for now we get our fifty thousand
tourists year and they are steadily
increasing
ssStaamSbip 1spas will ba as+o bl;Sba5
between Los Angeles and the Orient,
via the Hawaiian Islands, and Homo !
lulu and Los Angeles will be in direct
communication.
San Francisco and Seattle people
may laugh at us, but Los Angeles, /
while she may not outdo San Francis
co, will at least be in the same class
as is San Francisco.
Los Angeles is looking to transpa- /
Rife business, and she is going to =
get it. and this is not merely my per-
tenal opinion but it is the conviction
81 wealthy and influential men of Los
Mageles based on the work actually b
being done for the advancement of +
the interests of Los Angeles and her >
physical advantages when properly
developed. There are many advan- II
tages to be considered in the matter /.
of the transportation of freight for Ii
the Orient from the south and east
Of the United States via Los Angeles,
the absence of winter difficulties, for
example, and the fact that there are Al
ight-graded rail lines; and then there
IS the fact that this is the shortest
route between waters, freight being
shipped by water, always the cheap
ast means, from eastern and south
eastern points to New Orleans or Gal
reston and thence overland by the no. -
winter, no-heavy-grade rail to Los
Angeles; and so the Orient-destined x
reight from all the south, for that pl
natter, win find the natural outlet hi
rom the States by way of Los An RI
'eles, the steamships taking in Ha- -
vail and so benefiting these islands. -
from a standpoint of necessity there ha
more reason for vessels from Los ag
angeles than for vessels from San re
francisco to stop at Honolulu en- ar
QUITE to Japan and China. The cotton
xport trade of the Southern States
81 the Orient must find Los Angeles by
ne logical avenue. And so it will be ha
nth many other great mercantile tn
ines. su
Already have the wealthy men OF tie
4os Angeles. of whom there are a W;
cry large number. men of action and tn
rogressive ideas and men who fore re
ee what Los Angeles is to be, planned wa
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