The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-29
Los ANGELES
To BENEFIT
HAWAII
ErOm Saturdays Advertiser,


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.
Willard, commercial expert and news
paper man of Los Angeles, at the Ha-
waiian Hotel last evening.
Willard sought Honolulu, accompa-
MED by his wife, for health's sake and
will remain six weeks or so, expecting
to return to the City of the Angels
in December. II is his first visit to
this city and his first impression is
that it is a place hard to beat for rest
and quiet and healthfulness. at 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 q three-million dollar sea
wall which guards a harbor of refuge
of a thousand acres of over six
fathoms capable of accommodating
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 - feet can find
berths, but the harbor that is 10 be
will revOlutionize commerce as far as
Los Angeles is concerned and, TO q
great extent, as far as the eastern and
southern states trade with the Orient
Is concerned. a large proportion OF
the freight that is now sent TO san
Francisco and Seattle for transporta-
ton 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 10 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 I have mentioned.
All we want Is 3 maroon ana we are
goinS 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 a year and they are steadily
increasing.
steamship lines will be established
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 Guido San Francis
co, will at least be in the same class
as is san Francisco.
los Angeles Is looking to transpa-
cific business, and she is going 10
get il. and this is not merely my per-
Sonal opinion, but il is the conviction
OF wealthy and influential men of Los
Angeles based on the work actually
being done for the advancement OF
the interests of Los Angeles and her
physical advantages when properly 1