The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-29
STACKABLE'S s
GREAT TOUR
His Travels in Europe
as immigration
Agent.

At the request of Honorable E. D
Tenney, President of the Board of I'm
migration, Honolulu, Territory of Ha
wali, L hereby submit memorandum
of my travels during the past year as
agent for the Board of Immigration
l left Honolulu on May Z, 1906, pei
J, the 5. S. Manchuria, and arrived in San
Francisco on May 13. So much has
been said about the conditions in San
Francisco at that time that l do not
think it necessary for me to touch
ion it would take very lively imagin-
alton to picture a more deplorable
state of affairs.
On May 10 l left San Francisco for
New York, and arrived at Chicago on
the 22d. 1 left Chicago on May "a,
and arrived at my old home in Michi-
gan on the afternoon of May %, and
arrived in Washington on May 30. l
called upon the President, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, Honorable F. P.
Sargent, Honorable DIR. Charles 2. Neal,
the Assistant Secretary, and may other
Government officials. / secured every
possible encouragement from the Gov
ernment officials at Washington, from
the President down, in connection with
the strongest kind of letters of recon-
mendation by the President and See
retary of State, without which, l am
quite satisfied in my own mind, sue
cess in this most difficult work would
have been absolutely impossible.
Mr.. Fraser, who was appointed as
my assistant in this business, joined
me in Washington, and we proceeded
to New York, arriving there on the
morning of June g. Considerable time
was spent in New York looking into
the matter Of transportation on the
Atlantic, and strenuous effort was
made to see if it were possible to
transport immigrants via the Tehuan-
tepee National Railway. On June %
l left New York for Boston, and on
the following day sailed from Boston
on the British steamer CamOpic, ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Fraser,
for the Island of San Miguel, Azores,
arriving on the afternoon of july 8. !
The Azores consist of nine islands, |
as follows: Santa Maria, st. Michael,
Tereeira, st. George, Graeiosa, Fayai, |
Pieo, Flores and Corvo. The popula-
tion of the Azores is estimated at
about 100000. The islands are situate
between 80 degrees min. north latl-
tude and 2S degrees so min. west longl-
tude. The Island of San Miguel or
st. Michael is the largest, richest
and most important of the Azores
group. 1t is Al miles long and from
eight to nine miles broad, and con
tains 269 square miles. The popula-
tion is estimated at about 100000.
The port of entry is Ponta Deigada'
It has the distinction of being raised
to the title of city as early as 1916
and has a population of about 2o,oo0.
Some of the most beautiful gardens
I have ever had the good fortune to
see are located in the city of Ponta
Delgada. 1t is also very clean and ]
healthy city The harbor of Ponta
Delgada, to a degree, is artificial. \
very large and expensive breakwater
is building, which has been in the
course of construction for many years,
and is not completed at the present
time. The smaller vessels can come
into the harbor and lie in perfect
safety. but the larger vessels OF
the White Star, Hamburg-American and
Roval Mail lines anchor outside. This
breakwater l believe was commenced
m 1861, and when completed will be
about 1000 feet long.
Other places of interest are Rloelra !
7randa. Villa Franco, and Povoaeao'
some of the mountains are quite high
md I believe the highest peak Is estl- :
mated to be about 5000 feet above the
evel of the sea.
The climate is similar in many re- :
meets to the Island of Oahu. but IN !
nv opinion the humidity is much great
r. The vegetation also is very slml- I
ar to what we see here on these IS I:
ands. 1t would seem chat practically /!
under the sun grows IN the !!
sland of St. Michael. ana not only !
rows in the island of st. Mlehaei :
Ill 1
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