The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-09
PEARL HARBOR FAVORED
BY DEWEY
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purpose of replenishing the stock c
fuel there, which has fallen very low
Nevertheless it is believed here, an
probably with good reason, that tn
of the coal now being sent there vii
be used in supplying the fleet for tn
long journey to the Orient.
lDEWEY FAVORS PEARL HARBoR
During the last few days the Gen
eral Board of the Navy, of which Ad
niral Dewey is president, has beer
considering prospective Improvement
for Pearl Harbor. Admiral Dewey
| stated to Mr.. George B. Mcclellan thai
personally he favored making a star
| soon in the Improvement of that har.
Dor and that he hoped Congress would
make some appropriations for it at the
coming session. Mr. Mcclellan appear
ed before a subcommittee Of the gen.
eral board and furnished them with
all the information he could on the
subject. The improvements under dis
cussion include the establishment at
Pearl Harbor of coaling station, some
dredging of the channel and the pos
sible construction of a dry dock
The officers of the general board,
while apparently all favoring the inn
provements, are shy about taking up
the necessary cost. Nevertheless eff
forts will be made to have some esti-
mates for these works submitted Mr..
Mcclellan had a conference with Sec
rotary of the Interior Garfield this
morning. He presented to Mr.. Gar
field charts and other documents per-
tanning to Pearl Harbor for the pur-
pose of having the question presented
by Mr.. Garfield to the President. It is
hoped that he will recommend in his
annual message that some appropria-
tfon for the harbor be made by Con-
gress.
IN WASHINGTON.
Mr.. A. j. Campbell, Treasurer of Ba-
wall, is here at the New Willard Hotel,
seeking to arrange for a small issue
of territorial bonds. He has secured
the Presidents approval of the issue
and is now at work trying to secure
assurance from the Secretary of the
Treasury that the bonds will be ac-
cepted as security for treasury deposits
in National banks. It is likely that
such assurance will be given as it has
been given in connection with several
Ion, Crfo 1O,o Ie-
Mr.. S. B. Kingsbury, of Honolulu,
whose daughter is the wife of Capt
c. F. Humphrey, quartermaster of the
army. was in town for few days this
week. Mr.. L. T. Peck, president of
the Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land
Company, has also been in Washington
this week. In an interview with the
Herald Mr.. Peck had this
to say about Hawaiian affairs:
MR. PECK'S VIEWS.
1T is a mistake to think that the
natives of the Hawaiian Islands look
On the japanese as interlopers and that
a hostile feeling exists between the
two races,
1T is true, however, that the Japa-
nese are dangerously near the control
ing element Of the islands, as out of
4 population of 10000 there are about
80, 900 Japanese. The number is in {
,reasing year by year, but in proper
ton they are just about holding their |
1wn. The feeling between the natives !
Ind the Japanese is good, and there |
s little race rivalry, although it is not !
Of course, the same feeling that would
the islands we're it composed |
of natives.
THAT there will ever be any trouble !
between the two races in the islands
10 not anticipate, but if it does come,
It will be stirred up by strangers and
Europeans, who have at times shown
tendency to be meddlesome.
Neither race can be said to control
the business or finances of the islands,
for most of both races are laborers or
small merchants. The money in the
stands is held mostly by Americans or
and for that reason there
IS no clash in business interests be-
tween the natives and the japanese.
Neither is the labor question a serious
0ne, for the natives can work just as
we'll and as cheaply as the Japanese;
N fact, they are in many ways superior
to them. As merchants and vendors,
while in the field they are in every
sense equals. In case of war, do not
think the Japanese in the Hawaiian
islands would cause much trouble, IN
less secret agitators from Japan got
among them, and in that case I be-
ieve that the natives. who are loyal
TO the United States, would more than
hold their own. AS a nation, they are
oaf 1,.&s
iivid1als they like the japanese. There
has been, however, not much intermar-
lying between the two races, as each
7ne considers that it is a bit superior
o the other.
1T is true that a cargo of Japanese
migrants went to Vancouver primed
Tor trouble, but they were taught a
essen which viii be appreciated by the
Ithers in the islands,
ERNEST G. WALKER.