The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-09-13
LEAVE SUDDENLY
FOR THE COAST
CFrom Wednesdays Advertiser.

(From Wednesdays Advertiser
A great deal of mystery surrounds
| the departure for San Francisco OF
two young men of this city, who made
a sudden and very quiet departure on
the Hilonian yesterday morning. Har-
ry Tomlins and W. r. Pittenger, both
connected with the Trans-Pacific
Trade, a weekly journal issued in this
city and owned by C. R. Buckland, the
present editor of THE Hilo Herald, left
by the Matson liner yesterday morn
| ing without telling any except one or
two of their most intimate friends of
their intentions.
When the tickets for the trip we're
obtained from Castle G Cooke, the
local agents of the Matson company,
the two did not appear in person but
obtained them through an employe Of
the American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company with whom they were
friendly. The desire was expressed
that the names of the two should
not appear in the papers and in fact
should not even be put on the passen-
ger list but this secrecy naturally
could not be observed.
That the business affairs Of the
TRANSIT Pacific Trade are involved in
the sudden departure of Tomlins and
Pittenger Us strongly suspected. c. R.
Buckland was not notified that his
office force was about to leave, or in
fact that they had left, till some Of
his friends in Honolulu sent him a
wireless message after the Hilonian
had left port. He was surprised to
hear of the sudden departure and has
made arrangements for other parties
to take charge Of Ine publication of
the trade journal.
When the Hilonian left the dock
neither Tomlins nor Pittenger was in
evidence, but keeping out of sight OF
the crowd on the wharf until the ves-
sci was safely out in the stream. From
this it can only be inferred that they
were very desirous that their absence
should not be noted by those on shore.
A. N Campbell, who has been act
ing as the treasurer of the Trans
Pacific Trade, in the absence Of Mr..
Buckland, stated yesterday that the
money for advertisements and sub
scriptions had not been coming in as
it should recently, and that he had
intended to write to Buckland to ask
if there was any explanation of the
matter. The news that both Pittenger
and Tomlins had left without any
warning was complete surprise to
Mr.. Campbell and he was unable to
give any explanation of their strange
action.
At noon the office of the Trans
Pacific Trade was locked and no one
was there during the afternoon. A
Chinese boy who was employed as
bookkeeper did not show up but will
probably be found this morning. The
first thing that will be done is to
audit the accounts and find il any ex-
PLANTATION of the sudden departure may
be found in this way. The Trans
Pacific Trade will be issued regularly
as it has been and the only change
will be in the office force, new men
being put in to take the place of those
who have left.
Tomlins was at one time teacher
in Iolani College leaving that to take
position as reporter on the Star,
where he remained for some little
time before going to the Trans-Pacif1c
Trade. Pettinger came to this city
about year ago and was advertising
solicitor of the Star before taking the
position of the same kind on Buck
lands paper.
Pettinger had been talking about
leaving Honolulu for several months
past, making no secret of his inclina-
fion TO emigrate