The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-15

Washington, April %, 1908.
The Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu,
Hawaii
Dear Sirs: I beg to thank you for
your joint cable of the 18th inst
authorizing me to invite the Committee
on Naval Affairs to visit Hawaii.
l have mailed a personal letter to
each member of the Naval Committee
extending them the invitation on your
behalf, and suggesting July 23rd as a
tentative date to sail from San Fran
cisco.
Owing to the fact that this is a
presidential campaign year, it may not
be possible for a sufficient number of
the committee to take time for this
long trip, and it may prove necessary
to postpone the visit until next year.
The Pacific Coast Congressman are,
however, urging the committee to make
the trip this summer, and we shall
probably have a definite decision within
the next two weeks.
I have already secured from the
Pacific Mail S. S. Co. a special round
trip rate of 500 each for the members
of the committee in case they decide
to go.
During the two weeks following the
passage of the Pearl Harbor bill by
the Helse, we put in much personal
work among the members of the Senate
Naval Committee toward securing in
creases of the bill particularly for the
channel work.
] am glad to report that the Senate
Committee doubled the appropriation
for channel work. as well as adding
$4,000 for buildings and yard de-
velopment.
We shall now endeavor to get the
House conferees to agree to these in
creases, and / am hopeful that they
will do so.
Whether the Naval Committee are
able to accept your invitation this year
or not. / am very certain that it will
not be without good effect in increasing
the friendly personal attitude on the
part of the committeeman toward Ha-
wall and Pearl Harbor.
Very truly yours,
J. K. KALANIANAOLE,
Delegate to Congress.
FACETIOUS FAIRCHILD.
The following communication from
George H. Fairchild was read and plac-
ed on file:
Kealia, Kauai, May 18th, 1908.
H. P. Wood, Esq, Secretary Chamber
Commerce, Honolulu, oahu.
Dear Sir: 1 am in receipt of your
letter of the 9TH instant wherein you
ask me to prepare a talk" on Kauai
to be read before your body sometime
in the near future.
/ will endeavor to collect data that
may prove of interest and if success
full, accede to your wishes to the best
of my ability, which you must know
beforehand is limited.
Ny time has been fairly well occu-
pied of late with land and water mat
tiers in this neck of Kauai's woods. but
as David Harum says few f1eas more
or less on dog only help his diges-
ton. 1 hope the Chamber of Commerce
will be mindful of this saying should
my written talk" prove so uninterest-
ing as to irritate your members to a
point where they might agree with the
dog that said evidently Harum hadn't
been bitten by real flea"
Kauai, as you know, is all sugar and
"baronial lords" and possibly 1 have
breathed too much of its reputed 18th
century air, and spent too much time
fighting bugs in the canefields to write
of interest apart from sugar,
bugs and "baronial lords"
However, 1 will submit my paper to
you and if you say its safe for me to
risk my person reading it before your
h0dy 7 will take a chance
Yours very truly,
GEO. H. FAIRCHILD.
FINANCIAL REPORT.
The following report was read and
accepted:
Honolulu. H. l., April goth, 1908.
To the Trustees Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce, Honolulu, H. I.
Dear Sirs: Your Finance Committee,