The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-10-01

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sident of the California Street Railroad
Company, which operates one Of the
important street railway lines of San
Francisco and for nine years was pre-
sident of the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road Company, the steam railway line
of which runs northward from san
Francisco.
Robert Dollar, president of the Rob-
ert Dollar Company, of San Francisco,
was one of the members of the Cham
Der of Commerce who took the earliest
and most earnest interest in making a
proper response to the invitation from
Japan, and he has been one of the
most active in organizing the trip
across the Pacific. The Robert Dollar
Company are steamship owners and
large exporters and importers operat-
ing between San Francisco and other
Pacific Coast ports and the Orient.
F. w. Dohrmann is one of the most
eminent citizens of San Francisco and
one of its largest wholesale and retail
merchants. He is president of the
Nathan-Dohrmann Co., which for a
great many years has been the city's
leading firm dealing in crOckery, glass
ware, ETC., with branches in other coast
cities.
b. L. Heuter is one of the leading
figures in the industrial and CONNER
cial life of San Francisco and has been
an active member of the Chamber of
Commerce for a great many years. He
is president of the San Francisco Pho
neer Varnish Works, and of the old
Bass-Heuter Paint Co, and is at the
head of the California Ink Co.
Max Schmidt is at the head of one
of the large industrial establishments
of San Francisco, the Schmidt Litho-
graph Co., of which he was the or
ganizer and of which he is president
and manager.
r. B. Hale has for many years been
one of the most widely known retail
merchants of San Francisco and one
of the city's most active and infuen-
tAtll AlNlHChSs IT'D III H. IldlC DlOnss
Inc, the largest retail dry goods house
on the Pacific Coast.
Wallace M. Alexander is the man
ager of the San Francisco branch of
Alexander & Baldwin, of Honolulu, one
of the important and widely known
shipping and commission firms of the
Pacific Coast, with branches also in
Seattle, and New York. The house is
largely interested in Hawaiian sugar
plantations and in various phases of
American commerce on the Pacific side
of the world
s. I. Merrill is president and genera
manager of the California Industrial
Co. of Los Angeles, which operates the
largest rolling mills on the Pacific
Coast for the manufacture of iron and
steel bars, bolts, nuts and like pro-
ducts.
John Bergin, of the Los Angeles
Chamber of of Commerce, of which he
is an ex-director, is vice-president and
secretary of the Los Angeles Soap Co.
which is one of the oldest manufacture
ing concerns of Southern California.
J. T. Fitzgerald who goes with the
party as another of the representatives
of the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, is the president of the Fitzger-
aid Music Co., at Los Angeles.
c. NJ. Cooke President of the Bank
of Hawaii of this city, and John Wa
terhouse, two of Honolulus most Sc
| lect business element, are regularly
and duly appointed delegates from the
Honolulu Chamber of Commerce to jolr
the Coast Commission here and pro
coed with them to Japan.
Following is the personnel of the
party:
From San Francisco-Honorary com.
mercial commission. representing the
Chamber of Commerce of San Fran
cisco: w. M. Alexander, F, w. Dohr,
mann S., Robert Dollar, r. b. Hale, j
r. Hanify, E. l.. Hueter, Henry
Michaels, Max Schmidt, James B. Stet
son, George r. Volkmann, Mrs. G. S
DOhrmann, Mrs. Robert Dollar, Mrs. r
B. Hale, Mrs. ]. r. Hanify, Mrs. E. L
Hueter, Mrs. X. Pischel, Mrs. Louisa
Volkmann and Miss Johanna Volk-
mann.
From Los Angeles-Members of
Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles:
j, j. Bergin, A. G. Billicke, ]. T. Fitz-
gerald. Alfred P Griffiths, s. l. Merrill
Mrs. ]. j. Bergin, Mrs. A. C. Billicke
and Mrs. j. T. Fitzgerald
From Oakland-A. Kendall. member
of Chamber of Commerce and Mrs
Kendall
From Eureka-E. E. Skinner, pres
ident of Eureka Chamber of Commerce
and Mrs. A. Brizard
From San Diego-Wiliam Clayton
Chamber of Commerce member.
From Portland, Or.-Members OF
Chamber of Commerce: o. M. Clarke
and Charles p Friendly, DR.. Henry
Coe and Mrs. o. NJ. Clarke.