Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-03-04
SChWerin
Proposes
TO RESERVE STATEROOMS ON
THROUGH STEAMERS FOR
TOURISTS

by II. w. Single ut Il meeting of the
trustees of the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday afternoon. Mr. Pfo-
tenhauer of Hackfeld & Co. said that
he had received instructions of SINH
lar import from the main Office.
The President of the Chamber an
nOunCed that the meeting was called
for the purpose of listening to what
l.. A. Thurston and X. W. Shingle
had to say as the result Of their con-
ference which they had with Mr..
Schwerin of the Pacific Mail Steam
snip Co. X. w. Shingle read a pre-
pared statement as follows:
"On the morning of February 18th
MIR. Schwerin notified me that acting
upon representations made to him by
Mr.. Thurston and myself, he had de-
cided to put into immediate effect Il
policy whereby round-trip passengers
originating at San Francisco, would
he entitled to specific quarters on Pa
cific Mail boats returning from Ho-
hOlulu homeward bound.
Mr.. Schwerin stated that limit
ed number of accommodations would
be held in reserve for the benefit OF
holders of round-trip tickets, and
while he did not inform me of the
exact number, | am inclined to be-
lleve as many as ten desirable state
rooms will be the extent, for the
reason that this was the number sug-
gcsted by Mr.. Thurston and myself
at our previous interview
AT the time of making this an
nouncement to me. Mr.. Schwerin
called in Mr.. Kerrell, general passen-
ger and ticket agent of the Pacific
Mail, and gave orders to issue round
trip tickets to several tourists who
were booked for the Siberia March
10 provided they would be assured
comfortable accommodations on the
Mongolia due to leave Honolulu on
March 2Sth, bound for San Francis
| co.
Mr.. Schwerin then Informed me
that under the proposed arrangement
the staterooms so reserved would
never be sol dto passengers original
ing in the Orient beyond Honolulu
as long as there We're holders OF
round-trip tickets in Honolulu to M
| them; also that these staterooms
would be held to the exclusion OF
Honolulu passengers, irrespective oil
early bookings. He further stated
that should there be any complaint
from Honolulu people against this
discrimination, he would refer al
such complaints to l. "A. Thurstor
and X. w. Shingle. Immediately
notified Mr.. Schwerin that neither
Mr.. Thurston nor myself would as
sumo any responsibility in the prem
ises, but would report the matter L
the Honolulu commercial bodies"
Thurston's Talk
Mr.. Thurston, relating the events
that had led up to this, stated tina
last November he and Mr.. Shingl,
had gone to the Coast on behalf o
the Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Co.
commissioned by the board of direct
crs to make contract for the trans
portation of the ties sold to tn
Santa Fe road, and authorized to us
that contract as the basis for secur
ing a steamship on the localrun be
tween the Islands and the Coast, fit
ted for passenger and fresh fruit trai
flc. To further this they were au
thorized by the lumber company I
yield to the extent of tie In tn
freight contract, which would ap
gregate $4,000, showing how ia
the lumber company was willing I
so.
I'VE had conferences said Nj
Thurston, with representatives {
the four companies engaged in carry
ing on steamship traffic with thes
Islands. The Oceanic company afte
the first of January said that wh0
they would be able and willing to d
would depend on whether the pro
posed subsidy bill, which 'extende
to vessels of sixteen knots speed tn
mail contract subsidies now Unite
to 20-knot vessels, passed Congress
or not. II 1t did, the company II
tended to convert It's three larg
steamships into oil-burners and pr
them on the Australian run agaii
In the meantime, If enough freigf
were guaranteed them they woul
put one or two of these vessels O
the local run.
Dearborn and Latham. the prime
pal owners of the American Hawai-
an company, said that the passengC
trafiic between the Coast and Hon.
lulu was one that they mad bee
looking forward to, and they had e.
pected to transform the Virginian IL
20 a passenger boat. But after e,
pert advice had been taken 1t Ia