Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-13
COMMERCE CHAMBER
NOT DISCOURAGED
Hears Encouraging News
On Pearl Harbor
Matter

AZ the meeting of the Honolulu
| Chamber of Commerce which was
held at its rooms in the Stangenwald
building yesterday afternoon, reso.
luton requesting the American.Ha.
waiian Steamship Co. 70 provide bet
{ ter and more adequate accommoda.
| tons for freight was unanimously
| adopted. L. |. Spalding, the introduc.
/ er, stated that when the steamships
| Nevadan and Texan were here stimuli.
taneously on their recent trip. their
| freight was dumped in the ware.
| houses In confusion The freight In
| The Oceanic company wharf was
! partly damaged This was also the
case with the freight on the wharf o;
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wharf. The
! transportation of the freight to the
| local firms was so slow that It incun.
| veniCnced the community. It was SUI.
| gested that the freight be stored in
such manner that II could be hauled
away from the wharf within forty.
eight hours after landing. This was
! strongly objected to by Mr.. Protein.
hauer of the firm of Hackfeld & Co.
! b. +. Dillingham; said that he knew
| of certain occasion where the
freight was left and accumulated on
the o. II. 4 l.. Co. wharf for three
weeks. He said that the Oahu Rail
way & Land Co. would erect more
capacious warehouse II proper condi.
tions were offered.
Pearl Harbor.
The question of Pearl HarbOr, which
the support of the Naval Committee,
was encouraglnsly reported on by let.
ters from the Delegate received dur.
+, ing the past three weeks. Letters GOV.
ering the Pearl HarbOr improvements
were also received from many prom.
inent people at Washington. II was
| stated In the letters that President
Roosevelt was urging Congress that
immediate steps should he taken for
the Notifications of Pearl Harbur. Sec.
rotary Wood of the Promotion Com.
mittee wrote that Representative
Smith of Southern California and Hon
| NJ. l.. Ward of the San Diego Cham.
| Der of Commerce and he called on
President Roosevelt at the White
House to discuss the welfare OF the
San Diego and the Pearl Harbor i'm.
proyements and Notifications. Presl.
dent Roosevelt assured them that he
would do his best to look after the
Pearl Harbor improvements first, be.
fore the San Diego affairs were taken
up.
President Morgan reported that the
Pearl Harbor borings were going on in
good shape. He reported that the Dor.
| ings between Shark Pen Point AMI
Waipio Point, In the inner harbov,
have been completed.
Entertainment of Fleet.
In reference to the coming of the
feet +. l.. Waldron, who had seen
Governor Frear. suggested that the
following gentlemen act as n commit.
tee on Entertainment James i. Nor.
gan, J. p. Cooke, + NJ. SwanZy, Il. d.
Tenney, L. l. Spalding, c. n. Cooke,
b. +. Dillingham;, l.. T. Peck, w. PFC
tonhauer and s. NJ. Damon.
WI Ting Fan.
President Morgan stated that he
would ask the Hon. WI Ting Fan, the
Chinese MiniGte; TO Washington, who
Is due to arrive here On the 2lst inst.
on the liner Siberia to speak TO the
! NHilllbtI VI NNllll.E'Nfs lult, iAOM
ever, will not he possible II tie Siberia
arrives here on the 22nd. Washing
tons birthday.
ReVeue Gutter.
E. |. Spalding suggested that rev
cnue cutter be stationed here. Til,
Manning. he said, might not be ord
cred to return here. In that event, an
other boat should be secured. Presi
dent Morgan stated that he woulC
see Collector f. K. Stackable about 1t
b. f. Dillingham; presented Il resoly
ton, expressing the endorsement o
the Chamber OF the scheme To in
crease the pay of the officers and mei
of the Army and Navy. a bill to tina
effect is now before Congress. TIL,
resolution was adopted.
Before the adjournment C. p. Mors,
and James ID. Dole We're elected mem
bers.
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