The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-22
MORGAN HAS EXCURSION
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elect Taft to come to Honolulu to get
better acquainted, and invited Dick
Croker, of Tammany fame, to take a
trip to the Paradise of the Pacific and
test our winter climate. These were a
few of the things he did.
"The San Francisco business men
have had excursions to the north and
excursions to the south, and / made il
point to tell them that it was time
they were paying some attention to
their best customer of all, Hawaii. They
saw the point, and Charles Moore, the
president of the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce, told me that he would
call meeting of the chamber and com.
init the members definitely to an ex.
cufsion to Hawaii. He assures me that
the excursion will come.
&C. d. Dunnan, general passenger
agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company, who also holds the same po-
sition for the California and Puget
Sound Railroad and the Pacific Coast
railroad companies, talked the matter
over with me, and he has now gone to
Seattle to bring up the matter of an
excursion from there. 1t is practically
certain that we will have the s. s. Gov
ernor down here with an~excursion in
February. 1t was at first thought that
eta
TO San Francisco, to San Pedro and
across to Hawaii, but we have decided
since to run it from San Francisco to
San Pedro and here, the Seattle and
Portlanders joining the excursion at
San Francisco. The Governor is a fine
boat, and the accommodations on her
are splendid.
"Our plans are to have the Governor
sail from San Pedro to Hilo, making
that city the first place of visit. Three
days in Hilo will give the excursionists
time to see the Volcano and the sights
around Hilo. Then the steamer will
come to Honolulu and remain here for
eight days. That will give those who
wish time to 90 to Maui and Kauai on
the island steamers. g
81 haven't had time to do much con
corning the celebration the Chamber of
Commerce has suggested to mark the
opening of the Pearl Harbor drydock
and harbor in 1912, although everyone
l mentioned it to on the Coast seemed
to be enthusiastic in their commenda
ton of the idea. have been appoint
ed as chairman in charge of the plans
and ] will appoint my committee a
once and get to work on the scheme.
81 had talk with w. G.. irwin
about the Federal building site ex
, change and all the pilikia that sugges
ton caused down here. He tells M
: that the idea of an exchange did no
originate with him at all, but that tn,
department made the offer. He state
that as matter of fact that exchang,
, would not have been a profitable ON,
for him because the government only
wanted part of his property, leaving
him with smaller piece on his hands
He wanted to know why the Honolulu
people had not expressed their dissatis
faction to him instead of taking thei
kick to the officials at Washington. q
; do not want to go against the wishes
of the Honolulu people,, he said. q
have interests in Honolulu and have tn,
interests of the city at heart as mucl
; as any of Them
81 noticed in newspaper that Rich
ard Croker intended to come to South
ern California in search of an equabl
) climate, SO i wrote to him, inviting hin
to run over to Hawaii and sample wha
we had in the way of climate.
haven't had any reply from him yet
, sent an invitation to William II. Tai
to come to Honolulu, too.'