The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-19

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lowing Interesting story Of trade deveI
opment in the Pacific Ocean:
Sidney Story Of New Orleans IS her,
gathering statistics on the shipping a
San Pedro. And thereby hangs a tai,
OF interest TO Los Angeles. Mr.. Story
stated yesterday that plans for a $50,
100000 ocean steamship lire connecting
New Orleans, Los Angeles. the Orient
and the South American ports, have
been carefully thought out by a group
OF America 5 leading capitalists. hav.
ing as their head James W. Porch. who
already has a national reputation as
the directing factor in the Lukens Iron
Works of Pennsylvania
Mr.. Story Is large hanuIer Of Cali
fornia wines, with New Orleans as a
base; IS a member Of the City Park
Commission, New Orleans; also of the
Board of Prisons and Asylums. He Is
withal, relative of the great French
engineer, n. De Lesseps; and II seems
INSPIRED therefore that Mr.. Story
should, in the fuIIness OF time. take a
vital practical interest, as a member of
a huge steamship company, in the Pa
mama Canal He is a guest at the IRE
mont Hotel
The early completion Of the Pana-
ma Canal has aroused the people Of the
South, notably citizens Of New Orleans.
We have, one and all. begun to appre-
elate the commanding importance of
the canal, and are endeavoring to
formulate ways and means of creating
enduring interest in the grand inter
national gateway on the isthmus In
this forward movement. Southern Cali
fornia must heartily Join.
The present plan is to establish
trade relations between New Orleans,
Los Angeles, the Orient, and the Latin
ports.
Through the efforts Of James W.
Porch movement is under way, and
already Endorsed by leading boards of
trade and commerce in the Mississippi
Valley. Mr.. Porch, aud associates,
have launched the Mississippi Valley
and Orient Steamship Company, with
an authorized capital Of $4,000, 900.
1.-The line Is 10 operate steamers
through the inter-Oceanic canal to all
Pacific Coast ports, as well as to Span,
ish America.
1.-The project meets with the encour-
aging approval Of such men as Pres
ident Roosevelt and William H. Taft,
far seeing men, who discern in the plan
an effort to rehabilitate the American
merchant marine.
All Foreign Flags.
''The United States is building to,
lay. at a cost of $500, 100000 to $780,
100000, an isthmian canal, and yet if
this colossal work Of peace and prog
.ess were turned over tomorrow to the
of the world, there would not
be single American dag to go through
The canal.
"As a nation. we are expanding
5000, 100000 in the construction of this
inter- oceanic waterway, as a matter of
fact, are annihilating distance for Eng
and, France, Germany, Japan, and
,ther maritime nations.
sis there an American who does not
.xperince a feeling of keen humilja
ion when he understands these facts
md ponders them We'll!
'.The cry throughout the nation for
he last half century has been to re-
store the American merchant marine to
Ter pristine glory.
"This achievement may be accom-
,Iished only by fostering legislation
friendly to shipbuilding As nation
We pay annually the prodigious sum
f 5000. 900. 900 10 carry American prod
tets to foreign markets. Let Us cease
1aving vast tribute. and instead, Of
'er it 10 American ship owners, sailors
md Others vitality interested in our
,reat all-world trade. The money
would develop our shipbuilding indus
~ enormously. BIZ giving employment
o thousands of skilled workmen; and
would likewise create a larger demand
or American steel and iron and other
rticles needed in the construction OF
hips.
New Orleans : 10 be the head
uar+ers for this Mississipui Valley and
BRENT Steamship Company; for the
eason that. rs the sentinel guAsdIng
he Great Empire Valley, which
tretches from the Alleghanies 70 the
rockies and from Canada to the Gulf.
lew Orleans stands guard at the
mouth Of the Father Of Waters. She
: The logical point for the distribution
T the products Of the Mississippi VAL
av 70 the Latin-Americas, and to the
BRENT. as wen a. standing a. norT
T entry for the products of the Span
sH-Americas and Asia; for. behind
Igx Orleans i en- immense region
yhfch : watered by 10000 miles Of
avfcable streams, all flowing into the
Mississippi.
Thousands Of Miles Nearer.
..The distance from New Orleans to
he Atlantic terminus Of the canal Is
II 7SQO miles lint Los Angeles and