The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-06


Nebraskan and would reserve space I
the extent of 200 tons for fresh fruit
providing the necessary ventilation.
The Matson company said the,
were not prepared at the present tim
, and under the present conditions L
finance the enterprise of a local steam
| ship of the requirements needed. Thei
new steamship, the Lurline, OF $50
, tons, with accommodations for fort,
passengers would be in service June
and that would meet some OF the re
quirements.
with Mr.. Schwerin we had mum
Der of conferences, and he produced
arguments from the statistics and ex
perience of his own company to show
that the thing was impossible. NJ
local steamer would hold the passen-
ger trade as against the large through
steamers, unless it was as large as
they, or made much faster time. He
showed that the China, whenever II
sailed just before or just after one OF
the four large vessels. went with few
passengers. She did not have enough
passenger accommodations to meet the
requirements of local boat, besides
not meeting the other requirements of
size or speed.
''One day while in San Francisco,
and after these conferences. Mr.. Shin
! gle received a telegram from a friend
of his in Wyoming, an attorney for
the Union Pacific Railway, asking him
to secure him passage on the Korea,
provided he could get assurance of
H. To,
churia. If he could not get such as
surances. he would forego his trip TO
the islands. Here was a concrete in
stance in point of what we had rep
resented to Mr.. Schwerin. Mr.. Shin
gle took this telegram to Mr.. Schwerin
and pointed out to him that by giving
the assurance asked for his company
got the fare down and back, but, not
giving it, his company lost the pas
senger altogether. Finally as a result
of this representation Mr.. Schwerin
made the concession Mr.. Shingle has
reported to you. AS We had no more
authority to speak for the entire COM
munity than any other two individ-
uals. we report this matter to you
who do represent in a larger way the
community.
For my own part, I favor approv-
ing the concession. In some degree it
may inconvenience the local passenger
who books early for these vessels by
giving the round trip-ticket purchaser
and the lay-over passenger the pref
erence of these reserved cabins. But
the fact that people are not able 10
- 4
tions is keeping them away. 1t is, If
not killing the tourist business, at
least preventing its growth. By ac-
cepting this, a tourist business will be
developed that will in itself create
the demand for a local boat. Without
it the local boat can never come.
While these matters were going on,
the bill to permit steamships under
other flags to carry passengers and
perishable freight from the islands
was introduced. The representatives
ship companies opposed it at once. We
represented to the American-Hawaiian
that the japanese were about to put
on three additional large vessels under
heavy Japanese subsidy. We repre-
sented to Mr.. Dearborn that these yes
sells would develop a large passenger
traffic at the expense of the japanese
AS the bill ended the excep-
ton to the coastwise prohibition 1T
the end of six years, and made it pos
$ BILE to be ended sooner by the Presi-
dent, that business developed at the
expense of the Japanese subsidy would
foIl b
was prepared to take it up. Mr. Dear
born accepted this conclusion and
his opposition. Mr. Matson
lid. also. Mr.. Schwerin did practical
y. The Oceanic people said that they
we're opposed to it on principle, and
lence did not feel that they could con-
tent to it,
F. ]. Lowrey asked Mr.. Thurston if ;
lie thought this bill would pass. Mr.. ,
'hurston said he thought il would. ,
E D. Tenney asked what he thought
bout the chances of the ship subsidy
ill. Mr.. Thurston replied that he did .
lot think anybody knew anything I
bout it. There were those we'll in \
ormed who thought it would pass, !
nd others equally well informed who
hought it would not.
L. T. Peck asked if under the ar
angement offered by Schwerin the
assenger in buying his round-trip
cket for the islands had to nominate
t that time the steamer on which he
'ished to return. Mr.. ThurstOn re-
lied that such was his understand
lg; that if he did not go on the
teamer he nominated, he did not lose
is rights under his round-trip ticket,
ut simply his special privilege of Il
recedence over other would-be pas o.
engers. o.
w. NJ. Giffard said that persons buy ii
lg such roUnd-trip tickets and COM Il
Is here might want to remain longer II
ian they had intended, but would b,
OF, because of the special privilege IL
wen by this concession, and thus the fc
lands would lose the benefit of their d,
niger stay. tc
L. T. Peck said he knew of tourists d,
Ow in the islands who were going
lck by the Manchuria, though they r
ould like to remain longer, simply W
ecause they could not get assurance q
accommodations on the next boat OF
nd must be back by a certain time. eC
At President Morgan's suggestion g