The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-28
To BRING BACK
THE RESTORER
Merchants viii Inquire Why
Cableship Mas Driven
Away.

An endeavor to have the cabIeship
Restorer sent back again to Honolulu
will be made by the Merchants AS
ISOLATION. the causes which led up to
her removal to Vancouver being dis
cussed at the meeting of the directors
of the Association at their meeting
yesterday afternoon. 1t was stated at
the meeting that the presence of the
cableship at this port meant an ex-
penditur'e by the cable company alone
of $4,000 a year, in addition to- the
many thousands that the members of
the crew spent, an amount equal to
that left in the city by a very large
proportion of the total number of
tourists, for whom SO much work is
done.
The Restorer people pay out more
money in sHenoluIu in one month than
the whole ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Com
pany. spends here in a.year." was one
summing upzef the matter by T. ".
Macfarlane. who moved that the ques-
ton be taken up by the trade and
Committee for investigation.
E. H Paris introduced the matter,
quoting ]. D. Gaines to the effect that
the cable company was tired of the
treatment it had received in Homo
lulu and as a consequence had de-
termined to leave their cableship at
Vancouver for the future. Here taxes
had been imposed on the company not
elsewhere levied, such as the property
tax on the cable line at sea within
the three-mile limit. In New York,
California and British Columbia no
such tax was levied. Here the bill
for water for the Restorer amounted
to $500 a month, While at Vancouver,
where the vessel is now, water is sup
piled her by the city free of charge.
In other ways the company thought
that it was being rubbed in and they
had expressed their resentment, not
by kicking, but by simply cutting out
the place.
James Wakefield, one of the Trade
and Finance Committee, who is to be
in New York shortly, stated that he
would call at the head office of the
cable company and see what grounds
there might be for the company's
complaint, while other members of the
committee will visit the tax offices
here for the same purpose.
PICTURESQUE HONOLULU EN-
DORSED.
A testimonial to the promotion and
worth of Picturesque Ho-
noluld, the souvenir publication is
sued by the Gazette Company, was
given by F. L. Waldron in the course
of a discussion on the advisability of
spending money in advertising in a
descriptive pamphlet being issued by
the Pacific Mail s, s. Company, whose
agent is now canvassing among Ho-
nolulu business men. The argument
of the solicitor is that the book is OF
promotion value to Honolulu, to which
many of the merchants present at the
meeting yesterday stated that the
promotion work was already being
well looked after.
The best thing that was ever done
in the way of promotion literature for
Honolulu was the Picturesque Homo
lulu" stated Mr.. Waldron. I'VE are
receiving all the time stacks and
stacks of letters in regard to it, from
consuls. librarians and others all
over the world"
1t was generally agreed that there
was little practical advantage in gen
eral advertising in the Pacific Mail
book, although some of those present
stated that they had renewed their
contracts. r. w. Macfarlane thought
that if the money so spent were hand
ed over to the Promotion Committee
better value could be obtained from IT.
T. H. Petrie expressed an opinion
that it would not do to let the Pa
cific Mail think that the Honolulu mer-
chants were bucking them, to which
Mr. Paris answered that he for one
did not propose to be held up, no mat
ter who tried to do it.
ALDRICH FINANCIAL BILL.
letter. ,frem the New York Mer-
chants Association, asking. the CO.
operation of the Honolulu. body in
blocking the Aldrich Financial bill in
Congress was read. President George
w. Smith stated~that his ideas con-
high finance were rather neb-
ulous and he preferred to let the Aid
rich bill strictly alone. He referred the
letter, however, to F. w. Macfarlane
to struggle with.
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL EN-
DORSED.
a report from the Committee on
Public Affairs presented a report on