The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-19
A STE A N SHIP
LINE F Rom
REDONDO

II am here to discuss with Mr.. J. B.
Castle and others the possibility of
putting on a line of steamers between
Honolulu and Redondo." said L. T.
Garnsey of Los Angeles. who is pres
ident of the Los Angeles and Redondo
Railroad, c. P. Huntington's sindivid-
ual line: who is a capitalist himself
and one of the pioneers of Southern
California, whose energy and push
helped materially in advancing Los
Angeles from a small town twenty
years ago to the thriving metropolis
it is today. the tourist center of the
West. Il know what a steamship
line connecting this port with the Los
Angeles entry port could do and I am
prepared in a general way to point
these out to those interested here.
do you know what it would mean
to Honolulu to have direct connection
with the Los Angeles port? Do you
realize what it would mean TO your
tourist trade to be able to say TO the
thousands who come into Southern
California every winter that there was
side trip to Honolulu with a guar
antee that there would be no trapping
people here, as now. but an assur-
ance that a return could be made on
the same vessel or one of the same
line? 1t would mean that for one
tourist that comes here now, tens
would come.
II do not believe that the people
here realize that the only railroad sys-
tenn reaching the Pacific Coast that
runs through direct to Chicago, the
Santa Fe, has a terminus at the Los
Angeles port and that freights billed
that way can be delivered quicker
than they can at San Francisco and
can be loaded into steamers quicker
there than at San Francisco. There
is absolutely no reason in the world
why fast steamers between Redondo
and Honolulu should not ply full of
freight both ways and carrying more
passengers to and from these islands
than have ever before visited here.
with the proper steamship service
your fruits should supply the entire
Coast. Your bananas should monop-
Ollie the markets from Los Angeles to
Seattle. Your pineapples should be on
sale in every city west of Chicago.
You have other fruits to sell and over
| there is an unlimited market for them
You have here what tourists want,
something to see and enjoy in the way
of scenery and climate, and you have
lumber TO send TO the mainland
Il am not altogether given to OPP
timism. I am rather inclined to be
conservative, but these are my views.
Honolulu has what Los Angeles
had. the natural foundation for a city.
Your time seems to be about ripe.
Now. if someone will only put their
shoulders TO work and start it. the
progress OF the next four or five years
will be marvellous. The government is
awake now and viii help on the move
ment for Honolulu and trade condi-
tons are ready for something big. If
I were twenty years younger I would
come here. for 1 see the chance to
make invested money not only bring
a good interest, but double and treble
itself.
But you have to have different
steamship arrangements than you
have now. l realize this very much
because I am up against it myself.
You bring people here and then they
can not get away You need expect
no one TO come here when things are
like they are. 1 was given positive
assurances that I could return on the
Manchuria. I have interests to look
after that make il necessary that 1
should go, but I find that 1 simply
can not. There is no room for me on
that steamer and I will have to re-
turn on a freighter. The enforcing Of
the coastwise laws here is an outrage,
an absurdity and unfair to these is
lands. 1 do not wonder that your
hotels are half empty"
Mr.. Garnsey will accompany Mr..
Castle on an automobile tour of Oahu
today and will leave, in company with
Mr. Castle. L. A. ThurstOn and r. W.
Shingle. for Hawaii on Tuesday. He
will visit the lands Of the mahogany
and tour the Big Island. The
question of q steamship line will be
discussed thoroughly during the trip.
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ACTrED IN PANvAN TREE