The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-10
SEATTLE MAY Be
A PORT OF CALL
Canadian Liners Would Bring
Many Tourists if Coastwise
Law Be Suspended.
ANOTHER GOOD ARGUMENT
Southern Pacific Diverting All
Possible Tourist Traffic
Away From Hawaii.

From reported conversation on
board the Canadian. Australian liner
Mariana, held on its last trip down here
from the Coast, it seems likely that
should the coastwise laws be suspended
in regard to passengers the Canadian
Australian boats will make Seattle q
port of call.
ID. E. Dunbar of the National
Grocery Company of Seattle, who has
been guest at the Young Hotel for
some time and who left on the Aorangi
early this morning, made this state
ment yesterday.
The conversation was held in the
smoking room and was participated in
by Mr.. Roberts, one of the directors of
the Canadian line. Dunbar does not
remember accurately whether the state
ment that Seattle would become port
of call under those conditions, came
from Mr.. Roberts or not, but the state
ment was made without qualification
and met with no denial from the Of
fetal, even if he did not make it.
Dunbar also discussed the matter
with Captain Nixon Of the Mariana,
who knew OF the proposition.
Ten Times the Number.
"should this arrangement be made, +"
said Dunbar yesterday, "Hawaii will
have fifty tourists from the northwest
where she now gets three or four. There
were thirty Seattle people on the boat
with me when l came down."
Dunbar's company is heavy shipper
to the Islands, sometimes by way OF
Vancouver and the Canadian line AND
also by the Pacific Mail and American
Hawaiian.
|. s. Benson, who arrived on the Man
churia and who is now a guest at the
Moana Hotel, stated last night that he
was exceptionally lucky in receiving
personal letter of recommendation tC
General Agent Kerrell of the Pacific
Mail Company in San Francisco.
One Hundred Left Behind.
The latter gentleman stated that
when the Manchuria left the Colder
Gate there were 100 passengers left al
| San Francisco who had booked on he
| for the Islands. He himself had NJ
trouble, although having an extra per
son in the stateroom.
He added a new item to the man.
that are registered to Hawaii q loss il
saying that the Southern Pacific Com
pany is doing its best to keep tourist
from taking the boats out and wa
trying to induce them to travel t,
Southern California over its lines
Many are doing this after failure t.
secure bookings.
The Pacific Mail company, says Ben
son, does not release the prospective
passengers but keeps assuring then
that some one might drop out and leav
stateroom for them, thus keepinI
them from booking on any of the othe
lines.
Hot Resolution Wanted.
In discussing the proposed mass
meeting of the civic federation Gale
yesterday, Fred l.. Waldron, presiden
of the merchants association, state
that he believed that it was a fin
thing and that w. R. Castle was jus
the man to call it. He added, howeve
that he thought it would have bee
better if the mass meeting was Gale
generally and not in the name of an
particular organization. He hopes
see hot resolution sent to Washington
Booking in Anticipation.
The Friend, published yesterda.
takes a firm stand on the coastwise su
pension question, but goes to an e,
IRENE which will not find general favo
There is no disposition on the part {
the very large majority to turn I'll
freight business over to foreign part
cipation. The Friend says:
"At least one citizen has shown h
faith by his works and booked by OIL
of the Marus to the Coast next summe
This means that the stand of Secretar
Ballinger for justice to Hawaii is tai
en- to indicate that the good sense {
congress will champion the same hol
est course. Our legislature Subtitle
itself by its failure to support I'll
overwhelming sentiment of the poop
in favor of the suspension Of the coas
wise laws for these Islands. 1t is eli
nifcant that even the local corporatio
most interested in opposing, for purel
seifish reasons, this public sentimer
is by no means united in this shor
sighted course, several OF its highei
officers including its president bein
public.spirited enough to east all the
influence on the side Of economic rig
teonsness. II is to be hoped that whe
congress gets down TO considerable
of the question, ii will see the injusti'
- any restriction upon our trade wit
the mainland and will suspend entirel
the operation Of the eOastwise law
both as regards freight and passel
gers"
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