The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-03
Emil Berndt Booked Sixty-TW0
Days Ahead on Steamer
Alameda.
AND THEN HE PAID $50 EXTRA
He Lost His Money-HaWaii Lost
a Tourist-0ne Example
From Many.

Booked sixty-two days before the
boat sailed, Emil Berndt, a prominent
business man, secretary of the mer-
chants association and treasurer of
the Hawaiian Star Newspaper Associa-
tion, was forced to pay twenty dollars
extra for his berth in returning from
the mainland. AS he was booked, and
travelled, on the Alameda the opponents
of the suspension of coastwise laws
who state that there "are other Amer
will be satisfied that there might be
but that they are full up also.
Berndt arrived on the last Alameda
and notwithstanding the long time
ahead that he had entered his name
in the company's books, he was forced
to buy out another man who had Sc
cured berth, paying him twenty dol
lars extra. Incidentally, the "other
man. was again the only one to re-
alize anything out of the transaction
as he made tidy profit. Hawaii lost
another tourist and Berndt lost the
extra money.
1t was stated around town yesterday
that the civic federation intended TO
call mass meeting to consider the sus
pension of the coastwise shipping laws
and again send its resolution to con-
gress. w. R. Castle, the president, is
| in favor of the.move
Ed. Towse, secretary of the fedora
tion, stated last night that he as yet
has not been notified of such PROPOSE
ton. One of the reasons that might
have caused Mr.. Castle IS reported reso-
luton to call another mass meeting is
that private cable that reached town
yesterday from Washington confirmed
the news that the subsidy measures
chances of getting through congress
this session were hopeless.
Those who are fighting for the sus-
pension of the laws and for greater
tourist trade for Honolulu realize that
if no move is made on December Z, the
date of the convening of congress,
Hawaii will have to wait for long
time before it gets any relief The
| tlNlC ltucidllOH lutttlhS NChl OlL
record year ago for the suspension
and at that time cabled the resolution
to congress. 1t stood 16S for suspen-
sion and 2 against.
"To successfully carry through the
measure for suspension" said "a promi-
nent merchant of the city, yesterday,
"it should be seen that the movement
is not knocked at the other end of
the line-that is, San Francisco. Cap
tain Matson is tie one there who is
doing it and doing his best to defeat
it.
"He is standing in his own light
but refuses to look at it that way
When l was in Frisco / put it that
way to him but he couldn Il figure it
out. If TIE suspension measure is car
ried, his ships win have more tourists
to carry back for there will be more
here. The reason that boats are GO
ing empty now is that there is nobody
here to go away. No citizen of Ha-
waii wants to go away just at the
} holiday time. He will get his fair
share of returning tourists.
'fHe can not complain of loyalty on
the part of the shippers of Honolulu.
believe that every merchant in Ho-
nolulu is on record as promising to
give him all their freighting and we
certainly are. He knows that We have
instructed all those shipping to us to
send the goods through his line. F."
) Another merchant in favor of the
, suspension of the laws has estimated
that Honolulu and Hawaii loses $3,600,-
900 a year while those laws are in
force. He figures that there should be
five hundred more transient people in
/ Honolulu every month than there are
/ now and safe hgure is to say that
| they will spend $50 "A day. He says
that as those who come here are monyed
. people anyway, they can afford to pay
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