Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-24


merce yesterday afternoon, was list
ened to with great interest. In intro
ducing the speaker, J. +. Morgan. pres
ident OF the Chamber of Commerce. |
said: zone OF the matters for discus |
sion and which Is very important to |
the people Of the Territory and in fact |
to all the people of the United States
Is the present Coastwise law. do
not know what Mr.. Dearborn Is going
to speak to you about this afternoon
but whatever he says will be OF the
utmost interest"
Mr.. Dearborn prefaced his address
by saying: ION behalf of the Ameri
can. Hawaiian 8. s. Company I thank
you for the honor conferred upon me
by having been asked to address you
this afternoon. have some ideas
about passenger traffic and about the
tourist business. When I came out
here eleven years ago. Honolulu was
comparatively speaking small place.
"The American Hawaiian Company
Is the outgrowth of the old clipper line
of vessels which have now become
obsolete. When Hawaii was annexed
we saw our opportunity and ] came
out here as q spy to look over the
ground and see what prospects there
were for starting line OF steamers.
At that time I was forcibly impressed
with what had been done as regards
the sugar industry. | saw that here
was business end. But the question
arose, How could we AFFORD to send
vessels unless there was ample freight
| both ways Mr.. Swanzy took me round
the harbor, and so far as ! could see
there was absolutely nothing to war
rant a line OF steamers being put on.
"B. F. Dillingham;, however, provid.
ed facilities, by building the Oahu
railroad. Later. however, | made ar.
arrangements for incorporating line of
steamers to handle the sugar OF Ha-
lwaii. We were ahlo Ia sell % 200,000
worth OF bonds; we made rate: built
three steamers and have kept On In.
lcreasing our service ever Since
Tehuantepec Route.
when you go into any big business,
lyou try to steal all the Information
you can, but generally end up by hav'
ling TO purchase large portion Of It..
Having. been through the pioneer end
of the business, by sending ships
Iaround the Horn, we started the Tie.
lhuantepec route. The advantage OF
this new route over that Of Panama is
that the former Is some 1900 miles
shorter to New York than by the latter
route, but transhipment has to be
made.
THE Islands were becoming insist.
ent upon some adequate measures be-
Ing taken whereby their sugars could
be properly handled and put on the
markets in the quickest time possible.
went to Mexico and the Tehuante'
pee proposition was put before the
Hawaiian sugar growers. The sugar
people saw the advantage and the TIE.
huantepec route was opened
"The Tchuantepec railway Is pet
scheme of President Diaz. He gave a
concession and number OF conces-
sionaries were In the field at once
The Tehuantepec route Is 1872 miles
long from Salna Cruz to Coatzacoal.
cos. II is a high class premier rail.
way.
you see these ships Of ours coming
lin here every twelve days? Well. we
have eight on the Atlantic. which all
connect In what | term the grand tri
angular course. These steamers all
run on schedule time; II one is de
layed. the whole schedule IL upset.
For long time our ships OF 5000
tons arrived with freights OF only 1000
tons, but we kept at 1t and today oul
ships not only handle immense car
lgoes but keep up regular schedule
AT home ] have read newspaper
PARTICLES about the Coastwise Laws
We appreciate conditions. the bushes.
Los Al,.t,, ka.. nj, haa IIA.
as a through service by our line O
steamers. II the big ship had beer
eliminated you would have had ships
of smaller tonnage. The Nevadan anf
Nebraskan were specially built fol
this service There is such prepond
erance Of sugar In comparison to thu
amount OF freight down, that It 4
very difficult to get full cargoes to thi
port.
And now as regards the passenge
traffic. Four years ago We submitte'
a proposition to the Merchants Asso
citation In reference to accommodation
for passengers. About three years ag
we purchased the Maine and the Mis-
souri, from the Atlantic Transpor
Company. We spent $4,000 In hav
ing plans drawn up for passenger at
cOmmodations en- these vessels, but
as It was estimated that at least som
100000 would be required to max
the necessary alterations, we decides
that the vessels were too slow to prov
popular as passenger boats.
1--WE are carrying today about one
fifth of the sugar from these Islands I
San Francisco. We are building ne,
ship to be christened the 'Honoluluar
or 'Honolulan,' whichever name
thought to be the right one. This ves
sci will be ready In few months.
will have accommodations for fort,
five passengers, and will be of a higl
standard and will cost about 5000 00(
We have done all that Is possible I
put on good service. and this extr
passenger service will cost us at leas
$125,000. The Matson Navigation Con
pany aud Captain Matson are to b
congratulated for their energy an
courage in providing the fine servic
which they now offer you.
More Hotels Needed.
1.-THE community wants this extr
passenger service, hut | have r,