The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-30
February % to March ,, interval Of


ten days.
Now, gentlemen, as men living on the
mainland, in cities where YOU have from
two to twenty trains u day which You
can TAX in and out Of your city, il
You have ever come up against wash
out or a train wreck that has delayed
You tWeuty-fOur or thITtv-six hours, and
have sWeated and worried over it, You
ought TO stop and consider what it
means to have people marooned in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean for intervals
of from six to eighteen or twenty days
without the possibility or travel to and
from the Coast.
Mr.. Barchfeld. And then when the
vessel does reach Honolulu it may
be all booked, 50 it VIII be an impossI-
bility to secure passage.
Mr.. Mcclellan. Yes; that frequently
happens. Those figures | gave above
are specimens of the conditions under
which the people of Hawaii are com
PEELED to live under the existing law.
On the other hand, there are at times
two and even three steamers of the
various lines arriving IN as many days.
This is due to lack of adjustment be
tween the various companies, and 1t ac-
counts largely for the fact that cabin
space is not always taken up to its
fullest capacity. The opponents of this
bin will probably come forward with
figures to show that the cabin capacity
of the ships is not fully used. Ger
tainly it is not used. 1t is impossible
that the full listed capacity of any
ship should be used. These gentlemen,
in the first place, figure the capacity
of ship as three passengers in every
cabin; and, of course, in every case
where there is a man and wife in the
cabin, then only two-thlrds of that
capacity is used. Therefore it is never
possible to fill the ship to its the
oretical capacity.
In the second place, as l say, IN the
absence of any adjustment Of the SAIL
ings of the competing lines it is not
at all an infreuuent occurrence to have
two steamers on one day and three
steamers within as many days, which
leaves vacancy to some extent, or
rather a lighter booking of the vessel,
to put it more accurately, at those
times.
Mr.. Barchfeld. Doesn't that hold
good on the Atlantic side just as well
! as on the Pacific? ! recall going to
Europe eighteen months ago, and IN
steamer with a capacity of $500 we
had, all told, $40 passengers.
Mr.. Mcclellan. Yes.
Mr.. Barchfeld And that include /
steerape and second and thlrd-classes
Mr.. Mcclellan. | need not say to
committee like this, familiar with ship
ping conditions, that at certain times
of the wear vessels do run light. SO
figures taken for an entire year of the
carving capacity, and then the hguIes
Of the passengers actually carried lo9
a year. would seem to show a great
deal Of reserve capacity for the carry
ing of passengers; but the fact that
there is vacancy on the steamer IN the
month of Nav is not of the slightest
value to a passenger who desires to go
in October, and it is perfectly useless
to bring figures of that sort to show
that there is sufficient carrying capacity
for the business. Our proposition IS
simply to enable us in those cases where
we can not get passage on the Amer
] lean boats to use the space that IS
available on other steamers.
| shall first speak of the results of
these long gaps between American
steamers as they affect the people OF
Hawaii. \ common occurrence there is
49, -., fro,, On 70 = nao,la refused
nassaae IN ontgoino steamers.
Mr. uumnhrev Won mean OUTGOING.
nomino this vay2
Mr.. Mcclellan. mean outgoing from
Honolulu, coming to the Coast. | my,
sa1f had an exncrience in ATTEMPTING
70 oct MASSAGE on a Pacific Mail steam
ar whore there were 1o7 pe0plc book
el from Honolulu When that steamer
arrived in port She was able to take
inst : passengers out of Honolulu. That
was an exceptional case-that is, it Is
not typical, because they usually take a
ba4+o, narnprtaoe than that: but il is
not ut all unusual to have from 30 TO
- people unable to secure passage on
a steamer going nlt.
| append a cahiegram from Governor
Frear on this subject:
Honolulu March ;, 1910
Hon. 7 Kalaniaraole, WASHINGTON. Il. G.
Pacific Mail agent states impossibie
give number who were unable secure
massage both bocause statistics have
been Sent ia San Francisco and because
can not segreoate persons refused from
nersons who Voluntarily FASHIONED de
nartpro The numhar is undorhte1iv