The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-09
HONOLULU AND
SAN PEDRO RUN
American Hawaiian Line Pro-
poses Direct Service Be.
tween Ports.


coming week. the Americana Hawaiian
steamship Company contemplates the
Inauguration Of a fast freight and pas.
senger service between here and Homo.
lulu within the near future. according
to reports in shipping circles, says the
Los Angeles Times, August 90.
The company is now reaching out and
increasing its activities in this terri
tory, and that radical change in the
handling of business may be made in
the immediate future is more than
probability.
AS a starter for its new activities,
the company has established a general
agency for southern California in this
city, and II. p. Durdan has come out
from New York to take charge of the
business in this field. He will open his
offices here at once and employ force
of clerks and freight agents.
Negotiations looking toward the estab.
lishment of a through service between
! here and Hawaii have been under way
for some months, but have been con-
Quoted with more or less secrecy. Ha.
waiian sugar planters have brought
strong pressure to bear upon the Ameri-
can Hawaiian company in the hope of
securing passenger service, and Presi-
dent Dearborn of the company has made
the promise that if it can be shown
that such a service can be operated
without too great loss it will be done.
Great Fleet Ready.
The fleet of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Company is the largest flying
the American flag, and it is the largest
fleet of giant freighters in existence.
1t was created largely to handle the
Hawaiian sugar, though it is now en-
gagged in a general freight
business between the Atlantic Coast, the
Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands,
via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Heretofore, with the exception of an
unimportant service maintained at one
time by the Nevadan, the company has
made no effort to carry passengers
| The Hawaiian planters, upon whom it
depends for its most lucrative business,
are anxious for more passenger ships,
however, and are inclined to insert a
passenger clause in their next sugar con-
| tract.
With view of accommodating the
planters, who are their best patrons,
the company is looking into the pas.
senger business, which its officials be-
lieve may ultimately be developed into
a profitable venture
Some months ago, President Dear
born urged that the only proper way
for the Hawaiian people to 90 after
the tourist trade is to start an active
| l.. I LIZ
where the tourists congregate, build a
suitable tourist hotel in Honolulu, and
then secure the establishment of a
four-day passenger service. He said
that if the Honolulu people would pro
vide the hotel and look to their end of
the business, his company would pro
vide the ship. Such a vessel would
cost in the neighborhood of $1,250,000.
Now San Francisco.
At the present time there are three
companies doing steam freight and
passenger business between San Fran
cisco and Hoonlulu. These are the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
Hartman enterprise; the Oceanic com
pany, which is controlled by Spreckels,
and the Matson Navigation Company,
which is largely owned by the Hawa.
iian planters The Pacific Mail oper.
ates through to the Orient and its Ha-.
waiian business is purely secondary.
Last year when the time came for
renewing the sugar carrying contracts
the Matson Navigation Company made
strong bid for the business and as a
compromise the American Hawaiian
agreed to get out of the San Francisco
Honolulu trade if the Matson people
/ would leave them unmolested.
AT that time the planters agitated
the question of passenger clause, but
the matter was finally allowed to drop.
1t is believed that when the time comes
for signing up the next contract they
will insist on some passenger service,
however, and it is believed that for
this reason the American Hawaiian is
preparing TO enter the field.
For Passengers.
The great freighters of the Amer
ican'Hawaiian Company were con.
structed primarily as sugar carriers and
the company has reaped enormous har.
vests from the Islands. Forthis reason
the officials are anxious to please the
planters in the matter of passenger ae'
commodations II possible.
As lhe cohphuyt ny Ithhou OF llb
agreement with the Matson company,
Is debarred from competing in the San
Francisco passenger and freight bust.
ness, II remains for II TO establish its
direct line out Of a southern California
port
General Agent Duldan last night said
that he had not been advised that his !
company contemplated entering the
passenger business at this time, nor
that IL contemplated establishing a al.
rect service between here and Homo
lulu, on tho other hand be said that
be had heard the matter mentioned ana
he declined 10 make any prophecies as
20 what tho future may bring forth
There IL one thing eertaln,b said |
he, iffha completion of the Panama |
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