The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-08
Unable to Return to Homes on
Account OF the Diverted
American Tourists.
ARE PREPARING TO KNOCK
Coastwise Laws Fine for the
British Ports, but Hard on
Visiting Britons.
(From saturday,s Advertiser.l

has been diverted through Vancouver
owing to the American shipping laws,
there are at the present time over a
hundred Canadians in town who will |
be unable to return home via the Van
couver lines. Most of these hold return
trip tickets but the agents are unable |
to honor them owing to the full book
ings and the long waiting lists that
have grown up month ahead Of the
sailing time.
f. +. Higgs, of Calgary, Alberta,
who is staying at the Wilcox Cottage
on the Diamond Head road, with his
wife and family, stated yesterday that
owing to the conditions which he has
found existing in passenger traffic he
had been forced to give up his plans
for buying property here as he had in
tended to, preparatory to spending each
winter in Honolulu.
81 think this is the most beautiful
place in the world,' said Mr.. Higgs
yesterday, "and / meant to spend part
of each year here with my family, but
l can not do so when l can never tell
when 1 will be able to leave the Islands.
| Several days after l arrived here, the
first part of February, people who had
| come down with me came to me very
much worked up and said that all the
boats going back for the next few
months were full up. l went right
| down to the agents and booked on the
Natal but found myself sixtieth on
the list. When the Natal went out
there were over q hundred on her wait
ing list and but twelve succeeded in
going. / know number of people who
failed to get room on her and who are
seriously put out in consequence. Most
of them had return trip tickets.'
Every boat that comes down from
the British ports are jammed with tour
lists from the States who are crowding
up north upon learning that the laws
supposed to be framed for American
shipping prevent them from travelling
from one American port to another. A
glance at the hotel registers after the
arrival of a steamer from Victoria and
Vancouver show people registered from
points all through the East and middle
West, including Chicago, st. Louis,
Philadelphia, Boston and New YORK,
the five places from where travel has
been the heaviest.
Mr.. Higgs called on Secretary Wood
of the promotion committee this week
to inform him of the discomfort preva-
lent among Canadian and British tour
lists.
"The promotion committee is doing
splendid work. said Mr.. Higgs yes.
terday. 'But the steamer conditions
are queering everything. Mr.. Wood
stated that he had heard that there
were lot of kicks that were going
around concerning this phase of the
tourist question but that he had never
had any made before him by the kicker
personally. j know a great many peo
pie who have emphatically stated tc
me that they were going to write al
this up when they get home and l have
no doubt but that great many will
do it.
The Question Mark.
81 have been to the agents and book
|. ed on the next steamer sailing on tn,
: Goth and was very much surprised
when they told me that 1 might no
! be able to get out on it, and that
had better book on the next which goe
on April 26. If 1 find l can't get tha
, / will have to try and get accommoda
I tions via San Francisco, which will b
I; hard travel with my family.
+ cit is not the agents fault nor tn
o fault of the steamship line. 1 hav
: never had better treatment anywher
in my life. When l first came L wen
t to the Young Hotel and found
g iammed but they did everything tina
r they could for me by ringing up tn
e other hotels but they also were ful
J Finally several people who had a cot
tage at the Royal Hawaiian left sue
It denly and Manager Brown came aroun
e and offered it to us, as much please
n over finding it for us as we We're oul
l. selves. We stayed there week unit
IN we moved ont here. Theo. Davies
lie Co. have also done everything that the
d could for us.
10 ~ have heard something about
n. law that prevents all the people wi
or want 10 from travelling here via 81
I'd Francisco.
m Mr.. Higgs is not the only man wi
has heard the same thing.
al Cause and Effect.
'e, News has reached Honolulu indire'
he ~ that large number of tourists fra
"a, the States for this place are on boa
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m probably be- found after e0mpari
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