The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-05-17
KNOX ENDORSES
PACIFIC PLANS
SECRETARY FAvoRs SCHEME OF
CLEARINGHOUSE OF PAN
PACIFIC IDEAS.
CFrom wednesday 8 Advertiser }

From Wednesdays Advertiser)
Secretary Knox and II. p. Wood, sec.
retary of the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee, chairman of the Hawaii Fair
Commission and secretary of the Pan
Pacific Congress, held an important con-
ference in the wheelhouse of the gov.
ernment tug which took Mr.. Knox on
tour of San Francisco bay last week,
which resulted in the secretary of state
endorsing the proposal to have the Pan
Pacific Congress establish permanent
headquarters in San Francisco to be-
come the clearing house of ideas for
the benefit of all the governments in
and bordering upon the Pacific"
Mr.. Knox took a deep interest in
the scope of the Pan-Pacific Bureau
and did not see why the state depart.
J ment of the United States could not
/ get behind the movement and help it
along He felt that unless this was
done the great value of the congress
would be lost.
al told Mr.. Knox Of conference L
had had with Professor McAdie, the
head of the weather service in Cali
fornia,'' said Mr.. Wood, who returned
from San Francisco yesterday on the
Wilhelmina "Mr. McAdie told me he
had little correspondence with the
japanese government regarding wealth
er statistics. l told Mr.. McAdie that
[ believed it would be wise to get Doc
tor Moore, head of the weather service
at Washington, to get the United
States government to issue an invita-
ton to the governments around the Pa.
cifc to send their meteorologists to
San Francisco and arrange for seasonal
forecasts of the weather all over the
Pacific, in addition to daily forecasts.
Professor McAdie told me that if that
could be arranged it would mean thou
sands of dollars to the commerce in the
Pacific.
Approves Suggestion.
"After i told this to Mr.. Knox and
he approved of the suggestion, he said
that such matters as plague and other
matters affecting the health of nations,
might also be considered at the con-
gress, as this and other disease would
have to be more guarded in future ow-
ing to the opening of the Panama
Canal. He believed this would be
great thing.
"Mr. Sloss, head of the Alaska Com.
mercial Company, said if the congress
worked successfully on these two propo-
sitions it will have accomplished a
great deal and would show the worth
of the movement. 1t was also suggest
ed that as Mr.. Carnegie had endowed
the great institute which bears his
name in Washington, if some one would
similarly endow the Pan-Pacifc Con-
gress much would be accomplished.
Woods Welcome.
When Mr.. Wpod reached San Fran
cisco few weeks ago he was met by
a committee appointed by the San Fran
, cisco League Convention consisting of
Louis Sloss; Mr.. Macintosh, vice-presi-
dent of the Bank of California, repre-
senting the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce j. Brisben Walker, formerly
head of the Cosmopolitan Magazine; j.
, p. Brandenstein, the big tea merchant,
representing the exposition commission
w. ii. Pringle, n prominent attorney;
FELTON, Taylor, secretary of the conven.
$ tiOn league; r. j., Coster and Warren j
!, Lynch, representing the California De
velOpment Board.
Mr.. Wood went into the whole mat
+ ter of the Pan-Pacific Congress- which
n had been reported on by ii. r. Judah
one of the heads of the Southern Pacific
, Railway Company, who visited Homo
lulu some time ago. Mr.. Wood showed
$ the committee the mass of correspond
e ence which had accumulated since the
/ movement began in Honolulu, from gov
ernments, chambers of commerce and
> commercial organizations generally. Mr.
Wood expressed the opinion that the
a benefits that would accrue to the coun
tries represented in the Pan Pacific Con
gress could be made permanent if the
e congress was properly swung. The com
5 mttee was enthusiastic at once and Mr.
/ Walker wanted to get charter imme
/ diately.
r Mr.. Wood told the committee tina
n the congress was really too big a projec
h to swing in Honolulu, that the scop
d was greater than at first anticipate,
G and that the question of transportatio
n entered seriously into the matter. Sa
Francisco occupied the same relation /
the commercial activities of the Paeifi
that New York does to the Atlanti,
D. said Mr.. Wood.
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