The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-31


tipple and the barn on the left was pi
'om the government road, along which the
and o. w. OLSON, committee, and A. S.
Humphreys and c. w. Ashford, coun.
sci. The letter is bitterly sarcastic in
tone and in parts calls for the services
of an unabridged. 1t said:
"Gentlemen; We acknowledge re-
ceipt of your communication of even
date, in which you express your un-
willingness to accept the proposition
submitted to you by us on the 9th
inst. to arbitrate certain matters at is
sue between your company and our har.
Dor, basing your refusal, as we under
stand You, to arbitrate said matters
upon your lack of power to delegate
to others the authority to hear and de-
termine a matter which involves what
you assert to be your right to summari-
ly dismiss from your service, without
cause being assigned therefor, any mem
Der of our harbor.
Eudemonical Evangelist
"Although you furnish us with no
corroborative evidence of your mental
attitude in that respect, it is yet graft
flying to us to have you refer to the
duties owed to the public by you.
A recognition of the fact, by you, that
you owe duties, or any duty to the
public, is so utterly at variance with
what has been generally conceived to
be your frame of mind, that yielding
to that trait in human nature which
prompts one to magnify the Importance
of an inconsequential event, or purely
casual observation struck from a pen
solely for the purpose of decorating
a phrase or rounding a period, is like
! ly to eventuate in your company Is
being held, in the public Judgment, as
an eudemonical evangelist instead of a
mere cut-throat enterprise conseerated
that of earning dividends.
"That this will present happy sit
luation needs not to be emphasized, fol-
there is another trait in human nature
which prompts one to endeavor to live
lup to the reputation, however unde
served, given one.
Effort to Appear Fair.
SIN this view we might leave with
out reply your letter of this date tc
uS, WIN ~ hOt pdtchJ W OuE illuuf
that your reference to the duties owed
to the public is but mercerized effort
to appear fair, so that you may enlist
the sympathy of the public, intending
the Wine to be wantonly unfair.
"The reasons given by you for refus
ing to submit the differences existing
between us to arbitration find no sup
port in sound legal Judgment, as We
are advised, and are opposed to the
position taken by you on August
1912, when you specifically requested Vi
to arbitrate matters then at issue be
tween the company and the harbor, eX
pressing yourselves as follows:
"'The company is willing to, ant
now proposes to, submit the same II
arbitration; the arbitrator to decid,
this matter may be either the arbitra
ton committee of any of the publ,
bodies of Honolulu, or be board o.
arbitrators chosen in the usual manner
viz: one by the masters and mates, ant
one by the company; these two t.
choose third. Or if preferred by you
board of five, chosen in like manner
two by the company, two by yourself
and the four to select fifth.
ga conference with a committee o
your directors can not, in our judgment
serve any useful purpose, and is not
therefore, invited by u.s."
Captains Issue Warning" Letter
Over the signature Publicity Com
mittee" the harbor yesterday after
noon handed the following to the press
To the Public:-As the matter is o
such great Importance to the safety o
the travelling public, we feel that i
should know Of the present condition
existing throughout the steamers of tn
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Com
pany, Limited. Should Mt any time a
accident occur to one of the islam
steamers while under way in the chan
nels or along the perilous coasts of tn
various islands, with the present creV
of seamen that the masters are force
TO take under the system that the In
ter.Island Steam Navigation Co. has O
employing it's crews, serious loss Of lif
would follow, for the reason that a
the present time many Of the vessel
are sent TO sea with crews ineapabl
OF manning a boat. In the past thre
months there have been many accident
10 the boats rs manned by tho prehen
OF other inefficient crews. Two live
ave also been lost during this tint
aud thousands OF dollars worth q
freight rs well, and many Of the sma
boats have been wrecked.
Masters Not 70 Blame.
This Il condition over which ih
muftefg have nhsoutely no control IA
q e reason that their suggestions Ia "a
premises are not considered. IN nom
instances thego are Tow good nae
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