The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-14
.BANQUEI. LIST OF
commerce BOARD
FOR next MONDAY
Directors Of Chamber Elect New
Members At Regular
Board Meeting

banquet given by the chamber of com.
merce TO the congressional party Mon
day evening, May II, at half seven
clock in the Moana Hotel are the
following; ,.-,..
Governor Lucius f. Pinkham, Secre-
tary Wade Warren Thayer, Mayor John
| c. Lane, Senator Chillingworth and
four other members of the senate,
Speaker HoIstein and four other mem.
bers of the house, Maj. Gen. William
II. Carter, Admiral g. b. T. Moore,
Delegate J. X. Kalanianaole, Judge
Sanford b. Dole, Judge Charles +.
| Clemens, Chief Justice A. q. M, Rob-
ertson, Lieut.. Col. Charles 3. Bromwell
Lieut.. Col. b. +. Cheatham, Malcolm
A. Franklin, Ramer Sharp, r. l.. Hal
sey, f. Il. Trotter, J. NJ. Westgate,
William +. Young, William b. Stock
man, A. Il. Arledge, John +. Haley,
JEFF McCarn, J. j. Smiddy, c. r. Fort es
X. o. Matheson, Riley Allen, Chu Gem
| (president Chinese Merchants Associa
tiOn), NJ. Kawahara (vice-presiaent
Japanese .Merehants Association, and
the editors of the Hawaii Shinpo, Ha
wall Hochi, Nippu Jill, Hon Nun 30
Wah Hing 30 and Sun Chung kwock
BO.
This list does not include the mem
bPTs of the chamber themselves, who
act as hosts. A.
Each diner will find at his plate n
folder embossed with the gold seal OF
the chamber and containing on the re
verse cover souvenir photograph of
Waikiki beach. The folder will act
both as place card and menu.
At the meeting of the directors OF
the chamber yesterday afternoon, the
Following new members were elected
Peter Gushman Jones Honorary, by
nomination of President Waldron)
George j. O'Neil, Edgar Henriques
Chucb Hoy, Charles A. COttrill, Georg
Fl. Angus, Stanley Stephenson, W. l.
Stanley, l.. j. Warren, +. f. Steere.
Mr.. Jones was a charter member O.!
the original chamber of commerce
| founded in 1883, and was active in tn"
establishment of the well-known firm
of c. Brewer 4 Co. Recently he re
tired from business, at the same time
resigning from the chamber.
Gerrit p. Wilder offered his resigna
ton as chairman of the committee on
entertainment and reception, owing to
the health of his wife, which will ne
cessitate an early visit to the Coast
for an uncertain period. The resig
nation was tabled for later action.
Rudolph j.. Buckley, who lately
seN cred his connection with W. C. Pea
cock 4 Co. in order to enter the FRS
National Bank. resigned from the ad
vertising and subscription committee
Hands on the Navy a.
Most of the action taken by the di
reetOrs was negative. A communica-
ton from the NhitesSeal Laundry, re.
questing the chamber to use its efforts
in retaining the submarine fotiIla a,
it's present base, instead of moving j.
20 Pearl HarbOr, was put aside.
| The argument adNaneed by the laun-
dry was that il the GHotilla should be
moved, the families tof the men now
lhere would return to the mainland, be
cause rhere are no living accommoda
tons for them at Pearl City, and that,
for the same reason, the families of tn,
men who will shortly arrive with the
next addition to the fiotilla would re,
main where they are. "@
These facts might all be true, the
directors conceded, but they felt that
it was no part of their business to in
terfere with the conduct of the navy
department and that If they hoped to
get an attentive hearing when they
consulted the department on important
matters, they should keep their hands
1ff things that did not concern them
Freight From New York
Benson Smith Company presented a
communication TO the effect that
whereas shipments from New York by
way of the Panama Canal formerly
were carried direct by the American
Hawaiian steamships in thirty days
they now took forty days or more by
way of Los Angeles Harbor, San Fran
cisco and Seattle.
lnasmuch as the volume of business
brought to the Islands by the Amer
elan Hawaiian Steamship Company
from Seattle is almost as great as that
from New York, the, directors did NOT
u see how they could ask the company
to alter its schedule, unless the mer
hnnts wished to make up in addition
Il frcightS what the company woul'
One by putting on a direct service
This hardly seemed likely and the di
CrtoIs voted not to make any com
| laint.
The familiar proposal of a free por'
If Honolulu, brought mp this time by
ROT. William A. Bryan, brought GU
cry little discussion The director
cit that it was hopeless to attemp
, competition with the free port o.
lonpl o"p which enjoyed perhaps thu
lowest freight rates in the world
whereas Honolulu was hampered b!
perhaps the highest. Secretary Ray
mohd G.. Brown was requested to ac
knowledge Professor, Bryan lette
with thanks but not to disguise tn
opinion of the board that his pronosa
tas not feasible while conditions re
1nin"d what they are.