The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-09-07
HILL STEAMSHIP ...
!. LINE IS ANXIOUS
= TOCOME ON RUN
-. IL. - .1 t. r..
Ed Towse, Back From Mainland,
Says Deal Can Be Closed
Easily +
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GENERA MANAGER, STONE 2
ARRIVES HERE TOMORROW
II Hawaii Merchants Do Their
Share Giant Vessel win
Enter Trade

f'"we feel certain the Great Northern
Pacific Steamship Company will put It's
giant liner Great Northern on the Homo.
lulu rum
This is the statement Of Ed Towse,
who returned to Honolulu yesterday at
ter several months on the mainland.
. eve" refers to Mr.. Towse and H. p.
Wood, Hawaii fair commissioner. They
recently interviewed Cal Stone, general
manager of the Great Northern Pacific
Company in San Francisco and MI.
Towse's expression is the impression he
gained from that interview.
Mr. Stone Arrives TomorroW 81.
Mr.. Stone is coming to Honolulu TO
look over the field and win arrive to.
morrow in the Makura. He viii inter.
view business men Of the Islands and
If he can obtain o guarantee Of freight
for the mainland, it is said there win
be no delay in putting one Of the grey
hounds of the Great Northern Pacific
line on the Hawaiian run.
A straw in the wind which reinforces
the prediction Of Mr.. Towse Is con
tanned in letter from Mr.. Stone yes
terday. The letter was enclosed by
Mr. Wood in one Of his TO Secretary
TAYLOR of the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee.
Wants Hawaii Literature -
Mr.. Stones letter asks for Ga large
supply Of your Hawaiian folders which
we will need to send out with our ctr
culars and folders we are going to get
out ourselves for answering inquiries
resulting from our display advertising
in monthly and weekly magazines as
we'll as the news apers of the princi-
pal cities in the East-Chicago, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, st. Louis, etc.,-pro-
vided, of course, the Honolulu service
is determined upon.
Mr. Towse says Fred b. Waldron,
president of the Chamber of Commerce
of Honolulu, and Mr.. Stone held q con.
ference in Portland a week ago on the
subject of the Honolulu service.
If the Great Northern is put on the
Honolulu run it will make one call .
month, its route being Portland Homo
lulu to San Pedro to San Francisco.
Compa.-T Anxious For Deal
Mr. Wood states in his letter to Sec.
rotary Taylor that Mr.. Stone is now
deal through, and that he will spare
no effort to get the business started.
at will he dependent upon how the
company's plans are received in Ho.
noIulu, -" writes Mr.. Wood "Mr Stone
wants a liberal supply Of our folders
and we should endeavOr to supply him
cral Hawaiian folder for immediate
"a ftata
ply Of those, / would advise issuing
a sneeial edition Of neat, attractive,
well illustrated folder which will serve
to sta-t the ball rolling.
All Up To Honolulu
"Of course, all these suggestions are
dependent upon Mr.. Stone IS making
final arrangements in Honolulu and the
servire being inaugurated, but I am
SO strongly impressed with the belief
that the undertaking is going to be q
success that feel that the promotion
committee should not lose tho oppor.
tunity of advertising Hawaii in an ef-
fcrtive manneT which this new enter
prise will warrant and make possible.
Every agent of the Great Northern
Pacific Steamship Company aud It's
allies will act as a special messenger
for Hawaii, and we may expect the
most energetic and far-reaching cam.
paign for travel to the Islands that we
have ever had, and these men must be
supplied with ammunition,
Ship Literature Arrives
Yesterdays mail brought Great
Northern Pacific literature TO Honolu.
IN advertising its ships which Is re,
garded as another indication that the
company has made up its mind to in
augurats service TO the Islands.