The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-11
PACIFIC MAIL LINE
PLANS TOABANDON
. PORTOF HONOLULU
Director Wood Writes That Ships
viii Not Call Here After
October I
HAWAII WILL BE hit
RIGHT BETWEEN EYES
Freight, Passenger and Mail Ser
vice Bound To Suffer
From Withdrawal

So far as Honolulu is concerned, the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company goes
out Of business on October |. Word
70 that effect was received here yester-
day in letter from II. p. Wood, di
rector of the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee, in San Francisco.
Sin regard to Pacific Mail matters, -
writes Mr.. Wood, 81 called this morn
ing, May 2S. on Mr.. Fry, assistant to
X. p. Sehwerin, general manager, in
reference to the. sailings across the
Pacific. Us ...,
AIR. Fry had nothing to give cat
concC rning the meeting of the directors
which was scheduled to have been held
in New York City May 26, but was EN-
phatic in his statement that the SEIZED
ule of March 20 would be adhered TO.
Yon will note by the schedule that all
their boats flying the American flag are
scheduled not to touch at Honolulu
after October !.
"Mr. Fry stated that to carry out
the terms exaeted by the new law
would involve an expenditure so large
as to prohibit their complying with the
terms even were il physically possible,
WHICH, ne GlUlHS, " - HOtg bNdblHR JndJ
they could not secure ut once the hun
dfed and odd union labor men necc3-
sBry 10 take tho place of their prcsen,
force,
No Confirmation Here
No confirmation of Mr.. Woods letter
has been received here by RI. Hackfeld
4 Co., agents of the Pacific Mail, nor
did tho mails yesterday bring them
,.,l. ,I,s. Nha
A associated Press dispatches of last
week from Yokohama and San Fran
cisco on the same subject.
+. w. Klebahn, secretary of the
fIm, read Mr.. Wood s letter, but would
not discuss IL. ~, -
,"'Mr. Wool writes great many let
tcrs. " he said! ..,..
The schedule Of March %; toawRich
Mr. Wool refers, does not, in 80 many
words, announce that "all their boats
flying the American flag are scheduled
not to touch at Honolulu after October
IT, II puts an asterisk opposite all
Ronolulu sailings after tho date nanted.
Mr. EIebahn would not venture yes.
tcrday to interpret the asterisks. "The
company must do that" he said.
IlsuaHv an ssterisk so used is to DO
interpreted "subject to change or can
collation.
Alexander & baldwin calendars FOR
the current month carry asterisks op-
] osite tho Togo Kscn Kaisha sailihgs
for the Coast on the twelfth aud TWEEN.
with, with the marginal notation,
''subject 70 change; and opposite the
Nile. with the notation Temporarily
withdrawn.
Looks Like Suspension
L., Al 80. u. u.
Young Imt il Yesterday, 1.-The company
seems 90 nc taxing, one after another,
the steps 1t would take if il intended
to suspend.
"A proclamation or threat might not
lic' believed, Tut this succession Of
steps in the same direction looks like
busine, g. -
Earlier rumo's aside. these steps are {:
!. Notir" lostcd in Yokohama on
Jun" } that no freight would be
TOOL cd for the United States more than
one sailing in advance
,. Announcement made on the same
dat" in San FrauciscO that no engage,
ments whatever are being received he,
g.. yond Iniy 81 and that passages after
dat" are subject to cancellation.
,. Mr.. Woods letter that no stops
will be made at Honolulu after 0cto-
l.r
Should NJ. Woods information
rro-'1 correct Hawaii will be hit
IN both eyes and the pit Of the
Somach at the same time.
Freight passenger trafic and the
mail service all win suffer.
. shius Come Down Light ~.
The Matson steamships come down
from the Coast light They probably
cOuhl handle any added freight uhlt
oTcrs from the West, but all caTgOes
TO and from TIN Orient would be thrown
into the hands of the TogU Kiscu
KaiHha, which already has all the bust.
R"ss it can handle
. Travel from the East and Mid.
,e'e West to the Pacific Coast in
the next two months is going to be
The heaviest the railroads ever
have known. but the outlook for
Hawaii receiving the share Of II
cxrected is not BRIGHT ~
"R""a~ding railway matters writes
Mr., Wood TO the promotion committee
in another letter received yesterday, 81
BID talk this morning MAY 2S) with
Mr.. Fee of the Southern Pacific, Mr.
Gregory of the Santa BE and Tfpresen
tatives Of lines running from Chicago
The arc unanimous in the statement
that flle business offered them for July
and August is going to tax their re-
saprc"s IN the limit.
u Mainland Traflc Immense
e" ''ln fact, they do not hesitate Ia
sav fhat they cannot see how il is 60
ing to le possible to secure the neces,
sarv number of Pullman cars to accom-
date tho tremendous crowd that is com
ing which they say, will be the larg
+. est that has ever travelled westward
within a givco time. This includes all
EiIstrs" Rnd Middle West business
''whlt ~sr2sntaes Of this We ara
caiuH 70 ha abe to induce 10 visit
IIawan II % dificult TO say. The