The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-04-25
International Firm Is
Organized 10 Boost
Our Overseas Trade
Joint Owner Of Pacific Mail Soon
To Resume SaiIinus, a Great n.
aty> COMPANY n

Unique among American business or.
CARNATIONS IL the American Interna,
tional Corporation, joint owner with
w. r. Grace & Co Of the Pacific Mail.
Introducing Honolulu to the Interna.
tional has been done in the past, but
the recent decision Of the Mail line TO
resume sailings between San Francisco,
Honolulu and the Far East, the arst
voyage being that of the steamship
Ecuador from San Frapeiseo June IL,
gives II new interest. F 3t,a
Primarily, the International Il not a
steamship owner or operator Mt all.
Its articles of incorporation empower
IL to engage in many lines OF business,
and its capital of $50,000,000 seems
ample for almost anything. IL may
prospect, lease, explore; purchase, deve-
lop and operate grazing, agricultural
and timber lands, mines, colleries,
quarriesj and it may carry on opera.
tons In any stage of preparing pro
ducts for foreign fields. IT may operate
any mercantile business, any public
utility. -. .
Do Almost Anything @Ls....., g..
In short, it would be difficult to con.
ceive of anything this corporation may
not do. 1t was organized for the ppr-
pose of advancing American trade in
foreign fields, to control the markets
of the world with American capital, It's
purchase, with Grace l. Co, of the Pa
cife Mail feet was an incident.
Bnt the character and aims of the in
iternational should be considered when
comment is made upon the Pacific Mail
resumption. Inasmuch as the Mail
withdrew, according to statements of
its officials, from the Pacific trade be.
cause of the passage of the Seamen 8
law, there has been and will be much
discussion of the new decision, and
there will be assertions that the line
did not suspend on account of the law.
The lnterDationl Corporation 3 aims are
so wide, however, that il Is easily pos.
sible that putting the Mail ships back
on the Pacific was Incidental to the
development of American. trade abroad,
and not primarily for the sake Of the
money that could be made, even though
that is not TO be despised. Not only
should that be considered, but there Is
the further fact that rates from China
have increased 200 per cent since the
Mail withdrew ldst year, and there
have been general increases everywh re
in this ocean. Whether the Pacific Mail
quit because Of the Seamen q law will |
continue to be discussed, but these two
points must be considered In sreaking
of the resumption. v p p
Prominent Men On Board m !
Frank A.avanderlip, president of the |
great National City Bank Of New York, |
had been thinking Of entering foreign
markets with American capital. For |
many years he had desired it, and his
bank did go into South America with |
branches. With the beginning of the
war and the blow to English and Ger
man, the chance came.
1t Is necessary only to name a few
of the directors of the corporation.
There are J. Ogden Armour, William
Il. Cory, Joseph p. Grace, James J.
Hill, Otto II. Kahn, Robert s. Lovett,
Percy A. Rockefeller, James A. Still.
man, Charles A. Stone, president; Theo-
dOre n. Vail, Frank A. Vanderlip and
Beekman Winthrop.
Fifty million dollars is nothing com.
pared with the resources behind these
men. Some Of them control several
times $50, 100000
Doctor Strong Is Employed
One Of the early activities of the
corporation was the employment of DR..
Richard p. Strong as sanitary expert.
Briefly, a clean, healthy people is con
sidered better for trade purposes than
the opposite sort. To build up American
trade in the proper manner, the corpor.
alton believes, 1t must back its other
ventures with crusade for health. The
corporation doesn I wish to establish
itself In plague-infested potts; it wishes
to he p clean those ports up. This ism t
altruism; it merely is good business.
DR.. Strong is the man who cleaned up
the typhus in Serbia:
Such is the great corporation with
which Honolulu will become acquainted
through the Pacific Mail.