The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-07
HONOLUuMUSI ...
QUIT SLEEPING
Should Not pc one-Man Town
. Any More, Says President Of
Chamber OF Commerce

Honolulu service Discontinued.
Last sailing from San Francisco March
"a; from Honolulu April 4 Roaartan
excursion cancelloo"
This radiogram was received by
Fred l.. Waldron, Ltd, agents for tho
Great Northern PariRr Sttarhahip com
nany, owner Of the SteafiSr, Great
Northern, yesterday mornings II means,
that the liner will mnioe twn.Iuore yoy,
ages to HoPomu and then, will return
to the San Francisco FlaxeI run. from
which she was withdraw in November
to be sent here, and on which the sis
ter ship Northern Pacific remained dur
ng the winter except for the voyage
here during the Carnival.
Withdrawal Of tho Great Northern
was expected. e., Cal f.. Stone, general
traffic manager, here two weeks ago,
In an interview given The Advertiser
said that he did not believe she would
remain during the summer. although
tnRl decision would be made on his
return TO San FranCisco, where he mr..
rived Thursday. A potent, factor in
the withdrawal was his belief that the
passenger business to the Islands
would fall on during the summer, and
mat freight business would not be SUI.
heient to Justify keeping her on the
run. He fixed a minimum of'tf50O tons
? voyage as necessary, and he did not
say positively that she would remain
even with: that. lie received little en-
enlargement from shippers here.
There WIRE otAdr factors, also. such
a. that the vessels were built for
FEEDERS to the Northern Pacific. Great
Northern ana ButlihgtonI railroads and
70 compete with the. Southern Pacific
NhaSt~ |p1ilted'i,2a,u ..,,..--
Not Properly Supported ".'
Even though the Great Northern will
be withdrawn, however, Ii, is probable
that she will return TO the. Island ser
vice next winter. a Mr. Stone said he
believed she would, were she with.
drawn. =.
Not all these facts and probabilities
serve TO quiet expression of the belief
that the vessel was not given prone
support by Honolulu a to freight bust,
ness, Fred l.. Waldron, president of
the agents, was outspoken.
1.-THE impression left with the com.
pany by the 'nfoheyed interests of Ho
nolulu was that they I'D not want the
Great Northern here" he said.
talked with merchants who said
they wouh like to give US some freight
but tmtlthcy dared moi, ,rL know others
who shipped their fright in other
steamers at fifty GEMS ton more thar
ther Great N6rtlf6rR1 @buld, hsrse ,ehargs.
ed, whPn they might as well have ship.
ped with us. II was not encouraging
to the company to send the vessel here
with cargo of automobiles snd freight
for our own house and perhaps one hun
dred tons for merchants of Honolulu-
That Is what occurred. H.T.R y
Time To Wake Up i ~
at is time for Honolulu to realize
that it is not one-hotse toWn-that
it is something bigger; and also that
it is not one msn town AMI not one,
organization town. Il hoped that the
Great Northern You'd remain on the
run. Probably thefsigning of the five
year pineapple contract with the Mat
son line had something to do with tn
decision 70 Withdraw for, although
believeJ'that we, could get pinea pples
for year, at least, the cbinpahy's off
GERS probably arelnot SO we'll acquainted
with local conditions as l. and allowed
the contract to influence them
eve have not been given proper sup
port by the Islands, As an, example Of
what the steamer would have done, ev
efyone knows that the hotels would
have spent many thousands of dollars
perhaps $2O0O00a or 5000, 900 in add
tions if the vessel had remained. This
work will not be done now
Brought Many Tourists
On her Ave voyages the Great North
ern brought to Honolulu from San Fran
cisco and San Pedro 2O62 passengers
The Northern Pacific brought, on he
one voyage, Sl93, .making 2256 passen
gers the two landed here. These fig
urcS do not include business 10, Hilo o.
from HilO tOAHOH0lulu. 49,
The Great Northern will sail from,
San Francisco tomorrow; viii arriv'
here March lSS will depart March 10
will sail from San Francisco March "a
will arrive here March 81, and will de
part April 4. ~ oll
Cancellation Of the Rosarians' voy
age from Portland is not surprising
Mr., Stone said, while here, that the,
had not chartered the vessel, despite an.
nouncements from Portland as to tn
schedule and other arrangements TO
the cruise Tho loss Of this, excursion
cuts Hawaii out of many thousands III