The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-26
.DOESNAWAh WANT
LINE TO SEATTlEl
Representative Of Commercial
Body win Seek Answer To
Question While Here q

DO the people OF this Territory desire
increased importation facilities enough
to join, hands with the people of Seat.
tie and the Northwest IN an effort to
secure such shipping, Is the question
which George Nc. X. Mcclellan will
soon be asking the business men OF
Honolulu. He Is now in the Islands
on personal business but Ne win also
investigate the sentiment as to ship
CONNECTIONS with the Northwest while
he is here. He is stopping at the Uni.
versity Club.
~ did not come over here specially
TO look into the shipping situation .
said Mr.. Mcclellan to The Advertiser
yesterday. 81 had business of my own
TO call me over here and when It
learned that I was coming, the Seattle
Commercial Club asked me TO act as
special representative for Il in con
nection with the proposal for the es.
Enlistment Of steamship connection
between the Islands and the North
west |"
Mr.. Mcclellan will talk to members
of the Commercial Club on this sub.
ject next Tuesday. He will need no
introduction to its members for he was
the representative of the Honolulu
Chamber of Commerce in Washington
for some time and as such accomplish.
ed much for the Territory.
Pair To San Francisco a......hl
1--WE of Seattle are not trying to
take anything away from San Francis
co, he continued. 1--WE have passed
that stage of our existence when we
have to seek to take away in order
that we may ourselves. gain. Last year
our imports and exports were hun.
bred million dollars larger than those
of San Francisco.
There Is a congestion Of freight at
San Francisco now for Honolulu and
there has been for months. Such, is
the congestion now, am told, that
railroads are refusing to carry more
Honolulu freight west until the con.
gestion is relieved. Seattle has Ave
transcontinental railroads coming into
it and San Francisco four. They are
different lines, too. That would give
more than double the shipping facil.
tiles to these Islands If we had the
steamships to carry 1t TO you. Pre-
ferably We would have a triangular
alliance with Honolulu and San Fran.
cisco. H.. xxx, m'r# . g..
VIII Sound Sentiment IL ~, -
ct is not question just now of
where the ships are coming from. That
could be determined later If the people
of Honolulu and Hawaii want the serv.
ice. l merely want to find out while
am here whether they want such
freight aud passenger service and If
so how badly they want it, whether
they want it badly enough TO 60 out
after it, 90, .i.}-.
"Hawaii gets goods from Re North.
west 1t does not get from the Middle
West or the Southwest and our rail.
roads tap countries that those leading
to San Francisco do not. We do not
want to compete with San Francisco,
let that be perfectly clear. Certainty
such shipping would be good thing
for the Northwest and for Seattle at
its seaport. Certainly, we think, it
would be even better for Honolulu
than for Seattle. And we cannot sec
how II would in any way hurt our
friend and neighbor San Francisco. -
Thinks Ships obtainable "..
Mr.. Mcclellan, in speaking of the
shipping situation, told Of the immense
amount q: building now going on in
the NorthweS.er.. yards, in Puget
Sound and the possibility of some OF
this being used by the. shipping board
to give the connection if it be really
desired.
''qhe shipping board will give Homo.
lulu ships. Il am confident" he said
They may not be so large or so fast
as the American bottoms that have
been making this port, but they will
be big enough to carry the freight and
some passengers also. / believe wa
could get some shipping of that typ.
for a Seattle Honolulu service.
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