The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
TRY TO UNSNARL
PASSPORT TANGLE
Efforts Being Made To Fix Re-
sponsibiIiB For Strange Reg
ulation and Get II Rescinded

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for persons Honolulu bound from tn,
East.
Information is to the effect that M
passports are required, but, as in the
case Of the man in Jail for something HI
could not be jailed for-there he was
The state department, as the CORE
spOndent of The Advertiser at Wash
ington learned, is very apt to deny the
necessity, but that II exists is testified
to by those best in a position to know
namely the prospective travellers
Correspondence of the promotion
committee with the state department
dnt"I some months back, explains that
passengers for the Orient or Australia
who may desire to lay over in Honolulu
must secrre passports before sailing, a,
they cannot be procured either here OF
from mere. At the promotion commit
tee il is thought that this ruling is the
one that has been misinterpreted by the
clerks of the passport bureau
Mcclellan Is Queried
Raymond C. Brown, secretary Of the
chamber Of commerce, recently received
letter from George Mex. Mcclellan
advising him that an intending passen
ger for Honolulu had asked his assist
anee towards securing a passport. The
passenger was informed that such
would be necessary. Mr.. Mcclellan
went to the state department and was
informed that no such order had been
issued. He then went to other depart
ment bureaus with the object Of run.
ring the matter down and, of course,
they knew nothing Of the matter.
In his letter to Secretary Brown he
asked for cable advices as to the status
# the matter here, and was cabled to
as follows:
Referring to your letter, passports:
Dur understanding passports required
before leaving mainland passengers
stopping over Hawaii destined to
Irient. No passports required if des-
tined Hawaii. Are we correctS''
No answer has been received to this
as yet, and evidently Mr.. Mcclellan Is
endeavoring to pierce the official desire
o cover up and get a definite state
ment one way or the other.
In all probability the promotion com
mittee or the chamber Of commerce will
communicate with Delegate Kuhio by
cable and ask him to straighten out the
matter and have the state department
notify its passport bureaus. particular
W the bureau in New York, that the
holding up of Honolulu bound passen
yers is wrong and unnecessary.
Must Be Cleared Up
II il important that what il an evil
lent misunderstanding of conditions be
feared away at once, as the promotion
Committee is about ready to launch its
ampaign for big publicity fund. The
hips have been assured through a
blanket license to the T. X. X. and the
"acific Mail to engage in Hawaiian
business, and all that is being waited
for today is response from the T. K.
K. head office in Japan that the line
will stand ready to do its part.
Secretary HaltOn has had some inter
ssting correspondence with the ship
ping board and its division of opera
ions at San Francisco. He wrote to
Captain Pillsbury of the board asking
FOR an explanation of the apparent
paradox of the board threatening to
withdraw the President and Governor
from the Honolulu run if not better
0atroniZed, and at the same time in
'tructing the San Francisco office Of
the Matson Navigation Company not to
Encourage travel to Hawaii
Travel Not Encouraged
A reply came from c. w Cook, as
istant director Of operations, who
wrote, in part: Except that and not
Captain Pillsbury was the one who in
formed the Matson Navigation Com
Dany, your understanding is substan
TALLY correct. At this time we are
operating ships to take care of neces-
Nties, and the shipment of non essen
'iGls or frivolous travelling is not en-.
outraged. For the benefit, however, of
hose who ar" Obliged to travel, I may
'ay to you that the steamers of the
Togo Kisen Kaisha and the Pacific
Mail Company are now authorized to
AIRY passengers between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu These ships, to-
!ether with the facilities afforded by
hose of the Oceanic Company, the
China Mail and the MatsOn Navigation
COMPANY should be ample"
This information was supplemented
by letter from the shipping board at
Washington, explaining that this priVi.
'ege referred to both outward and
homeward VOYAGES. the foreign liners
being given the right to carry, in addi
ton to passengers, "perishable freights
such as pineapples, bananas and other
light perishnble cargo.
Frivolous Travel
nder these circumstances wrote
John A. Donald, one of the comm ssicn.
~ - trust that the people of Hawaii
will feel that the shipping board has
heir interests in view and that by the
above arrangements they will perceive
that their requirements have not been
altogether neglected.
This is cminentIv satisfactory, al
though ii cannot be seen by the Ordi'
NARY observer Of events why travel to
Hawaii by those able to come and es.
cape the rigors and the dangers of a
fuelless, dangerous season on the main
land in ships that have been running
almost empty should be termed "friv'
Olous trnvel' by Mr. Cook 1t can not
he regarded 90 frivolous" for the
very young, the very old, the infirm or
- vet and that is the
greater part of the "tOurist business
Hawaii ever expected to do this season
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RUB 1T IN.
A good many people think rheuma-