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Hawaii Will Be Stopping Place for Ships
Continued From Page Nine
Hawaii now exports annually $46.
--1 worth of products to the main
-«•■" eJ the United State*, about three
fifths of which goes to tlie Atlantic sea-
T*rnct!oaHy al! of this freight is
H \v transported by steamer to Salina
<"ruz. Ilex, thence by rail across the
isthmus of Tehuantepec, .and then again
by steamer to destination. While this
route is a great improvement over the
I'ing and uncertain voyage around Cape
Horn, or the expensive route overland,
i lie large amount of storage and re
handling across Mexico will be elimi-
nated when the all water route is
opened through the canal. This will
mean quicker delivery, less waste, more
steamer lines and consequently lower
rates of freight.
Hawaii is absolutely dependent upon
American shipping for the carriage of
her products and passengers to and
from tii* mainland. It is therefore of
the greatest importance to the territory
that all vi i-sels flying the American flag
shall I ■! the pr lv »leges of the
iat fire tolls shall be
* s tngaged in the
policy effect a say
• a quarter of a million
■ annually to the territory, but it
would tend to give Hawaii what she
needs— i» facilities for
I • restrictions of
•• an passenger travel
on tiie islands and
have retarded their development; but,
with free passage through the f-anal for
lean vessels and with the proposed
the burden
■wiil he lifted and t tan islands
will ester upon ■ Dew era of commer
cial developtau
Hawaii's destiny is strongly linked
with that of the Pacific coast. The isl
ands draw most of their supplies from
San Francisco and Seattle, to which will
doubtless be added in time, Los An
geles and San Diego. San Francisco has
ihrnish- .1 nearly all of the outside cap
ital inv< sted in island industries up to
the present time; on the other hand,
the territory wt-st of the Rocky moun
tains i 3 the natural market for Hawaii's
i-wo principal crops—sugar and pineap
ples. Whatever increases the popula
tion increases the consumption of those
products, and there can be no question
as to the influence the canal will exert
in opening up the vast, undeveloped re
sources cf California and her sister
states. It is, therefore, only fitting and
proper that the opening of the water
way shall be commemorated at San
Francisco by the greatest industrial ex
position the world has ever seen, and to
which Hawaii will contribute her full
share. j
The long distance from the islands to
the world's markets has hitherto con
fined their agricultural activities to the
one great staple-—sugar—to which has
been added the canned pineapple indus
try during the last few years. The de
velopment of tourist travel, supplies
J for the naval and military posts, and the
demands of an increasing population
will call into existence a number of
small and diversified industries, and the
settlement and cultivation of lands un
suited for the staple products, which
now await the hand of the industrious,
bona fide home seeker. A shorter and
cheaper route to the manufacturing cen
ters of the east will doubtless encour
age the cultivation of tobacco, sisal,
'cotton and other semltropical products
now more or less in the experimental
stage.
Hawaii's greatest problem is now and
ever has been that of labor—not
merely efficient workers in the cane
fields, but a laboring class eligible and
desirable for American citizenship
i Long experience has proven that the
Latin races from tiie south of Europe
adapt themselves most readily to "on
ditions in the islands. Although many
of these people on arrival are illiter
ate, they are sturdy and industrious,
and under the liberal public school sys
tem of the territory one or two gener
ations mike of them good intelligent
citizens and useful members of the
community life of the islands. The
long distance around Cape Horn, on
the one hand, and the difficulty of
transportating immigrants across the
mainland, on the other, present almost
insurmountable obstacles in bringing
these immigrants to Hawaii. The dis
tance from Gibraltar via Cape Horn to
the islands is more than 12,000 miles,
and with the best medical inspection
and care that can be provided sickness
and suffering are inevitable during the
long unbroken voyage.
TRAXS-PACIFIC ROUTES
Within the last six years, the terri
torial board of immigration has ex
pended three quarters of a million dol
lars in the transportation of immi
grants from Portugal, Spain, the Azores
and Madeira Islands to Hawaii. Not
withstanding the large amount, it has
been fully Justified in added labor
supply, and in the Americanising in
fluence brought about by the ready
assimilation of these races. After the
completion of the canal, the distance
will be reduced at least one-third,
which will more than proportionately
reduce the expense and hardships at
tendant upon the present route. The
steamship lines which now run regu
larly from the Mediterranean to Mexi
can ports may be extended westward
through the canal, affording facilities
for a steady stream of immigration
from the countries above named.
There is much speculation as to what
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912.
effect the Panama canal will have on
international commerce. Whether any
large amount of traffic between Europe
and the far east will be diverted from
the Suez to Panama will doubtless de
pend to some extent on the tolls which
are levied on foreign ships and the
facilities for procuring fuel and other
supplies on the new route. Although
experts widely differ in their surmises
with regard to European commerce,
they are agreed that the great curtail
ment of distance will encourage an
enormous traffic between the east and
west coasts of North and South Amer
ica and also between the Atlantic coast
and the orient.
Following are comparative distances
with Panama and Tokahama (the near.
est Asiatic port) as objective points:
Miles. Mllea
Panama to Yokohama, Tla rreat
circle 7,6*6
Panama to Honolulu 4.685
Honolulu to Yokohama 8,384
Total »la Honolulu 8,079
Panama to San Francisco.. .*. 3,246
San Franciaco to Yokohama Tla
great circle 4.SM
Total Tla San Francisco... 7,782
Panama lo San Francisco 3.246
Kan Franciaco to Honolulu 2.(i7<»
Honolulu to Yokohama 8,304
Total yia Sau Fraucisco and Hono
lulu 8,710
tit is obvious from the above that
merely from the standpoint of distance,
the theoretical route between Panama
and the orient is via San Francisco
c great circle, passing some 1,500
lorth of Honolulu. The excess dls
however. is only 297 miles via
jlu and 928 miles via both San
sco and Honolulu. Notwithstand
e additional distance, the logical
mmercial route will be via Pacific
ports and the Hawaiian islands,
me reasons which make Honolulu
' way station for the existing
■r lines between San Francisco,
nd Australia will also apply to
nmerce of those countries via the
route stretches across a vast unbroken
expanse of ocean, traversing in its
course the cold and dreary latitudes of
the north Pacific. No sane person
would take such a route in preference
to the somewhat longer voyage via the
islands, over calmer seas and through
softer climes.
HONOLULU WILL BE RENDEZVOUS
As the distance from Honolulu to
Yokohama is about 1,200 miles shorter
than from San Francisco to Yoko
hama direct, a large steamer, by re
plenishing fuel and other supplies at
Honolulu can carry several hundred
tons more cargo on the through voy
age. The paths of ocean commerce
lead to points where freight I** to be
secured and where passengers wish to
go. The greater the number of ports
visited en route, the more opportuni
ties there are for developing permanent
traffic. The conclusion is therefore
inevitable that Hawaii must be the
rendezvous for trans-Pacific commerce,
tramp steamers and sailing
vessels carrying full cargoes which
would probably take the shortest pos
sible route to destination.
No other point in mid-Pacific can be
gin to offer the facilities which will be
afforded at Honolulu and other island
ports for docking steamers and replen
ishing fuel and other supplies. Large
sums are being spent by the federal
government in the improvement of Ho
nolulu, Hilo and Kahului harbors, while
the territory is now engaged in the
construction of additional Wharves at
Honolulu and Hllo. furthermore, the
navy department in connection with its
great works at Pearl harbor is con
structing a 1,000 foot drydock, which
will be available and amply sufficient to
handle the largest vessels that axe
likely to float in the Pacific.
The steady growth of tourist travel
to the islands during the last several
years in itself attests the unusual At
traction* they have to offer. With ths
opening of the canal it is likely that ex
cursion steamers, similar to the Cleve
land, will make winter cruises from
the West Indies through the canal,
along the California coast, thence west
ward via the Hawaiian islands.
With a semitropicai climate, tempered
by the ever blowing trades to a perpet
ual spring, stupendous mountain
scenery, the greatest extinct and living
volcanoes, a great military and naval
base, all combined with every comfort
and luxury provided modern civiliza
tion, Hawaii is destined to become the
'center of attraction for trans-Pacific
travel, as a land of pleasure, rest and
recreation.
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IRON WORKS
COMPANY
ESTABLISHED 1852. • I
MAIN OFFICE AND WORKS HONOLULU, T. H.
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INCORPORATED FEBRUARY 10. 1888.
OWNERS OF THE FOLLOWING STEAMERS:
Mauna Kea, Kilauea, Kinau, Claudine, Mauna Loa, W. G. Hall, Mikahala, Maui, Helene, Likelike,
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The Short Scenic Route to the WORLD-RENOWNED VOLCANO of KILAUEA
Is by the S. S. Mauna Kea, leaving Honolulu on Wednesdays at 10 o'clock a. m. Landings are made at two ports
on Maul the same evening and the first landing on Hawaii is reached early Thursday morning. The steamer
passes along the windward coast of Hawaii (noted for the grandeur of its scenery), arriving at Hilo Thursday
forenoon, and on Thursday at noon the Volcano House is reached. That evening the trip to the crater is made.
Returning to Hilo Friday morning, the traveler boards the Mauna Kea, which starts on her return trip at 10 a m,
arriving back at Honolulu early Saturday morning, having made the volcano trip in less than three days.
VISIT THE GARDEN ISLE
Regular semi-weekly passenger steamer service between Honolulu and ports on the Island of Kauai.
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The largest crater in the world (now extinct), on tbe island of Maui. Regular semi-weekly passenger
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