draft; from 341 to 1,566 gross tons and from 201 to 940 net tons. The total tonnage is 8,987 gross and 5,834 net. During the fiscal year this company carried 95,237 passengers and 393,140 tons of freight, which is an increase of 13,434 passengers and a decrease of 6,890 tons of freight as compared with the previous period. STEAM RAILROADS. The Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co. controls and operates the only street railway system in the Territory. It is an electric line, partly single and partly double track. During the year 1919 the company expended for betterment of the system $67,697.21. Outstanding capital stock is $2,000,000. Gross income for the calendar year was $780,946.21, an increase of $45,795.07 over that of the preceding year. Disbursements were $862,997.08, an increase of $48,260.37. The number of fare passen . gers was 15,225,168, an increase of 920,679 over the previous year. The number of free passengers carried, principally policemen, letter carriers, firemen, and employees, was 158,268. School children are carried at half rate. The car mileage was 2,100,573.67. LIGHTHOUSES. Honolulu is the headquarters of the nineteenth lighthouse district, which embraces all of the islands comprising the Territory of Hawaii and certain other islands in the Pacific Ocean. At the close of the year there were in commission 1 hyper-radiant light, 2 second-order lights, 1 third-order light, 3 fourth-order lights, 2 fifth-order lights, 10 lens-lantern oil lights, 23 automatic acetylene lights, 6 electric lights, 7 automatic acetylene-lighted buoys, and one lighthouse tender, the steamer Kukui. During the fiscal year a flashing white automatic acetylene light was established at Kaena Point, westerly end of Oahu Island. The automatic acetylene unwatched lights have proven very efficient aids to navigation, one light, on Molokini Ísland, having a record of burning since its establishment, over nine years ago, without ever having been extinguished. TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES. In addition to the cable system across the Pacific Ocean, which has been in operation a number of years, there are three wireless plants, these being the Naval Radio Communication Service, the Radio Corporation of America, and the wireless department of the Mutual Telephone Co. The Mutual Telephone Co. operates the principal telephone system on the island of Oahu. No figures have been submitted by this company for the last fiscal year, but in 1919 it had in operation 7,775 instruments in Honolulu and 777 instruments in the outside districts. The Hawaii Telephone Co., of Hilo, operates 1,816 telephones, with 2,921 miles of open wire. The Maui Telephone Co., of Wailuku, has 1,205 instruments and 1,882 miles of wire. The Kauai Telephonic Co., of Lihue, has 280 telephones and 495 miles of wire. POSTAL SERVICE. Although recepits of the Honolulu post office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, fell below the receipts for the fiscal year 1919, nevertheless the figures for the year just ended show a considerably enlarged business, because throughout the preceding fiscal year the 3-cent rate of postage was in effect. In the fical year 1920, with the 2-cent rate effective, the receipts of Honolulu fell below the receipts of 1919 only by $7,503.70. The general business of the post office for the last 12 months, including the quantity of stamp stock sold, the value of domestic money orders issued and paid, and the volume of registered and parcel-post mail handled, was the largest in the history of the office. There was a falling off, however, in the value of international money orders issued in Honolulu notwithstanding a large increase in the value of international money orders paid, and a startling drop in the value of international money orders certified to Japan by Honolulu, which includes all postal money orders bought on Japan in the Territory of Hawaii. The amount certified to Japan by Honolulu in 1920 was $770,656.94, whereas in 1919 it was $875,497.15. In 1918 and 1917, respectively, these amounts were $997,528.93 and $1,198,038.30. The large decrease this year undoubtedly was due chiefly to the strike of the plantation laborers on Oahu. The loss of income of these laborers on this island and the exactions to support the strike from the laborers on the other islands reduced the amount which the Japanese were able to send to their relatives and dependents in Japan. It is probable, however, that an increasing amount is being transmitted to Japan through the Japanese banks. The following sets forth the principal financial business of the Honolulu post office during the past seven years: Important plans to improve mail service at Honolulu and throughout the Territory have been carried out during the last 12 months. Honolulu has become the central accounting office for the entire Territory. This means that all the financial reports of Hawaiian offices articulate through Honolulu with the Post Office Department at Washington. It effects a centralization of accounting which saves time, labor, and money. Under a special act of Congress passed in the fall of 1919, the Postmaster General was authorized to effect such consolidation with the post office at Honolulu of other post offices in the Territory as is deemed advisable. Under this law, the post offices at Schofield Barracks and Fort Kamehameha have been consolidated with the Honolulu office. The chief effect of this change is to place the employees at these military stations under the classified civil service. An improvement of the service is considered certain. The department has approved the proposal of the postmaster at Honolulu, and has purchased the necessary equipment, to establish Government-owned motor vehicle service for the delivery and collection of mail in Honolulu. Seventeen of the most modern type of motor cycle with side car attached, and four three-eighths ton Ford trucks, specially built for mail service, will shortly be engaged in this work. The use of this equipment will both speed up and expand city delivery in Honolulu. The conditions and terms under which mails are transported from mainland ports to Honolulu are vitally important to this community. The postmaster of Honolulu made a trip to Washington in June and July of 1919 with the special purpose of working out an arrangement under which the principal carriers engaged in the San FranciscoHonolulu service would be paid on exactly the same basis for performance of mail service. This was highly desirable, inasmuch as at that time the Japanese ships were paid on a basis different from that upon which the American ships were paid. Frequently the Japanese vessels were paid more for the service than were the American vessels. The proposed change was successfully put through and now the Matson Navigation Co., the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha are all paid on the basis of 6 cents a pound for first-class mail and 2 cents a pound for other classes. This enables post-office officials charged with the responsibility of dispatching mail to use all available means to advance deliveries. POPULATION. The population of Hawaii on January 1, 1920, as shown by the Fourteenth Census of the United States, was 255,912. Compared with a population of 191,909 in 1910, this represents an increase during the 10 years of 64,003, or 33.4 per cent. The first census of the Hawaiian Islands was taken in 1832 and was followed by censuses in 1836, 1850, 1853, and 1860. These were very simple and rudimentary in character. There was no provision for taking a census at regular periods until 1865, when the legislative assembly made it the duty of the board of education to make a complete census of the Kingdom every sixth year, counting from the year 1860. These were taken until 1896, and in 1900 the first Federal census was taken. The Territory of Hawaii is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands, Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Kahoolawe and Midway, besides a number of small uninhabited islands. The island of Hawaii is the largest and was formerly the most important, and has thus given its name to the group. Hawaii is divided into five counties, one of which (Hawaii) is coextensive with the island of the same name, and Honolulu, the largest county, comprises the two islands of Oahu and Midway. The city proper, of Honolulu, has a population of 83,237, according to the Federal census; Hilo, island of Hawaii, has a population of 10,431. 4,015 64, 895 16.2 17.2 123,527 205.9 50.6 11 667 60.6 -15.0 641 29,438 45.9 22.9 1,182 37,385 31.6 25.6 Includes islands of Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, and all of Molokai except Kalawao. IMMIGRATION AND LABOR. See "Schools" for pupils by races, ages, etc., in public and private schools for different years; "Taxation" for amount of taxable property owned and income taxes paid by different races; "Public lands for homesteads taken by different races; "Banks" for amounts of saving deposits by different races; "Vital statistics" for births, marriages, and deaths; and "Courts" for percentages of convictions among different races. Statement of laborers on Hawaiian sugar plantations for the month of May, 1920. |