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toms' men have no authority to search baggage on any steamer sailing 

 betAveen domestic ports, for instance, between Honolulu and 8an Fran- 

 cisco. As already stated there are two steamship companies which 

 carry passengers on steamers sailing between the Hawaiian Islands 

 and San Francisco. The horticultural quarantine officials search hand 

 baggage of passengers traveling on these ships, and yet these officers 

 have no national law to give them the power to do so. The privilege 

 was acquired through the cooperation of these two' steamship com- 

 panies Math the California quarantine department. On each ticket 

 good for passage from Honolulu to San Francisco, an agreement is 

 stamped whereby the purchaser of the ticket agrees to submit all of 

 his baggage to the inspection of the horticultural officers before leav- 

 ing the docks at San Francisco. This agreement went into effect on 

 June 17, 1911. 



When I arrived in San Francisco on June 6, 1912, from Honolulu 

 on one of the steamers sailing between these domestic ports, all pas- 

 sengers' hand baggage w^as searched by the horticultural quarantine 

 officers but not a single trunk was inspected by these officials. A 

 passenger could have taken to any city in the United States, 350 pounds 

 of Hawaiian grown fruit in his trunk, or even more if he cared to pay 

 excess baggage. The greatest danger then, of introducing the pest 

 into almost any place in the United States rests with the travelers, 

 making a trip from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States and who 

 may carry Hawaiian grown fruits in their trunks into California and 

 out of this state. In most cases, fruit would be carried by passengers 

 not familiar with the danger of introducing this pest but from reports 

 that I have received in Honolulu, there are some people who have 

 returned to Honolulu from the mainland and who delight to say they 

 have "beaten" the horticultural quarantine officers and have taken 

 fruit to their friends, or for their own use, in the United States. This 

 of course, is second-hand data but Maskew% chief deputy quarantine 

 officer of California, in his April report, 1912, writes, "In the matter 

 of passengers' baggage, fruit fly material was detected and destroyed 

 in fifteen instances among those arriving by the various lines during 

 the month," from Honolulu. 



In Honolulu an inspector visits the fruit markets daily and he is em- 

 powered to seize any fruit, melon or vegetable that is infested by the 

 fruit fly and offered for sale. This reduces somewhat the danger that 

 tourists, coming from the Orient and stopping for a clay or tw^o, Avill 

 buy infested fruit during their stop-over; but this does not prevent 

 travelers, who remain in the islands for some time, or individuals who 

 live in Hawaii and occasionally visit the mainland, from buying in- 

 fested fruits from peddlers. Every day a Chinaman carrjnng two large 



