The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-03-05

transportation plant, and make arrange
ments for hotel at Hilo, and itself to |
convey all passengers to aud from the
Volcano, so that the Company will have
the entire charge and control OF the
| tourist travel OF the Volcano, includ-
| ing hotel accommodation at Hilo
| or Punaluu, and the Volcano, and
| transportation to and return from the
| Volcano.
2 To make arrangements with the
Inter-Island and Wilder's Steamship
| Cos, to issue tickets which will be taken
by either Company, and covering all eA
| penses, including passage from Homo
lulu, Hotel at Hilo; transportation to
Volcano; Hotel at the Volcano, guides
and transportation into the crater; trans
portation to Punaluu; Hotel at Punaluu,
and passage to Honolulu.
| 3. To make arrangements with the
Oceanic Steamship Co., and ore or more
hotels in Honolulu, by which through
tickets will be issued in San Fran
cisco, covering all of the above items,
and also passage from and return to
San Francisco, and Hotel expenses in
Honolulu.
4. To enlarge and improve the accom-
modations at the Volcano House, so as
to make it comfortable and attractive
resort.
Among other additions and improve
ments proposed to be made are
!. A billiard and smoking room.
2. A parlor and reading room.
8. A dining room.
4. Additional bed rooms, giving accom-
modations for say forty to fifty guests.
5. Several cheap but comfortable cot
tages, which can be used as guest rooms
| mr. raptad furnished TN families
6. A good stable.
Z. The sulphur steam baths will be
made one of the main features OF the
place. The steam will be placed under
the control of the bather; shower baths
will be inserted and all accessories will
! be made first-class.
s. Carriage drives will be made TO
Kilaueaiki; to Keanakakoi, pit crater
/ lust south of Kilauea; to the pit crater
O. on the road to Puma; to the bluff over
looking Halemaumau, from which the
d surface OF the lake can be seen; to the
h top of the bluff and into the koa woods
back of the Volcano House.
: The soil to all of these points is OF
sandy nature, without mud and without
stones, over level or gently rolling coun-
try, sparsely covered with vegetation.
For three-fourths of the distance good
carriage ROAD Will pc ScCuTcu ny
clearing the underbrush, and but little
:. grading will be needed anywhere.
9. A horse trail will be constructed
across the floor of the crater to the lake
so that this fatiguing walk into and ou
y of the crater will be eliminated.
TO- Horses, carriages and buggles VIII
bs kept at the Volcano House, for rem
l. to guests.
The estimated cost of the improve
3 ments proposed, the detail OF which ls
10 given in the prospectus, is, in rount
- numbers, $4,000.
~ The annual receipts are estimated a
Y about $26 900 based on an estimated In
!. crease in the number OF visitors to the
Volcano, of so per cent and an averag
ii of five persons at a time who will remain
G. longer than the regulation two days an
a. nights.
The total number of visitors at tn
~ Volcano House during the year endln
November l, 1890, was 484 Of thi
r number, 2lO held round trip tickets
ct and 274 did not.
-. The estimated annual expense of run
- ming the business on the contemplate
y scale, is SIS, 800; showing an estimates
profit of about IA par cent on the pre-
ne posed capital stock of $50 900:
%. 1t will undoubtedly be advisable a
Il first to make liberal expenditure
- advertising, and Improvements not no.
IA thought of will be desirable. The dis
'S- position to be made of the funds OF tn
p company will however be subject to tn
n control of the company.
"a 1t is impossible at present to estimat
what the future growth OF the bushes
.o will be; but ii the business is conducte
II, theoretically and economically, with a
eve first to the welfare OF guests, an
second to the profit Of the compan.,
there is no reason why tourist travel
this country should not increase wit
on the astonishing rapidity that it has
~ other parts Of the world less favorab
situated than we are.
TX, The capital stock will be $4,000 div
mo- ded into 1000 shares of par value
$25 each, to be paid in instailments
'eF required.
nd The parties who have already signifi
their willingness to subscribe for sto'
in the proposed company are: III
Inter-Island Steam Navigation CO
Nh Wilder's Steamship CO., Ocean
NO Steamship Co., Peter Lee, P.
Jones, j. B. Anterior, Cecil Brow
s. T. Alexander, Chas. Furneaux, w.
Shipman, Chas. Richardson, w.
'us Irwin, Jno. Ena, G. NJ. Cooke, j.
Colburn, iona Austin, W. X. Castle.
Immediately upon the stock beil
subscribed for, the company will inct
porate and organize, and proceed WI
the execution of the foregoing plan.
Tho MIR. Peter Lee, who has been so 10
and favorably known to the public, as t
Ia owner and manager of the Punal'
9th Hotel, and conductor Of Volcano tray
from Punaluu, has agreed to assume t
~ management OF the cornpany's bushes
'ne No further assurance that the manat
OF ment will be conducted energetica
and economically and to the satisfacti
'ro- of the travelling public, is needed.
will 1t is intended, as soon as the conce
ect is In condition to accommodate t
nm guests, to Systematically advertise t
oro business; to organize periodical exec
- sion parties, both from Honolulu
0en San Francisco, at reduced rates; to &C
stantly improve the accommodate
vel and facilities at the Volcano, and to
ow- everything that capital, energy and pu
can do, to render the Volcano trip
lion easy and attractive one, and the Volca
are a fascinating resort, affording pleasl
and health to tourists, rest to the Wes
.kes Honolulu business man and his faml
orts change to the busy planter, and profit
its stockholders.
lilo. Subscriptions for stock and reque
the for information, can be forwarded
Lorrin a. hurston, Honolulu.
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