The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-04

NCuiu Dc Obtained anu the price
VIII you please have someone write !
me stating the price OF Island products
usually exported, also of coal, bri, k,
lime, dried and picked fish, barley, hay,
feeds
Can cocoanuts be had. and the price ?
Can pine9pples he had, and the price?
The figures would not be binding, bat
an approximation is expected.
Could bananas be hat at Hilo on Civ
ing notice?
+. ST. hope your Bureau Will have
mailed me some OF your advertising ma
teria by the Maripo'a.
LETTER To COOKS TOURIST AGEN-
CIEs.
A package of literature and a
letter to each of the Cooks Tourist
Agencies throughout the world, 81
In number, have also been sent out.
The following is the letter sent
MEssRs THOMAS Cook & Sons, Tourist
Agents.
GENTLEMEN: The Hawaiian Bureau
| OF Information is an incorporated associ-
| alton of the business men OF Honolulu,
| designed for the purpose Of disseminating
| information concerning the Hawaiian
| Islands
The Hawaiian Islands can meet each
and every tourist resort the world over
on its own grounds, and, with the excep-
ton OF glaciers, show an equal or supe-
nor natural attraction of like character.
The finest specimens of climate in
| Florida, Colorado, Southern California,
| Southern France and Italy are simply
the common everyday weather of the
| Hawaiian Islands; and yet these are the
worlds famous health resorts visited
every year by thousands OF people look
| ing for perfect climate and finding it not.
We have mountain peaks ii 900 feet
high; the two largest active volcanoes in
the world, Kilauea and Mauna Loa the
former of easy access and with first-class
hotel accommodation on the very brink
of the crater. We have also the largest
extinct volcano in the world, Haleak&la
a pit 1000 feet deep and nineteen miles
in circumference, situated on the top OF
a mountain $1,000 feet high, which can
be visited on horseback by an easy ride
from the seashore in one day.
We have magnificent tropical forests
through which the Government has con
structed a finely macadamized road. Al
the islands e connected with Honolulu
by well-ftted steamers, making week y
trips; the steamers are lighted with
electric fights and electric bells in al
the state-rooms. There is regular month
ly communication with San FRANCHISES
by the Oceanic S. s. Co.'S 5000 tur
steamers, in addition to which there il
, monthly communication with San Fran
cisco and Australia by the Royal Mai
). S. line, aud with San Francisco an
) Yokohama and Hongkong by the P.icifi
, Mail S. S. and Occidental and Orienta
5. s. Co. steamers, which call both ways
The Canadian Pacific steamers wilt ais
E commence running from Victoria t
Australia within few months probably
All of these steamship lines allow stol
overs at Honolulu. The price OF roun
trip ticket from San Francisco to Homo
lulu and return is 1925, and from HonC
e lulu to the Volcano and return, covering
s all expenses, $50. Hotel expenses i
: Honolulu vary according to quality, a
e in other countries. Good accommodf
tions can be got at from $40 to $2l
l. week.
e We have taken the liberty of mailin
e to YOU a package of literature concernin
v the Islands, and shall be glad to furnis
o YOU with further literature on the sam
subject if you desire it.
IS Will you kindly acknowledge the r.
J. ceipt of the literature sent.
n We shall be glad to reciprocate any a
e sistance which you may be able to rel
l. der us in disseminating information col
l. corning the Islands by forwarding yol
d interests here, by distributing your lite
Re ature or otherwise.
70 A large tourist travel is already estaI
s. lished here and we hope to largely /
o crease it to the mutual advantage of ou
selves and those who are interested
IN promoting tourist travel.
l. l remain your obedient servant,
n l.. A. THURsToN,
A. Sec'y Hawaiian Bureau OF Informatio
10 The following reply has been r
W ceived from the San Francis
lis agent of Cook & Son:
w., S THos Cook & Son,
BANKERS x GENERAL PASSENGER ACTS.
621 MARKET STREET,
SAN Francisco, Oct. 10, 1892.
Specially Appointed International To-
RS. list Agents to the Worlds Column
Exposition, Chicago, 1898.
- L. A. TnURsroN, ESQ, Honolulu, II.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of October
1892. We shall be pleased to do all
OF can toward pushing the Sandwich lsla
resorts. We are awaiting a reply fr
our New York house and will write y
"a further shortly.
Gu Yours respectfully,
50, Pro THoS. Cook q Son.