The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-07
TOURIST TRAVEL.
The Raymond WhitcOmb Com
pany Are Assisting Tour
iSf Travel.

One Of the encouraging features
of the tourist-travel situation is the
fact that the foreign tourist agen-
cies, both Cook & Son and Ray
mond & Whitcomb, are taking
more and more interest in the ISL
ands. The latter have for several
years been sending personally con-
Quoted" trips to the Islands, while
the former have recently signified
their desire to make arrangements
for issuing through tickets cover
ing expenses for the Island trip.
The next Raymond party will be
due in March. AS will be seen by
Mr.. Lyons letter, the trip has been
heightened and other attractions
added to it. 1t is also of note that
while emitting their European trips
during the coming year, they have
held on to and enlarged their Ha-
waiian tour.
The Raymond-Whitcomb Com
pany issue 200-page pamphlet
descriptive of the line of travel of
their parties.
The following letter from Mr..
Lyon, the well known Raymond
Whitcomb representative, to the
Volcano House Company, speaks
for itself.
LETTER FROM MR.. HENRY. c. LYON.
"Your favor of October IL came to
hand yesterday, and I am delighted
to know that even as much progress
as you report has been made on the
Volcano Road, and we will make use
of this information to induce more
people to venture on the great Vol
cano trip. am not surprised that
you had number of Honolulu peo-
pie at the Volcano House this sum-
mer. and predict you will have an
increasing business from there each
summer. It stands in about the
same relation to Honolulu that the
sAdirondacks and the "White
Mountains" do to New York and Bos-
ton, and with the excellent house
you now have there, they can not fail
of availing themselves of the advan-
tages of such a charming summer
resort. I expect before this you
have received our new winter Cali
fornia circular, and have seen what
the changes in the Islands trip have
been. Our first object, in putting
the trip off till March, was to give an
opportunity to members of our first
Mexico excursion to also go to the
Islands if they desire. Nearly every
year some one or more of that party
has said II would have been glad to
go to Honolulu, but you left San
Francisco before our party arrived
We heightened the trip for two rea'
sons--one being that we regard five
weeks none too long to remain in
such a charming country, and
secondly, because by so doing we
can both go and come on the Aus
tralia, which regard as very ex
cellent craft, and in this way we will
avoid the possible annoyance of
two or three days. delay in San Fran
cisco on account of late English
mails. We have also incorporated
quite a number of very attractive
carriage rides in and around Homo
lulu, namely. to the Pail, Mano
Valley, Punchbowl, Tantalus, out tx
Waikiki, to Punahou and to the Ka
mehameha Schools, and rail tri]
to Eva Plantation. I can only hop
that these inducements will brin
us a larger company of tourist
than ever before. Of course W
recognize the fact that about tina
time the tide of travel will be toward
Chicago.
"Messrs. Raymond & Whitcom
are now concentrating about all thei
energies on the great projects the
have in hand for the Columbian Fa
in Chicago. They will not atteml
to send any party to Europe ne,
spring, SO you see we have held @
to "The Paradise Islands" viii
letting go of Europe. will sen
you few extra copies of our whit,
California circular, as you may iii
them to show some of your busine
friends what we do toward makir
the Islands known.
Boston, Mass, Oct. 25, 1892"