The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-30
HAWAII ABROAD.
Interest Taken in All Matters Per.
tanning to the Islands.


The following letter, received in
the last mail, gives some idea OF
the interest taken in Hawaiian
matters in the States:
Los ANGELES, CAL, Oct. Il, 1894.
Mr.. EDITOR: In reading your most
excellent papers, ADVERTISER and
GAZETTE, the thought occurs to me
that your readers might be glad TO see
an item from Los Angeles, occasion
ally. AS you doubtless know, several
| of your Honolulu business men are
regular contributors TO the support of
this agency, which strive TO make a
real Hawaiian Bureau of Informa-
ton" Therefore, feel under obliga-
tions to keep them posted as to the
workings and results of the office here.
You may feel enough interest in the
work to publish short statement to
keep the interest in Los Angeles, as a
tourist center from which Hawaii
may draw part of her travellers, alive
in the minds of your readers. Hence,
/ subjoin a few remarks from which
you can, if Sd inclined, make such eX-
tracts as may seem worthy of a
place In your publications:
Although we do not expect any con-
siderable number of strangers until
after the holidays, our section is al
ready filling up rapidly. Never since
"the boom" have so many houses
been going up in Los Angeles and
Pasadena, and never were there so
few vacant. The hotels are all en-
larging their borders and getting
ready for the largest business ever
done in Southern California.
Catching the inspiration, and being
DESTROYS to secure a goodly share of
the prospective tourist travel, we
have refitted our office, which is To-
Gated in the very center of the bust
ness part of Los Angeles. Handsome
photographers and photographs of
Honolulu, and the South Sea Islands,
adorn our walls. We have albums of
photographs, and something like $50
others mounted and ready TO be ex-
hibited and explained to inquirers,
while folders and descriptive litera-
ture is on our table and desk in as
great variety and abundance as we
can secure.
Since our office is in the same room
with the Pacific Coast s. 5. Company,
all who call there must, per force of
circumstances, see our display, and
have Honolulu suggested to them at
Office a veritable Hawaiian Bureau
of Information" We can claim,
truly, that we are now in better shape
than ever to do this.
Last week, Rev. Henry III. Rice, of
Oakland, who was in Honolulu last
summer with party of tourists, lee
tured here, giving two excellent en-
tertainments, handsomely illustrated
by stereopticon views. Unfortunately
the lectures were but poorly adver-
tised, and only about half as many
saw and heard as would have come
had they known of them. Those
present evidently enjoyed the lestures
and had several new inquirers after
literature and rates the day following.
This month we have booked from
here six people for Honolulu, and five
for Samoa, and have q large number
inquiring for rates and dates of sail
ings. We hope to send you many
more dnring the season.
We have a growing interest in the
question of permanent settling on
farms in Hawaii. Many Americans
would be glad to undertake the max
ing of q home on the Government
lands If fair inducement could be
ture which will give definitely just
what such could expect. How much
land could a bona fide settler get, on
what terms, and what could he raise
on it, and where could he obtain a
market? These are some of the ques-
tions put to US every week.
The last mail which can catch the
Monowai will close in few minutes,
so will simply add, if you consider
an occasional letter from Los Angeles
a desirable item, please inform me
and / will try to send you one every
month, or two months, as desired.
Very respectfully,
HrnH u RICE