Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-05-21
REST FOR THE WEARY,
HILO HAS NOW FIRsTCLAss
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.
successfuI Management of. II. viii
son as n Boniface - Beautiful
Place Wei Kept.

One great lack that had long
been disadvantage, if not a
discredit to Hilo has been, it is to
be hoped permanently, wiped off
the black book 81 the travelling
public. Reference is to hotel ac-
commodation. 1t is not many
years ago court parties from Homo
lulu, with suitors, jurors and wit
nesses from the country, arriving
in Hilo to attend the Circuit Court
term, had to billet themselves all
over town-some fortunate enough
to have friends here with SPAR 3
bedrooms and welcome to a hos
pitable board, but the majority
having to hire spare bedrooms
from strangers, or lodgings in
rude buildings without sitting
rooms, or even pleasant verandas,
for the enjoyment of hours of
leisure. Lucky was the man,
however, who could secure even
such lodging in connection with
a restaurant, for the later ap-
plicants had to take shelter where
they could not get meals, and it
was anything but agreeable to
have to travel some distance
through rain and mud from bed
to breakfast.
Every now and then an attempt
at running something like a regu-
lar hotel would be made by some
enterprising resident, but hereto
fore these experiments have not
resulted in any marked success,
for what reason it is not the pur-
pose of this article to inquire. All
that our readers will care to know
is whether Hilo has a good hotel
now, and whether if it has the
boon is likely to be perpetuated.
AS to both questions L have no
hesitation in giving an affirmative
answer. The Hilo hotel as at
present conducted compares favor
ably in regard to comfort afforded,
to pleasant conditions and to quail
ity of fare with the leading hotels
of Honolulu. Its own merits in
these respects, the impetus to
tourist travel this way-both from
the opening of the Volcano road
and from increasing fame of Hilo
and this island for health and
pleasure sojourns as we'll as the
constant additions being made to
the population of people who have
means and resources for living
well, all bode well for the perma-
nency of Hilo's present attain
ment in respectable hotel accom-
mediation.
j. r. Wilson, proprietor of the
Volcano Stables, we'll and favor
ably known to the travelling pub
lie, took possession and charge of |
the Hilo hotel on April 20 last.
Mr.. Wilson's enterprise in differ
ent lines for many years past has
been a strong factor in the pro-
gress that Hilo has been steadily |
making. He has also for some
time conducted, with great satis-
faction to the travelling public,
Mountain View Hotel, the half
way house of the Volcano. 1t was
therefore to be expected by those |
who know his business capacity
and energy that, in this step, if he |
would not revolutionize hotel
keeping in Hilo he could |
not fail to establish a higher
grade in its evolution. Thus
early have expectations been fully |
realized. Without any tourists at |
present the seventeen rooms of the
lotel are all occupied with an ex-
,ellent class of steady boarders.
Tourists who have been there
within the last two weeks evinced
great reluctance to leave.
The hotel is established in the
premises formerly the residence
Of John T. Baker, whose wife was
Ioverness of Hawaii. Although
.he buildings are old they are
quite we'll adapted to hotel pur-
poses, but there is now a proba-
Oility that Mr.. Spreckels, who
owns the premises, will shortly
erect block especially designed
or hotel purposes. No more
beautiful location for hotel
.ould be found on all Hilo's
charming hills and slopes. 1t is
ipht on tha middle frOnt of tha