The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-25

an. who has money to spend and will
| spend it, rather than the weak and
| hollow-chested invalid: we do not want
J to make Honolulu a hospital but rec
1 reation ground. We want a class that
will know what they require. know
! when they get it, pay for what is fur
nished and insist on having 1t. 1t is
up to us that the required accommoda
| ton is supplied
| Your Committee, therefore. do not
! advocate any undue reduction of rates
| of travel between the mainland and
/ Honolulu, but we most emphatically do
| recommend that every possible effort
be made to induce the inauguration of
an improved and up-to-date passenger
service between Pacific Coast ports
and Honolulu as well as a faster and
more efficient inter-iSland passenger
service accommodation. IF We are to
make a success of Tourist Travel il is
the conviction of your Committee that
these first principles are of vital inn
portance, and that in a measure it is
within the power of the Honolulu mer-
chants 20 insist upon it. We must.
however, as a community expect to add
Our active and financial assistance in
the way OF advertising and Offering
other inducements for the increase of
desirable travel to Hawaii, and to this
end we beg to submit that We consider
any restricted or local efforts OF a
spasmodic nature both insufficient and
Ineffective, and that such a basis of
and a waste of time, and, therefore.
whatever is undertaken should cover
period of five years If necessary TO
thoroughly establish Hawaii as the
most desirable summer and winter re-
sort extant. We recommend that n
adequate guarantee fund to carry out
the object of the Association with ref
erence to Tourist Travel be solicited4
and subscribed annually on the follow
ing lines:
Planters Association, subscrip-
tion by assessment on sugar
at 5 cents per ton, say 100000
tons Observation-Disclosures. SIS 900 90
Oceanic and Pacific Mail
Steamship Companies. as
sessment on each round trip
ticket to Honolulu, $500. and
on each single trip to or
from Honolulu at $3.50, eSti-
mated at say ..........--.,-. 800 90
Inter-Island Steamship Com
panies 1.-TWO cOmpanies).
5000 each ..............~.~.. 200 90
Merchants subscription. say
20, at $1,000 per month each.
per annum ---...-....-..-.- "'VOO W
Say % at $500 ............... 800 90 ,
each, say pc per annum ..,",.. 12oO 90
o. r. & l. CO.. $500 per
month. per annum .-........ 900 90
Rapid Transit. $500 per
month, per annun 300 90
$40 600 90
The above outline is suggested sub
ject to such changes and notifications
as may be determined upon, but is sub
nitted as a basis.
In support of the first item your COM
rnittee take the position that there is
with one or two possible exceptions not
A share of sugar stock in the market
that is not on it's merits worth full par
value, and that the present deprecia-
ton is due largely TO the construction
Of the money market and the conse-
Iuent inability of our citizens to make
further investments. We submit that a
dozen wealthy visitors per annum
ourcha sing each 800 900 of our securi-
les will send them to par where they
belong, and the planter has his money
pack that he has invested in Tourist
Travel We claim it to be a wise prof.
.ct for him to eXpend a little To assist
n bringing in a class OF people with
he idea that some will become invest
,rs Hehas the goods for sale. he thus
Jays simply a commission on sales.
possibly in advance. it is true, but well
Worth the price. Your Committee sub
nit that the equity of the other assess
nents is more apparent and need not
Dc discussed.
Your Committee submit that a fund