The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-19
TOURISTS FOR HAWAII.

MANY ways to attract tour
,s.s IN Hawaii but the NEST certain one
,,,o,,,d he to give them excursion rates
NJ massage from the coast with loui
;sts II is not so much matter Oh che@p
living at the destination as IL Is VI
,al, exnense en- route. Just now TICK
a+e are being sold from Chicago 10
Colorado and return for s25; and huili-
+udes of people are making the Trip
o.ra1ees of the board bills to come. II
NAV he set down as a general PROPOSE
ton that excursion rates have Deeh 'iie
making of every pleasure resort IL
America from Coney Island 10 Corol-
ado Beach. They bring the cro'fu0
every time. Just as they brought lhe
two Shriner pilgrimages here Niore
than this, the chief cause OF the Amer
team invasion of Europe lies In the Iac'
that the eight day steamers give nrsl-
c,ass massage at $45 and that line ac-
~o,,nodations may be had on the myers
for go twenty-five years ago when
,ha rate was as high as it Is now De-
tween San francisco and Honolulu the
American who went to Europe was,
not a curiosity, at least one TO WHOM "
romantic interest attached
Iy round trip rate of SIS could De
made for the San Francisco-Honoiulu
trim here is no doubt but that tnis
TERRITORY would soon take it's right1ui
r1ace as a fashionable resort. 1t is not
merely that some Fasteners who now
snend their winters in California wouio
20
selves would flock here. Being as tneS
are at the jumping off place they nave
nowhere but their home resorts 10 go
IN for a change, except along the BACK
track where great deserts superVene
and where the summers are not ana the
winters cold. Hawaii is their ai
outlet and if they could be induced 10
think So how much pleasanter 1t would
he for them and how profitable for US.
There is no reason why an average OF
1000 such strangers should not be in the
Territory throughout the winter
months.
IF Californians ever make this their
lv;ne-off place, others will be quick to
follow and Hawafi'sA circulating meo1-
UNI will be where we all want it, just
now we are in the shape of the mer-
chant whose store is full of goods but
innocent of customers. Scenery and
climate are merchantable assets the
world over, but Hawaii offers some
perennial spring novelties not TO De
matched on the bargain counters OF
any other concern. Here is where the
South sea idyll is to be found and all
the lotus life which men turn to with
a sort of Garden Of Eden instinct; and
to make the showing more impressive
we have an active but mannerly vol
cano on tap and a blue sea that foams
and flashes at the feet of bending
palms, with never a tidal wave to tear
them up blythe roots.s These are things
that northern people long for and are
willing to pay for and which the main
land cannot offer them. They are our
special commodities which ought, in
deed, to be marketed-but it costs too
much to bring the willing customers to
our door We are an emporium on the
back street to which a ride worth a
nickel costs the shopper a quarter.
But the steamer business is expand
ing, the Santa Fe people may give US
an excursion line, more liberal spirit
NAV come to actuate the old eompa-
mics in the face of competition and if
So. Hawaii will come to It's own and
will not feel the strain SO much when
sugar drops a point.
AFTER, THE FIRE.