The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-06-27
PLANS FOR
TOURISTS
ROthWell's Views
on Securing
Trade.
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The attention of o. committee oi
D the Merchants Association. and
the various plans Cor reaching The
Intending traveller. which are now br-
ing proposed. viii be carefully weighed
before the committee makes It's report
to the association at the next meeting.
The plans are many, the one which is
now most prominently before the mer-
chants being a proposition 20 establish
i'm san Francisco a bureau for the pur-
pose of influencing tourists who may
reach the Coast metropolis, and VINO
may then be induced TO make an eN-
tension of their journey to this city.
Chairman John q. Rothwell OF the
associations committee. who has as
his associates william Lishman ana j.
+. Humburg, l. one uf the most enthu-
siastic advocates of united action to-
ward securing Hawairs proper proper
ton OF the tourist trade, ana Is out
spoken in his views. lie said yester-
day:
"The subject of tourist travel. and
how To increase it in this Territory, Is
one that commends itself readily to the
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question has been taken up In earnest
by several members of the Merchants
Association. who believe that there is
practically no limit to the possibilities
in this direction, If sufficient energy is
put forth to properly develop II.
The present period of trade depres-
sion will prove a great ultimate advan-
tage if ii results in awakening the
Fa..s lao lAr fc an
immense tourist trade to be had for the
asking and the expenditure of rea-
sonable amount of effort. Expense?
OF course there will be expense; nc
reasonable man anticipates dividends
without investment, but II distributed
among those who will ultimately bene-
fit, the cost would not be appreclably
felt in any direction in comparison 10
the returns, but to be successful the
effort should be sustained by united
and aggressive action all along the
line-no individual can exert sufficient
influence to divert travel in any given
direction. and so. as IA community, we
must go after this trade, which surely
will not come to us unsolicited.
Who are interested? / should judge
that the transportation companies
principally. First. the transcontinental
railroad companies. then the ocean
steamship companies, then the local
TRANSFORMATION CORPORATIONS, and indl-
yidualIy. every member of the commu
nifty, from the wealthiest sugar planter
to the bootblack, who carries his stocl;
in trade on his back. 1t Is true that
many of our sugar magnates are indie
pendently well off. but there are many
who are wealthy on paper only, and
who can neither sell a share of stock
nor borrow dollar on it, and to these
the subject of tourist travel should ap-
peal most potently. We all know that
sugar is King but there are others
A. B. c. Bohemian for instance, but
that is getting off the subject
1T Is well known that san Fran
cisco is making strong effort to at
tract tourist business, and she can well
afford to encourage II towards Homo
lulu, since the bulk of travel would be
through the Golden Gate, and the me
tropolls of the Pacific Coast would thus
profit. 1t would seem that the San
Francisco press should refrain, If only
from standpoint of self interest, from
publishing unsubstantlated lurid litera-
ture to our disadvantage, such, FOR in
stance. as the late Illustrations of the
Nolcano-depicting dire disaster that
exists only in the Imagination of some
ambitious but ill-advised sensational
writer. Press comments should be
guarded always, but particularly dur
ing periods of panic and disaster and
an indiscreet cartoon may do us more
harm than can be repaired in months.
"If you inquire of the retail mer-
chants they will no doubt inform you
that their busy days are when foreign
steamers are in port, especially those
vessels that arrive and remain few
hours during daylight.
What can be done 10 induce tourist
travel? That is the question now oc-
cupying the attention of the commit
tee OF the Merchants Association. and
no doubt they will make some practi-
cal suggestions on the subject. one of
the first principles, however, is to pool
issues and pull together instead of in
different directions Whe. YOU hear a
merchant saw no does rot car. . r..
il never a tourist came to Honolu,,