The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-10
TOURIST
TRAFFIC
Railroad Director
Tells How to
Get Them.
MUST INTEREST
RAILWAYS or EAST
S. S. Dennis. a Korea Passenger
Has a High Opinion of
the Islands.

S. S. Dennis, a director of the Penn
sylvania railroad, one of the most mod
ern railways in the world, passed
through this city on the Korea on a
round the world trip with his family.
Mr.. Dennis has had a long experience
in railway management and has had a
great deal to do with the handling of
tourists. He makes a number of very
interesting observations regarding the
securing of tourists for Hawaii.
at have made some fine little junket-
ing trips around Honolulu during our
stay here" Mr.. Davis said yesterday,
"and / think it is about the most
charming little place I ever visited. If
your city is a sample. of the life and
scenery that can be seen in the other
islands of the hawaiian group 1 see
no reason why in years to come the
place should not be flooded with tour
lists. l do not know what arrange
ments you have at present for encour-
aging tourist travel but from the little
we hear in the East you cannot be do
ing anything very up-to-date in that
direction.
'The time has passed when tourists
spent their own time looking III the
out of the way corners of the globe.
Nowadays they want others to find and
lead them. In order for a place to have
many tourists now it must have some
powerful connection which leads people
to it. I mean railways, steamship lines
and so forth hat have combination ar
-rangements to send large parties OF
tourists out at certain seasons of the
year on special excursions. Take the
Pennsylvania railroad for instance. 1t,
like all other Eastern roads, has a
special department for tourists. We
are constantly in need of new places to
which tourists can be taken because of
the novelty of them. Hawaii is such a
place, at least as far as people on the
Atlantic coast are concerned. Very few
of the people who make annual winter
trips from the Atlantic coast to Europe,
the Rivera, Madeira, or Spain know
of the attractions of the islands which
you justly call the Paradise Of the
Pacific To tell the truth I did not
know much about their attractions be-
fore but 1 know something about them
now which interests me a great deal.
But I think the solution of your
tourist problem lies with the big East
ern railroads. Those powerful COM
panies are diverting the tourists of the
Eastern States from trips to Europe
and are now sending them speeding
over the continent to the westward on
special trains. The Pennsylvania is
| sending out many special through
trains which go over other lines be-
sides our own to Yellowstone National
| Park. the Grand Canyon Of the Colo
RADIO, and to California. Most of these
| people would be better satisfied if they
| could add a sea trip to their trans
| continental journeys and 1 do not see
any reason why traffic arrangements
| could not be made by the Eastern rail-
ways with the steamship companies to
take these tourists from US in San
Francisco and send them along TO Ha-
wall for a couple of weeks stay. The
matter is feasible and all it wants now
is for the Hawaiian business people to
interest themselves in the question suf-
fciently to orange with n Eastern
railways. If the railways bring the
| steamships business you can believe
that the latter will not try to discour-
age the trade. A smart man from Ha-
wall by presenting this matter direct
to the general passenger agents of the
Eastern lines might be able to accom-
plish a great deal for the Islands. My
opinion of the matter is that the East
ern railways will be you salvation as
far as tourists are concerned"