The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-16

fair and increasingly good street ca
service. We have a beautiful pic
turesque panorama of mountain. shor
and sea. but We have not a monopoly o
these by any means. There are 9th
ers;" and what have we in the las
analysis to draw and charm the tours
who must have wealth, and hay hav,
culture, if we cannot offer him a vision
of Incompatible beauty. where rest
health and peace are to be had?
Hotel rates here are prohibitory tC
that great body of tourists which yield
the handsome yearly revenues to Los
Angeles and Pasadena And to the
Raymond excursion class neither the
hotel service. nor the sanitary condi-
tions of Honolulu would be considered
possible.
1t is no small item in the long list of
attractions of Los Angeles. that the
cost of living there is less than any city
in the United States.
Charming. delightful homes complete
ly furnished may be rented. winter or
summer, for fifty. seventy-fve or
eighty dollars per month. The attrac-
tive house to rent in Honolulu is not
easy to get at, furnished or unfurnish-
ed. Clean, cool, comfortable rooms, 50
important a provision of a tourist town
are hard to find here. and their ac-
compartment the excellently good
restaurant and Delicatessen store of
San Francisco and Los Angeles with
popular prices are not to be found.
New areas. made up of new streets,
attractively built up and improved,
would relieve the housing problem.
But in the meantime the man of mod
crate means with a small party who
comes to Hawaii to look around, and
spend few months vacation. cannot
slip into a charming furnished apart
ment at a moderate cost as in Florence,
Milan, Paris. Florida or Los Angeles.
An up TO date municipal government
administered and organized on modern
lines would do more in a year to con-
vert Honolulu into an attractive tour
list town, than will decade of adver-
Using. If Paris can maintain NUM-
cipal lodging houses, restaurants. etc,
at a profit amid her profusion of ho-
tells and cafes, why should not Homo
lulu muster the enterprise in the face
of her great need, to maintain munich
pal lodging houses Offering clean, cool,
airy apartments for her travelling pub |
lie? If Rome and Florence with their
ture and immortal canvas. can drain
swamps, reconstruct congested sec
tions, and flourish a hotel service
on the requirements of her
rich American tourist, why cannot Ho-
nolulu do as much? If Los Angeles
and Pasadena, to come nearer home,
recognize no more imperative inspira-
ton to civic beauty and sanitary up
building than the desire to charm and !
hold the tourist, what shall be said of |
the fatuous dream of that town which |
lspires to worldwide hospitality yet |
makes no provision for entertainment? |
hopes indeed to become a health resort |
With sanitary conditions which under
mines the vigor of the youngest inhabi-
ant?
While in Los Angeles one-haIf of the
'ear is spent by her progressive citi-
ems perfecting plans for fiestas, plans
or some magnificent demonstration of
one year an ovation to Nc
<inley. a >men's club convention,
mother year demonstration in honor
f Roosevelt but each so splendid and
orgeous as to attract and hold the
We of the whole country, Honolulu
Ponds the same valuable time raising
honey for advertising forsooth. With
MS resulting difference that Los An
eIes gets advertissa and sumptuously
aid for her trouble, and Honolulu
eeps on raising money"
Now it is an open secret that the
,urist finds us deadly dull. 1t is idle
feel resentment that the man who .
rs large and increasingly large OPP &
thinks us a back number
nd has the courage of his convictions. {
e can probably tell US how to double {
II destinations if ne Will. And why
ed we be deadly dull?
Los Angeles and New Orleans are not \
e only towns which can have festi- <
is and magnifcents parades. Jamai- 4
is not the only island where i'm G
ovements can create a vision of Q
auty. y
In the famous Fiesta orgies of Los Z
lgeles. the Oriental division is pro- K
unced by all Corners to be the most K
in its magnifcence and 4
auty. 1t is a vision of the far East O
1ich the tourist will go far to see. O
We have in Honolulu in our foreign =