The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-01
BIG RAILROAD LINES TO
SEND TOURISTS TO ISLANDS
Agents to Meet the Wants Of Travellers Have
Been Put on Oceanic Company's Steam
ers Between This City and San Francisco.

The railroads mainland and the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany acting conjunction have last taken stpes that bid Ho
nouu hope islands will begin to draw share of the
tourist California And the railroads of the mainland
and the steamship companies agencies that direct
tourist travel but menand incidentally,
and good like sheep They where
they sent, and where goes many will follow.
This philosophy and beside the practical issue of the matter
that the railroads and the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany, combination known the A. A. Lne-which cabasc
letters American Australian nehave at last begun to
islands good drawing card for their business and
they will build tourist travel the islands
1t the railroads and the steamship companies of the mainland
with help from ngenty directed local agencies that have
built business of Southern California and the
business of Southern California in built and
cities One hundred thousand visited Los
gees alone last winter to the great profit of the railway lines
teng there and that hundred thousand tourists probably
thousand dollars apiece taking them whole These figures
that begin to stagger the imagination.
The A. A. combination Steamship
the Topeka Santa Fee the Chicago and
the Chicago Alton Here combination of great ocean line
of steamers with five of the railways the United States
and these take hold of the dead
they have donehen look with confidence for the tide
tourist travel begin way with
add materially to the prosperity of this city and the territory and
that within a very short time indeed
On the last Alameda there arrived Honolulu Mr. Frank NJ
ener an energetic young man until recently employed in the
Passenger Agent for the A. A. line but whose business
the first one of group OF similar agents who will be sent
and he proposes to get pretty well acquainted with Honolulu and
between Francisco Honolulu other agents will
kept In effect his duties will be travel the of the
Oceanic ne and to be of bureau miscellaneous Informal
ton for the the line both matters the islands
and the mainland He will the through
the Colonies American continent will take
change their through tickets both the and Europe will
give them all information interesting side trips the
andto Yosemite Santa Barbara the Yellowstone and where
will they land Francisco thoroughly posted
the proper thing possible tourist
be- There will be three of these tourist agents the employ the
company will down Honolulu trip of the
Alameda the through here and back to the Coast
in her will be the duty of the coming down post tourists
about the of interest the sandsto which end the local
will probably bestr themselves sOmewhaand meet
ing the through here devote themselves the return of
something of the best of America route to Europe.
The position is similar in quality that filled by the
the various overland roads the mainland
but the duties will be somewhat wider and the filling the posi-
lions will necessarily be of their business
there competition for the positions the bright of
several nteestedOr for the agents all
selected by this time Mr. Jene the first of will
the SOnoma the who be
appOintee the Alameda,
boat in turn.
This first time that has been
the intelligent direction travel to the islands,
the colonies nevertheless it The
thing the mainland is bound
full When begins appear naturally the other
will break And they will
agents. and there will be tourist
lied presently that reduction in fares that always has fol
competition of this
a of the tourists
a