The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-17
THINGS THAT ATTRACT TOURISTS.

tourists by turning II, in its architec
ture. streets and all it's internal an
external presentments. into typica
mainland city. People from Los An
eeIes or Omaha or Seattle would not q
far 10 see just such a town as they
have at home. The Omaha man wher
he goes to Los Angeles for pleasure
and sightseeing looks about first for an
old Mission and any other relics or sug-
gestions there may be of alien occu-
pancy and other times and scenes; and
IL Los Angeles man, going to Omaha,
could find the zigzag lanes between
hide tepees which once marked the
ancient Indian capital there. he would
spend far more time in them than he
would in looking at familiar sky
scrapers or ordered rows of trees.
Tourists are sometimes heard to COM
plain that Honolulu and Havana and
Yokohama and Juneau are being
spoiled" and advertisements of Japan
urge people to go there before the
march of civilization effaces the old
romance. And it is sound advice.
When one saunters down Gina, the
great thoroughfare Of Toxic, it gives
him distinct shock to see stores with
modern show windows. streets with
telephone poles. and japanese gentle
men wearing high hats, all of them
mixed in with ancient, tile-roofed go
downs, crooked lanes and kimono-clad
Samurai. The shock is due to the
things that look civilized and familiar. |
not to the things that look alien, an !,
tiquated or bizarre. The tourist longs |
for the old city, the ancient Yeddo, |
with nothing in it but tiled roofs, wan
dering alleys and slashed and girded
denizens in their rustling silks.
This Is the view point of the tourist
always. Mrs. Eames imagines that
when a sightseer comes here he first of
all looks for a pile of vitrified sewer
pipe. He doesn't. He wants to see a
grass house and hula. 1t delights
him to find a quiet. narrow, crooked
street. ,overhuhE with the branches of
the pofnsetta and landmarked by tall
palms. He will pass any number OF Z
power plants. electric light poles.
United States letter boxes and even
stores (of which Honolulu d
las one. by the way to see this typi- a
ally tropical thoroughfare. Lucky for
linn II he does not meet a municipal
who hurries him down to the
Waikiki road where one of the most v
drives in the world has been g
o vastly improved by the touch OF )
that IL looks. for most
Z the way, like a dusty avenue in
'opeka. V
The Advertiser has long regarded a.
lark Twain's panegyric of Hawaii as .;
be most persuasive thing in type that
as ever been put before the eyes of II
ne travelling public. The pity is that {
lore OF them have never seen it. Here \,
Is:
m
NO aiien land IN all tn the world ORIG ma, mas Of
ne: no other land could so longingly
nd beseechingly haunt me, sleeping W,
Id waxing through hait a ilte-tine as be
lat one has done. Other things leave
e. but IL abides; other things change, ~
1T II remains the same. For me its
almy airs are always. blowing, its tn
INNER seas flashing in the sun; the fr,
1lsing of fits surf-beat is in my ear; 1
IN see it's plumy palms browsing by I
Ie shore; it's remote SUBMITS floating DIT
ze islands above the cloudrack; 1 in
N feel the spirit of it's woodland soli-
Ide: 1 can hear the plash of its
'ooks; in my nostrils still lives the -,
cath of flowers that persisted twenty
.ars ago." Ii
That prose poem now appears in the
;cellent tourist literature which is be- a
& distributed by the Oceanic Steam no
lip Company; but suppose, in the in
rests OF progress. We go on and make e..
Ter Hawaii into a stereotyped modern
and advertise it according
how would some such paraphrase as D
is suit the mood of tourists? u
No modern land has more attrac-
pms than Hawaii to the tourist who
fshes to exchange his skies but not
6 surroundings. At the landing stage
: can take n train on the elevated wi
Iilway and in five minutes can pass mr.
rough a covered bridge TO the foyer
the largest hotel in the Pacific-a
irritable sky-scraper, twenty-eight q,
Dries high. From the roof on clear ] .,
iys an excellent view can be had of
lie up-to-date garbage crematory, the ! q,
rgest glue factory in the world, the Y.
IN phosphate works and the canneries
ong the harbor front. The stranger
iii be pleased to observe that the surf
rs been utilized for power TO supply
he city with electric lights. Elevators
4 = new and original plan will lift him
} the tops OF the mountain range back
the city where the land has been
veied and covered with asphalt pave Sc
lent, affording a delightful prone
ade. For anuzements. visits 10 the Sc
reat sewer system the crematorv and &C