The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-30
BUSY DAY
At HOTEL
Many Travellers
We're in Town
Yesterday.
Great Advertising Done
Through Guests of
Mr.. Lake.
Siberia Had Large Crowd oil
Round the World Tourists
as Passengers.

| The scene around the Young Hotel
during yesterday and last evening
was one Of such a cosmopolitan ma
| ture and included so many tourists
from all parts of the world that one
could almost imagine that HonoluIu's
tourist prosperity had arrived. The
Siberia brought in large number of
people and the most of these gathered
about the big caravansery. Many
were enthusiastic over the city and
regretted that they had not made ar
! rangements to stop here.
Nearly two hundred people from the
steamer, visited the. hotel during the
day and most of these were either pres
! ent at luncheon or dinned. There were
large number Of private dinner par
! ties.
Southland Hoffman. entertained at
dinner, his party including some local
people and the Misses Marjorie and
Annie L. Ide from ST. Johnsbury, Yer
mont, who are on the way to the Phil
| ippirles to join their father, Commits
| sioner Henry C. Ide.
Gould Dietz. a wealthy Nebraska
man and his wife and son. who are on
q tour around the world made up an
other interesting group.
H. A. Jerome, purser of the Siberia,
entertained a party of six at dinner.
Tom Mckay, the irresponsible pas
senger agent of the Orient, was the
presiding genius of a party that gath
cred at the hotel for lunch. Mr.. Nc
Kay has his diamonds along as usual
and also a small pocket electric LAM
tern which he occasionally used to in
.itiate new friends into the mysteries of
his gems.
| Edgar Halstead who arrived on the
| Siberia is now living in the hotel, his
| family have given up their town resi-
dence and moved there yesterday.
Commander H. Osterhaus, who is on
| his way to a post on the Asiatic Sta
| ton, DR.. Allen, United States minis
| ter to Korea, the Minister to Siam, and
| j. P. Harry of the Pacific Mail Compa-
| ny, were also to be seen about the
hotel during the day.
Mrs. E. E. Custer, wife of the Cen
| era1 who won fame and lost his life at
| the battle of the Little Big Horn, was
a guest. She is making a tour of the
world and is to write book regarding
| her observations while en- route.
F. II. Buck, a wealthy California
| fruit grower, and his family, register
ed They are en- route around the
| world.
r. H. Crunden, who is plotting par
ty of fifteen Pittsburg tourists on the
grand tour, had fine dinner party.
Another tourist party of about a
dozen, headed by L. L. Collver, were at
lunch.
j. E. Wilson, New York man, and
his wife, were also there and during
the evening, Mr.. Wilson said: 81 am
on a trip around the world and this
is the finest place l have so far run
across. The scenery is beautiful here
and the climate superb.
The hotel had rushing business.
There We're people there from many
places. In addition to Senorita c.
Lopez, of Manila, Judge M. NJ. Veloso,
also of Manila and some friends dined
at the hotel. Seventy-f1ve of the tour
lists registered and there were many
more for luncheon and dinner who did
not register. From tourist advertis-
ing standpoint the visit of these peo-
pie should be of value for Manager
Lake carefully supplied each with
great quantity of tourist literature
and most of this was mailed back from
the hotel to friends of the travellers
in the States.
Among those registered at the hotel
were:
y. McGregor, Minneapolis, Mimi,
Charles Calm and Miss Katherine Cal
lin, of Milwaukee, Wis, Miss B. Mum
day, Miss Munroe, H. K. Tetsuka, wife
and child, DR.. r. G. Cunden, wife and
son, John c. Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. c. Wilson, of New York, Miss Pow
ers, Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Hamm, and
Miss May Henderson of Chicago, Mrs
Hannah Duryea, ]. Rowland Holmes,
and Mrs. J. Rowland Holmes of st.
Louis, Mo-, Mrs H. c. Cabel, child
and maids, and Mrs. Schick of the
Philippines, Mr.. and Mrs. Keller of
Singapore. ]. B. Fishbun. E. L. Stone,
L. H. Gray, wife and child, of Virginia,
Mrs A P Preston, of Santa Rosa,
Miss Reeve of Santa Rosa, Mrs. A. II.
Potter of San Francisco, and large
party from Ohio.