The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-15
ANGELES COMMENTS
ON OUR TOURIST
PLANS

The tourist army which annually
invades Southern California is looked
upon with longing by the Hawaiians. A
sort of clearinghouse designed to draw
tourists from here to Honolulu and
from the islands this way Is proposed.
The February number OF the Para
disc of the Pacific, an illustrated
monthly journal devoted to Hawaiian
interests, contains an article by Eli
nor A. Langton on "a Field for Tourist
Work. in which the writer pays some
pretty compliments to Los Angeles and
suggests that such steps be taken. The
writer of that article thinks the Homo
lulu Chamber of Commerce should
maintain a permanent information bu-
reau in Los Angeles, and also suggests
that Los Angeles might find it advan-
tageous TO maintain similar bureau
in Honolulu.
The editor of the Paradise of the Pa
cif1c, William NJ. Langton, former
Angeleno, spent a part of February in
this city agitating for closer CONNER
cial relations between Honolulu and
Los Angeles. He advocated a direct
steamer line between San Pedro and
Honolulu, and believes that with proper
of the Hawaiian trade now enjoyed by
San Francisco and Northern Pacific
ports could be diverted to Los An
geles.
Following are extracts from Mrs.
Langton's article:
How can the promoters of this local
tourist business reach the $4,000 pleas
ure seekers who go to Southern Cali
fornia every winter and spring? 1t is
not to be implied that a solution of this
problem means an invasion of the Cali
rnia hotel keepers rights. Those
who travel for pleasure or rest make
short stays there, only the health seek
ers remaining through the winter and
spring. 1t is the habit of many TO
make a tour of Mexico when they have
tired of Los Angeles, and it is to these !
particularly that the attractions of Ha- |
wall might be presented with some |
prospect of doing good. At present |
writing the great hotels of Los Angeles. |
Pasadena, Redlands, Santa Barbara |
and San Diego are filled with some of |
the elect of Americas touring class, the |
people who are out for every enjoyment |
that the land can provide, let the cost |
be what it may.
Would the organization of a Tour I
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recting tourists from here to Los An |
ge1es and vice versa. The plan is OPP
Grated in European cities very success
fully. Suppose the Chamber of Com
merce and Merchants Association send |
a Honolulu man to Los Angeles with |
full knowledge of what he is going
to talk about to work up a tourist |
travel towards the Islands, and then
suppose the Los Angeles Board of
Trade employ a Los Angeles man here
to expound the attractions of his city.
Somewhat apropos of a tourist ex-
change is a fruit exchange, which may
or may not be an odd fancy. There are
many Southern Californians in the Is
lands who are longing for the fruits
of their old home, such as oranges,
lemons olives, muscat grapes, apricots,
plums and a dozen other products they
are unable to obtain here as fresh and
as palatable as they would like them.
AS it is, the fruits received here pass
through several middle men, and San
Francisco shippers are prone to send
down to Honolulu the boxes that are
unstable in the city. Others besides
Southern Californians residing in Ha-
wall would soon become large con-
sumers of these fruits if they could get
them in good condition Los Angeles
Times.