The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-10-18

solutely impossible for us TO reduce our
/, rates"
From l.. r. Cockroft. Oceanic steam.
| ship co.. dated san Francisco. Nv,
have carefully considered the matter oi
l passenger rates 10 Honolulu and III
/ Wow of all the circumstances and the
average proportion that we receive. It
is not deemed practical at the present
! time to make reduction as you sug.
| gest we fell confident that the
present rates in effect do not interfere
| In promoting travel to Honolulu. 4"
Even so late as June when an effort
was made to secure reduction on ac-
count Of the Knight Templar conven-
tion In San Francisco, the response was
made on both hands that the present
party rate of $1,000 for fifteen passen-
gers, was deemed so low that no re-
duction was possible. Again last month
this matter was taken up in person
with the general passenger agents of
the two lines but without effectiveness.
The Canadian Australian S. S. Co.
took up the question of fare reduction
in earnest this summer and the deci-
sion of Mr.. Robert Kerr, passenger
traffic manager, was communicated to
this body in the following letter:
Mr.. L. NJ. Boyd, Secretary, Hawaii
Promotion Committee, San Fran
cisco, Cal.
Honolulu Excursions.
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of
September 9th.
l take pleasure in advising you that
we have arranged for our November,
December and January sailings to sell
at special round trip rate of $4,000
from Portland, Puget Sound and Brit
ish Columbia ports to Honolulu and
that this rate will be used for basing
purposes by all agents east of Van
couver. / trust that this may produce
the desired result.
Yours truly,
(Signed) ROBERT KERR.
THE OUTLOOK.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the well known tourist agency
of Thomas Cook & Son will offer,
through all their various offices, tickets
under the party rate of $1,000, the
steamship companies receiving them
If fifteen persons are assembled from
"lldltNtl lOl any one Sltdlltl.
Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son, Ray
mond & Whitcomb, Gates Tour Co.,
r. II. Crunden j. Co., Nippon Califor-
MIA Tour Co. plan tours to Hawaii dur
ing the present winter. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co.'S personally con-
Quoted service has the same subject
under consideration for this winter as
has the Santa Fe System.
The office correspondence at the pres
ent time indicates more than fair in
terest in Hawaii, and the steamship
look forward to greater ira
vel after the election. The presence of |
larger ships in the Pacific Mail line !
indicates more ease in securing accom-
which must have beneficial
results upon the travel.
EXPENSES.
The present advertising of this COM !
mittce, in the hands of Frank Sea-
man of New York, has been given an
for three months of $50O.0O
a month beginning with November.
The issues of folders and booklets
are so nearly exhausted that another
volume becomes necessary before the
end of the year.
In addition to the contract for adver-
tising, and two contracts for dstribut- /
ing, which will not expire until the end |
of the year, the committee has seen
fit to invite it's New York agent, Mr..
Frank Seaman, to send out as its guests
leading editors and writer's of the Unit
ed States. This invitation has been
accepted for January by Mr. Walter II.
Page of Worlds Work, and tentatively
By George Horace Lorimer of Satur-
day Evening Post, DIR. Albert Shaw of
Review Of Reviews, DR.. Lyman Abbott
of outlook, Mr.. Frank Collier of Col
lier's publications. Mr.. Marshall p.
Wilder, well known the world over,
plans to arrive here October IA on a |
world trip, he being engaged to write |
n weekly letter for a syndicate of pa
pers, the New York Tribune, Boston |
Post, Chicago Record Herald. Pittsburg |
Post st. Louis Republican and Phila-
delphia Press.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Following is the financial statement
compiled from two statements, one of
January LIST the other of June Goth,
1904, made by the treasurer j. a. Gill
man:
STATEMENT TO JUNE
BOTH, 1904.
Receipts.
BY subscriptions from sundry
subscribers ....,.......,...S 3,IOo.45
From Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce .,,.,,,,.,,,,,',, l',Ooo'oo