The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-09-27

DDS Of cultivation are practicinE inten-
slve production.
But all this varied advertising, this
putting forward OF one attraction in
one advertisement and another In an
other is not diversion, but unity. 1t is
all about California.
There is another feature of this high
pressure promotion work that might
not be thought Of at first, but which is
scarcely less important than the pri-
mary object of getting people from 9TH
er states and countries to come to Cal
ifornia. II Is the fact of getting the
people Of California Interested in their
own state. OF making them personally
acquainted with other sections of it
than their own or with other wonders
or wonderlands in 1t than their own.
The people Of California travel about
in their own state as it is probable the
people Of no other state travel about in
theirs. The whole population is a per-
igrnating one. The outdoor life has
taken a firm hold on California and
with the exception of relatively a mi
nority, the whole population of the
state spends some part of the year out
of doors, in the mountains, among the
Redwoods, along the lakes and streams
of the interior, or at the seashore.
Some of the agencies that have con-
tr'hutod to this character Of popular
diversion are, the protection afforded
Y lid game and the efforts made to
stock the streams and lakes with fish,
the popular status given to tent life,
the Sierra Club the Sunset Magazine
and the railroads.
Game of all kinds has been so well
protected by law and by public opinion
that during the open seasons for game
every man who likes to go hunting
feels that he has a chance with the
rest at big game as well as ut little.
Every Izaak Walton in the whole state
is tempted in the same way to try his
luck with rod and reel
Tent life has become so we'll estab-
lshed as a social custom, that during
the long California summer the whole
state is dotted, with tents, isolated and
In community AT Santa Cruz, at
Yosemite, on the Russian River at
Santa Catalina, in the Santa Cruz
mountains, at scores of places, there
ally spoken Of They are regular es-
adjustments, hostelries where the Wis
itor can sojourn for day or a month
hotels in reality, where instead of big
buildings or cottages tents are provid-
ed. AS a rule they have board floors,
and other provisions for comfort They
are regularly advertised and have be-
come an institution of surprising mag
nitude and popularity. They crafty
the nomadic and out of door instinct
with the modicum of trouble and cost.
AS there are camps" so there are
campers" though there is not neces-
sarily any connection between the two.
Camps" have come technically to
mean these permanent tent cities.
Campers" are people who are moving
about the country otherwise than by
rail and camping out wherever they
choose to stop And there are thou
sands of campers throughout the state
during the summer season. Hundreds
chose this way of going to Yosemite,
and the authorities of Yosemite allot
camping places to them on application
and have formulated general regula-
tons governing them while in the val
ley. They are to be found all through
the Sierras, around Tahoe, along the
Truckee River, all up and down the
Coast Range region, and indeed, there
is no part of the state where they are
not to be found. Everywhere through
out the Forest Reserves are pasted no.
tees by authority of the Secretary of
the Interior forbidding the unnecessary
cutting of trees, authorizing the use of
Cat1 nd IN
ing campers" to extinguish their camp
fires before breaking camp
The Sierra Club, founded by the late
Prof. Joseph lie Conte, himself an en-
thusiastic mountain climber, through
the enthusiasm of its members, has not
only given a wonderful impetus and
popularity to mountain climbing and
the zest of mountaineering, but has
made the Sierra Nevada mountains
known in their geography, geology, TO
ra and fauna, as they would probably
not have been known otherwise in
many years. The work of the Sierra
Club has developed trail and road
building in the mountains beyond al
most any other influence. On the crest
of almost every high peak of the Sier-
ras, the Sierra Club places a brass cy-
Under containing a roll of paper, early
each season, with the request that eW-
cry other person climbing this noun
tain will record his name and the date
of his ascent. In this way a fairly COM
plete record of the mountain climbing
is kept and a vast fund of meteorolo-
gical and other information is being
gathered
The Sunset Magazine and the rail
roads are the other factors have spok-
en- of in this wonderful development OF
California which is now going on, ant
these two are closely allied. The Sun
set Magazine is published by the South
ern Pacific Company, and under the i'm
mediate supervision of James Hors
burg, Jr., the Assistant General Pas
senger Agent of the company. 1t is the
senior one of the two great railway
magazines of the country the junior
being the -Four Track News of the New
York Central.
The Sunset Magazine under Mr.. Hors