The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-11
Los ANGELES MIGHT HELP
Continued from Page IL


sort. Agents of the great railroad
lines have been sent to the Orient to in
vestigate the corpmercial conditions.
undoubtedly with the prospect Of ulti-
mately engaging in the attempt to get
a share of that commerce, and through
Los Angeles as the gateway.
Southern California is enjoying a
remarkable and solid prosperity.
Everyone is prosperous and wants
to expand. There is plenty of capital
ready to venture in expansion enter
prises. Heretofore there has been no
opportunity for expansion across the
seas, because there was no place near
Los Angeles where vessels could make
safe port
1.-The orange crop was exceptionally
good this year, and was valued at $780,
600, 600. The tourist crop is the best
ever, and is steadily increasing. That
crop alone is easily worth from $15,-
600, 600 to 800 600 annually. Southern
California is the Mecca of tourists and
they generally come in on the southern
routes.
my theory is that the tourists you
get in Hawaii are mainly of a type who
are travelling around the world and
merely stop over for awhile, or are
from the comparatively few people who
go to San Francisco and are attracted
to the islands. You want tourists who
will eventually come here and build
handsome homes.
But Los Angeles gets eighty per
cent of the tourist travel to the Pa
cific Coast. That is a tropical country
TO some extent. 1t is beautiful and at
tractive to all sorts and conditions of
Nv
pie from cold lands. There is every
reason, with the facilities Los Angeles
will have in the future for handling
tourist travel, why Hawaii should ben
eft largely by a direct steamship line
with San Pedro.
Everything seems propitious for the
establishment of such line. I be-
lieve in pointing out to tourists there
the attractions of these islands. It
would seem desirable to endeavor to
attract tourists through Southern Cali
fornia agencies. Every town in that
section has its agency in Los Angeles.
You are doing a fine work with your
Promotion Committee and Secretary
Wood is doing it well. You have fine
start and such an entertainment as
you people are affording us is certainly
charming and is appreciated. I like
the islands. Glad L came. We have
Chamber of Commerce fully alive to
the development of Southern California
as well as Los Angeles. Every member
| contributes 81 a month, which fund is
used to advertise the city and section
| and the fund is used to entertain dis
| tinguished men and women and excur~
| sions. Los Angeles now has a popu-
| lation of about 275000 people,
IMPRESSIONS OF HONOLULU.
! j. L. Matthews of Covina California,
one of the members of the Southern
| California Editorial Association, says
Of his visit:
Your beautiful city has left an i'm
print on my mental vision as of a
! glimpse of Paradise. Europe, Asia, nor
even our own great State of Califor-
MIA can furnish a scene so fair as the
| tropical beauty of this splendid city,
and the hospitality of its citizens rival
and excels all Others. Your drives over
| the islands form a series of continual
| changes and surprises, and your mag
nificent dustless roads are the wonder
of our party
''One word of warning: In civic af-
fairs seek not the metropolitan, retain
at all cost the charm of your present
streets, their abrupt turns, shaded and
bordered as they are by the stately
| royal palms and native trees. with
homes surrounded with almost forests
OF palm, cocoanut and other tropical
plants. It is these that attract the Wis
itors and give to your city that in
describable charm which L. as Il
stranger, can never forget. We return
in a short time to our homes to use our
| influence through the press of Southern
California to attract to your shores the
| many strangers that now seek pleas
ure in Europe and elsewhere We shah
do this with pleasure and pride. as
these islands are the brightest gem in
'Columbia's diadem"