The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-29

ably are, local conditions that call fo
these high rates-but please, please, i
| you love these islands, don't send on
broadcast your cab fares and Volcano
House and excursion rates, If yot
would attract tourists who wish tt
| spend some time on the islands.
The coming of the ricksha would
raise a howl against Oriental aggres
! sion, but it is invited. To illustrate
The Japanese and the Chinaman make
| it possible to make tour around the
| Island of Oahu on a Saturday or Sun
| day for $4.10. I learned this and called
upon the general passenger agent OF
the Oahu Railway, wrote to the super
intendent of Mr.. Castles road on the
other side of the island, and consulted
with the white proprietors of buses
in Honolulu. Mr.. Smith consented to
| an exchange from one person to an
other of Saturday-Sunday excursion
tickets; Mr.. Castles road made a 60
cent aturday-Sunday fare. the bus
managers agreed to drive excursionists
either to or from the terminus of the
Castle railway for 81 per person. and
the HaleiWa Hotel agreed to put up a
basket lunch for fifty cents head.
making the total cost of the round-the-
island trip, including lunch, just s4.35,
beating the Oriental at his own game
is $4.10 and the busses use hard. wood
benches). The Promotion Committee
and such a friend of the tourist as
Mr. r. FL. Trent could easily get to-
gether, outline the details and act as
agents for such a trip, that would not
only tempt tourists. but many citizens
who have never made the trip, to go
around the island of a Saturday or
Sunday. 1t is not a hard trip. The
party would leave by train at 9:15 from
the Oahu Railway depot, lunch at Ka-
huku and reach Honolulu about six p.
m, via the Pail, in time for dinner
Those leaving by bus. via the Pail,
would make an earlier start, meet
the other excursionists at Kahana, ex-
change railway tickets and arrive in
by rail in time for dinner
or, if they wished, of a Sunday they
could stop at the Haleiwa Hotel for
dinner and return by the evening train.
Everyone / have consulted concerning
this trip approves of it, and l believe
I speak of Mr. Trent as the right |
man to stand between the tfansporta- |
ion companies and the tourists because |
from every source [ learn that he is !
orejudiced in favor of the tourist. He |
s agent for the Oahu Railway, has his |
,wn office force, and therefore would /
lot charge the tourist a pro rata for |
such expenses. The transportation |
pay him commission on
ickets sold and it is to his interest to |
induce tourists to buy, and the best in
Iucement is to lower rates. His rate to
he volcano over night was high
nough in all conscience-now it is still
igher, and no competition.
At present there is a subsidy of 81
aid by the Inter-Island Co to the
roIcano House on all tickets sold from
honolulu at the $3.50 rate If the
Committee could urge the
teamship company to give the tourist
he benefit of this and make-On the
ompletion of the railway and the low
ring of the hotel rate to So a day-a
% rate to the volcano. including all
expenses, the steamship company
you'd be a dollar better off on each
cket than at present, the islands could
lazon such a rate to the world with
ut shame, and the tourist would real
ze that he is being tempted-for the
,urist knows just where and how TO