The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-04
CANADIANS
WILL COME
Winter Tourists Need Only Know
of HaWaii's Advantages
and Beauty.

Hundreds of Winnipegers go touring
| every winter, the majority of them taking
the Mediterranean trip and to South
| ern California. When they have the
| advantages and beauties of Hawaii
told to them you will get many here.
Fhis is the opinion of W. Phillips, the
manager and engineer of the Winnipeg,
Manitoba, electric street railway, who
arrived from Canada on the S. S. 40
rangi last week and who, with Mrs.
Phillips is registered at the Hawaiian
Very little is as yet known of Ho-
nolulu in Central Canada. My coming
here was due to the glowing repre-
sentation made by an acquaintance,
Mr.. Skinner, who lived here once as
the manager of the Hawaiian Electric
Company, and 1 can say that L am de
lighted that | took his advice. This
is an ideal place.
The steamship accommodations be-
tween here and Vancouver are poor,
however. and would have to be con
siderably improved. The day after |
got here [ went to the steamship office
to book for my return passage and /
was told that there was no certainty
as to when L could get away. The
agent showed me list of two hundred
names of persons on his list, all want
ing to 90 to Vancouver, and told me
that the last two boats had been I'M
able to take on one Of them. That
condition of anairs win never build
up a tourist trade for you"
Of the condition of Canada and of
his own city of Winnipeg Mr.. Phillips
gives an enthusiastic account Every
day sees trainloads of immigrants and
home seekers passing through the
prairie capital bound for the wheat
lands of the West Winnipeg itself
in seven years has grown from a
o. $4,000 to 10000 and was
fifth among all the cities of the con-
tinent last year in the number and
value of new buildings erected, build
ing permits aggregating thirteen mil
lion dollars having been given out.
Naturally Mr.. Phillips has shown an
interest in the working of the Rapid
Transit lines and is unsparing in his
compliments.
You have every reason to be proud
of the up-to-date electric service you
have in Honolulu. The line is in the
very best of shape and the men EN-
ployed by the company are uniformly
obliging and courteous.
The Winnipeg street railroad is
naturally bigger line than that of
Honolulu. All the branches center in
at the railroad depot, at which point
Isl cars an hour run in and out. One
difficulty experienced by the manage
ment is in keeping their men. The
opening up of the country is attract |
ing the majority OF the white men to
the soil an, they are taking up home
steads in preference to working for
wages. Practically all of the laboring |
class in Canada are foreigners, prin |
eipally Galicians, and there is a great |
scarcity of laborers all over the Do |
minion. Although Canada has already a |
greater railroad mileage per capita than
any other eountryIn the world, two more |
transcontinental lines are being built, /
totaling 5000 miles, and thus a great |
stretch of new country is being opened |!
up.
Mr.. PhInIDs will spend at least two |
months here, visiting the plantations
and other points of interest.