The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-06-29
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Editor Advertiser: / have just read
your editorial, Farmer versus Tour
ist' According to your estimate, am
but the tenth of a farmer. Granted 1t
takes ten tourists to make farmer,
then why not tempt tourists by the
thousand ?-some of them will stick.
came to your islands for week; two
months have gone by My companion
came for a month and has become
resident Everywhere I meet men VINO
came to these islands as tourists ana
remained to become useful citizens.
Tempt the tourists by the thousand and
you will get the farmers by the hum
xlreds
I visited yesterday on his pineapple
plantation the man who created Wa
hiawa'' He is ready to follow out your
editorial suggestion and help create
twenty such settlements. Moreover, he
will give any wavering tourist an acre
of his pineapple lands if he will but
build upon it. The tourist has made
Switzerland one of the most prosperous
spots in Europe; the tourist is pouring
wealth into the West Indies today.
Why?
It costs no more to go from London,
via Paris, to Switzerland and remain
several days than it does to go from
Honolulu to your Volcano House-z0O
miles distant-and remain there over
night From New York one may go on
a months cruise to the West Indies, |
South America and Panama, every ex-
pense included, travelling the entire |
while on a palatial yaeht-built steam. |
er, at a rate of four dollars a day-and |
this tourist caribbean cruising traffic |
has been developed within the past
five years. Let your Promotion Com
mittee cry to the world that cruising
about the Hawaiian Islands is to be
made as reasonable as is cruising in
other parts of the world, and you viii
get the tourist by the thousand, and
some of them will come back again as
residents-and farmers.
What can your Promotion Committee
do? Everything. It can agitate. 1t
can send the figures forth that tell just
what it costs to cruise about these
isIands-one Of the most delightful
short cruises in the world. I have
made it and shall cry its beauties to
the world in my feeble way, while Jack
London, who is just beginning the de-
lights of this inter-island cruise, is al
ready bubbling over with enthusiasm,
and there is nothing to my mind more
beautiful in modern literature than the
aTtia
ne read to me a few days ago under
The shade of koa tree. Let the Pro- :
notion Committee follow up London's
good work and create conditions that ,,
viii enable the tourist of even limited
means to visit these islands. 1t can.
Do you know why London built the
Shark? 1 will tell you. as he told me. :
He had settled down on his ranch in
ending never again to be a tourist
more food for transportation, hotel and =.
,ther kinds of tiger sharks. Then came
he idea of yacht of his own, from
he decks of which he could shout de- :
lance to the land sharks. The yacht
ost him some $4,000 more than he
expected to put out-for there are con-
ractor sharks, too-but now he mas
he satisfaction of saying to a steam L
nip company tnat charges eXtoFtlondte r
ates for minimum services, Il can do Is
Without you,'' and when a hotelkeeper O
olds him up. he smiles as only Jack Ii
an smile and says, cheerfully, ''Oh, .
hats all right. 1 have brought my 9
otel with me. 1 don't want to buy u
ours" London is a promotion COM II
littee in himself. q
/ thought l had secured a tourist u
ate of $25 from the Inter-Island Com q
any that would entitle a visitor from III
le mainland or abroad to visit each
nd all of the islands, but there is a p;
itch. New Zealand and Australia V
AXE great steamship and railway re- II
uctions to the visiting tourist and P
ave thereby built up a most promis- st
lg tourist business that has already tn
roved a great assistance to the Colo co
es er
Heaven knows your transportation 81
ties are high enough. Cab fare Zone ex
erson) S1.50 an hour in Honolulu, 81 W
New York, 50 cents in London, 40 81
nts in Paris and 80 cents in Naples. bl
ere each additional passenger is GU
larged for. but not so in other citiee IL
the world There NAV be and prob to