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

spend his money, once he cuts his eye.
teeth.
know that the Volcano House could
never have existed without the 81 sub
sidy; I know that the building of a
smaller hotel may prove the ruin OF
both; but ii it's prosperity blocks a rea-
sonable rate to tourists of a cruise of
the islands and a visit to Kilauea, what
is to be done?
I would see one active man, backed
by the Promotion Committee and a
body of leading citizens, secure from
the transcontinental railways a union
office in Honolulu. Get the transpacific
boats in line--you can. Have tickets
on sale in New York at reduced rates
to these islands, including, perhaps, a
cruise among all of them. Get the tour
list and the farmer. For the farmer
California has a rate each spring of
fifty dollars from New York. 1 believe
the Oceanic Co. would equal this, in
connection with this ticket on the Ala
media, and won't the Inter-Island Co.
make a rate of S25 for a round-trip of
inspection to all the islands? Please,
Mr. Trent, and the Promotion Commit
tee and people of Hawaii, get together
and help us tourists to help you. We
are ready to put our shoulders to the
wheel If you are.
There is another hope as regards the
transportation problem. The United
Fruit Co. of Boston created the tour
list business Of the West Indies. Now
a number of companies have taken it
up. The United Fruit Co. at present
fights Hawaiian fruit growers. When
the monthly shipments of bananas reach !
San Francisco the trust rushes in it's
Central American fruit and sells them |
at cost; result, loss for the Hawaiian |
banana grower. Now, the United Fruit
Co. might be induced to run swift |
weekly steamers from these islands to /
San Francisco. Moreover, they would |
buy the bananas, as they do in ia
maica and elsewhere, at so much a
bunch at the wharf: result, more ba- |
mana farmers, more tourists-for the |
policy of this company is to make low I
passenger rates. They are in the fruit !
business but with such a company in
the field it would cost no more to the
fastener to visit and cruise among
hese islands than to pay his passage
Turing the season-across the Atlantic
~ by swift steamer. Here. Mr.. Trent.
good citizens and Promotion Commit
ee, is something to ponder over.
One more word for the tourist
earn that Mr.. Young has added the
Hawaiian to his list of hotels. I sin
erely trust that he will assure the
promotion Committee that il will re-
Eain a hotel for the tourist of moder-
tie means. l wish, also, that the Pro-
notion Committee could issue tourist
oupons al reduced rates good at the
ave a promise that the Haleakala trip
nay be made hereafter from Waikiki
Or SIS. including night on the sum-
nit If the small hotels will only con-
ent to a reduction from the Honolulu
ariffs, or give Honolulu service, I be- !
eve that more tourists will recon-
lend others to take the most delight
III short cruise in the wOrld-among ,
1ese isles of the Pacific Paradise
And now. believe me one enlisted in
ecruiting the army Of white men
HON I hope sQne day to join on these
stands. as high private. I leave Ha-
All tomorrow. but I hope to send
lany. many friends to enjoy the hos
itality and surroundings that 1 have
njoyed. I fight your fight on the
lain1and ard everywhere I go. Hawaii
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