The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-23
Polynesian Olympia in 1909
By Alexander Hume Ford.

palm, in the shadow of the mountain,
, or upon the waves that break upon
their playground they give exhibitions
of their varied skill to the delectation
Iof applauding multitudes. Nowhere
else may yacht races be run with per-
feet safety upon the bosom of the broad
and boundless ocean, nowhere else
every sport and game played out doors
the year round-but it is August per-
haps, the month of the great rollers,
the month when the whole world can
come to us, that is best suited for a
carnival of world sports, among which
the games and diversions of the Poly
nesians should well take front rank.
We have but to say the word, each or
ganization and race among us would
take care of it's share of the work
the Promotion Committee then through
it's new publicity and press depart
ment could inform the world and keep
it thrilled with expectancy; our Trans
pOrtation Committee could use as a
lever such a prospective carnival of
sports to compel reasonable excursion
rates from the mainland and among
these islands, With perhaps new and
more perfect service than we have ever
had, and at lower rates. Show the
transportation companies that the
crowds are coming and they will pre-
pare, and make reductions, or if not
others will step in the field who will,
so it behooves every one who has the
real interests of Hawaii at heart to re-
member that the Paradise of the Pa
cific is the garden spot of the world,
and that we have but to say the word
and it becomes possible to offer to the
world one of the most unique and pic
turesque carnivals of sports that time
or history has ever recorded. The ma
terial is all here ready sportsmen from
all over the world will come to COM
pete if we but issue the challenges.
Next winter Burton Holmes talks
and shows Hawaii at play from one
end of America to the other, the Amer
lean fleet spreads the fame of the Para
disc of the Pacific throughout the
southern seas, Australasia, Japan and
around the world. The Territorial
Transportation Committee Is even now
working to bring about a joint or
ganization of Australasia and Hawaii
for united advertising work throughout
America and Europe, with every pros
pect of early success. Nothing would
lend itself to more picturesque adver-
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games in particular and cosmopolitan
sports in general Australasia, Amer
lea. Asia and Europe would meet in
Hawaii to contest with each other and
carry away what honors and trophies
they could. Moreover. as has been
shown, such a carnival could be made
the means of compelling better service
to the Coast and the lowering of inter
island rates or the placing in commits
sion of other excursion boats. This
would mean that Hawaii would become
not only the American Capri, the is
land home of those who build palatial
vacation villas. but the ultima thule of
thu American hOmeseeker, and after
all he is the man we are after The
Polynesian Olympia will focus the at
tention of the world on Hawaii and
with regular service between these IS
lands and the coast and honest rates
of travel prevailing among and be-
tween the islands both the tourist ana
the homeseeker become ours for the
asking. Let us have our world carni-
val of sports, lin the summer OF 1909 II
possibie), and show mankind that the
heroic games of Greece still exist in
kind. and that in every sport of later
DAYS the Paradise of the Pacific can
hold her own and compete with others
So why not ask the world to come !
and prepare ourselves for the event.