The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-28
THE ASAH| PARTY
BY MONGOLIA
Unique Party of Globe Trotters
in Town Going Around
the World.

The Asahi's around-the-world party
arrived by the Mongolia yesterday af.
ternoon, and were greeted by many
representatives of the Japanese busi-
ness and professional community
Editor Sheba of the Hawaii Shinpo
went out to the Mongolia while she
greetings of the newspaper profession
to this party, which is brought to-
gether and has started on a very
unique tour of the world by one of
the leading newspapers of Japan.
The party consists of fifty-six rep
resentative men and women of the
trades, professions and callings of ia
pan. With the exception of the two
representatives of the Asahi, and one
or two others, not one of them had
ever set foot on foreign soil until they
stepped ashore in Honolulu. They
bring to the tour the enthusiasm and
interest of those who have embarked
upon it from a real desire to get the
bCiiCAlNo VI tAdfC4y cAAA Va tAAOSC ~
whom foreign travel is a novelty.
They are inveterate and unceasing
note-takers. They take note of every
thing. The Nplacards required by the
navigation laws in regard to life pre-
servers, fire calls, and officers Ii
censes, and the announcements on the
ships bulletin board do not escape
their attention or their note books.
Very few of the members of the party
speak English. Among the few who
do is Mrs. Nichi Nomura, wife of a
prominent business man of Yokohama.
She leads in matters of social and
travellers interest among the Japanese
women in the party, and the relations
between these and the other women
of the ships company is of the pleas
antest nature.
Representing the Asahi are Mr.. K.
Sugimura and Mr.. M. Tsuchiya. Mr..
Sugimura is the literary editor of the
Toxic Asahi sShimbun. He has trav-
eled and lived in Europe, but this is
his first visit to America. He was for
five years japanese translator for the
American Legation in Japan, and is
thoroughly acquainted with American
politics and American diplomacy.
Mr.. NJ. Tsuchiya, the Toxic corre-
spondent of the Osaka Asahi Shin
bun, lived nine years in America. He
is an authority on art matters, both
japanese and European. While in
Washington he catalogued the Thomas
Waggaman art collection, one of the
finest art collections in America.
On their arrival here the party were
xaly 81 ~,
Sheba acting as host on behalf of
Thomas Cook & Son. In the evening
the entire party dined at the Alex
ander Young Hotel, being seated at
one long table in the Waikiki dining
roam. The table was very pretti1y
decorated with carnations and asters.
There were a number of speeches, and
a flashlight picture of the company
was made.
This morning will be spent in sight
seeing. The Oldest member of the
party is sixty-five years of age and
the youngest is fifteen.
Regarding the tour of the party the
Asahi Shimbun has this to say, pre-
faced by the following quotation from
Bacon: Travel, in the younger sort,
is a part of education; in the elder, a
part of experience
"On January /, 1908. we announced
through the columns of our papers in
Toxic and Osaka the project which |
has resulted in the gathering together |
IF nearly sixty of our readers, for a |
grand tour round the world.
This will cover a period of ninety /
lays from March IS, and include visits |
% the principal countries of the world /
the United States, England, France, |
Germany and Russia. Japan having /
ong been secluded from the outer I
world. we thought the present an op-
Fortune time to show our people how /
easily world tour can now be made, |
md the innumerable advantages to be t
yained by it, and accordingly took
Ipon ourselves the responsibility of |
he organization of a party. As will /
,e seen by the following pages. con-
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