The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-13
GIVE TOURISTS
4 GOOD TIME

i The furnishing of social entertain
ment to tourists has been something
more or less neglected in Honolulu.
| Wealthy tourists and their families
| come here quite frequently intending
| to remain several months, but after
| thew have spent two or three weeks
| in seeing the sights of the city and
| Islands have often concluded that they
have exhausted the pleasures of the
place and, finding time hanging heavy
on their hands, have left. Those who
come here to meet friends, or come
provided with letters of introduction
to Honolulu folks, have no difficulty
| in finding agreeable circles in which
to become part, and these tourists
are the ones who go away satisfied,
taking with them a true appreciation
| of Honolulu life and the pleasures of
the Crossroads, spreading the gospel of
the Islands around among their friends.
The others, the ones who come her.
as strangers, have too few Opportuni-
ties to meet our people, become ac-
quainted and form those friendships
for the people and that aloha for Ha-
wall that is wanted. There are no
theaters here during the greater part
of the year and no evening entertain
ments, and strangers can not know of
their own knowledge of the many ways
of entertainment, unique and pleasur-
able. that HOnOlulans have worked out
for themselves. There are many such,
and it is the business of those instru-
mental in bringing the tourists here
to see that the strangers within our
gates are not allowed TO go away
without tasting the treats of life in
Honolulu. A dissatisfied tourist is the
worst advertisement the Islands can
have, Just as a satisfied one is the
best.
There are many forms of amusement
here that can not be found so pleasur-
able elsewhere. Launch parties to
Pearl HarbOr by moonlight, surfing and
canoeing parties at Waikiki, tally-ho
picnics to Tantalus or to the heads of
some of the valleys, where for NOM
inal sum country homes could be Sc
cured for the day and where basket
lunches could be served, are only some
of the things to be enjoyed by tour
lists Weekend parties to Haleiwa, ex7
cursion parties to the volcano or to
beautiful lao Valley, and a number of
other trips could be enumerated, trips
that could be made so delightful to
the tourists and which would enable
them to form acquaintance that de-
parture from Hawaii would be a re-
greet and a return here as much GER
tainty as circumstances would allow.
There are numerous ways in which the
work of the Promotion Committee in
bringing tourists here could be supple
mented by the citizens getting in and
without ostentation making their stay
here so pleasant that every tourist
would be friend and a promotion
committee in himself for the place.
Alexander Young, in employing Mrs.
Elizabeth Church to take charge of the
social affairs of his two hotels, has the
right idea and has shown good judg-
ment in his selection of social man.
ager Mrs. Church s duties this winter
will be to plan entertainments for the
tourist guests of the hotels, suggest
ways in which the best that is here
for the travelling stranger can be found
and generally to carry out some of the
suggestions outlined above. Everyone
knows how popular the Haleiwa Hotel
became, principally because of Mrs,
Church IS efforts, while later the Ha-
waiian was popular with her as
hostess Mrs. Church is herself a win
some body and has a charming tact in
carrying out the social plans she makes,
besides being a leader in the more
strenuous matters of swimming, riding
and other Out-of-door affairs. Homo
lulu is fortunate in that she will de-
vote her time this winter to making
friends for Hawaii.
Manager Hertsche is capable man
of affairs about the two leading hotels,
but in the active management of the
houses he has not the time to spare
that the social side of looking after
the guests requires. In Mrs. Church,
however, he will have talented as
sistant and one peculiarly fitted for the
work she has taken up.