The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-20

has met with hearty endorsement here.
Mr.. Ford followed up the statement of
Mr.. Stitt with even stronger language.
stating that absolutely nothing had
| been done abroad to let the tourist
know that there were such hotels in
count and now wishes to modify this
| statement, as upon further investiga-
ton he finds that there are ten such
| lines. two of them of real use to the
home hotel seeking tourist, in the lit
erature sent out from Hawaii, (besides
| a price list Of raw provisions and SER
wants wages). His remarks, moreover
Mr.. Ford declares were not meant as
| personal or to reflect on anyone save
upon the home hotel proprietors them
selves.
Their own neglect of these combined
| interests he considers responsible for
the small space they occupy in the
pamphlet sent out from Honolulu. The
Promotion Committee for instance be-
| ing at work now on a new circular that
will give pictures of the leading home
hotels of Honolulu, and doubtless
| knows the difficulty of digging out in
formation, or at least in securing pho
tographs that it would be reasona BILE
to suppose the smaller hotels would
be glad to come forward and supply
voluntarily.
The Transportation Committee work
Jers had hoped that the small hotels
would come forward at first invitation
to further their own interests, but in
most cases it has had to go after them
Once, however. they begin to enjoy the
benefits of cooperation, it will not be
long before the home hotels of Homo
lulu will become as familiar to the
prospective tourist as are the family
hotels of Southern California and the
sea coast of New Jersey.
Nearly every railway in the United
States issues a Notwithstanding a
large volume-free of cost to the hotels
and boarding houses, giving the names
and addresses of proprietors with rates
of every accommodation house within
miles of the railway, from the farm
house that charges $4.GO a week for
room and board to the stupendous no.
tel that charges twice as much per
day; and it pays. The railways and
boarding houses have discovered that
the tourist and summer boarder wants
to study rates at home, and that it is
best in the long run to give him the
Information he wants instead of decor
ative frills and glittering generalities
that make him want to either count
ten or swear because the real bit of
Information he wants is the one bit
that is skilfully withheld from him.
Tt is interesting to note some of the
suggestions made by the home hotel
people of Honolulu as to the advan-
tages of cooperation, now that they
have decided upon taking this step.
The idea of cooperating with the
Oahu Walking Club to the extent of
having the use of it's growing circle of
mountain rest houses for the use of
tourists and others stopping at the
home hotels. appeals strongly to the
proprietors who state that many of
their people would remain longer in
Honolulu if there were only places
nearby to which they could resort to
for week end trips. SO far, the Hale
iva Hotel has been the extent of pos
sibilities in this direction.
One of the home hotels is expert |
menting with small two-room huts or
tiny cottages, by the seashore, and they
can not be built fast enough to supply |
the demand. Here those who come to |
Hawaii for fishing foregather. and |
hereafter arrangements will be made |
to entertain the guests from the other |
home hotels who are fishermen, at |
lunch, so that they may give the entire |
day to the gentle art of Izaak Walton |
keeping their knock-about clothes at
the seaside and returning to the city |
in their finer toggery.
For the transient tourist who wishes
to roam about town all day long, some
of the home hotels propose to exchange
courteSies. so that their guests may,
upon notice. drop into a nearby hotel,
In the combination, for lunch instead
Of having to return to the home house
at possible inconvenience. If for in
stance this arrangement is carried out
so that lady tourists down town at
midday may lunch at the Y. w. c. A.
instead of rushing away to an uptown
hotel, it would be great temptation
to the prospective visitor to locate
pleasantly near the suburbs.
Some of the home hotels cater only
Tor permanent guests. those wh) in
END remaining a month or more, 9TH
ars to the transient of a day or a week
Their rates run from $3.50 a day at
he smaller home hotels to $500 at the
medium, and $3.50 to $500 day at the
most luxurious. There is no need of
conflict, however, the tourist knows
very quickly just which place suits his ;
style and purse.
In advertising. the home hotels can
accomplish by cooperation results
hat would be practically impossible
~ individual effort. Joint illustrated
circulars that might cost fifty to one
hundred dollars for an edition of twelve
IT fifteen thousand; divided among a
lozen home hotels would cost each !
lotel but five to ten dollars, paltry
um compared with the good accom-
,lished for the home hotels in particu-
ar and Honolulu in general. Then, too,
he suggestion has been made that not .
'nly may Alameda night be revived for :
he benefit of the tourist who was al
ways charmed by the typical Hawaiian
music of this occasion, but that among
hose home hotels where such music i