The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-10-09
STEAMSHIP
DEVELOPMENT
(FrOm Wednesdays Advertiser.1

the Matson Company's service, the sec
retary of the Territorial Transportation
Committee said:
81 have had a talk with Captain Mat
son and with Mr.. Tenney. believe they
hold the solution to some of our most
important transportation problems.
"It is to be regretted that Captain
Matson will not be in Honolulu next
week to meet Percy Hunter, who rep
resents the Australasian tourists. The
addition of a passenger service TO Seat
tie should be brought about; it is need
ed locally, and it would also make it
quite possible for Australians and Ca
nadians crossing the Pacific to stop over
conveniently in Hawaii for more than a
day and less than a month. A trian-
gular service from Seattle to Hawaii
with the inter-island cruise now in
cluded in the Matson trips) and on to
San Francisco, or vice versa, should
prove an allurement to those who an
nually run across the American cOnti-
nent. With the Hilo Redondo service
also in commission, triangular cruise
from Seattle, San Francisco or Los An
geles becomes possibility, and at
lower rates than have ever before been
these cruises include a stopover at XII
lauea, Haleakela, Oahu and possibly
Maui With the public taken in as
third partner in the Matson Company,
Hawaii must, it seems to me, quickly
achieve her inevitable destiny of be-
coming the playground of the American
people, with the hills about Honolulu
dotted with beautiful villas, the dis
tant valleys titled by white small farm
ers, the waters fecked with private
yachts, and the other islands studded
with real hotels, and lower inter-island
rates compelled by public demand and
opinion.
''The Territorial Transportation Com
mittee is busy preparing its data to put
before the delegate from Australia, who
is expected to arrive here next week
on the Korea.
"Full information as to the home
hotels of Honolulu and the cruising pos
sibilities, with Hawaii as a central
point, will be published in picturesque
form to accompany him for distribution
| in Australasia.
1.-The cruises already arranged for by
the Matson Company are likely to be
made part and parcel of a combina-
tion of steamship and local hotel joint
rates.
For instance, the Matson Company
offers a $122.50 cruise from San Fran
cisco back to San Francisco via Homo
lulu, Maui and Hilo, with stopovers at
each point, or vice versa. Its $l25 cruise
adds a return to Honolulu from Hilo
and thence to San Francisco. The home
hotels offer rates to cruisers of from
$1.50 to $3.50 per day, so that the pur-
chaser of cruising tickets in New York,
Chicago, or San Francisco can tell at a
glance just what his Hawaiian cruise
will cost him.
GA thirty-day cruise from San Fran
cisco back to that point, for instance,
including fifteen days on the water and
fifteen days ashore, would cost, if stop
is made at the Young hotels, $191.5
up; if at the home hotels, for about
| $3.50 up. If the trip to Haleakela is
taken, $40 to $25 should be added, in
cluding stay of two or three days at
Maui hotels. If the visit to Kilauea
is included, and a day spent at the pit,
there will be an extra expense of $40,
including a day at the Volcano House.
With the completion of the Volcano
railway in the near future, however,
and the erection of the new popular
priced hotel, this rate will in all prob
ability be cut in half, so that thirty
odd day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands,
with visits to Haleakela and Kilauea,
and week in Honolulu, need not cost
the tourist more than $175; and as
much more as he cares to spend. This
places Hawaii on a footing with Fiji,
Samoa and the Society Islands, which,
by the way, enjoy fve-dollar-a-day
cruise rates, that are likely now to be
looped up with the Hawaiian cruise 1t
is hoped, and expected, that when Aus
tralasia and Hawaii get down to joint
tourist promotion work that it will be-
come the thing for tourists to stop of
at Honolulu for regular Hawaiian
cruises, which are planned to make a
part of the Pacific travel itinerary
Even those who are bound for Japan
going by the northern route, and return
will have the offer of a five-dollar-adhy
cruise rate, embracing a tour of Aus
tralasia, a cruise among the Hawaiian
Islands, and return to Canada from the
Paradise of the Pacific or vice versa
''From Sydney and Melbourne there
is a regular round-trip excursion to
Ceylon, the distance being farther than
to Hawaii. With a regular advertised
excursion to and among the Hawaiian
!, Islands, Hawaii should become popu
y. lar place for Australians to visit, anG
! it is planned to arrange for this.
Crank Clark is arranging now fol-
annual round-the-world cruises, OIL
20,000-ton Atlantic greyhounds, tha
carry $50 first-class passengers each
. The transportation Committee is il
: correspondence and hopes to arrange TO
Q a reasonably lengthy stop of these yes
t sells in Hawaiian waters.
: "The eyes of the travelling publ
4 are, it seems, at last turning with Sc
a rious interest toward the Pacific, AM
= Hawaii should wake up bit and max
Q it convenient for the "stopover" to Sc
: all her glories. A little energy and tn
s thing is done, and some of the "stoI
overs" at least will stick and join tn
9 ever.growing don 't-want to-get away
d colony. Success to the Matson Con
|, pany in its plans for bringing tn
n American to Hawaii, and let us ais
Q welcome the Australian
s FROM CANADA.