The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-06
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/ at Kahana and thence around the is
land by train, arriving in Honolulu il
time for dinner The cost of the round
trip ticket will probably be $3.50, will
stopover privileges.
The idea that the tourist is always
rocked in the lap of luxury is absurd
i on the face of it. / have driven ou
with millionaires from Naples in worse
affairs than the Chinese buses, anC
there is a better eating house at Hauuls
than is to be found in nine out ter
Italian or Spanish towns. The TRIP
around Oahu may be done in fairly
comfortable and cheap manner, hack
men and automobilists to the contrary
notwithstanding.
My friend Leckenby suggests an au
tomobile bus to connect Honolulu with
the round-the-island railway terminus
at Kahana. AS he figures it, with solid
rubber tires. 49, ton freighter with
accommodation for twenty-five passen
gers and capable of twelve miles an
hour on bad roads, would cost less to
keep in repair and run than would an
ordinary bus team of horses. Here is
chance for the white man to jump in
instead of leaving transportation devel-
opment to the Orientals, and then doing
the baby act when the industry of his
yellow rival begins to bring results that
breed envy in the breast of the less en-
ergetic man.
There is Hay of the Hauula Palace
Hotel (and railway station, to say moth
ing of the STOREY, Hay cut prices over
ON the big island with his hacks until
he was carrying passengers at one-third
the regular rate, drove ali competitors
(including Japs and Chinese) out of
business, and made more money for his
employers than they had ever made be-
fore.
Three dollars and half around Oahu
is rate that will tempt people to visit
the windward side. The Oriental has
brought this rate, so let s make the best
of it, and there is no reason why a
round-the-island Friday or Saturday
until Monday rate of $3.50 may not be
made. For those who have done the
Haleiwa, there is my friend Hay, at
tba mouth 81 tha x,-an1orf,,I Lo1;,,,.-oo
valley, rates $3.50 per day, if you
please, or about $500 for an outing over
Sunday to the windward side. Verify,
the Chinese Promotion Committee can
muehly aid the haoie to know his own
Would we curse such a com
mittee if it promoted line of steamers
that would enable US to visit the other
islands at rates in keeping with the
rest of the world-say, two cents
mile2 That is about 1910 to Hilo and
$50 to Maui or Kauai 1 wonderl
Or in the rush of prosperity and de-
that would follow through
out the group, might we not forgive the
Oriental for bringing about fair trans
portation rates, even if they did enrich
him, not at our expense, but to our
boundless beneft7 -.
THE FOSTER RANCH.
The Foster ranch offers peculiar adj
vantages to the small farmer. The owner
is independently rich and can refuse a
half million dollar offer for the stream
that runs through her large possession
of land. Her ambition is not to in
crease her wealth. but if it lay in the
direction of creating happy homes she
has it in her power to crafty such an
The land is rich. and
whether cut up in homesteads for the
haole or the native, it would be suscep-
tible to vast improvement. a morning
spent wandering over the estate
brought forth many suggestions from
my companion 1t was at the manager s
house that his eye fell upon a piece of
rope that was being used as horse
halter. He picked it up. examined it
carefully, tested it, then cut off small
bit. Il know something about ropes y
he said to the manager. 50 but this is the
strongest bit for its diameter / have
ever seen, and the most pliable. What