The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-26
COOKS TOUR IN
THE SOUTH SEAS
H. P. Wood Writes to Tourist
Agency Suggesting South
Sea Trip.

A Cook s Tourist Agency excursion
| from San Francisco, taking in the
South Sea Islands generally and Ha-
wall in particular, is the latest promo
| ton scheme on which Mr. Wood of the
Promotion Committee is working. This
| idea was presented at the meeting of
the committee yesterday afternoon and
received appreciation.
Mr. Wood s idea is to get the Cook
| people to run steamer from San Fran
cisco calling first at Honolulu, where it
| would stay long enough for the pas
sengers to take in the Islands and see
enough of them to make them want to
come hack again. The next port of
| call would be Yokohama. Thence to
Hongkong and on to Manila. South
| ward from the Philippines to Singapore
and from the Malay town to the more
important islands of Australasia. Java.
Borneo, the Celebes, New Guinea and
on to Sydney. Thence southwark to
Melbourne and Hobart, Tasmania.
On the return the steamer would call
at the more easterIy islands The first
stop would be, of course, at Auckland
From New Zealand the tourists would
visit Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti in turn
and then go to Panama. Leaving Pa
mama the steamer would call at the
back to San Francisco with possible
stay at San Pedro.
The Cook agency has already been
communicated with and there seems a
fair prospect that they will adopt this
suggestion. Mr.. Wood figures that it
would be great paying proposition
for the agency and that it would be
well patronized. He is also sure that
the Hawaiian Islands will compare
more than favorably with all the places
which the tourists would visit and that
it would bring many of them back to
visit here again.
Button for Seattle.
Several other matters were brought
to the attention of the meeting. a
button for the Seattle fair and for
visiting tourists is being designed and
viii be a very attractive little emblem.
Something that people will be glad to
wear and thus advertise Hawa'; wher-
ever they go. Manufacturers of these
buttons have been written to and esti-
mates for large quantities asked for.
Haleakala Trip Easy.
Mr.. Wood also reported that Mr..
Field, of Maui, who runs the cottage
hotel at the entrance to the lao Valley,
has a regular automobile and mule
route to the summit of Haleakali al
ready working. Every convenience for
tourists is there so that they can make
| the trip to the top of the mountain,
see the sunrise and return with perfect
comfort.
Tantalus Hotel Plans.
| A rough plan for a hotel to be erect
| ed on Tantalus was also shown. Mr..
Wood and other members of the COM
mittee feel very strongly that such an
| institution would be, not only a paying
venture, but an excellent thing for the
/ town. Regular plans will be made up
/! for such building and an effort will
be made to get capital interested.
Attractive Pictures.
1 H1cluTeS OF Cne interior ana exterior
i of the Promotion Committee quarters
have been made and copies of these
will be sent to excursion bureaus and
railroads on the mainland, to Australia
and Great Britain. A good result is
expected from these in giving people
an idea of the size and stability of the
work that is being done. AS Mr.. Wood
said cit will show people that we are
no mere desk room boomers but are es
tablished in fine quarters.
DR.. Mckenzie of the firm of Patten
and Mckenzie of Yokohama, who pass
ed through Honolulu recently on his
way to the Orient, took large number
of promotion pictures with him. These
win be framed and have brass plate
attached stating that further informa
ton may be obtained from the Promo
tion Committee bureau in Honolulu and
will be placed in the principal hotels
in Japan and the more visited ports OF
China as well as in all Cook S Oriental
| offices.
The secretary's report was as fol
/ lows:
Secretary Woods Report.
Honolulu, February %, 1909.
| Chairmen and Members of the Hawaii