The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16

| ping point, and those DESTROYS of lOcat-
ing, to visit among the islands back
and forth at fares that will encourage
all to do so. In everything I write or
say I keep to the front the possibilities
! of fortunes yet to be made in Hawaii
in systematizing small farming and
fair and equitable transportation facil-
! tiles on and between the islands; some
/ thinking people of means are begin
ming to take my campaign seriously.
| The big tourist bureau on 30th street
and Fifth avenue has agreed to hang
/ in its window a large transparency IN
| colors of Hawaiian surf board riding,
| with lettering beneath stating exact
cost Of round trip from New York to
Hawaii with rates at both the big and
home hotels. / am arranging for other
such displays in the transcontinental
railway offices on upper Broadway. G..
Fred Bush promises that he will see
to it that some of these are supplied.
1t would astonish Hawaiians TO know
how the advertisements of Hawaiian
pines in the magazines, and the fact
that the wares made good, has set peo-
pie talking of Hawaii. hawaiian pines
are on everyone 8 lips, in the stores
they actually brag of having them IN
stock. Never was money more wisely
expended in advertising Hawaii hate
to admit it-for 1, of course, have talk
ed surf boarding.
But to return to Bermuda for mo-
ment There is and can be no surfing
in Bermuda. Surf too ineensequential,
but the Bermudlans have some things
to suggest to us. Everyone decried the
possibility of lowering transportation
rates TO and from Bermuda. A young
man without capital, started an agita
ton, found hackers, the thing was
done, daily line-to replace the once
every ten-day SERVICES in sight,
and even with two steamers a week
prosperity has come to all. Bermuda
makes the best of her attractions. Her
coral reefs she makes support fair
sized steamer, and the coral gardens of
Bermuda do not compare with those
of Catalina Island, which in turn, Geo.
Freeth tells me, do not compare with
certain coral gardens he knows of near
Diamond Head. The most attractive
spot in Bermuda is the so-called
Devils Hole, well in the coral where
hundreds Of bright eolored fish are kept
and actually tanned. The Bermudian
coral is porous, and the salt water per
colates, but why could not something
of the sort be done in Hawaii? l
spoke to the superintendent of the
Castle Garden aquarium, New York,
about the possibility of introducing
some of the brilliant Caribbean fish
into Hawaiian waters, but he informs
ME that the fish of Hawaii far surpass
those of Caribbean sea and that the
expense of taking fish across the 18TH
mus and on to Hawaii would be great.
The Bermudians turn their beautiful
fish to account in the manufacture of
enamel pins and buttons, which are
becoming quite common even in New
York, for the coloring is certainly ex
quisite. the angel fish serving as the
usual model, although he is no pref
tier than many of our Hawaiian fish.
Bermuda has awakened with a start,
Hawaii is always awake, but with
proper transportation facilities, she
should, and I believe will be the home
of the individual white farmer. My
friend VIM. E. Smythe, father of ir-
rigation in the United States, is in
San Diego preaching an acre enough for
every man and his colony is making
good there. I am urging him to visit
Hawaii.
At present I am urging my railway
friends to aid in securing a through
transcontinental and steamship excur-
sion rate to Hawaii with hotel coupons
attached for either the big or medium
hotels The tourist agencies here have
all promised to push the sale of these
and there is a chance of securing a
special low summer excursion rate an
nually, and | am still Hrmly convinced
that Hawaii is to be great summer
resort for Americans and the Austria
lians.
The magazines are beginning to take
up and exploit the New Zealand gov
eminent tourist bureau system, and 20
demand fair treatment to the public
in our big national parks. / am glad
to see that you are trying to establish
an observatory at Kilauea. l go fur
Their in some of my articles and urge
the parking of Kilauea, Haleakala and
the Kauai canons and always mention
the trails of Hawaii when I speak of
the New Zealand system. We are per-
tSSeAAS wen ANd1ipAdA
Travel Club with several magazines
behind the movement and it, too, will
take up some of these questions. I
preach the fact that all Hawaii is one
great natural park, and that with the
New Zealand system applied there, to
make little tours of every kind easy
to all, the world would contain no
finer recreation spot. You should see
the advertising the Swiss government
is doing here, and Switzerland has not
little of what has Hawaii to offer to
the visitor, and some day the world
will wake up to this fact
l have secured from the Oceanic s.
S. Co. special rates for any of Clark 8
cruisers who wish to stop over in Ho-
nolulu, and I believe many will do so.
The Southern Railway Co. with offices
at 2Sth Street and Broadway will
place Hawaiian surf-boarding trans
pareney in its front window, and urge
people to 60 Hawaiiward via Southern
railway of course. Thomas Cook &
Son have their extensive desk room in
the rear of this office, so that the
transparency viii serve a double pur-
pose. The Raymond Whiteomb Tourist
Bureau, 26th st. and Fifth avenue.
Will make Il similar display: their
| manager states that through tickets