The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-11
Round the Sound Excursions.

Quit your worry and work and pack
your trunk for a voyage around the
Sound,
That S a trip worth while. Away
from the heat and dust to the cool air
and balnly breezes of Puget Sound.
Look at the map. Board the steam
er at Seattle or Tacoma and for four
glorious days travel from port to port
sightseeing, paying for the whole trip.
including comfortable berth and unsur,
passed meals, only $1,000. Can you
beat it, Is it not cheaper, and far
superior, to STAYING at home2 With
their electric lighting. their commodious
staterooms, handsome Longing pariors,
large promenade decks, great size and
staunch seagoing qualities, these big
ocean steamers of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company embody satisfying
features for the pleasure seeker. This
is an opportunity you can not duplicate,
Now is the time to go!
From Victoria, B. c., the fare is
only $15 for five-days' voyage and is
yearly taken advantage of as one of
the grandest short trips from that City.
From San Francisco, eleven days for
$45, with ample stopover, if desired, on
the return trip, at Seattle or Victoria,
B c..
This vacation cruise is on the big
steamers President, Governor or
City of Puebla sailing every FIVE
days. You will find many congenia1
people also making the excursion. There
will be a continuous panoramic shore
line of mountains and forests, beautiful
beyond description, the Cascade Range
with peerless Mount Rainier mt Ia
coma) 14,444 feet high, the mysteri-
! Gus and unexplored snow-capped
Olympic Mountains, enchanting islands,
and interesting stops with trips ashore
at many large citiesl You can loaf and
rest aboard ship, send messages or re-
ceive news via wireless telegraph, fat
ten up on good things from the com,
missary, or vary the rambles about the
steamer ample decks with sightseeing
trips ashore From San Francisco stops
are made at Victoria, B. c.. Port
Townsend, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett,
Anacortes, Bellingham and Vancouver,
B. c., in the order named, then return
is made to Seattle and the vessel pro-
ceeds back to San Francisco via Port
Townsend and Victoria. While the
steamer is in port and freight is being
hurried aboard and ashore, there must
needs be a stop of many hours dura
ton. Passengers are informed how
long this will be by the ships officers
and usually pass the time visiting the
sights
Everywhere I find the Puget Sound
people take to the plans proposed by
the Territorial Transportation Commit
tee for joint Hawaiian Australasian
work in America. They even wish to
contribute toward the expenses on the
ground that it brings people to the
Pacific Coast, and that he cause of
Hawaii and he South Seas is their cause
also. The Honolulu Home Hotel in
formation circular is being received
with evident enthusiasm, and the Pa
cife Coast papers give ample space to
| telling the truth regarding the really
sumptuous home hotels of HI nolulu
that charge no more to the transient
j tourist than do the clearinghouse of
the Pacific Coast. 1t is from the men
of moderate means that our small
farmer element must be recruited, and
the sooner he realizes that he can visit
Hawaii and be as economic there-as
at home-the better in my opinion, for
the success of any plan to people Ha-
wall with those of Anglo-Saxon blood.
AS / whiz by the scenery en- route
from Vancouver to Seattle, | am i'm
pressed with the fact here that each
mountain lasts long time. The troll
lev ride from Waikiki to Kalihi road
offers a variety of scene and mountain
scape that one does not get here in a
days ride on the train. AS the Ma
kura passed out before glorious Manoa
in the cleaning, some one on the beach
at the Outrigger Club lit a farewell
bonfre-well, / would rather see that
signal fire again and Manoa valley,
with the PROV of my ship turned Ho-
noluluward than any one sight this
side of the regions that are reserved
for the blest-and | am now whizzlng
along through a most aweinspirlng
portion of the world s great wonder
book of scenic illustrations