The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16
GOOD WORK BEING DONE
BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD
Indefatigabe Work for Hawaii Brings Results
Bermuda and These Islands 1.-The
transportation Problem.

At first my friends who edit maya
zines suspected me of being an agent
of some publicity movement with head
quarters in Hawaii, so glowing were
my accounts, but many Of them have
caught the fever and actually ask for
something about Hawaii; some of them
are even coming out to see II 1t IS
all true, and 1 haven't told them half
the wonders of our little islands yet.
1t is safe to say that there viii be at
least one Hawaiian article month IN
the magazines from now until Deem
Der and | am to send back others from
Honolulu, as I expect to make a stop
both ways on my coming trip around
the Pacific.
IT is hotter. here in June than I ever
felt it in Hawaii. last July l walked
around Oahu without hat, don It
care to walk around block here, even
at night, with or without a hat. The
heat is sitting; You people in Hawaii
don II realize what summer resort you
have. Some of the cruises to the Car
ibbean Islands were discontinued even
IN winter, because the atmosphere there
is too humid
I think everything is going toward
Hawaii. The Herald had page arti-
Gle last Sunday on the wonderful west
ward trend of travel hundred per
cent. more eastern visitors crossing the
Mississippi than ever before. The
trouble is people don t know about Ha-
waii here-they even ask if Bermuda is
in the West Indies.
7 have Just come back from a run
TO Bermuda, it is perhaps as large as
Lanai, but its highest hillock is but
$50 feet. A new steamship company
broke in on the old monopoly last sea-
son and reduced the fares from fifty
TO fifteen dollars for the round trip;
result. the new company carried down
5000 persons to the usual 1000 annual
tourists carried by the old line, and
moreover il has paid all expenses and
declared dividend of three hundred
and fifty per cent, to the stockholders
More money was spent in Bermuda than
ever before and if seems probable that
four steamship companies will compete
for traffic next year, so great has been
the awakening caused by little com
petition.
Buses run about the island charging
two cents mile and seem to make
money, just as the Chinese and Jap
buses coin gold on the trip between
Honolulu and Kahana, only the Bermu-
dams do not give up TO the dark man
lit is white man Is business. have
two men with several thousand to in
vest in bus runs in Hawaii; they are
confident that they can compete with
any Oriental-using motor buses and
I believe they can. I am urging them
TO come and have a try and will report
back. I travelled back to New York
with H. L. Brooks, a Young man who
went down TO Bermuda, secured an OPP
tion on the entire onion crop. the staple
of Bermuda, then engaged all the cargo
space on the new line, established agen-
cies throughout the New England and
Middle States, to which he wires the
day before an arrival of onions, ask
ing how many cases each can handle
and at what price. In this way he
keeps a steady market going and | am
glad to say is coming money-he de-
serves to. I talked to Brooks. He is
establishing refrigerator line from
Oregon, to bring apples to New York
in seven days. 7 talked Hawaii, her
fresh pines. matchless alligator pears,
bananas Rapayas, etc. and if report
favorably after investigation, he win
come on to Hawaii to arrange for a
once week shipment to either Frisco
or Puget Sound, so that if the shipment
is small it can go in with his apples,
or if large in especial refrigerator cars.
In other words he would have Hawai-
ian fruits on sale in the eastern mar
kets two weeks after they were picked.
/ have discussed prices and demand for
alligator pears with the leading dealers
here, and at prices they offer. Brooks
sees good money in it for all concerned.
A friend from Porto Rico who plants
pines tells me that the Hawaiian ads
have doubled the demands for his fresh
fruit in New York City. He informed
me that Hawaiian pines are the best
for canning in the world, but are not
so good for eating fresh as the Porto
Rican. This is not true. and if Brooks
viii bring them on. Hicks, the big
Broadway fancy fruit dealer will keep
a pyramid of big Hawaiian pines in
his window and push their sale.
I am interesting others in the pos