Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-29
WOULD STOP
THE TOURISTS
Atkinson Tells OF Hundreds Passing
Hono.ulu By - singing of Hd.
waIiah Bo.s LV"t.s Zone Of
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Jack Atkinson u.dc strong tall;
to the Promotion CDdnlttee at yes
to-day aftefnot.;. meeting for some
t'angem"nt TO be made whereby
tourists from the Orient could STOP
ovcr here and continue their voyage
tn San Francis o by one of the local
steamers without the necessity of
waiting for a steamer of the Pacific
Mail company.
lie said that throughout Japan the
steamship agents and Cooks people
all told tourists not to stop here.
that no accommodations could be
promiied them II they took lay
over at Honolulu, and that there
was nothing much TO see here any
way
Fifty people on the Chiyo would
have stayed here IL they had known
about things here when they left
Yokohama on the trip that brought
Our Jack back to Hawaii nei They
were discouraged there from any
thought of staying over here.
Jack suggests that branch OF
Cooks be opened here and In tina.
way the whole of the Cook system
will be In line to boost Honolulu.
This matter was taken up with
The London Office OF Cooks. who re-
fcrred II to New York. and New
York referred II to San Francisco.
X. RI. Trent being the man who took
II up on his recent trip.
with the reported break with the
I. X. X. which has occurred. Jack
thought the Pacific Mail might con.
slider favorably some plan OF an In
terchange of tickets with the local
lines. II has never been possible IN
the past with the two lines. az II
was reported that Sthwerin told the
Matson people he wouldn't ask his
passengers TO ride on freight boats.
These people are right here In
the harbor and passing us by all the
time" said Jack 1T is pity =.
we can't corral those within our Dor.
ders for few days to make the
volcano trip, when we are going half
way around the world to bring scat
tered tourists here. On these steam
ers we have them In punches, and
yet they get by us.
Honolulu has done much TO help
the Pacific Mail In building wharves
and perfecting a good harbor, and
II is now about time the Pacific Mail
did something for Honolulu" was the
opinion OF Atkinson.
The point was brought up that
officers of Pacific Mail boats always
had had hammers out for Honolulu
because they said that Honolulu had
hammers out for the Pacific Mall.
Many time. II was stated, tourists
were prevented from staying here at
the last moment by unfavorable com
Iuent by one of the officers of the
steamer upon which they were trav-
cling.
w. II. Baugh. who came before the
committee on behalf OF Hawaiian
coffee and pineapples, said In his
remarks the same thing of Coast
the Orient. They either knew moth.
Ing of Honolulu. or II they did they
kept their information to themselves
instead OF giving It to intending pas
sengers.
From Atlantic City came wall
In the shape of a letter from the
manager of the Marlborough Ben.
helm Hotel, who said that the Ha-
wailan boys were not musical and
forbade Wood to have them sing any
more, as the singing lowered the
tone Of the community and made the
hotel more like cheap restaurant
than like the exclusive place that
II really was. In the warm weather.
the manager told Mr.. Wood, the
music drifted IN from the exhibit
over the transoms OF the rooms In
the hotel, making anything but a
pleasant effect.
J. J. White of the hotel company
was the signer of the letter, and he
sure must have had a crouch on
when he wrote explaining why he
TtluStu NOou lHc pllNhtbe VI nav
ing the music given in the Hawaiian
exhibit.
In a letter dated July 13, Secre
tary Wood stated that business had
fallen off some and would be that
way until after the sixteenth, when
II would pick up for two months
He was optimistic In his Views OF
the good accomplished by the ex
hibit, and publicity which the Is
lands had obtained through Allan
tic City, and told OF several Euro
pean trips thrown over In favor o
trips to Hawaii on information given
by himself.
AS to the financial end of the ex
pertinent, 1t was of great value tC
the Islands. but there would be nj
direct return from II this year, II
his opinion. Another year would b'