The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-14
EXCURSIONS To
HAWAII CERTAIN
Los Angeles Crowd Unable to
Get Proper Kind of
Steamer.

Steamship excursions from Puget
Sound and Los Angeles continue to-
take up a considerable part of Secre-
tarv Wood : weekly reports to the
promotion committee The Puget Sound
excursion is a certainty and the one
from Los Angeles probably viii be if
they can secure a suitable steamship
tlving the American flag. Mr.. Wood
Yesterday reported as follows;
Reports from our agent in the north
west continue to be most encouraging.
On September 29th MIS- Headlee gave
her talk on Hawai- before the mem
bers Of the Metropolitan Club Of Seat
tie, being well received. In speaking
Of the excursion. Mrs Headlee says:
Nv. ". King (the manager). has
lust come in and tells me that fifty Of
the larges- papers throughout the State
will announce the excursion October
4th. The smaller papers in the State
on Wednesday. the 9th. shall send
YOU as many of these as II may be pos
sibIe for me to secure. The Seattle
Times is 10 devote a colored page TO
the trip IN November We are surely
getting publicity for this trip in many
WAYS. Mr. King thinks they viii have
TO use two steamers, both the Prince
Rupert and the Prince George,
as they now have list of 800 persons,
who have said that they are going. He
expects to receive on deposits this week
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Los Angelenos Want to Come.
| The Pacific Coast steamship Com
panv's offer of the Queen having been
refused by the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce. the company is now en-
deavoring to work up an excursion out
of Portland as the following letter
from the general passenger agent, {.
| d. Dunann. would indicate:
eve. entered into negotiations with
| the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
| for an island excursion. The writer
visited their committee in person and
presented what was expected to be an
acceptable proposition. After due de
! liberation the committee sent in their
| declination. 1t would seem that they
| deem it impossible to get sufficient
number of subscribers to meet the ex-
| pense.
"We are now negotiating with par
ties in Portland Oregon, who hope to
| organize an excursion the coming win
| ter. If successful issue is reached,
We will advise you fully
Lynch Advertising Islands.
Recent clippings from the Coast
have contained numerous references to
P. c. Jones remarkably quick trip
from Honolulu to Boston and it has
been a matter Of conjecture as to just
how so much publicity was given to
the accomplishment. Letters to hand
lbv this mail clear up the mystery. how
ever. for it would appear that Walter
J. Lynch. passenger traffic manager for
| the New York Central Lines at ohlca-
| 60, who was recently here, saw good
opportunity to advertise Hawaii and
| his road at the same time, so arranged
| the desired connections attending TO
the publicity end as well.
That we are steadily advancing our
outposts is well indicated by the fol
lowing letter from the manager of the
| foreign department of the First Ma
tional Bank of Pittsburg, Pa, dated
| September Doth.
s'We have a party of four gentle
men leaving San, Francisco on the Mon
| golia October 25th on a trip around the
world and they intend to stop at Ha-
wall for about two weeks. They would
rather have had three weeks, bat we
could not arrange the steamship accom-
[ modations satisfactorily. However, II
they find the island interesting they
NAV STAY from four to five weeks. Our
passengers names are Glenn Stewart
! Alex. K. Nimick. G. Ekelund. Carroll
Robertson. These gentlemen belong to
our very best families and if they are
| pleased with their stay on the island
we have no doubt that it VIII help
Your cause
f; Harbor Depth Published.
| Having noticed in the list of harbor
depths published by Shipping illustra-
ted. New York publication, that Ho-
nolulu was omitted. we wrote 10 the
editor of the paper, who replies under
date of September 27th as follows:
eve have yours of the Sth and
| thank You for calling our attention To
IN the absence of your port in our LAST
Of harbor depths, and this is to advise
Won that the list has been corrected to
include Honolulu.
alt might also be appropriate to
publish something about the port, and
| we suggest that if YOU desire to 90
further into this matter. that you send
Us material for something OF that char
acter. including what Illustrations You
! think best
All Want to Come.
The secretary of the Binghamton
New York, Chamber Of Commerce, ac
!knowIedges the receipt of the annua
report Of the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee in the following words: ~
have received and carefully read your
annual report. As a result | want Il
i 90 to Hawaii, not only to see the Is
lands, bGt 20 get acquainted with the
excellent organization YOU must have
I hope that some such trip may bt
possible. -
T. NJ. Clendening. general secretary