The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-09-23
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INVADE ISLES
Tourists Are Now Lining Up for
Descent on Honolulu in
February.

Certainty of.an excursion from Puget
sound to Honolulu in February was stat
ed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of
the promotion committee in Secretary
Wood s weekly letter to the committee.
His letter follows:
This is our busiest seed sowing time.
Every steamer leaving port for the
Mainland for the next sixty days will
carry from five to ten thousand folders,
special letters, marked papers, etc,
with the object of increasing travel to
Hawaii during the next winter season.
VIM. r. X. Potter has submitted a most
ATTRACTIVE design for special mailing
card entitled Winter Sports in Ha-
wall. - which if it meets with the APP
prevail of the committee, viii be printed
and sent out to some 10000 railway
and steamship agents the world over.
In preparation for the many inquiries
we are likely to receive regarding rooms
and board, ! am now revising our list
Of home hotels and rooming houses,
bringing the information up to date.
Next years carnival season promises
to be an unusually interesting one and
we may look for the largest crowd of
tourists in town at that time that we
have ever had in Hawaii.
/ Through the efforts of James Nc
Candles and Others the Skinner eXcur-
/ sion is assured beyond a doubt The
--latest information concerning the Seat
! tie chamber of commerce excursion is
contained in the following letter dated
September 9th:
Puget Sound Excursion.
'sIn connection with our letter of
September 2nd in relation to the com
mereial excursion, we neglected to adj
wise that our rate included the expense
of excursionists stop at Hiio and their
rail and stage fare to the crater and
return.
'.'All passengers will be allowed TO
iuse the ship as their hotel during their
stay in that port.
" AS there will be over 900 in the
lparty we would ask you to use you
good offices in obtaining a special rate
for our chamber for the expense OF
Those excursionists between HilO and
1.-THE crater.
SO At Honolulu the passengers will be
at their own expense while ashore
Other than this our rate includes the
expense for the trip.
Let us have your program as early
as possible as this information will be
asked for by excursionists as soon as
they begin to arrange details for then
bookings.
Mrs. Headlee writes concerning hel
fnll has Il fnf
September 18th:
"Just a line for the Sierra to say
that the excursion is moving on salts
factorily. The matter has not yet beer
given to the press as Mr.. Yandel
wishes to announce it through 175 diff
ferent papers throughout the State 81
multaneously and he has one of the
iglad-hand State excursions on for this
week, thus must hold the announcement
iuntil next week.
Everything is being done by botf
Mr.. Yandell and Mr.. King to make il
,first-class and the best service is assur
ed. Vancouver is interested also and
trust the lectures which l have SEIZED
uled there as follows:
"Sept. l9-Mount Pleasant NJ. E
EChurch
''sept. 2O-Wesley NJ. f. Church.
"Sept. 22-Kitsalano Presbyterian
Church.
"sept. 2S-Y. NJ. c. A.
win greatly assist in stirring up more
Interest. The one noted above on TIT
20th is one of the largest and most in
fluential churches in the province.
"The Rev. Mr. Fraser of Vancouve
, who visited Hawaii last year and t,
, whom you requested me to furnisl
slides has written for them. We hav,
had two Honolulu callers at the oific
today; one being Mrs. Kearns and tn
e other a Mr.. jenkins connected with
. fertilizer company there"
/ Oceanic and Payne.
> The following letter from Mr.. Cock
roft, general passenger agent of tn
; Oceanic Steamship Company, is of ger
/. eral interest.
g 81 received yours of the Goth an
n also paper with item in about Nj
e Lynch Is fishing trip, which / was gta
r to get.
81 am in receipt of letter unde
date of August 30th from Doctor Payne
He has been delivering his lecture
Hawaii, the Paradise of the Pacific,
), in the Cherryvale, Kansas, ChautauquG
lie says that he has given a lectur
: about every other day all summer; dc
= livered it at the Chautauqua, N. Y, i
\ the session from July LIST to July 25tl
u y and that it has pleased the people great
: ly, being one of the most popular lee
- lures, and he considers it the mos
beautiful lecture he has ever had. II
=" says that hundreds of people EXPIRE;
>, their desire to go to Hawaii, and
hopes they VIII make the trip. DoctC
= Payne says that if he can get the tim
~ he wants to make another trip to Hont
"a lulu TO have lecture as a leader fc
+ another season, He proposes to Civ
n lectures throughout the winter"
"a 1t is a source of satisfaction TO kno
that directly as a result of our effort
# travel to Hilo and the Volcano of X
h lauea has largely increased during III
past year and that more tourists hay
n been introduced to the beauties of Ia
NJ Valley and the grandeur of Haleakal
than ever before. We have also il
duced a number of strangers to Wis
Kauai, everyone speaking in praise
thu trim