The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-19
OPPORTUNITIES
ARE GREAT HERE
Los Angeles Capitalist Tells Of
Citys Needs and Pos.
I slbiities.

while all visitors 70 Honolulu are
enthusiastic regarding the beauties and
climate Of this Pacific paradise there
are only comparatively few who ap-
preciato the possibilities OF Honolulu
from a business point Of view predi-
Gated upon its attractions as health
resort. The visitors come and enjoy
lite and they 20 when they are called
away and ever afterwards boost for
Honolulu, but few do anything them
selves to develop the city.
Most of the few who appreciate the
opportunities which Honolulu affords
at this time are those who come from
Los Angeles, where the conditions were
much the same only few years ago,
Tut where hundreds of millions of dol
lars have been made in real estate with
in the past ten years. In fact, when
less than Thousand houses are built
every month in Los Angeles, these
days, the people there feel that the city
is hardly progressing; often II is nearly
two thousand houses a month that go
up there.
81 received letter the other day
from Los Angeles,'' said j. Conover
8 Hughes Wins, one Of the large property
owners in that city, who is a guest with
Mrs. WINS at the Young Hotel, yester-
day, (which says that even at this
time Of the year every house is full, the
hotels overflowing and apartments at
a premium there. II should be the same
in this beautiful city ofYsni',
Must Be Educated.
"The trouble is continued Mr..
Wins, "that the people in the East
do not appreciate Honolulu, they are
only now beginning to learn of its
beauties and its climate. 1t was the
same in Los Angeles and it was only
wnen the chamber of commerce there
educated the country to know that the
summers there were as delightful as the
winters that the thousands came all the
year round and made their homes. Some
day it win be the same in Honolulu
"What is. needed in Honolulu right
away is at least five hundred new
houses. People come here, are delight
inquiry that they cannot get the kint
of home they want. am leaving her,
on January 6, but / am coming bacl
again to make my home here.
''What is really needed here is {
nulChlG VI IlNll, IL Uu6 uOu L uU II
to join in opening tract and build
ing homes for sale, the same as is done
in Los Angeles would be glad to bt
one of five or six who would put VI
$4,000 each to open up such tract
I can look ahead few years ant
see all these nearby hills covered will
beautiful homes. it is bound to come. ;
Benefit of Steamer Line.
Mr. WINS is sure that steamship
line between Les Angeles and Homo
lulu is sure to come before very long
1t would mean the investment of mil
lions of dollats in local property an
securities, it would mean an increas
! of one hundred pei cent added prosper
ity for this city.
Yet Mr.. WINS, while appreciating tn
possibilities in Honolulu from a biisi
ness standpoint, is also an enthusias
regarding this city as healthful plac
to live. There is no use going to Carli
bad OF other European watering place
l for ones health, thinks Mr.. Wins, 'wbe
Honolulu with its climate 0and pur
water is at the threshold of the maiI
: land, part of the same country an
Q a place for American homes.
From Pearl Harbor to Koko Hea
this is going to be a great city, som
day. concluded Mr.. Wins. cit onl
waits for better steamship connectio
5 with the mainland and the awakenin
t of the people here, unless those com
n who are already wide awake to til
J, opportunities at hand.
i 81 would like to take this oppo
f tunity to thank Mr.. Wood of the pr,
d motion committee and the many otht
kind friends have met here for the
courtesies."
One of the things that Mr.. Ivir
criticizes here is the condition of IL
roads, both in the heart of the cit
and the country. He brought his aut
mobile with him when he came al
states that he has worn off more tir
u in one month than he would do
seven months on Los Angeles, and q
due to the miserable condition of Il
le roads.