The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-05
OUR FRISCO LETTER.
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without holittling any Of Mr. shngle'o
talents, that, such responsible posi-
ton would necessarily go to an older
man. According to the statements
made however by Parker and Davis .
nearly all the island population as well
as many political organizations have
united in demand that Shinglc take
the position.
Hawaiian Advertising Mi.
In the course of summer wonderings
/ CHANGED to spend few days az d,
Monte and Santa Cruz this year, and
in the course Of my trip, seeing ad-
vertscments of some kind or other
about various summer resorts in Cali
fornia and elsewhere, looked in vain
for something about Hawaii The
search was i'm vain-almost
must admit for back of door
in the Del Monte bathhouse
found an old group of framed Honolulu
pictures, so old that no one around the
bathhouse knew where they came from
or how they got there. There was one
picture of the palm drive to the old
Wideman place at PunahOu, four OF
King Kalakaus hula hula girls, and
one picture of a quaint old Nuuanu
street house, set in spacious grounds,
and labeled Residence of the Hon.
Waterhouse." l examined the photo
! graph closely but could not even see
the two strealls of rust that once car
ried Pains tram cars up and down
4 that street-so the photograph must
q have been very ancient one.
Nothing more about Hawaii could
II Finland considering the fact that
practically every tourist who comes tc
California visits Del Monte, l wonder
n ed whether an exchange of courtesieS
, with Honolulu hotels would make i
d possible to get some handsome Homo
v lulu photographs into a place like De
Il Monte.
= At Santa Cruz there is beautiful
new hotel, the Casa del Ray, one o
the finest in California, and in the loni
corridors I noticed many handsomel,
framed photographs of various point
of interest along the Coast.
Maybe it's impossible to get Homo
lulu photographs into these hotels
at maybe the attempt has been made, bu
he if not offer the idea as a good one t
advertise the islands, to give them
e general publicity so desirable, whe
le' there are hundreds of people who com
gh to the Coast who never think Of tn
''u Hawaiian islands or know how easy
- is to get to them.
II" New hotels particularly are anXiou
IN to get good pictures, framed, to han
in their corridors or main floor salon
and there isn't much doubt but that
,.I, photograph of the top of Kilauea, sim
H.. lar TO the Hitchcock painting, wou
attract no end of attention. Californ
photographs can show nothing bette
no than the panorama of the pail, or I'll
ny- panorama of Waikiki A photograph
rs. shark-fshing off Honolulu would mai
cry the man who comes from New You
is to Catalina to catch the fighting tut
ere feel that perhaps he had been missir
ers a real days sea sport I've never see
nbotogranhs of our polo field OF
rye several gold courses, our yacht race
ted our horseback parties, our automobi
10 drives-that is I've never seen the
IRE outside of promotion bureaus al
Tor steamship offices. You hear about t
ems fine climate, but a good climate
anu almost presupposed in the tropics
.ii'o What lot of people want to know
Inv What are you going to do to anu
'- me in that climate if l 80 thereY'
A series of fine photographs hung
California hotels would help to answ
,a,,, that question. Directors to this scher
rrv might urge that hotels are not goi
,r1d to advertise other places with facillti
arc similar to their own. can only a
70 that hotels do it for other places rig
If I along. Why not for Hawaii?
ties There are for instance better thin
nds that might be shown even in the l
aler Monte bath house than King IA
een kaua's dancing girls.
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