The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-05-05
CRUISE
RATE IS FIXED
THE nTBR-fsLAND DBomBs TO
INDUCE FOLKS TO
TRAVEL.
CFrom Thursday'a Advortisol.l

announcement VIII 20 mhdt IN the
very near future OF a cut in the passsn.
ger rates OF tho Inter-Island Steam
Company to provide tourist
all-lslands-oxcurHion tickets, The new
rate is to allow the purchase Of
twenty-five dollar ticket good for a trip
to Kauai, Maui and Hawaii, with stop
over privileges.
The decision to mako such rate
has just been reached by a special com.
ittee Of directors, appointed some
time ago to consider the matter of
tourist rates and to pass upon data
and arguments presented before the di.
reetors by Alexander Hume Ford, sec.
Rotary Of the territorial transportation
committee, which committee had first
requested the twenty-five dollar rate
from the local steamship company.
The directors committee consists of |
w. o. Smith, Cecil Brown and A.
Lewis, Jr. Their decision in favor Of
establishing this favorable tourist rate
has not yet been reported to the board
of directors, but will be at the next
meeting, and, as other directors and
President Kennedy are reported to be
in favor Of the rate, its adoption is
certainty.
The purchasers -of the twenty-five
dollar tickets win travel frstclass, as
with ordinary ticket holders, but will
not have the first choice Of staterooms.
The tickets viii allow of one stopover
on the Garden Island, one on Maai and
one on Hawaii, permitting disembark-
ing at any one port and embarking at
any other on any island,
Further Concessions Asked For.
The Inter-Island committee is now
considering another proposal from the
transportation committee, this being to
establish a regular excursion rate be.
tween Honolulu and Hilo, on the basis
of the rates charged and the system in
force with the Yale-Harvard line, ply
ing between Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco. This line, running magnificent
twenty-one knot boats, charges eight
dollars for the eighteen-hour trip, with
extra charges Of fifty cents and up for
berths and two dollars and up for
staterooms.
Excursion Hotel Rates.
The territorial transportation COM
mittee, Of which Governor Frear is
chairman and r. II. Trent, j. P. Cooke,
L. A. Thurston, z. A. Motifs and
/, A. II. Ford are members, has been pres
ing this "cruise rate'' upon the Inter
Island company for four years, during
Honolulu rate on the Canadian-Aus
: tralia liners. AS side lines, the com
; mittee issued, at the request of some
of the transcontinental railroad lines
the first and only Honolulu boarding
= house booklet and launched the Pan
Pacific congress scheme.
Other work on hand by the commit
tee and the organizations which have
9 originated 1.-THE Trail and Mountain
2 Club, the 100000 Club and the Hands
I Around-the- Pacific Club-which arr
l now supporting the new "Tourists
! Information Bureau has been tn,
securing of hotel and land transporta
Q tion rates to combine with the inter
y island cruise rate for the encourage
) ment of the Hawaiian traveller. Georgl
Lycurgus and w. w. Wright have prom
r ised Volcano House rates and trans
u portation rates to and from HilO t.
Q the volcano which win allow a day a
the volcano for ten dollars Manage
Field of the Maui Hotel has promises
fifteen-dollar rate, to include a da,
at the hotel and trip to the top o
Haleakala. This combination win al
= low of trip to Kauai, visit to Mau
\ and Haleakala and visit to Hilo AM
j Kilauea for fifty dollars The presen
which period it has also been active il
other directions. Largely through it
efforts the reduction in rates betweeI
d San Francisco and Honolulu on some o
IS the lines was announced, while it ais
v secured reduction in the Vancouver
st separate rates total eighty-seven dol
70 lars.
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