Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-04
round HAWAII
FOR ONLY $50
New Rate Decided Upon BY In.
ter-lsand Company After =
Careful Consideration.

f1lty uOlIHTS lOT FoUnU-ltAWHll |
cruise. including all expenses with
visits to Kilauea and Haleakala and
the Garden Isle Is what the new in
formation bureau Is going to OfTer tot
tourists and home people - this In |
place of the present rate of $S7.00 !
charged for the same service.
The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company after maintaining its pas
senger rates for more than half al
century has concluded TO accede tol
the request of the Territorial Trans
portation Committee and the Trail and
Mountain Club and make reductions
that will tempt the tourist from ey-
cry part of the Pacific to come al
cruising in Hawaii waters. President
Kennedy made the announcement
yesterday afternoon.
Four years ago Alexander Hume
Ford, as secretary of the Territorial
Transportation Committee, began col
lectlng Worldwide data on water,
passenger rates In other waters than
those about Hawaii, this data was
filed with the Inter-lsland Company
from time to time and some months
ago q committee of w. o. Smith, A.
Lewis Jr. and Cecil Brown was APP
pointed by the Board Of Directors of
the Inter-lsland Company to pass on
this data and grant IL It saw proper
the request for the $500 Hawaiian
cruise, which would include stop
on at Maui one on Hawaii and a side
trip to Kauai. Not only has this
committee approved the $500 cruise
rate but II Is going further and will
In all probability make a regular re-
duction In the round trip rate from
Honolulu to Hilo. based probably on
the European plan of charging for
transportation separately from meals
and berth accommodation. ...
Reductions Promised.
The Volcano Stables and the Volcano
House will meet the lnter-Island re-
duction and have promised transpor-
tation and hotel rates In connection
with the s25 cruise ticket that will
make It possible for the holder OF one
of these tickets to purchase for ten
dollars coupon that will entitle him
! to visit Kilauea and spend day at
| the Volcano House. Manager Field
of the Maui Hotel will add another
coupon to the cruise ticket. for If
teen dollars that wifl'entitle the hold
er to a day at his hotel and trip
to Haleakala and return with q guide
and horses. The new information
bureau will begin negotiations at once
with Kauai looking toward most
! tempting across the garden island
| auto rate that will tempt the cruis-
ers to include Kauai in their timer.
AIRY.
| The Territorial Transportation
/ Committee, now the Pan-Pacifc Tou'
rist Bureau. has been urging the S25
J cruise rate for years. This commit
tee OF which Governor Frear Is chair
man, has for its members X. II. Trent.
] Il. A. Mott-Smith. l.. A. Thurston, J
p Cooke. A. II. Ford and lately Geo
II. Fairchild of Kauai was added tC
represent the Garden Island From
this committee sprang. with the as
sistance sof W. X. Castle and Or
Scudder, The Trail and Mountain
Club, with the cooperation of c. II
Stanton, The 100 600 Club. The Hand,
Around the Pacific Club. began as AT
! advisory committee of the commit
tee, and the Civic Federation ha.
life by members OF the committee.
All Cooperating.
II Is these several organizations
that have combined to support ant
conduct the new information burea,
|, for outdoor promotion work with w
A. Bryan of the College of Hawaii a
. It's head. Three year: ago the Ter
ritorial Transportation committee sc
cured the first reduction In Sal
Francisco Honolulu rates, and late
, captured the General Manager of Thu
Australian line and kept him ashore
, at Il lunch In an auto until he agreed
to reduction on the Vancouver-Ho
, nolulu rate. II called the first Pan
/ Pacific Tourist Bureau Congress an,
, issued. at the request OF the Cana
4 dian-Pacifc Railway the only book
let published on the boarding house
of Honolulu, with splendidly crafty
, ing results to the boarding houses
) and numbers OF mainlanders OF mod
crate means.
New Offices to Open.
The Territorial Transportation Com
7 mittee having practically sunk II
identity In the new Information bu
reau that will open up for bushes
|, in the Offices on King street vacate
n by the Blu letin, on the return q
w A. Bryan from Laysan Island, wi
!, aid in the plan to have the islam
!. cruise tickets advertised and place
! on sale throughout America an
4 around the Pacific In connection wit
! rans-continental railway and trans
E ocean steamship tickets. The GOV
\ eminent Tourist Bureaus of Australl
! aid New Zealand will aid In this an
I the Australasian Steamship compar
4 les will make combination Sydney
! Honolulu cruise rate to tempt III
4 Australians to turn their eyes towar
4 Hawaii as well as toward Ceylol
! which is equally distant from then
T. as vacation place for a month
l. rest The rate to Ceylon and retur
. from Ceylon is 100000. 1t is prob
4 able that this rate from sydney
Hawaii including the lnter-islan
n cruise may be offered before long
n. our friends South of the line,
I. Meeting Tomorrow
The new information bureau II