The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-24


Now. Nr President J. have one
which may cause some liitle discns.
sion, continued tho Australian dele.
gate, hrl ! think lh0ro r. no differ
once ia opinion na 10 iho principle ln.
yolvcd. J move that IN the opinion OF
this congress it ID desirable, as soon
"a may Sc practicable, TO open In New
York y Joint pan-pacihc Tourist Blu.
rem at The common expense Of the
various countries Interested in moving
tonrists 10 and across tho Pacific. aud
that a committee be appointed by the
directorate to investigate this proposal
and consider ways and means, report.
ing either by correspondence to tho
likely contributing members or to the
next sitting of the congress-
would like to oppose that resolu.
ton, said Mr.. MeInerny, "and would
like to say that We have experimental
In. that line and are now trying to
make up a big deficit. OR experience
has been that tho western people are
the ones that come here and not the
eastern people, so that as far as this
committee Is concerned you can under
stand how delicately aud timidly we
feel about such a proposal, where we
have been so thoroughly burnt and
hurt financially.
Do I understand that that was che
Atlantic bureau or q New York bu.
reauli asked A. II. Ford.
There was no money spent by the
promotion committee in New York on
one, answered the president.
~ spent one year in New York
studying that question AMI ali the diff
ferent expenses and took It up with
the magazine editors and the business
departments said Mr. Ford, "and 1
believe that a committee appointed to
take that up would make big success
as from New York to Chicago you can
reaeh the entise American continent.
Frank Clark can reach every point in
the country. What Mr. Wood said is
veryltr,ie. that Il world not be a sue.
cess If were gone into in a small way;
for It must be done in large way.
lido think that Hawaii should be
ira thing of that sort because there
a-inaa should be able to book for an
around the " orld trip, whether he wants
to spend So OF $3.50 a day. A man in
Australia can book for an around the
would trip for $3.50 a day or at the
rate Of IS day because in Australia
they have their office systematized. 1
heartily support Mr.. Hunter ard second
the motion.
''In regard to the remarks of Mr.
McInerny in regard to travellers" said
Mr.. Davis, 81 know that ninety per
cent. Of the tourists come from the West
and If the touriets come from the West,
why not establish the bureau in the
Z East to get them to come west. /
don't think much Of the Clark Tours;
as a-matter of fact, Mr. Clark lost
money, but that doesn't matter"
81 want to support NJ. Hunters
resolution, primarily because Mr.. Hun.
ter makes it, 4" said Nj. Thurston. "Ih
the opinion of this congress it is de-
sirable, as soon as may DE p. acticable,
to open in New York a joint Pan
Pacific Tourist Bureau at the common
expense of the various countries inter
ested in moving tourists to and across
the Pacific, and that a committee be
appointed by the directorate to investi-
gate this proposal and consider ways
and means, reporting either by CORE
sponderce to the likely contributing
members or to the next sitting Of the
congress, I"
The motion, seconded by Mr.. Story,
carried.
"Our committee thought it would be
desirable to place upon the records of
the congress an appreciation of this
Mid-Paeifc Magazine: 'That this con.
gress desire to place on record its APP
probation of the Mid Pacific Mag zinc,
magazine published in Honolulu by
Alexander Hume Ford, and devoted to
the interests Of Petite travel, " was
Mr.. Hunters final resolution, which
carried.