Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-11-01
MORE ROOM FOR
TOURISTS IS
URGED

! Honolulu face serious problem il
! providing housing accommodations
for the great crowds OF tourists who
! are expected to visit the Islands this
winter. This was the consensus OF
opinion expressed at the adjourned
quarterly meeting Of the Merchants
( Association yesterday afternoon, that
body recognizing the gravity Of the
situation by passing a resolution ask
ing the beard CT directors to make
an investigation to decide upon a line
Of definite action, to be taken at an
early date
HonOlulu's rOOmiIg accommodations
proved insufficient during the tourist
season last winter, all the hotels,
being filled TO capacity, and scores
Of visitors were compelled to remain
aboard the ships at night. Attention
to the subject was called by w. r.
Harrington, who, in a talk with Secre-
tary Wood, Of the Promotion commit
tee, had been given to understand
that even greater crowds are to be
expected this year, and that it is UP
to the business men of Honolulu to
care for the sightseers after Undue
ing them to make the trip to the Is
lands. Mr.. Harrington had no sugges-
ton to make for meeting the situation
but put it up to the merchants.
Norman Watkins declared the city's
rooming accommodations, instead OF
improving. are steadily growing less
and asserted there is less room for
population or visitors now than in
years past. He said he believed the
boarding houses and hotels are near
ly filled to capacity already. The new
cottage, erected for rental purposes
during the last twelve months have
been taken almost as quickly as they
were opened,with no apparent diminu-
ton In the boarding house popula-
ton
When it was suggested that the Pro-
motion committee assume the respon-
sibility Of planning for the entertain.
meDt of tourists Mr.. Warren, a mem
her Of that body, protested that the
committees sole duty is to bring the
visitors here. Once they are in the
city, he asserted, 1t is the duty of the
citizens and business men to see tina:
they are given the care that will make
their visit pleasant one, SO that they
will come again or encourage their
friends to make. the trip zs-tsa
Mr.. Warren said it had proved diff. |
ficuit te obtain q, definite idea of the,
accommo dations for transients, no
bonifaoe or boarding house proprie-
tor being willing to admit that 4 me-
does not have almost unlimited room !
FOR additional business !
: In the general discussion the sche- !
me OF pleasure resort hotel estabi
Iishment. operated after the fashion
Of the big institutions in California,
Florida and along the Great Lakes.
where great populations of pleasure
seekers congregate for several months
each year, was preached and COM
nented upon favorably. The project
IS considered practical, and 1t is pos
;ible that further investigation may
prove the big SUMMER hotel is the
'eal solution of the problem, and that
t may be large feature in the flu
.ure tourist season in the Territory
Norman Watkins, as a member of
/ special committee appointed by
Chairman Gignoux two weeks ago, re-
sorted yesterday that representati-4
res of the Merchants Association ap-n
pointed to the Shippers Wharf Com
nittee have an equal vote with the
representatives. from the. chamber of
commerce, thus dissipating the re-
Tort made some time ago that the
men from the Merchants Association.
lad a voice, but no vote, in the yaf-
airs of the Shippers Wharf Commit
ee. Merle Johnson, a member of. .thea
appointed to oppose the
durray automobile ordinance before
he board of supervisors, reported that
attorney f. c. Peters had discovered
n old measure. passed in 1865 and
orgotten IN the half century that has
lapsed since then, which gives the
olice power te regulate traffic. 1t
'ass stated yesterday that, the agita-
ion over the proposed automobile
1easure had resulted in an improve
1ent by the citizens along Fort street
nd 1t is thought that the police traf-
Ic squad, by enforcing the old law, |
an prevent the congestion at which
he proposed ordinance was aimed.