The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-30
DO NOT SCATTER
TOURIST EFFORT
Canadian Railroad Official Gives
Promotion Men Some
Good Advice.
(FrOm saturday's Advertiser. }

sane anu sure hhes bhdt VIII oiAhB sat
isfactory tourist results" said II. w
Brodie, the visiting Canadian Pacific
Railway official, to the members Of the
promotion committee, yesterday. "The
literature you are sending out is of q
high order. Nothing you have stated
therein is an exaggeration. You should
have the support of all the papers and
the citizens to keep down reports OF
fever or any other diseases, for it not
only hurts you but it hurts our trans
continental systems. There should be
cooperation with the promotion com
mittee and assistance from everyone
here who makes dollar out of the
tourist to keep up this splendid work.
"You have too many conflicting or
ganizations here, for they divide the in
| fiuence. Cooperate first of all for the
place, and put the individual second.
There should be only one body to deal
with the tourists, and then everybody
/ should get behind that and help"
Much sound advice and valuable sug
gestions were given to the committee
Yesterday by the C. p. r. general pas
i
self regarded as one of the best organ
izers and patronage. .getters of the great
Canadian railway system. Mr.. Brodie
came here about a month ago on a va
cation trip, the result, as he explained,
of the constant knocking at his door,
year after year, by II. p. Wood, sec
retary of the promotion committee. The
constant tapping at the door finally
caused him to listen and take heed, and
then to study the literature sent out
by the committee, and he came here
to study the Islands and judge
whether his railroad should back them
up as new resort for travellers. He
made the statement at the meeting that
he has not found any statement in the
literature to have been exaggerated.
He found everything as stated and went
so far as to state that some features
could be emphasized and spoke par
ticularly of the Volcano.
Too Many Organizations.
In his opinion Honolulu was wasting
much effort in having too many organ
izations to deal with tourists. There
should be but one, and Honolulu should
get behind that one and assist in ev-
cry possible way, just as the people OF
Winnipeg and of all the growing cities
in Canada do. There they put the
place first and the individual second,
with the result that tourists go to those
places.
Mr.. Brodie's informal talk showed
that he has studied the tourist possi-
bilities of Hawaii from the standpoint
of his company, and on his return to
the Coast he viii be able to discuss
the Islands with the heads of the sys-
TEN, and evolve plans to send tourists
here over their lines and keep them
coming. He believes that Honolulu
should be advertised as a winter resort
and a summer resort as well.
Safe and Sane Methods.
''What are you doing from main
lander's standpointH" asked Mr..
Brodie. ''From my standpoint, for
have been connected indirectly with
many promotion committees, anything |
that is good will stand a searching in
vestigation. You can't expect your
first years work to bring great re-
suits. You are proceeding along, safe,
sane and sure methods which will bring |
satisfactory results which will largely |
recoup you for the money you are put
ting into this work. Anyone reading |
your literature knows you are stating |
facts. Nothing you have stated is an |
exaggeration. have seen the places
You have described. Some people think
it is better to make more noise. /
don't believe in that. There was a
time when we had few days in the
week with no trains running, Now we
have them running every day and many
of them, followed by two to three spe-
cials in some seasons. You will get ex-
actly the same results.
81 want to endorse your methods.
| make this statement as result of my
observations. -
Knocking" Volcano Trip.
He was sorry, he continued, to have
learned while here that the trip to
Kilauea was "knocked" in and out
of hotels ard by many residents. He
laughed at the idea that what knockers
call trough trip to Hilo, should de.
ter anyone who had Travelled thousands !.
of miles to get to Hawaii. Kilauea
is one of the sights and wonders of i
the world and every encouragement
should be made to tourists to visit
the crater.
The entire problem of bringing tour.
lists here rested, he said, with the steam.
ship companies. Unfortunately, they
were not in the same category with
which could run spare en-.
gines out of the roundhouses on any
occasion. The steamship companies had
no spare vessels to place on the run
to carry the overflow. The next chief
thing. after getting the tourists here,
was TO so entertain them that they
could be sent back happy and be walk
ing advertisements for Hawaii in their
own home places.
Improve the Beaches.
"Improve your beaches" said Mr..
Brodie. "It is ineomprehensible to me
why the beaches are so poorly kept up,
especially as Waikiki beach has be. |
come so we'll known. There should be 1
more surfing canoes and cheaper rates
for that sport,
''The funds for all your promotion
work should be poured into one common |
treasury" he said in conclusion. "That
is the way the western part Of Canada |
and the western part of the United |
States have been built up-by united |
effort. ] am astonished at the amount |