Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-25
:. C. Weber Tells AID Club
Some of the Things That
Can Be Bettered

AN informal talk TO the Honolulu
Ad club Tuesday. July q, by F. {.
Weber of Los Angeles, leader Of
party of Pacific coast tourists
II will speak frankly and some OF
the things | say will not be compli-
mentary. but | will say them in the
belief that you wish To know how
actually found them This is our first
excursion to the Hawaiian islands.
Our party consists of eighteen per,
sons. mostly school teachers. We be.
gan making up the party last October
and tried TO find some one who could
give us definite information as to what
il would cost to make the trip, and
Just what we should see. but through
out southern California couldn't find
no one who could give me the informa-
ton desired. or course ii takes some
time for mail to go back and forth, and
we had lot of difficulty in getting
any information at all this way from
Hawaii. The literature that / secured
in Los Angeles was very incomplete.
In most cases the cost was omitted.
We would write to the person presu-
mably as far as we knew. who would
be posted and responsible, and the
prices that he sent us were altogether
different from the few prices quoted
in the literature. We wrote about
this and the reply was that the liter
AZURE was out of date How were We
to know that il was out of date? There
certainly was no date marked on any
of the literature. 49,. ..-
las far as my impressions concern
ing the islands are concerned, | can
say for my whole party that they are
now enthusiastic boosters for Honolu.
lu and the Hawaiian Islands. They
are enthusiastic over the scenery, the
people and the good times they have
had. You have got the goods in seen.
cry. You have got the people The
people we have met have been invari-
ably courteous, anxious and willing to
help us in any way. ...-
Must Have Better Service.
"As | said. you have got the goods
in the scenery and the people, but
you haven't got the goods in the way
of service. You have got good many
things here, although you are well ad-
vertised, that the outside world doesn't
know you have. We were not able up
to the time that we left California to
find out what a trip from Honolulu to
the island of Maui and up the summit
of Haleakala would cost, and hardly
any of our information here was at
all definite This is very necessary to
me, for | have to tell my people first
what We will do when we set out and
just what it will cost them We had
to do lot of guessing on this trip,
and many times we guessed wrong.
but before leaving the state We had
no way Of finding out
Take the trip to Haleakala. The
trip from the Maui hotel in Wailuku
to Olinda and thence by horseback to
the summit and return to Waikiki,
costs us s21 per person. This to us
seemed exhorbitant Many of the
horses were not safe; some of us were
seated on the floor Of the automobile.
The saddles we're bad, some of them
tied in places with cotton string. and
at any time liable to slip-and some of
them did, and few of our party took
tumble, but luckily no one was hurt.
The whole journey was run in a hap
hazard way. We had no accommoda-
ton hut at the summit, only the old
stone house with the hard floor. Now