Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-25
Los ANGELES MAN TALKS FRANKLY .
ON NEED FOR Service To TOURIST

in this PARTY and IN many other part
les there arr people who are not used
10 n ughiHg ( AMI il you want TO make
H." trip popular you should give them
lltrl" comfort. and At Haleakala this
could be dou" very ChCaply. II seems
hat you could erect a C0mf'Tt2ui"
rest house or accommodation hut ami
provide few necessities As ii was
U' y" &C MS ret any slecU and "" got
up next morning tired out and IL
seemed We didn't enjoy the glorious
SUNLIGHT above the clouds as We
, should. II the comforts Of visitors
Wer" little looked after. such as
| hu''dinp rest houses. etc. they would
go away happy and satisfied and for,
ever advising others to make certain
trips The satisfied tourist is the
greatest advertisement that any COun,
try can have.
AT the Volcano House on Hawaii
we were charged S. a day and they
/ put five Of our party in one room and
seven in anOther-a little too thick it
seems to me for comfort, and for the
rates We paid.
At Yellowstone Park.
We send parties through the Vol
lowstOne mark every summer. The
hotels in the district bring their sun.
plies 40 to 80 miles by road. and their
rates are but 81 a day. and you have
all the privileges Of modern comfort.
The service. it seems TO me. is inf
nitely superior to that Of the Volcano
House, and then there are the Wiley
permanent camps that charge So a
day. Yen have got the goose that lays
the golden egg in the form Of your
mountain scenery and Craters. Don't
kill it,
THE things that have said which
are not of a commentators nature
hope YOU will pardon. I am speaking
frankly. rs | said. because | believe
you want to know these things-the
impressions as | really got them"
Reply to Criticism.
Replying to Mr.. Webers criticisms,
A. H. Ford said:
1T is not so much the fault of the
hotel keepers and the transportation
men as it is ours in the Ad club and
the Chamber of Commerce that these
things are permitted to be. We know
they can be done properly. For in.
stance. in New South Wales. the d.
rector of the tourist bureau six years
ago put up small rest house on the
highest mountain in Australia and this
has since grown into the finest hotel
in the commonwealth, and makes big
money with rates Of SO a day. Be.
cause the director of the New South
Wales tourist bureau is a born organ
izer. ii costs less to go from Sydney
over 200 miles by rail. including sleep
er, 50 miles by auto-bus. and II miles
on horseback. and return over the
same lengths of distance. with two
days board at this hotel, than it does
to go from Honolulu to the summit
Of Haleakala and return. but then.
the director of the tourist bureau
raised the enthusiasm that brought
about the construction of the hotel.
put on an auto-bus service for the 80
miles, ran il until he found that pas
sengers could be taken over the dis.
lance for SO head, then leased il to
private parties who cannot charge
over $500, and today the railway, the
auto company, the hotel the man with
the horses and the tourist bureau all
make a clean profit, and the public
gets these services at a fair. honest
rate, and there is business the year
round. Let the AID club and the Cham
Der of Commerce provide us with the
born organizer that can bring about
these things and such complaints as
Mr.. Weber's from the mainland will
become thing of the past"