Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-16

naive uIdll!hS- ne front part Oh the
luilding was filled with natives. who
are admitted for 'sa bias sen" or II
cents. about cents L. S. currency.
y, My own admission having cost me
two gulden plus 90 sen tax The ma
tiVes were a motley half-naked aggre-
gatiCn Of humanity. who chartered I'M
ceasingly. The first picture shown
V rs a Stereopticon view of the queen
Of Holland and the Princess Juliana,
seated in luxury in the royal palace,
and they cheered, family | will ad
nit. but they cheered. these down
trCdden. tax-burdened. illiterate slaves
Cf the government opium kit and pawn
shop; and then to complete their JOY
a picture OF a battleship was shown.
\ Dutchman sitting next to me in
formed NE that these pictures were
always shown to educate the natives.
Ford says he was flattered to find
the Mid-Pacific Magazine at the tour.
ist bureau. The copy I saw was 9
months old and still showed signs Of
life. He says: Java is satisfied"
agree with him. A more complacent
set OF individuals have never met
two in particular, the manager of the
Grand Hotel at Djock jakarta. and that
Of the Grand Hotel De Java. Batavia
both informed me that they did not
want tourists. that their rooms were
occupied by their own people, and to
them it would make no difference if
they never saw tourist found
later this seemed to be the general
opinion of the hotel managers through
out the island, but naturally not that
Of the Javanese tourist bureau.
Ford approves of their tourist liter
allure, the Dutch government rising,
We thank you. kind SIR" and recon-
mends the adoption of some of their
improvements in Hawaiian literature.
have before me a package of liter
allure issued by the Promotion Com
Lmittee. also that of the Javanese tour
ist bureau. The Hawaiian literature /
find to be as fully complete and a
great deal more reliable.
The tourist bureau" says Ford,
finds that the tourist who has Seen
Java is more apt to prolong his stay
on his return to Java" This is direct
ly opposite to the opinions of tourists
whom l met, and in four months had
the privilege. of meeting consider
able number. An elderly gentleman
and his wife, who had come from Aus
tralia, attracted by the brilliantly
painted literature. had planned to
spend six months in the island. They
stayed two weeks and caught the next
steamer, thankful to get away. The
majority complain bitterly of the lack
| Of aT-fC
service and their inability to make
themselves understood.
quote from a. pamphlet issued by
the J. T. B.: "The European staff
speaks the modern languages, the
runners and head walters understand
English sufficiently" Without taking
up the question of the natives speak.
ing the English language, found that
very few of the European staff spoke
English. Having knowledge Of Ma.
lay, | was able to make myself under.
stood fairly we'll, Malay being the Ian.
suage universally spoken.
have nothing but admiration for
, Ford's active, energetic manner, but
it seems to me he should have taken
time to compute the coinage of the
country. A Dutch gulden is 40c U. s.
currency; therefore when Ford quotes
the hotel rates throughout Java Of or
$500 day, he should instead have
said 1910 per day. Compare his state
ment that the hotel rates throughout
Java are six guldens or 81. 40 per day,
with that of the J. T. B.: The price
; is six gulden per diem in the small
places, but commonly seven gulden in
the large ones. Some OF the first rate
hotels have a minimum of ST. and
they have larger apartments and sep.
arate bungalows up to II gid. a day
AS a matter of fact tourists are in.
variably put in rooms ranging from
s to II gid. If one inquiries for a
cheaper room, they are always oceu,
pied. How beautiful that statement
you may be charged gid. possibly. I
gid. presumably and 8 gid. generally
Ford says "the cooking at these hotels
is enough to tempt the Pope himself
to omit fast days from his calendar
My condolences to the pope and my
sympathies with his gastric apparatus.
You rise in the morning after an ex,
cessively hot, sultry night; i. e. in Ba-
tavia or any other of the coast towns,
sleep being an impossibility to the
stranger unused to the climate, push
aside a mosquito net that is a fair
imitation of burlap, throw on a bath
robe and hasten to the bathrooms
with visions of cold tub or a shower.
Instead you find a small cement well
, in the corner filled with water. some
times fresh. more often otherwise
and there you find a small dipper. The
modus operandi is to stand in the
middle Of the bath house and by means
of the dipper throw water over your
self, and when you have finished place