Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-16
the trip did not take day Fr:'ger
Aamburo-Ameriean Plans.

the trip did not take day Frrger
Aambura-Ameriean Plans.
In Hamburg met with same Of
the directors OF the HamburS..AmeFf
can, and learned that there is pos,
sibifity, with the opening OF slG Pana.
ma Canal, OF the Hamburg American
line engaging in passenger traeic on
the Pacific, and if this eomcE about.
the company will take up with the
''Eands-Around-theP Pacific" officers the
matter OF cooperating win our
pound-a-day around -the-P Pacific srnise.
Both this company and the Scandi-
navian Steamship Co.. with hes dquar.
tiers in Copenhagen, are willing to Co
operate Ia the plan TO make q very
low rate around the world, by way
of the trans-Siber:an Railway daily
mail trains and our Pacific steamers.
In Bremen l conferred with acme of
the directors OF the Sordde"tscher
Lloyd, and secured their PROMISE Of
cooperation on the Pacific, and
clinched the matter OF using their
lines from Singapore 20 the Philip
pines in connection with our $S-a-day
around the Pacific cruige rate, 20 that
We now have these cheap cruises
around the Pacific Ocean arranged
for, and can go ahead with the de-
tails of getting out the tickets, etc.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd is jest put
ting on a line OF steamers from Singa.
pore. through the Dutch East Indies,
to German New Guinea, Samoa and
Sydney, and this will be !oored up
with the pound-a-day cruise .|
In Amsterdam, received an enthu.
siastic reception from he directors Of
both the Royal Dutch Packet Com.
pany and the Stoomvaart Maatschap-
pi "NederIand, and We held confer
ence in regard to promotion work in
Java, for these two compani..s are the
chief supporters Of the Official Tour
list Bureau OF Java. They expressed
a Willingness to double their Csintribu.
tons to carry on the work of tue Java
tourist bureau If necessary and they
are eager to see its scope Widened.
For instance, they are willing &c con.
tribute toward the establishments OF
an official tourist burrau in Singa
pore that will distribute at that great
gateway the literature OF Java and
the Pacific rhave secured tbs prom.
ises from several of the Pacific tourist
bureaus OF SIS MEXICAN a month
toward the establishment of such a
bureau, and am taking the ma ter up
in London with the Federated Malay
States Board here, the Colonial Sec.
rotary having promised me in Singa.
pore that his government would co.
operate, and committee of citizens
there is still! busy promoting the plan.
Working for "Mid-Pacffie."
II may be needless In state that in
London am securing promises of
number of articles for the mi Il. Pa
eifc" Magazine from he big men of
the Pacific who are visiting in hon
don, and who are stationed here. II
is surprising the number OF titled
men you meet In day at lunch
in London, and the man with title.
natural ability. and knowledge Of
any Pacific land. is lucky II he es-'
capes from the same lunch table at
which / am seated without promising
an article fer the mid Pacific. for.
the Americans do like titles: and /!
am even asking King George not of
England. but Of Tonga for an article.
tfroinsyhis PEN ! like the idea OF hay-.
ing royalty on my staff,
Getting Ready for Home.
Joe and are getting packs now
to start for home and Waikiki. We
have not yet had time to see sny of
the sights of London, except as We
dash along the streets from Gne Pa
cific bureau to another but there are
some Hawaiian hula dancers at the
Anglo-American Exposition here, and
l suppose we should really-Just to-
report to the Civic Federation see,
how the hula is done in London Joe,I
however, says he world rather go,
over to Paris for a day thins he is
afraid those hula dancers wont: make
him too homesick for WAIKIKI and
the big waves that mast be -ol!ing
in ahOut now ~. s~@zt-g = =