Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-11

their adoption in Hawaii would mark
a distinct advance everywhere in the
art OF taking care of TIE tourist after
his arrival. The whole work of the
Government Tourist Bureau in Bata-
via is to persuade visitors to that
city to 60 out into the country and
see the real Java. They find that the
tourist who has seen Java is more apt
to prolong his stay on his return to
Java
The hotel rates throughout Java
are six guilders or 81 per day. In
Batavia you may stop at the great
Hotel des hides for $3.50 a day, and
practically the same price will be
asked at the smallest hotels. The
cooking at these hotels is enough to
tempt the Pope himself to omit fast
days from his calendar. Poultry is
cheap in this land of thirty million
natives. Chickens are less than ten
cents apiece and everything in the
hotel Is bountiful; you help yourself
Japan Is frightening away the tourist
of moderate means because of her
great increase of hotel rates. Java is
still the ideal land for the tourist of
moderate means, and IL she will use
little energy she will secure a great
deal of the tourist trade now going
to Japan, but of course the plan we
all have in view now is for each coun-
try around the Pacific to pass its tour
lists on to the next country; each
boosting for the other.
The commissioners from the Pana-
ma exposition tare here. l met them
at their hotel in Batavia and we got
together, and / met them again in the
great botanical gardens at Buiten-
zorg, and made an appointment to
have conference with the commits
sioner to the exposition from Java.
think that at the San Francisco
Exposition there will be a study of
tourist bureau methods that will re-
suit in the Pacific being compelled to
add many new vessels to her fleets,
and to standardize her rates around
the great ocean. From the confer
ences that have already attended /
believe that the time is NOT far dis
tant when the rates charged on the
small boats Of each land, although the
service will be first class, will be
much lower than the rates charged
on the faster and larger boats. Al
ready we nave the $5-a-day cruise
around the Pacific for at least four
months of the year in either direc-
ton; and this will be extended.
Five years ago made my first trip
from Hawaii to study the tourist bu-
reaus of the Pacific. That familiari-
ty has enabled me to really accom-
plish results on this trip. So far /
know the nlefi who control these
things and we are working together,
the Panama Exposition commission
ers bringing me cheering messages
from Manila af cooperation from the
Philippines. i viii probably be there
by the time this reaches Honolulu, as
/ expect next week to visit Singapore
and the Malay States for a few days,
as Singapore is, the most western port
of call of our round-the-Pacific $5-a,
day cruise.
The railways of New Zealand, Aus
tralia and Java have now agreed to
issue monthly passes for tourists at a
cost of about $35 or $50 monthly. The
Malay states railways will before long
unite with those ;of Burma, India and
Siam, and probably French China and
Hong Kong. wish to keep in touch
with these. This work is becoming
cumulative and it now carries force
with it that just picks up the coun-
tries as we pass along and leaves
behind enthusiastic workers, and rest
assured that these receive encourag-
ing letters from everyone concerned
and the exchange of ideas is the most
valuable thing In the whole scheme.
must take off my hat to the tourist
bureau of Java for theSwork they have
done at Garoet and other places in
Java, in planning cut walks and mark
ing them in the most sensible way ]
have ever seen, so 1t is impossible for
tourist to get lost left Joe for
a week al. Garoet studying the system
and taking different walk each day,
while went On to Samarang. The
first thing l shall do On my return to
Hawaii will be to introduce this sys-
tenn on the trails about Honolulu.
have been waiting for years for just
this idea The Javan bureau is eager
for a third man. They are sensible
in one respect-there is not an ineff-
c;ent man in the service. If they can't
get a man of ability and intelligence
they do without, the result is that II
one man is taken i'll, the other man
is just as competent to carry on the
work. They have young man in
training for the tourist work all the
time. No one knows who the head
of the Javan tourist bureau is, for he
is not permitted to let his name go
out on the literature. The same holds
true with the officers of the Semarang
exposition, the head of which was in
ciined to violate this very rigid rule.
He has just been removed and, let
tiers must be addressed to the secre'
tary or the president or such and such
a committee. The people Of Java say
they will not. contribute towards ad'
vertising the individua[it must be for
Java or the exposition.
Java has some splendid things to
foooh tho ofhor tourist hurpauS Of the