Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-09
All Countries of Pacific. He
Says, Are Working Togeth-
er to Get Tourists
By ALEXANDER HUME FORD.

BAIKAL. on Lake Baikal. Siberia
May 4.-Here we are, Joe and |. OF
the banks of Lake Baikal. in Contra
Siberia, editing the Mid-Pacific Mag
azine aboard the train. From OuI
stateroom We can look out on the lax;
and at the same time keep right or
with our work, editing the art ,cles
we have been collecting and gather
ing around the Pacific. and when We
tire of this we turn to the table or
which the typewriter rests and ham
mer off reams of correspondence tc
the great men Of the Pacific that We
have cajoled into promising article.
for the magazine. and soon they viii
realize that there will be no rest fol
them until the articles are writer
and delivered in Honolulu.
Then. too. all around the ocean now
are the "Hands-Around-the-P Pacific
luncheon clubs, and on each Of these
the leading newspaper men of thu
community are high up. in the direc
torate and they are waiting for neWi
of the success Of the movement else
where. Our speakers are beginning
to pass now from one country to an
ether In Honolulu you got one O.
the first in Sir Newton Moore, who
was practically the speaker at the
birth of the Millions Club" of Perth
West Australia, which Is branch Of
the MISUNDERSTANDING" Club
You should soon he getting Joe Lei
:er who is headed your way on his
yacht, the Niagara. He was the frs
speaker Of the City Club" of Manila
which is another branch Of the
Observation-Disclosures. He should
be captured by the AID CluL fer talk
Fer six days ! have been dictatin
eight to 10 hours a lay. and for an
other six days until We reach st
Petersburg l expect to be-. working
just as hard, and perhaps then I will
have my papers in such order that
can get out the report of the tourist
bureas Of the Pacific. that the Aur
tralian government intends publish
ing.
Perhaps what has surprised me
most was the eagerness with which
Japan came right into the movement
To have all the countries os the Pa
.cific work together as unit ID at
tract travel to the big ocean, and en-.
tirely around the Pacific.
If can have my way with the min.
lister of communications in st. Peters.
Eurg there will be a daily mail from
Shanghai to st. Petersburg and Mos.
cow that will make the trip in IA
days, two days longer than the
time made by the transsiberian ex-
press from Picking, but at cost of
less than half as much. Think OF
going from Shanghai, China. to- the
center of Europe for the SEM OF S10as
including your berth fef the entire
distance. 1t is true YOU have to pro-
vide your own blankets and sheets,
but after you are accustomed to this
mode of travel, you will infinitely
prefer it. 1t is the universal custom
in Russia to provide your own blan.
kets and sheets at the hotels; in fact.
some hotels rent you merely the
room, the bed and the mattress, so
you had better have your bed cloth
ing with you anyway.
Travel in Russia.
There is very little difference in
Russia between the mail trains and
the cars of the wagon Its +" The
difference is in the cost CT transpor.
tation and the desire Of making the
trip in one day less time. The first
class cars have staterooms with an
upper and lower berth. The second
class cars have four berths, two up.
Per and two lower and are just as
Often, if there are two
of you, you may get on Of these
rooms to yourselves, but as there are
never more than four in one of these
and as they extend en-.
tireIy across the car, save for the mar
low corridor. on one side. and this is
the broadest gauge railway in the
world, you can see the room you have.
The advantage of the mail train is
the frequent stops, when you can get
out and walk, or dint in the station
buffet. You make the trip across
from Vladivostok TO st. Petersburg
in less than IL days anyway, against
{ day or two less by the express; but
the real enjoyment IS getting out and
seeing something o. the towns and
the strange costumed nomads at the
stations. This makes it worth while
TO go by the mail trSIn =
| know that the Russian govern
ment is contemplating doing some.
thing with its regular daily mail SET.
vice, to make it better known, and ].
shall try to get the minister of COM.
to establish tourist bu
Ieau at Vladivostck that will cooper
ste with US. and VIC will distribute
the literature of Siberia around the
Pacific, as they wiz distribute ours
II Russia and Europe, end this is most
important, for / have gotten our trans
racific transportation people to see
that by making use cs the low rates
On the local mail trains across Russia
and Siberia and giviI.S a combination
rate across the Pacific by way of Ja.I
Pan and Hawaii. that many WESTERN
in Europe will be tempted
tc return to San Francisco by this
route, instead Of bac1: by the old way
across the Atlantic and the American