Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-14

THE following letter from Mr.. Foro
reached Honolulu yesterday, apparent
ly following it's author in the Manoa.)
By ALEXANDER HUME FORD
EN- ROUTE FROM SEATTLE TO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-THE Ad
Clubs and Chambers of Commerce OF
the Northwest have agreed to hold an
nual Hands Around-the-P ban
Duets in each of the large cities OF
British Columbia, Washington, and
Oregon; and these communities are
now organizing a Northwest Tourist
Bureau that will affiliate with the
movement to have all of the tourist
bureaus of the Pacific work together
as one. ... '.:*.
We arrived in Seattle on Sunday,
with pressing engagements In San
Francisco on Friday, so left Joe In
Seattle to arrange conferences for me
with the officers of the Chamber OF
Commerce and the AID Club, etc., on
Tuesday, and took the train for van
couyer, as had arranged last Deem
Der at our Sydney convention to meet
the British Columbia representative,
II. Otto Frind, in Vancouver during
the latter part of June. Frind was
there to meet me, having just arrived
from New Zealand, where he has been
mapping for the New Zealand gov
eminent new routes throughi the
Southern Alps, for Frind is a man who
always travels with Swiss guide in
stead of a valet, and is the live wire
of the Canadian Alpine Club. He is
taking up with the British Columbian
parliament the matter of the estab-
lishment of a government tourist bu-
reau, with an appropriation of $780,
900 a year, to be spent In publicity
work for British Columbia. Frind,
with his Alpine guide, has promised
to visit us in Hawaii, and to relocate
the lost trail over the great Pail be-
tween Lahaina and Wailuku.
| got Frind out of bed at what to
him seemed an unearthly hour, but
at 10 o'clock we were taking up the
obje3 of our work with the president
of the board of trade, and received his
assurances of cooperation. An hour
later we were taking up With Richard
s. Ford, the editor and proprietor of
the Vancouver Sun, the matter of a
campaign of education that will help
to bring about the formation of the
British Columbia government tourist
bureau, and it's cooperative work with
the other bureaus of the Pacific. At
noon | was telling the AID Club mem
bers at their weekly luncheon all
about the work of our AID Club in Hon.
olulu, and what the "Hands-Around-
the-Paeific" movement has accom-
plished in getting all of the countries
of the Pacific together to work to-
! gether. and after was through the
, president got up, and the way he
spoke of the wonderful work that the
AID Club of Honolulu had done to
make the people of the Pacific one
nation would have thrilled every
member of our Honolulu Ad Club. /
let it go at that. ~.
The Vancouver AID Club will now
give an annual "Hands-Around-the
Pacific" banquet, with table for each
country around the Pacific and a
speaker from each table. 1t will also
promote the work of having all of the
AID Clubs of the Pacific Coast coop
crate with all of the weekly luncheon
clubs about the Pacific in a move
ment to create Pacific patriotism, and
1t will expect the AID Club of Homo
lulu, as the central organization al
the crossroads of the Pacific, to take
a leading part in this work l will
have to do some explaining before the
Ad Club when get back to Homo
Il 1r,lf, hat 4 ~ lot
1 ing. The Vancouver Ad Club, through
Mr.. r. Broadbridge. who is the DO
nine and Baker" of the Northwest
has presented some splendid photo
graphs of the Vancouver country to
our Honolulu library. ..@. 49,.
In Vancouver we made a practical
beginning toward the collection for
our Honolulu "Hands-Around-the-Pa