Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-16
the trip did not take a day Ie,ger.
Hamhurn-Anrerican Plans,

the trip did not take day Ie.,ger
Hambur0-Ameriean Plans.
In Hamburg met with same OF
the directors OF the Harnburg~Ameri-i
can, and learned that there is a pos
siEility. with the opening OF she Pana,
ma Canal, of the Hamburg American
line engaging in passenger traffic on
the Pacific. and If this comes about.
the company will take up with the
Hands-Around-the. Pacific officers the
matter OF co-operating with our
pound-a-day Pacific cruise.
Both this company and the Scandi-
ravian Steamship Co., with hesdquar.
tiers in Copenhagen, are wiling to Co
operate in the plan to make = very
low rate around the world, nv way
of the trans-Siber:an Railway daily
mail trains and our Pacific steamers.
In Bremen conferred with sume Of
the directors of the Nordde.st fischer
Lloyd, and secured their PROMISE Of
cooperation on the Pacific, and
clinehed the matter of using their
lines from Singapore 70 the Philip
pines in connection with our 3i,a-day
around the Pacific cruise 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 Just put.
ting on line of steamers from Singa-
pore, through the Dutch East Indies,
to German New Guinea, Samoa and
Sydney, and this will be loored upI
with the pound-a-day cruise
In Amsterdam, I received an enthu.,
siastic reception from he directors of
both the Royal Dutch Packet Com
pany and the Stoomvaart Maatschap-
pi ''Nederland,p and We held q confer
enee in regard to promotion work in
Java, for these two companies are the
chief supporters of the Official Tour.
ist Bureau of Java. Fhey expressed
a willingness to double their eflatrihu-
tions to carry on the work Of the Java
tourist bureau II necessary, and they
are eager to see its scope widened,
For instance, they are willing &c con-,
tribute toward the establishment Of
an official tourist bureau in Singa
pore that will distribute at that great
gateway the literature Of lava and
the Pacific. have secured tbs prom
ises from several OF the Pacific tourist
bureaus of SIS Mexican month
toward the establishment OF such e.
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 a committee of citizens
there is still busy promoting the PLAN
Working for mid. Pacific
1t may be needless to state that in
London am securing promises of
number of articles for the mid Pa
elf" Magazine from The big men Of
the Pacific who are VISITING In Lon
don, and who are stationed here. IL
is surprising the number OF titled;
men you meet in a day at lunch
in London, and the man with q title
natural ability, ard G knowledge Of
any Pacific land. is lucky If he es.3
capes from the same lunch table at
which am seated without promising
an article for the 'Mid-Pacific. for
the Americans do like titles; and I
am even asking King GEORGE mot Of
England, but Of Tonga for an article
from his pen ] like the idea Of hay.
ing royalty on my staff
Getting Ready for Home.
Joe and ! are getting packed now
to start for home and Waikikl. We
have not yet had time to see sny Of
the sights Of London. except as We
dash along the streets from enc Pa
cific bureau to another, but there are.
some Hawaiian hula dancers at the
Anglo American Exposition here, and
suppose we should really to
report to the Civic Federation see
how the hula is done in London. Joe,
however, says he would rather go
over to Paris for day. think he is
afraid those hula dancers wouEE make
him too humesick for Waikiki and
[ the big waves that INST be rolling
/ In about now. ~