Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-25
F. c. Weber Tells AID Club
Some OF the Things That
Can Be Bettered

+ ,An Informal talk Ia the Honolulu
! Ad club TUESDAY. July p. 10y F e.
/ Weber ol Los Angeles, leader ,i a
| party cf Parillc coast tourists
f viii speak frankly and some of
/ The things say will uo, hc compile
wrEtar, lat / will say thom in the
p, belief that you wish 10 know Low !
Iarlualb found them This is cur first
iCh,urSiu a. the Hawaiian islands
+ Our party consists of eighteen per
Sons. mostly school teachers. We be
4 gan making up the party last Octobe-
and tried TO find some one wiro could
! give us definite information as 70 what
lit would cost to make the trip, and
! lust what We should see. bat through
ICut southern California | couldn't find
! no one who could give me the informa
! tiCn desired OF course il takes some
| time for mail 70 go back and forth, and
we had a lot of difficulty in getting
any information at all this way from
| Hawaii. The literature that | secured
| in Los Angeles was very incomplete
! In most eases the cost was omitted
/ We would write to the person presu-
! mably. as far as we knew. vino would
! he posted and responsible, and the
/ prices that he sent us were altogether
different from the few prices quoted
| i'm the literature We wrote about
this and the reply was that the liter.
allure was out Of date. How were we
TO know that it was out of date? There
certainly was no date marked on any
of the literature.
AS far as my impressions concern
ing the islands are concerned. I can
say for my whole party that they are
now enthusiastic boosters for Honolu
In and the Hawaiian Islands. They
are enthusiastic over the scenery. the
people and the good times they have
had. You have got the goods in seen.
cry. You have got the people. The
people we have met have been invari-
ably courteous, anxious and willing to
help us in any way.
Must Have Better Service.
AS | said, you have got the goods
in the scenery and the people, but
you haven't got the goods in the way
of service. You have got good many
things here, although you are well adj
vertised, that the outside world doesn't
know you have. We were not able up
to the time that we left California to
find out what trip from Honolulu to
the island of Maui and up the summit
of Haleakala would cost. and hardly
any of our information here was at
all definite. This is very necessary to
me, for have to tell my people frs,
what we will do when we set out and
Just what il will cost them We had
TO do a lot of guessing on this trip,
and many times we guessed wrong.
but before leaving the state we had
no way of finding out ....sI
Take the trip to Haleakala. The
trip from the Maui hotel in WaiIuku
to 0linda and thence by horseback to
the summit and return to Waikiki,
costs us $21 per person This to us
seemed exhorbitant Many Of the
horses were not safe; some of us we're
seated on the floor of the automobile.
The saddles were bad, some of them
tied in places with cotton string, and
at any time liable to slip and some of
them did, and a few OF our party took
"a tumble, but luckily no one was hurt.
The whole journey was run in a hap
hazard way. We had no accommoda-
ton hut at the summit, only the old
stone house with the hard floor. Now