Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-22
Says Manila is Most Interesting
City Between Noto and
Sydney, N. S. w.
BY A. n. FORD.

and a vivacity and life that is cap
tivating. and besides that, it has just
started a weekly luncheon club with
a membership from the governor
down to the humblest Filipino
The new club, by the way, is affil
lated with the the Pa
cific Movement, which perhaps indi
Gates that had something to do with
its organization. Well | had, but. the
Merchants association backed me up
TO a man. and even after the club
was formed they invited me to ad,
dress the Merchants association on
the get-together movement.
] am leaving Saturday at three
O'Clock in the afternoon for Hong.
kong, but at noon / am the guest al
a lunch at the Manila hotel, where
we will again talk get together"
have worn my throat out talking
Honolulu" and our "Ad" club at pub.
lie meetings, and Joseph Stickney has
almost worn out the typewriter grind.
ing out articles for the press, for this
morning the Cablenews gave over
its entire editorial page to a signed
article on the Honolulu idea of get.
ting together, and ! am kept busy by
all the papers telling about how we
do things in Hawaii, and my expert
ences around the Pacific.
Strong for Spanish Lines.
There is one regret that have, and
that Is that there is not Spanish
line touching Honolulu. / took the
Spanish liner at Singapore for Ma
Mia On that Spanish boat, We had
the richest meals we have ever tast-
ed on the Pacific. They were so rich
that ] am not surprised that they
served four different kinds of wine
including champagne twice day. We
had with US Robert Luce, one of the
big men Of the City club of Boston
He is going through Honolulu and |
trust that the Ad club will capture
him. Admiral Bronson was also with
us on the trip and may go through
Honolulu, in which case he is worth
capturing for talk.
It seemed like being back in Homo
lulu to arrive In Manila, and when Joe
saw the American flag, and stepped
on what he called American soil. there
was no controlling him. There was
William Harris of the outrigger club.
He told us of all the records he had
broken in swimming matches, then
there was the day at the 0utrigger
Club of Manila on beach named
Waikiki, and Willie had formed a
swimming club there, and there were
the newspaper boys who wanted to
know all about the Manila newspaper
colony in Honolulu, and our old friend
f. A. Boardman who used to do
sports on the Advertiser in Homo.
lulu is now on the Manila Bulletin.
We had left him IN Melbourne free
lancing" it. He is back on the Ma
Mia Bulletin, and then there was the
running into George Fairchild, Mr..
Hedemann of the Iron Works, and
Brother Rabbit of the Sugar Plant
ers' association, to say nothing of real
Hawaiian boys who play the ukulele
here. Yes, 1t was like being back III
a bit of old Hawaii; and that lunch
where we talked nothing but "boost."
Why, it was just like an AID club
lunch, and we, too, held our meeting
on roof garden, and / will say frank
ly that it was the, best peso lunch I
have ever sat down to, and a peso is
fifty cents gold. 1t was interesting
to see how everyone from the govern
or and the mayor down fell right into
the plan of plunking down his own
fifty cents, and was glad to see them
do it, for / had instigated the lunch
and they might just as we'll have left
il to me- The AID club threatened to
treat me that way once If ever ad-
dressed them again.
Mid-Paeific Magazine Grows.
/ never dreamt that the editor of
the Mid-Pacific Magazine was such a
distinguished person, but after the
way that l have been treated by the
press and public officials around the
Pacific, am really beginning to have
an unbounded respect for the Mid
Pacific Magazine, which, by the way,
will nearly double in size beginning
with January, and will contain one
article a month from each country
around the Pacific. written by pre-
miers and governors and heads of
chambers Of commerce and great
men generally.
have been preaching "co-opera-
ton" ever since l started on this trip,
and | am certainly getting it. did
wish during the ten days that was in
Manila to get out and see some of the
country, but there is not a day so
far that / have not put in twelve
hours solid work; but then ] know
something now about the publicity
methods of Manila and the Philippines
and | wish to say that We have much
to learn from the Merchants associa-
ton of the manner in which it cuts
all red tape and gets down to doing
what it sets out to do. 1t supports a
publicity committee with dozen men
working in the office and it does it on
half the amount that We use. which
means that it is hampered for funds.
So we are all turning in to back the
publicity committee and to create
tourist bureau in connection with it
that will look out for the tourist after
he arrives in Manila. In this the Fill
pinos themselves are taking a great
interest. Joe is kept busy at the end
of every day taking down notes on