Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-22

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With the marked changes brought
! about by our new Industrial coBdi-
tons, Hawaii and Honolulu in parti-
cular must look very largely indeed
| for circulation money to sources 9th
er than sugar dividends.
Fortunately We have two large trade
assets in sight--the army and navy
and the tourist. Our business inter
ests can be depended upon to proper
~ care for and develop trade with
| the officers and men in the military
forces on Oahu whose strength it is
gratifying to know is likely to be in
creased rather than diminished. Thus
steadily adding to the income from
| this source. -.... ... Il
| But the tourist has the greatest
value as a producer of god tonnes; II
| is safe to say that every tourist visit
| ing Hawaii is worth on the average
at least $500 to the territory. Within
practically two decades Southern Cali
fornia has been changed from an ap-I
parently worthless sterile land into
one of the richest communities in the
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thousands of tourists and homeseek-
ers who have literally crowded each
other for the opportunity to buy the
privilege of residing in a climate
more congenial than their own.
What Southern California claims to
have, Hawaii has and more-our eli
mate is Incompatible. Conditions for
short stay or for home building are
the very best--oar mountains and val
legs afford outings such as will never
be forgotten, while there is no such
sea bathing the world over as can bel
enjoyed at Waikiki. Then there are
special features, any one of which is
well worth joarneying around the
world to see. The volcano of Kilauea,
the crater of Haleakala, lao Valley,
the Pail, Waimea canyon. etc. ~
Hawaii as tourist resort is al
ready becoming world renowned, the
long years of hard work and dreary |
waiting have passed and we are now
rapidly coming into our own.
Our tourist agent, the Hawaiian |
Promotion Committee, was organized
about ten years since for the purpose
of securing for the territory greater
amount of publicity as tourist re-
sort than it had hitherto received.
The results have been increasingly
satisfactory as the years have gone
by and the standing of~the committee
as a reliable source Of information has
become more generally known.
The returns from Hawaii's tourist
crop for the past three Years have
been estimated as follows:
1911 Sl,oI5,UUU
1917 49,. Iy1DU,UUU |
1918 ............... 100000
If the plans of the AID Club can be
put through 1914 and 1915 will vastly
exceed 1913.
In the beginning the amount eXpend-l
ed annually varied from $4,000 toll
$4,000 The past year the sum of
$4,000 was obtained from various
sources and it is hoped most sincere
ly that from $4,000 to $4,000 per
year may be secured for the next
three years as this period will mean
everything to HaWaii's future as a
tourist resort We must clinch our
former work with strong blows.
We are now enjoying the very best
summer business we have ever had
and the residents of Hawaii should
be greatly encouraged to continue and
increase the active work of the com
mittee, which since the reorganization
Of the Chamber of Commerce has been
placed on a more stable basis than
~
An immediate fund of $4,000 is
needed to provide folders for which
there is rapidly increasing demand.
For instance our nail about ten days
ago brought the Promotion Committee
1900 selected and typewriter adj
1esses of parties who had spent all or
4 part of last winter In Florida. New
are now coming in at the
rate of from 1000 to $500 per week.
Every railway, steamship and tour
st agency practically the world over
carries information about Hawaii and
IS in constant correspondence with the
ocal office
Within the last month orders have
,een received by the Promotion Com.
nittee from Thomas Cook & Son, Lon
ion, to draw on them for quite large
sums of money wherewith to meet the
expense of certain parties due next
August and September.
The present Hawaii Promotion Com
nittee is made up as follows: f. A.
3erndt, chairman. merchant; Edward
rowse, vice chairman. printer; John
sffinger, merchant; j. ID. McInerny.
merchant; zeno X, Myers, insurance
With the CONSENT and annroyal Of Il