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

Ey setting fOrtn lacIS WITHOUT pTeJu-
| the daily papers and monthly maya
zines published in Vancouver. the Sc
being on the exchange list of the
Mid Pacific" Magazine. which is ar
ranging to exchange with all of the
newspapers and other publications of
the Pacific, so that in Honolulu We
may have one great central library OF
information to Pacific matters, to be
used for free reference by anyone
from any part of the Pacific stopping
in Honolulu.
Joseph did his work in Seattle we'll,
so that when | returned from Van
couver l found Tuesday all outlined,
with its meetings at the Chamber of
Commerce, Commercial Club and AID
Club, and with the transportation or
CARNATIONS. Joe had seen to it that
there was a preliminary basis of in
formation, so that when | got in
touch with Mr.. Robert H. Mattison,
the head of the publicity, industrial
and immigration departments of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. we
simply laid out our plans for the day,
and went through with them, The
Seattle Chamber of Commerce is TAX
ing the lead in the organization of the
Northwest official tourist bureau
Portland, Seattle and Spokane have
already agreed to go into the move
ment The three or four transeonti-
mental railways will probably con-
tribute support, and it is probable
that Tacoma and Vancouver will also
unite with this plan to have one gen.
eral official tourist bureau for the
Northwest, and this will become a
part and parcel OF the Hands
Around-the-Pa work.
Mr.. Joseph Blethen. who is business
manager of the Seattle Times, is also
the president of the AID Club, and his
father, the editor of the Times. Joined
with his son in promising the strong
est support to the ''Hands-Around-
the-Pacific" work. Through Mr.. Jo-
seph Blethen, the AID Club pledged it.
self to have a great Hands Around
the-Pacific" lunch once a year in Seat
tie, and the work of boosting the
Northwest tourist bureau was at once
begun through the press.
The heads of the Alaskan and Pu-
get Sound transportation companies
with whom l conferred promised
their support, and in connection with
the $5-a-day around the Pacific cruise
rate. they will cut their rates SO that
tourists on the around-the-Pacific
cruise will be taxed to Alaska for
either ten or twenty days at the same
daily rate, and trips about the Puget
Sound country will also be arranged
at this or lower rate.
When the Official Northwest Tour
ist bureau is perfected it will take
care OF the tourist arriving in the
northwest and seek to induce him to
remain for month or more in that
region. The interest to US in Hawaii
and about the Pacific in the success
OF this Northwest Tourist bureau is
that If it can pull ten thousand tour
lists year from different parts of
the United States to the northwest
We could get lot of these to come to
Hawaii and some of them to 60 around
the Pacific. 1t will bring nearer the
day when we shall have a direct line
from Seattle to Hawaii. Mr.. Brodie
OF the Canadian Pacific told me in
vancouver that If he could send his
Empress boats by way of Hawaii
that they would be filled every trip
II 1t were not for Hawaii being under
the coastal laws as far as water trans
portaticn Is concerned. We should have
direct transpacific line from Seattle
touching Hawaii. There is hone that
before long the Union Steamship Com
pany will put on fortnightly serv-
ice to Vancouver in place of the pres
ent monthly service touching Honolu-
lu, and then when we turn our atten-
ton to bananas (which we will have
to) there will be plenty of regular
communication with the Puget Sound
country.
We have one enthusiastic booster on
several committees of the Chamber
OF Commerce in Seattle. in the person
OF George NICK. Mcclellan. our one
time representative in Washington. 7
had not been at the Chamber of Com
merce ten minutes before he Dhoned
me I'D to ask we what he could do in
Seattle to boost for Hawaii. He is do
ing splendidlv in law practice and de.
clares that if they ever get an auto
road to the top of Tantalus that he
will return to Hawaii: and seriously
speaking. believe that an auto road
to Tantalus would be about the big.
gest promotion asset that we could
get for the price. Many energetic bus
mess men who falsely imagine that
our climate is enervating. might be
induced to locate in Hawaii if they
could be assured of cool nights in the
mountains within 80 minutes of their