Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-25
By ALEXANDER HUME FORD.


OFF SHANGHAI. Mar. 3l.-How
would you like TO get up from big
MONDAY banquet with the governor
general, the admiral. the mayor, the
archbishop, and all OF the leading bus
mess men present. and just as the
speeches begin, hurry away TO catch
a waiting steamer?
That Is what had to do al the Ma
Mia hotel at the big get-tOSeiher
luncheon OF the City Club OF Manila,
with Joe Letter as one of the guests
CT honor, and the scheduled speak IT
OF the City Club at the lunch next
Tuesday; and after ALL this great big
club is going to be really an "Ad"
Club. for ii has practically decided
to change its name from the City Club
10 the Philippines Advancement
League so as to interest all OF the
Filipinos. Moreover, several o. the
Honolulu Ad Club members were in
Manila last week, with the result that
as there was not sufficient numerical
strength to start an independent AID
Club. that IL will get together and Or
ganize as a chapter OF the Philippines
Advancement League. meeting with
them every Tuesday at lunch, and if
at any time the big league omits a
lunch, the Ad Club of Manila will go
right on and have its lunch ind1pend-
emily, but at the same time and place
This is agreeable to both parties, and
as the Philippines Advancement
League will naturally kecorne known
as the Ad Club, what's the difference?
except that the Manila AID Club Is
working under a understandable
Pacific charter which gladly vel,
comes the chapter of the Philippines
Advancement League.
We had a delightful trip to Hong
kong en- q small steamer and no one
seasick Hongkong certainly gave
the Hands-Around-the,Pa Pacific idea e
royal welcome, and Honolulu and its
Ad Club are now known TO the peo-
pie Of Hongkong through the press.
y am always glad to talk to the press
about Hawaii, and its Importance as
the hub OF the Pacific. Ill.
The British mind is ruminative and
il likes to chew the cud of an idea I'M
til thare is not much left of the cud
or the idea, but when they do get
down to anything, a thorough founda-
ton Is laid and a magnificent struc-
ture erected. Hongkong is an ex-
ample Of this. II is a wonderful city.
There are more big buildings in three
blocks than we have In all Honolulu,
and while there are no wooden build
ings with their great spacious lanais,
far up on the sides of the hills are
marble. stone and brick palaces as
magnificent as anything in Italy ]
do not say that Hongkong is as
beautiful as Honolulu. but IL We would
unite on the architectural play for
our town as Hongkong has, we
would have the nose beautiful city In
the world. = ID
Just imagine the ocean sweeping
up Manoa Valley within a few hun,
bred yards OF the waterfall that drops
down to its head, great solid bust
ness city built on this narrow bit of
land, and then magnificent. palatial
villas built on the surrounding noun
tains for about a mile up and then
along the top ridge, and cable rail.
way ascending to this, and you have
some idea of the beauty of Hongkong
But then, after Honolulu has been q
free port for a generation, We will
probably have something OF this sort,
as Honolulu spreads across the isl.
and .EE-