Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-16

| AASn PoSS ~H~t
! the Russian Volunteer Fleet and the
| Minister OF Communications. be-
| Iieve that plan will be put in opera
ton to sell the through ticket from
London to San Francisco by way Of
| Hawaii for $3.50, second class rail.
including sleeper, and first class on
the steamer. Backed by the repre-
, sentatiEes Of the several tourist bu-
reaus in London, am getting Thos-
: Cook 4 Son to establish Pacific de-
partment in their great Offices near
ST. Paul's Cathedral At present il
takes several days tramping all over
London to get any general informa-
ton about the Pacific, and then 1t is
meager in the extreme.
1 Fine London Headquarters.
My headquarters in London are nat
urally in the Commonwealth build
ing, which has the most magnificent
| location in London, being built on a
triangle on the Strand. Wei say we.
] for j always count Percy Hunter and
myself as we-are turning the ground
floor into a tourist bureau, and here
/ Hawaii will be- represented in Lon
don. trust in time, with the assist
ance of the sugar and pineapple peo-
pie, that we can keep representative
in the worlds metropolis. At pres
ent, however, Hunter and his full
force are all boosters for Hawaii, most
of them habing been entertained in
Honolulu on their way through from
Australia to London, and Hunter is
40 rife ond fun
bo+s to Hawaii for 6, six months stay,
the boys entering school in Honolulu.
London Gets Luncheon Habit +
We have an "AustraIasian Club" in
London now that meets at weekly
! Iuncheons. The second lunch was
held at the Hotel Cecil yesterday
with about a hundred present, or
more than twice as many as at the
first meeting. This organization Will
give the annual Hands Around-the-
Pacific banquet in London. :s
Both Joseph Stickney and I are Wis
ting all of the information bureaus
maintained in London by Pacific coun-
tries. Some of them are superbly and
luxuriously fitted up. think the best
that have seen is that OF British
Columbia. In the reading room is
every daily, weekly and monthly pub
location of Pacific Canada, while there
Is no kind of information concerning
British Columbia that, can't be Sc
cured here in pamphlet and pictorial
, form. Unfortunately New Zealand is
still hiding herself away. Victoria,
New South Wales and. Tasmania have
combined and have a magnificent dis
play. in fact they utilize six floors
OF the CommoRwealths building on the
Strand. and are sending steady
stream of immig pts back to Eastern
Australia as wen many t6uffsts.
Need Of Education. ss,5....
1t is wonderful how little the peo.
pie of London know about Pacific
lands, and IL we can only get all of
the Pacific interests together in one
building where they can work to.
gether for the Pacific, great educa.
tional campaign might be carried on.
At present there seems to be some
hope that the plan for the Dominion
Building opposite Che Common.
wealth Building will go through.
There is about an acre of ground here
The most valuable acre in london
that Earl Grey has secured antoption
on for twelve months, In hopes of
getting all of the British colonies to
subscribe for the binding 1t is my
hope that the countries or the Pacific
viii do something toward enlarging
this scheme, so that the building will
become an all-Pacifie building in Lon
don. l believe that if this were
DONE it would be easier to raise the
great amount. of money necessary to
purchase the land and put up the
building, as 1t is by no means certain
at present that the British colonies
vii! raise the funds asked of them by
Earl Grey. 81 .<..'>< .,
The Pacific is just beginning its
attempt to arouse Europe to the i'm
portance and attractions of tn. Great
Ocean,. Japan, for instance, eontem-
plates branch of her tourist bureau
in Berlin, while Australia is looking
into the matter of having its tourist
agencies in several of the great CEN
tiers of European population aid Java
has quite a bureau in AmstC rdam,
while the tourist bureaus of Sweden
and Denmark are quite willing 70 CO.
operate and assist il securing tourist
travel from London to the Pacific
Coast by the ideal scenic route via
Hamburg. Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Finland and st. Petersburg. | have
twice entered Russia from Europe,
going through Germany and Poland
not particularly interesting ride.
This time | made the trip by rail
through Finland and across the ISL
and-dotted Baltic Sea to STOCKHOLM.
and thence by rail and ferry toat to
Hamburg. There were severa! hours
in Stockholm for riding about, and
several hours in Copenhagen, and yet