Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-09
ey ALEXANDER HUME FORD. =

OF the SUCCESS OF the movement else
where. Our speakers are beginning
to pass now from one country to an,
ether. In Honolulu you got one OF
the first in Sir Newton Moore, who
was practically the speaker at the
birth of the Millions Club of Perth,
West Australia, which is branch of
the Observation-Disclosures" Club,
You should soon he getting Joe Lei
ter, who is headed your way on his
yacht, the Niagara. He was tho first
speaker of the "City Club" of Manila,
which Is another branch of ~ the
Observation-Disclosures. He should
be captured by the Ad Cluts fer talk.
Fer six days / have BEEN debating
eight to 10 hours lay. and for an.
other six days until we reach st.
Petersburg /. expect to be working
just as hard, and perhaps then I win
have my papers in such order that ]
can get out the report of the tourist
bureas of the Pacific that the Aur-
tralian government intends publish
ing. $50 - e.. .-.-*. |-.sa ..
10 Perhaps what has surprised me
most was the eagerness with which
Japan came right into the movement.
To have all the countries OF the Pa
cific work together as a unit to at.
tract travel to the big ocean, and en-
tirely around the Pacific. =.
IS II can have my way with the min
lister of communications In St Peters
burg there will be a daily mail from
Shanghai to- st. Petersburg and Mos
COW that will make the trip in Ia
days, two days longer than the
time made by the ranssiberian ex-
press from Picking, but ct cost OF
less than half as much. Think Of
going from Shanghai, China, to the
center of Europe for the sum OF $780,
including your berth for the entire
distance. 1t is true YOU have to pro-
vide your own blankets and sheets,
but after you are accustomed to this
mode of travel, you will infinitely
prefer 1t. It Is the universal custom
in Russia to provide your own blaI.
kets and sheets at the hotels; in. fact,
some hotels rent you merely the
room, the bed and the mattress, so
you had better have your bed cloth
ing with you anyway. ~.
Travel in Russia.
There is very little difference in
Russia between the mail trains and
the cars of the wagon It's" The
difference is in the cost CT transpor.
tation and the desire of making the
trip in one day less time. The first
class cars have staterooDs with an
upper and lower berth. The second
class cars have four berths, two up
per and two lower and are just as
Often, If there are two
of you, you may get on of these
rooms to yourselves, but as there are
never more than four in one of these
and as they extend en-.
tirely across the car, save for the mar.
row corridor en- one side, and this is
the broadcast gauge railway in the
world, you can see the room you have
The advantage of the mail train Is
the frequent stops, when you can get
out and walk, or dinC in the station
buffet. You make the trip across
from Vladivostok 10 ST. Petersburg
IN less than IL days anyway, against
{ day or two less by the cypress; but
the real enjoyment IS getting out and
seeing something o. the towns and
the strange costumei nomeds at the
stations. This makes it worth while
10 go by the mail train.
| know that the Russian govern.
ment Is contemplating doing some
thing with its regular daily mail scr.
vice, to make it better known. and II
shall try to get the minister of COM
to establish o tourist bu.
eau at VladivostOk that will cooper
ate with US, and VIC will distribute
the literature of Siberia around the
n Russia and Europe. End this is most
for | have gotten our trans
Pacific transportation people to see
that by making use L: the low rates
on the local mail traiT* across Russia
and Siberia and givil a combination
rate across the Pacific by way Of ia
ian and Hawai-. th>t m.ry western
Am orleans in Europe will be tempted
tC return to San Francisco by this
route, instead OF bacl: by the old way
across the Atlantic AID the American
ointment.
| would not ask fer more comfort. |
able travel than ! anl nnw enjoying.
although believe tat would put q |
force of Japanese as janitors in
charge of the cars. &C the Japanese
are extremely clean and the Russian
iaborer is quito the reverse This is |
the chief point that i wish TO empha-
size with the minister Of communica-
lions. Once a trained force of men,
who know how to keep cars clean. is
put at work across Siberia, the daily !
mail train will be fit for anyone in |
the world to trave' ly. either first or