Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-16

native mating. The front part OF the
tuilding was filed with natives. who
are admitted for ''sa bias SEN or IL
cents, about 4 cents L. s. currency.
My own admission having cost me
two gulden plus 20 sen tax. The ma.
tives were a motley half-naked aggre-
gation Of humanity, who chartered ur-
ceas:ngly. The first picture shown
was a stereopticon view of the queen
CT Holland and the Princess Juliana,
seated in luxury in the royal palace,
and they cheered. family ] viii adj
NIT. but they cheered, these down
trodden, tax-burdened. illiterate slaves
Ct the government opium kit and pawn
shop; and then to complete their JOY
a picture of a battleship was shown.
A Dutchman sitting next to me in
formed me that these pictures were
always shown to educate the natives.
Fcrd says "he was hattered to find
the Mid-Pacific Magazine at the tour
list bureau. The copy i saw was 3
months old and still showed signs of
life. He says: Java is satisfied"
agree with him. A more complacent
set Of individuals I have never met
two in particular, the manager of the
Grand Hotel at Djock jakarta. and that
Of the Grand Hotel De Java, Batavia.
Both Informed me that they did not
want tourists, that their rooms were
occupied by their own people. and to
! them 1t would make no difference II
they never saw tourist found
later this seemed to be the general
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out the island, but naturally not that
of the Javanese tourist bureau.
Ford approves of their tourist liter
ature, the Dutch government rising,
1--WE thank you, kind sir, and recon-
mends the adoption Of some of their
| improvements in Hawaiian literature.
have before me package of liter
lature issued by the Promotion Com
mittee. also that of the Javanese tour
ist bureau. The Hawaiian literature |
find to be as fully complete and a
great deal more reliable.
"The tourist bureau. says Ford,
| finds that the tourist who has seen
Java Is more apt to prolong his shay
! on his return to Java. This is direct
| ly opposite to the opinions of tourists
whom met, and in four months ] had
| the privilege of meeting a consider.
able number. An elderly gentleman
and his wife, who had come from Aus
tralia, attracted by the brilliantly
! painted literature, had planned to
spend six months in the island They
/ stayed two weeks and caught the next
steamer, thankful to get away. The
| majority complain bitterly of the lack
of personal comforts, the food, poor
service and their inability to make
themselves understood
I quote from a pamphlet issued by
the J.. T. B.: The European staff
speaks the modern languages, the
! runners and head walters understand
English sufficiently. Without taking
up the question of the natives speak
ing the English language. I found thai
very few of the European staff spoke
English. Having knowledge of Ma.
lay, ! was able to make myself under
stood fairly well. Malay being the Ian
suage universally spoken.
I have nothing but admiration for
Ford's active, energetic manner, but
| II seems to me he should have taken
= time to compute the coinage of the
country. A Dutch gulden is 40c u. s.
currency; therefore when Ford quotes
the hotel rates throughout Java ST OF
| $500 a day, he should instead have
said $40 per day. Compare his state
ment that the hotel rates throughout
Java are six guldens or 40 per day.
| with that of the j.. t. B.: The price
/ is six gulden per diem in the small
places, but commonly seven gulden In
the large ones. Some of the first rate
| hotels have minimum of ST. and
they have larger apartments and sep
arate bungalows up to IL gid. a day
As matter of fact tourists are In
variably put in rooms ranging from
rs to IL gld..- If one inquiries for a
cheaper room, they are always oceu
ipied. ( How beautiful that statement
you may be charged gid. possibly. I
gid. presumably and s gid. generally
/ Ford says "the cooking at these hotels
> is enough to tempt the Pope himself
to omit fast days from his calendar
Ny condolences to the pope and my
sympathies with his gastric apparatus
You rise in the morning after an ex
! cessively hot, sultry night; /. e. in Ba
tavia or any other of the coast towns
| sleep being an impossibility to the
stranger unused to the climate, push
aside mosquito net that is'a fail
imitation of burlap, throw on a bath
robe and hasten to the bathrooms
with visions of a cold tub or shower
Instead you find a small cement well
in the corner filled with water, some
times fresh, more often otherwise
and there you find small dipper. Tht
modus operandi is to stand in ths
middle of the bath house and by means
of the dipper throw water over your
self, and when you have finished place