Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-26
Woods Report,
TO BE FAVORABLE.
To HOTEL PROJECT
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this morning. ~... FL
MI. Woods, he.4 said, "the Star
Bulletin wants to tell Honolulu peo-
pie just what you will recommend.
They are vitality interested and want
to know. We do not wish to press you
but how will you report?''
very favorably. ~. j ~
...Will that mean building here or
taking over already established bust
ness in local hotels or both ?"
Il cannot say
When will youriproject begin ?"
As soon as you have sufficient
steamers and decent roads.
Woods said many nice things about
Honolulu but not about her highways.
1T mas been truly said that one
does not have to die to go to heaven,
he remarked, .'but after riding over
some of the roads here he might as
well be dead
That Honolulu would have more
steamers soon, Woods was confident
Whether the roads become better de.
ponds on the people here, he said.
What Hawaii Needs TO Do.
In an earlier statement, Mr.. Woods
said
"First-Furnish more and better
transportation facilities than now ex.
list between the coast and the islands.
"Seeond-Furnish more-far more
hotel accommodation than now ex.
lists.
Third-Improve your automobile
roads. ~.
AS 70 ship transportation, cannot
speak too highly Of the accommoda.
tions and the service on the Matsonia.
The Matsonia and the smaller passen.
ger boats now running here are, how
ever, entirely, insufficient to meet the
present demands. personally know
that there are many who desire to
come to Honolulu who are not coming
because they cannot get the accommo-
dalton that they want in the steamers.
The kind of persons whom you want
and who want to come here are not
content to make one of three In a
stateroom. nor to take back or poorly
ventilated rooms. They want the best
there is to be had, and will not come
unless they can get 1t. > p
= "As to hotel accommodations, do
not understand me as criticizing the
quality or management OF the present
hotels. / am staying at the Moana,
and / could not be better accommo.
dated Or more courteously treated any.
where.
THE point make is that your
high-class accommodation ! Is entirely
too limited. More especially do the
better class of the American travelling
public insist upon private baths being
connected with every room. The ex.
tension of facilities now going on Is
most commendable, but my belief Is
that much greater accommodation IS
needed than is now unGer construction
to meet the demands of the travelling
public ~-.s. .s-.
aAs TO automobile roads, you per-
haps do not understand down here
how the demand for automobile roads
has developed during the last two OF
three years all over the United States.
Automobiles have passed from being a
luxury to positive necessity. There
are so many places where hundreds OF
miles of perfect automobile roads are
now available to tourists that great
numbers simply will not go to any
place which lacks good automobile
roads .= rs.
Il went around this island the other
day. The road between here and Ha-
leiwa was perfect. On the windward
side of the island it was not so bad
as its reputation, but, at the same
time, it was not what it ought to be.
The road between town and the Moana
hotel is the absolute limit. i cannot
understand how SO intelligent com.
munity can permit it to exist in its
present condition"
Whan Ynur Ewes Neel Fare