The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-04-14
Hotel and Steamer Accommoda-
ton For Tourist Swarm Big
Requirement
WANTS HoNoLULANs TO
GET TO WORK At ONCE
Urges Real Support For Great
Northern Pacific Line In
Islands

II the sentiments Of the Adj CluI
as expressed in its applause after the
speech by Lorrin A. Thurston yester
day was the sentiment of the whol,
business community of Honolulu, this
city would soon have steamer and no
tel accommodations and to spare fol
Al the tourists who may come here in
the next five years.
Speaking of the wave of prosperity
which is at present flooding the terri
tory, Thurston said that one form OF
the preparedness, so much talked OF
just at present, is to take advantage
of the present opportunity and put our
selves in a position to take care OF
what Is coming to us in the way of al
ditonal tourist trade. This trade, he
added, has increased since 1913 from
1000 to 1000 last year with promises
this year of outdoing last years rec.
ord.
Advertising Islands
He spoke of the proposal to have
the Great Northern continue her visits
here, and told how the company has
spent $4,000 in advertising the Islands
and is already expecting to bring more
people later in the year by another ad,
vertising campaign. He declared the
Matson Steamship Company should not
feel that the attempts of Honolulu to
support the Great Northern, are tax ,ng
away its just profits, but that the move
ment is one for the Matson people to
10Y IN, as the more people that come
here the better it will be for all con
cerned, both steamers and hotels.
.ffore hotels should not make the
present hotel people feel sore, as the
more people induced to visit Hawai-
the better il would be for everybody
He had proposed the building of another
hotel to one of 1.-the big fve,' who
had been asked to put up $l50,000 and
get three others to subscribe the same
amount. The man spoken to had said
that the 'big men should keep out Of
the hotel business as if they entered
IL, there might be a suspicion that
they wanted to control things in the
Territory.
Need More Hotels
More hotels and more steamers were
what the islands needed, and Honolulu
should see to it that the steamers that
are induced to come here are so support
ed as to be able to dispense with
subsidy. Even if it proves necessary
to give the Great Northern a subsidy
to come here earlier than she was
scheduled to, it would be a fine thing
for Honolulu and the entire Territory
added Mr.. Thurston.
Speaking of the condition of the Ter
Titory two years ago, he remiu led the
members that at that IIm" free sugar
was staring the Territor. in the face
and nothing else. The times ha | chang
ed since then, he sail, and now Hawaii
Is on the crest of the way" Of Jros
,perity, and in a position to make some
thing of the natural advantages she pos
sesses.
Sugar has been up before and is 60
ing down, said the speaker. This has
been the history of the main product
or the Islands tor forty wears. The eli
mate should be capitalized. This de
ponds on no politics or tariff or Con
gress, and Mr.. Thurston urged all t.
and be prepared. In 1913 four thou
sand tourists visited the Islands, The
next year seven thousand came and las
year through the efforts of all concerned
and the assistance we were getting
from the conditions in Europe we had
entertained eleven thousand strangers.
Last year the community had been cal
led on 10 take care of some five hund
red visitors. The people of the city
had risen TO the occasion but it should
not be this way. There should be
enough hotel accommodations, and OF
the best, for all who wanted them
IL the story should get abroad, tn,
speaker pointed out, that there is mo-
room for people here hundreds woult
be afraid to come, and the Territory
would be the loser.
More Accommodations
4 The work about to be begun in on
larging the Moana Hotel is but droI
In the bucket compared with what II
going TO be needed, and there should
be several other hotels provided to &C
eommodate the people who ere coming
There has been a great deal said
about the Great Northern being a men.
nee to the Matson Navigation Com
pany. This is not so. The Matson
people want TO forget any suspicion OF
hostility on the part of the people he
cause they are backing the Great
Northern. We have backed Mr.. Mat
son up, and will continue to do so, bu,
we won 4 hand the territory over to
him. Get other steamers to supple |
ment the splendid service provided by
the Matson people and the territory
will be the gamer.
1.-THE Great Northern people are try
ing TO make their palatial steamers pay
In opposition to the railroad between
Sen F-anris"o and the North. The
are not making a great success of it as
on one trip of the Northern she took
from San Francisco but fourteen cabin
and on the trim Just befor'
I left the city she had but II. This
will not pay the company and it had
better come down here. At the same
time we 10 not want to do anything