Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-21
WORLD TRAVELLER DE Luxe HAS
! GLOWING TALE Of island TRIP

crease of shipping facilities, which
never could have happened now. when
most needed, but for the demand of
the traveller.
1t was this demand for Transports
tion by the traveller that induced the
Great Northern Pacific Steamship
Company to place their palatial liner
Great Northern, and later the North
ern Pacific, her twin sister, in this
San Francisco Honolulu service. There
were other steamship lines operating
over the same route long before the
big Hill liners were built--lines whose
principal stockholders were residents
of Hawaii.
People Not lnsular.
But that made no such difference as
might have been expected beca Sc the
people down there, even though living
on an island, are not insular in the
other sense of the term. They knew
that such magnificent passenger
carriers must necessarily increase the
business of Hawaii as a whole, and
, they welcomed the advent of such a
mammoth competitor for the tourist
traffic.
Nor have the people of the islands
been disappointed. The Great North
ern Pacific Steamship people went at
this work. without ostentation, but
they went at it in business-like man.
ner notwithstanding. 1t was consid-
cradle of an undertaking, and re-
quired almost the building up of an
additional organization, for it must be
remembered that the great volume Of
tourist traffic does not necessarily
originate in San Francisco, nor even
on the Pacific coast.
Most of what we have learned to
call the tourist class come from the
other side of the Rockies, and by far
the greater majority from the Allan
tic seaboard. In order to induce these
pleasure travellers from the East to
come over and sample the hospitality
of Hawaii 1t was necessary for the
Great Northern Pacific people to inau.
gurate publicity campaign of no
small proportions. 49,
People who live in the Hawaiian
Islands, even travellers who have visit
ed there, knew all about the climatic
and scenic charms of Aloha Land, but
the residents on the mainland have t ,
be told about them, and about the
transportation facilities for getting
there. And that's what steamship
and railway people call publicity work
the simple task Of telling a few mil
lion people all about it on the chance
that few thousand may read and
believe ... r. ....
However, all that matters is that
the campaign has been successful.
The last sailing Of the Great Northern
proved that beyond the shadow of
doubt when her passenger list tota /. a
525. And so popular has become both
the voyage and the island end of it
that the company Is Obliged to press
the Northern Pacific into the service.
to help the Great Northern handle the
rush Of travellers anxious to visit
Honolulu during the life of the Mid.
Pacific Carnival
Advised to Drop Il. ~.
When this tour was first proposed
several objections cropped up, one of
them so pertinent that the steamship
people were advised to drop it. Some
steamship operators would have side
tracked the scheme as impracticable,
but Cal Stone got his commercial
training in railroad office, where the
curriculum teaches that "all things are
possible" and Mr.. Stone is bossing
the Job! The objection was that il
the job! The objection was that if a
ship Of the passenger-carrying capacity
of the Northern Pacific. with half her
accommodations utilized, entered the
lists together with the Great North
ern, and all the other regular liners,
it would mean that the hotels Of
Honolulu would be swamped.
Nobody doubted the ability of the
excellent hotels of Honolulu to handle
the business under normal conditions,
but it had to be taken into considera-
ton that travel conditions at present
are far from normal. The war on the
ether side of the world has left Ha-
wall about the only safe and comfort
and during the life of the Mid-Pacific
Carnival it was safe to predict that
the attendance would be limited only
by the possibilities of transportation.
So, in order to settle all doubts, it
was decided that yoyagers on the
Northern Pacific we're to have that
ralatial liner as their sleeping place
throughout the cruise, even while ly.
ing alongside the wharf at Honolulu
and Hilo. And as the wharf is within
easy walking distance from the city's
center, the members of this tour de
luxe will be as comfortably provided
for as though travelling in their own
private yacht. And this innovation
will mean no extra expense to the ex-
cIrsionists; all is included in the orig.
inal ticket price.
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