Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-17
IMPETUS GIVEN
To PAN.PACIFIC
MOVEMENTBYS.G,
Plans Under Way for Erection
of Headquarters Building;
Hume Ford Quoted

Impetus has been given to the Pan
Pacific movement in San Francisco
by the Foreign Trade Club and a
movement is on foot to erect Is
story building which will be the Pan
Pacific headquarters. Writing in the
San Francisco Call Of the movement,
John Fl. Gerrie says:
"Pan-Pacific is the new talisman
to conjure with!
"Pan-Pacific is another name for
Asiatic, Oriental and Australaslan
| billions.
"Pan-Pacific is entered at the Gold
en- Gate and its boundaries are al
most as limitless as its untold re-
sources.
San Francisco is the doorway to
this vast treasure house. The trade
and custom of the greatest undevel-
oped and partly developed fields ex-
tant are to be had by the Pacific
metropolis almost for the asking-for
the right kind of asking.
us San Francisco going to ask?
San Francisco is!
Luckily for this city, the Foreign
Trade Club and the 100 per cent club
and a section Of the San Francisco
Chamber of Comme~'e have been
caught in the swirl of the Pan-Paci-
fic movement. They are now part Of
the movement and before long they
are likely to be the head and shout
ders of 'he movement.
These detachments Of progressive
and far-sighted business men and Pa.
cific coast patriots are laying plans
to center the whole Pan-Pacific move
ment in San Francisco-just where it
belongs! Their plans are ambitious,
common sense and broad gagged, but
for various reasons, may be only brief.
ly touched upon at this time
THE big, outstanding feature, how
ever, is a great Pan-Pacific perma
nent exposition in San Francisco.
This Pan-Pacific exposition is to
be housed in q Pan-Pacific building,
probably Is stories and more than
likely somewhere on Market street.
1t may not be far from the Ferry
building, where all who run may read
and all who loiter may learn.
While the plans are still more or
less embryanic, It may be said that,
besides the exposition feature, there
will be a Pan-Pacific tourists infor-
nation bureau, Pan-Pacific CONNER
cial bureau and Pan-Pacific ticket
and forwarding offices. There will
also be accommodation for represen-
tatives Of all American export firms
and manufacturers catering to Pan
Pacific trade.
Leading financiers Of this city,
who foresee in this movement a ire
mendous developing factor for San
Francisco as a world metropolis, are
said to be interested in the general
scheme. Tentative plans for the Pan.
Pacific building disclose the broad
ideas of the aggressive merchants
who are backing the splendid enter
prise.
"As a flip to the Pan-Pacific
movement, the members of the For
efgn Trade Club listened to an inter.
esting resume of the Pan.Pacific
movement given in an address by
Alexander Hume Ford, secretary of
the Pan-Pacific Union, before that
body in the Merchants Exchange
building Wednesday evening Ford,
who has been active in the Pan-Pa-
cific movement for several years with
headquarters at Honolulu, related the
development of the idea in Asiatic and
Australasion lands.
In Hawaii he said, we have the
Mid-Pacific Institute, where hundreds
OF the young Of every race about the
great ocean are being educated and
our Pan-Pacific Union hopes to add
to this another great building as a
Pan-Pacific commercial college, where.
men from every Pacific land will
come to take a postgraduate course
In the trade conditions and require
ments Of other Pacific lands and peo-
pie than his own.
In China l was asked by the gov
eminent railways to organize for
China a government tourist bureau
that it might cooperate with the Pan
Pacific work and lead the Chinese to
closer knowledge Of and relationship
with other Pacific lands. For East
ern Siberia the same request was
made of me in st. Petersburg and,
but for the war, these organizations,
I believe, would now be in working
ORDER"