The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-02-22
HAWAII CAN GET . I
LARGE SHARE o..
: TOURIST TRAFFIC
Time sis Ripe and " Opportunity
I Wide Open Far Islands To-
Secure Big Travel Business
PUBLleiTY CAMPAIGN =, \
Ii g.. NOW BEING ADVOCATED
California Has More Visitors
Than Ever Before--Train
Service Adequate

MIA today than over before in it's his
tory. The ttahscopn rental trains run
ming into California are crowded TO
capacity. The time 10 ripe and the
opportunity wido open for Hawaii to
secure a large percentage Of this tOpr
ist traffic by ADVERTISING Hawaii as
never before, bcepuse Hawaii has the
ships TO carry the traffic and the &c
comm odationS to look out for them
when they reach the Isla nds.
California is carrying full page ads
in forty of the leading newspapers pc
tween San Francisco and the Atlantic
snah"ard. each one direct statement
Of the fact that the train service l. /
adequate for CONTINUOUS travel to tht
Pacific Coast, and that travel condi
toms have not been upset by the WA
situation or freight movements. Re 1
suits have been immediate.
With wideopcn advertising cam
paign by Hawaii, such as is now being
advocated, carried on among the mass :
90 OF travellers reaching California. ns
we'll as In the Eastern cities Hawaii
tourist season, which has been SERIOUS
" interrupted, can be rehabiltated,
Train service Adequate
Hawaii has been directly informed
by trafie experts In California. and:
Nv the Coast superintendent of the
local promotion body yesterday, that
despite statements originally appear
ing soon after the government tool
over the control Of the railroads that
trains had been taken on bv scores
actually no transcontiuental trains on
the important lines have been dis.
continued at all
The Pennsylvania Company has TAX.
on off quite a number Of local trains
and one train from Saint Louis to
Washington which perhaps might be
termed n main line train.
The New York Central hash t taken
of throuPh or main line train, but
has taken on locals.
The Baltimore and Ohio has taken
off hut one main line train and a few
local trains
Throughout the United States there
hash t been a single train taken on
termed n thronrh train-carrying pas.
S"ngPrS tn California. or vire versa
The lcpTth of some trains has been
rpt by, the ticking opt of club or
chair car, but even that hash I beer
done where such q ear paid for Itself
The Southern Pacific COmpany has
Mt taken off a single train, local or,
otherwise.
The trains from the East to Cali
fornia Rre Iond"d to capacity. and
many of them have been run in sec
ti6nR. -
Government Not Directing
The assistant director general Of
railroads, Edward Chambers, at Wash
ingtOn. wrote the Star Bulletin undo
HatP Of February 6. that there is h
i"tentiOn whatever Of the government
disrouraQinG travel, and finds nothing
objectionable IN The granting hv thu
governments railroad directors Of th'
usual tourist fares to California; ahi
the continuance of the usual met hod' s
Of rncOuraping travel He added
further. that he did not believe that
the travel ~ developed toward and t.
r." Pacific Coast or to Honolulu would
in any why interfere with the move
newt Of freight.
The United States Shipping RoarG
has granted to the Tovo Kisen Kaishr
steamship line. permits Of long dura
ton for the CARRYING of passen gers on
ts liners from Honolulu TO San Fran
cisco. Only the approval Of the Ia
pancsc government to the arrangement
~ necessary TO have these splendid for
riCn liners utilized for the carrying
"f island travel 10 SAP Francisco. III,
delay so FAR is OceasiOned .merelv nv
the necessity for the adjustment Of
the rates for travel.
Representative Of the principal civ
ie or dhizatiops of Honolulu are work
ihT in Washington to secure from the
shipping board the granting OF smila
PCrmits-of long duration- for the YES
soils Of the same line 10 carry passen
gers from San Francisco TO Honolulu
This effort is bound to be succcssfu'
rnd may he a matter Of only a week
Or two at the most!
Return Passage Assured
Tourists coming to Honolulu can be
absolutely assured of return pa 20
to the Coast on scheduled dates. Tho
Japanese liners are large and have
ample aud splendid accomm odations.
Advertising Hawaii ON q large scale
il the sole necessity TO seeures thi'
travel. The california papers, carry
in page lads" about Hawaii, telling
"f it's splendid "winter" climate, it
fine hotel accommodations, the seen
cry, and automobile trips. the vas
spectacle afforded at all times on the
brink Of Kilauea Volcano, will bring
results.
The travel public upon the MAINLAND
needs only to be told that steamer ar
rnmmUdatiOns both ways are available
vt "A times. and that hotel accOmmb
dntionS are ample and luxurious Il
house them while here. Honolulu has
these hotel accommodations all kind,
--nnd many Of the de luxe type TO-
those who demand them. Hawaii s In
Ter IsI@nd steamship travel is not in
t"rmnted and is ms constant as in The
days before the war.