The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-09

STRONG MEN ARE INTERESTED
Exhibits From San Francisco.
Scheme for Attractive Affair.
Permanent Display.

CChas. T. Wilder, who has served
Hawaii as Consul-General at San Fran
cisco, has been approached by Califor-
nian men who desire that a big eXposi-
tion shall be held here. Mr. Wilder
has written of the matter to Minister
Cooper and others. Below is one of
the letters received):
San Francisco, Dec. %, 1898.
A representative body of the manufac-
turers, merchants and producers of the
Pacific Coast have resolved to hold an
Industrial Exposition and Agricultural
Fair at Honolulu in the near future,
which shall combine a full and complete
display of the agricultural and other pro-
ducts of the Hawaiian Islands with an
exhibition of the manufacture, industries
and products of the Pacific Coast
The aims and objects Of such an eXposi-
ton are to bring into closer relationship
the business interests of the Islands and
the Coast and to create and encourage
such feelings of amity and mutual in
terest, that American capital shall be en-
couraged and induced to assist in de-
veloping the many and varied interests
of the Hawaiian Islands and of thei.'
trade with American ports
The merchants and manufacturers of
San Francisco believe that such an eX-
position would greatly assist in accom-
plishing these desired results by bringing
the various resources and products of the
Hawaiian Islands to the immediate atten-
ton of the American people represented
in the exhibitors and visitors at such "a
display. and by introducing at the same
time the new and improved methods, ma
chinery and products of American indus
tries TO the Hawaiian people.
1t is a matter of worldwide experience
that eXpositions and fairs are the forerun-
ners and school teachers of commerce
and that it is chiefly through this strk-
ing form of education that producers,
consumers and investors are brought in
contact and are led to form closer re-
lationship for the development of trade,
thus achieving swiftly that degree of
commercial activity which would other
wise require years to obtain.
The organizers of the coming eXpos-
ton and fair desire to have the hearty
cooperation of the merchants, producers
and business men of the Hawaiian
Islands, as they have already the
dorsement and support of the merchants,
manufacturers, producers and shippers of
the Pacific Coast, and they expect to
have the official endorsement and sup
port of the Legislature of California and
of the Congress of the United States.
They earnestly solicit the confidence, CO.
operation and good viii of all classes of
the Hawaiian people, to the end that this
exposition will not only be a commercial
and industrial success, but also that it
shall be and remain a notable and mem
orable event in the history of the Hawaii
an Islands, commemorating, as it will,
the admission of the Islands into the Am
erican Republic.
In order that the exposition may be SO
conducted as to accomplish the foregoing
results and give the utmost satisfaction
TO its exhibitors, it is the intention of its
management that it shall be organized
along practical lines and that the details
of its organization and conduct shall be
placed in charge of experienced men ia
miliar with the business of conducting
such exhibitions and accustomed to make
them successful.
1t is expected that the exposition Will
be made self-supporting by the sale of
space and concessions and the income
from admissions. 1t is also intended that
a fund shall be devoted to the giving of
prizes for competitive exhibitions.
The liability of each exhibitor VIII be
limited TO the price of the space required
for the display and the cost of his booth.
Photographs of the latest devices and i'm
provements in the form and adornment Of
booths and in the matter of making ar
tistic displays viii be placed at the dis
posal OF exhibitors, while experienced art
isans viii be available to assist in making
the most attractive and pleasing exhibit.
1t is also the desire of the organizers Of
this exposition to secure the largest pos
sible attendance OF the Hawaiian people
by not only making the price of admission
nominal, but also by furnishing such a
variety OF entertainments. embracing and
illustrating the various phases and feat
ures of Hawaiian life and customs inter-