The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-08
It IS THIRTY THOUSAND
Or NOTHING FOR THE FAIR
A Meeting of the Promotion Committee Yes
terday---FuIl Text of Secretary Carriers
ietter-The Need of Fine Display.

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that under no circumstances could ex-
hibits be placed in the state buildings,
but an exception has been made in the
case of Alaska on condition that she
valves all rights to compete for awards
and prizes.
After thus gaining all the informa-
ton 1 could, I was introduced to Mr..
F. J. " Skiff, the director-general of
exhibits. He is a man who has made
these fairs a special study and has
taken an active part in all of them, be-
ing selected by the United States Gov
eminent to take general charge of it's
exhibit at Paris. You can tell Mr.. Ir-
win that Mr.. Skiff says that he repre-
scented Hawaii in as handsome style at
Paris as any country Mr.. Skiff began
right off by saying that they would
make every concession possible to Ha-
wall and when I read him your letter
suggesting our hard woods as part of
the installation of the Agricultural ex-
hibit he fell right into line and said
they would construe the rules literally
for US, that they would take our sisal
and classify it as agricultural product,
claiming that the manufacture of it
was a mere incident, and that he being
familiar with the exhibits we had made
at Buffalo and Paris, he thought 1t
could all be worked into the Agricul-
tural building, except the weapons,
calabashes and implements used by the
ancient Hawaiian. This must of neces-
sity be classified under the department
of anthropology and as their exhibit
| would be weak in this line, and they
would be very glad to give Hawaii a
room exclusively for her own use, and
| would be pleased if she would make a
special exhibit of Hawaiian curios.
He then called Mr.. F. w. Taylor,
chief of the Department of Agriculture
and Horticulture, to find out whether
or not there was any space left. Mr..
Taylor said that it had all been allotted,
| but that he was so anxious to have
Hawaii represented, that he would cut
| down the allotment of others, and if I
| would go with him to his room, he
would show me just the space that he
| could give. In printed matter is a map
showing the floor plan of the Agricul-
| tural building, and Mr.. Taylor guaran-
] teed to reserve one-half of block
eighty-six, a space 40x41 #, and on
talking with him, I told of Mr.. Cooke S
| suggestion of a modern sugar planta-
| ton. This interested him and he then
| told me the row of blocks down the
middle of the building had been reserv-
ed for special exhibits,-one for cot
ton, wheat, corn, sorghum, ETC., and
that one would be reserved for sugar
These he proposed to handle somewhat
as follows:
He would allow those who exhibited
the special products to rival each other
in the display,-for instance: The mar
who exhibited what appeared to hin
the best exhibit of corn, would be giver
a space in the central aisle, and if we
made a special display of sugar which
was better than that offered by Louisi
ana or the beet-sugar men, he might
allow the use Of part of this centra
square for US. This struck me as {
scheme which you would probably lik,
to take advantage of.
After leaving Mr.. Taylor, went bacl
to Mr.. Reeves and asked him for sug
gestions of site in case you decided tt
, put up building. He took a blue pen
ell and marked the map, which I sen
r you, saying you could practically make
, your own selection within certain linn
it's, and that as an exception had beer
made for Alaska, if you preferred, h
would guarantee a space for Hawai-
under the same conditions, so that vol
! could confine your entire exhibit in thu
building. Now, I conclude that yol
i, will probably prefer to do this, although
1 really think Fred that we SHOULD
make a special exhibit in sugar ant