The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16
PROMOTION IN CALIFORNIA.

TempIar al san fIdHC1SSo IL
ceeded in brilHancy all the conclaves
!. by which it had been preceded. The
Kingdom of Hawaii was then repre-
scented. not only in one sense by the
i Hawaiian Knights Templar, but by
the Hawaiian band, which was one OF
the most attractive features of the
celebration.
From all accounts, the Triennial
ConcIave of 1904, held in the same
metropolis, was among the grandest
pageants ever witnessed in the United
states. 1t would be impossible even to
enumerate its most distinctive feat
ures. The daylight scene on Market
street, when 10000 knights formed a
procession, or at night when the COM
bination of electric lights was ablaze,
must have been and is pronounced to
have been magnificent.
| But this time and formally, Hawaii
was not represented. The Territory
was as unrecognizable there as in the
International Exposition at st. Louis.
The knights and the crowds by which
they were accompanied from every
part of the Union, had arrived in par
ties and under special arrangements,
and, when the last sparks of the splen-
did illumination had expired, they re-
turned to their homes. Although Mr..
Edward NJ Boyd. the Secretary Of the
Hawaiian Promotion Committee, was
on the ground, it was impossible for
him to organize even one excursion
party TO visit Honolulu.
The entire affair, without violating
any of the proprieties, through the
perfect organization that has been eff
fected within three years, became an
unique and gorgeous advertisement for
California. The greetings of the Gov
ernor of the State and of the Mayor of
San Francisco were impressed with the
stamp of Pacific hospitality. Not only
tire commonwealth, were turned over
TO the visitors. In every direction local
productions and invitations TO settle
ment were prominent. The Mechanics
Pavilion, on its main floor, became a
grove of redwood trees, in which Santa
Rosa Commandery presided. Califor-
MIA and Golden Gate Communicates
furnished unlimited supplies of Cali
fornia wines and delicacies. San Jose
reproduced a Santa Clara
fiower-garden. Napa soda flowed in
quantities to suit the thirst of the tens
of thousands of guests. The substan-
tial products of the state from wheat
TO gold were profusely exhibited. Shops |
contained signs that told where ac-
be procured. Promotion literature of |
the best quality, reduced to the small |
est volume and crammed with SYSTEM
atized facts, was accessible in every |
quarter. Order and precision were
without a flaw. The best citizens were
divided into committees each of which
did it's work and all of which were CO.
ordinated. There was no unbending
Journalism in banquets, in receptions or
in the vast diversity of amusements,
but each available moment was occu-
pied, and no part of the long pro-
gramme was a. failure.
This is the result of organization in
California, which comprises alike the
hearts and the brains of the people.
festival, in which business ends We're
consulted without marring the social
beauties of the occasion, improvements
in San Francisco alone to the amount
of more than seventeen millions, and
including hospitals, public schools, the
public library, parks, play grounds,
and other utilities, had been sanctioned
by the Supreme Court of the Golden
State. And, when such a coneentra-
ton of attractions draws the best
class of immigrants, as it is doing
month by month, it is found that pub
lie land is available and that every
department of industry welcomes and
assists new and desirablt material
This is another object lesson to Ha-
waii, which, located in the stream of
| commerce, beautiful beyond COMPARE
son and filled with diversified resources.
needs only organization, public unity
and governmental cooperation, to ex-
pedite its inevitable destiny.
/ Judge Parker. is not to he hlo mad fc,.