The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-10
WORK Of THE HAWAII
PROMOTION COMMITTEE
Chamber of Commerce Approves What Has Been
Done and Recommends Continuance With
Funds From Wharfage Tax.

A small leaflet Hawaii as Side
! Trip was printed in edition of 10000,
at cost of $500.
Agricultural Possibilities in Hawaii, .
being a pamphlet written by Jared G.
/ Smith, Director OF the United States
T Agricultural Station, together with a
| compilation OF the Territorial Land
I Laws, was issued in edition of 10000, at
a cost of 5000.
( The Legislature provided for the pur-
chase OF $4,000 copies of a. hand book
on Hawai-, written by Daniel Logan. and
Secretary Carter placed 10000 OF these
at the disposal of the Committee
Early in August notification OF the
! formation OF the Committee was sent to
| all the leading American Railroads, and
! in almost every instance, response came
promising hearty cooperation. All OF
| the great ns-Continental lines and
the railroads OF the East, from the Bos-
ton & Maine North to the Piedmont
Air Line South, are now distributing
the printed matter OF this Committee, in
conjunction with their own material
Close relations have been established
, and copies of the list of inquirers for
the printed matter of this Committee.
are now being sent to fifteen railroads
and two steamship companies. In this
way any inquiry is followed up closely
In addition to sending the pamphlets
and booklets published, to personal in
quirers, there have been handed in over
the counter of the Committees rooms,
some 1000 personal addresses.
A list of five hundred Clubs in the
United States was made up and served
with printed matter, as was a list OF
nearly three thousand Libraries, and the
same number of hotels outside the large
cities About two thousand Clubs, Re
sort Hotels and Banks in the United
Kingdom and Europe, received copies
of each pamphlet.
In addition to the matter sent direct
from this Office, an aggregate of some
eight thousand copies was distributed
by citizens of Honolulu during the
months of November and December.
Beginning with November the folders
were placed in the cabinets of the Rail
way Folders Schedule Distributing Com
pany, and Pecks' Tourist Agency, cover
ing the Pacific Coast from Coronado to
Seattle. The New York Central Rail
way placed at the disposition of the
Committee, its seventy-seven informa-
ton bureaus III the United States, and
the Oceanic Steamship Co. undertook
distribution in England through the
passenger agents of the A. & A. Line in
London The Pacific Mail Steamship
Company has secured distribution
through the Orient; the Oceanic Com
pany and the Canadian-Australian line,
are distributing matter throughout Aus
tralia.
To.,.Lo. ~ TOO, the Cor,,1,it+ee
appointed as its representatives on the
Pacific Coast, F. H. Jenifer, with office
at No. II New Montgomery street, San
! Francisco. also L. L. Whitlock, 2o3
West Third street. Los Angeles, in adj
dition to the distribution companies
named above The expense of the San
j Francisco office is 5000 a month, and
that at Los Angeles $50 month.
I Negotiations were undertaken in Au-
gust. and carried on in person by the
( Secretary in October. looking toward
local steamer service. fuller interchange
OF tickets to enable Trans Pacific pas
sengers to continue their journey to
the Pacific coast by any line of steamers,
excursion rates and a material reduction
in round trip fares. The growth OF
Trans-P Pacific carrying trade, which has
resulted in full steamers on the through
lines, has precluded the possibility OF
success up to the present time, although
most of these points are still Under nego-
tiation.
Efforts have been made to prevent the
carrying out of the plan of the through
Trans Pacific lines, to send new and
large steamers direct from San Francisco
TO Yokohama. eliminating as port OF
call Honolulu a new schedule will be
put into effect July Ist, but it is still
hoped, unless conditions here become
aggravated, that all the vessels of these
lines will continue to pass through this
farbor.
The rooms of the Committee have been
the meeting place for many travellers,
probably owing to the fact that each
receives a copy OF a small folder con-
tanning map and suggestions Tor side
trips. and the offices OF the employees
OF the Committee are constantly called
into service to procure carriages, out
line Journeys and generally look after
the entertainment and we'll being OF
travellers. There is now installed IN
the rooms an exhibition OF photographs.
of island products and manufactures, all
of which attract the attention OF visitors.
OF the $4,000 appropriated by the
Legislature, SII.6S4. "a has been expend-
ed Governor Carter early in December
found it necessary TO Withdraw his con-
sent to further expenditures under the
six months appropriation, so that S.
1856 was thus lost to the Commit
tees work and the publication of two
volumes, ''Hawaii's Business Life" and
Hawaiian People and Their Legends
was suspended. In the eighteen months
appropriation measure there is provided
$1,000 for advertising during the period
from January Ist, 1904 to June goth,
1905. This may be unavailable as well.
The Committee received to December
3Ist, some seven hundred letters OF
specific inquiry and about 1000 general
letters. Each was answered with