The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-16
GOOD WORK
BY MEYERS
Insurance Man Spreads
haWaii's Fame
Abroad.

Zeno X. Meyers, manager of the in
surance department of the Hawaiian
Trust Co., did a formidable amount of
missionary work in league with the
Hawaii Promotion Committee on his
recent trip to New YORK, ot. Louis and
other cities. All the time he was in
communication with f. w. Jenifer, the
Pacific Coast representative OF the II.
p. c., and with the Central Railway &
Hotel Distributing Co., Chicago, through
these supplying Hawaiian descriptive
literature to addresses of people from
all points of the compass with whom
he had talked about the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Mr.. Meyers has preservd lists of "a
bout $40 persons thus interviewed.
They comprise prominent men in in
surance, banking, universities and
transportation companies, also literary
men, clergy. etc. The lists were made
out for addressing Hawaiian advertis-
ing matter to the names thereon, yet
with the exception of two or three
beyond the Atlantic those named were
met personally by Mr.. Meyers.
Under the head of railroad and dis
tributing agents there are eight adj
dresses for St Louis, two for San
Francisco and one each for New York
and Chicago.
Addresses furnished to the Hawai-
ian Promotion Committees agent and
the Oceanic Steamship Co. in San
Francisco numbered 40 for st. Louis
and four for other Missouri points, IS
I'll Vnrly
two each for Syracuse and Rochester,
n. Y; 10 for San Francisco, four for
Oakland, three for Los Angeles. one
each for Stockton, Palo Alto Visalia
and Santa Rosa, Cal; one each for
Washington State, Tennessee, Connec-
ticut, Idaho, Colorado, Maryland and
Scotland; eight for Michigan and two
for England.
Besides all these addresses furnish
ed, Mr.. Meyers supplied literature per-
sonally to many other people. He met
with some instances of deplorable ig-
norance of the Hawaiian Islands. The
president of the Fidelity & Casualty
Co. OF New York, for example, insisted,
until confronted with the most indu-
btable evidence of the truth, that Ha-
wall was not a Territory of the United
States but mere "new possession"
like Porto Rico.
The Standard Life & Accident Co. ar
ranged to distribute Hawaiian promo
ton matter among the most represen-
tative people of Detroit.
John Brisben Walker, manager and
editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine,
accorded Mr.. Meyers a very agreeable
In1{ pht cd
with the handbook. Hawaii" saying
he would value 1t for reference in his
editorial work. After going home he
wrote the following note to Mr.. Meyers:
THE Cosmopolitan Magazine,
Editorial Department,
"Irvington- on Hudson, n. Y, June
%, 1904
Dear Sir: / am much indebted to
you for your courtesy in forwarding
the material with reference to the Ha-
waiian Islands. We will file it in our
reference cabinet so that when we next
have an occasion to use an article on
the Hawaiian Islands, We will be en-
abled to make 1t more complete.
yours very truly,
JOHN BRISBANE WALKER.
"Zeno X. Meyers, Esq Room No. $50,
Aston House, New York"
F. Z. Jenkins, special agent at Sy-
racuse, n. Y, of the Norwich Union Fire
Insurance Society, acknowledging
batch of pamphlets, writes: 1T will
probably be a long time before I shall
get near enough to see this fine coun-
try of yours myself, but I sincerely
hope that that time will come some day
and that l shall find your there"
w. ID. Wyman, manager of the Berk-
shire Life Insurance Co., Chicago, in
a letter thanking Mr.. Meyers for most
interesting booklets on Honolulu and
the Hawaiian Islands," says: Il have
read them with much interest. I trust
that sometime with my family it may
be my privilege to visit your most
beautiful country"
One request to Mr.. Jenifer for Ha-
waiian literature made this special
plea: 1T has just occurred to me, II
you can through your influence obtain
from the Oceanic Steamship Company
a goodly supply of what they have on
hand 1t might be well to send some
to each of the points mentioned, espe-
cially the book called Hawaii pub
lished by the Pioneer Advertising Co.
OF Honolulu. My reason for making
this request is that this book contains
a great deal of valuable statistical in
formation"