The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-16
FREE TRIP
TO HAWAII
Something About the
Coming Of Oregon
Young Women.

The Portland Evening Journal is the
Oregon newspaper which proposes to
Honolulu as the result of voting con-
test. The young women will be voted
for by districts, the state being divided
and each section having it's own con-
test OF course, it is a scheme to get
subscriptions, but it is being worked
most deliberately and will without doubt
prove an excellent advertisement for
Hawaii. Leaving aside the purely adj
vertising features, interesting only to
the Journal, these are the conditions
Of the contest:
First-Any young lady over Is years
of age may be nominated at any time
on blanks provided by the Journal, with
the endorsement Of two well-known
citizens of the district in which she
resides.
Second-Three judges agreeable to the
different candidates shall be elected to
officially announce the winner in each
district, one young lady to be chosen
from each district.
Third-As in other elections each dis
trict shall vote separately. The vote in
one cannot affect the other. Matters
properly concerning the district will be
cot hSy ho yxyiS Of hc nc ri
The winner shall have the right to
name a proxy if unable to attend her
self
Fourth-Voting will commence Thurs
day, August 8, 1905, and close Satur-
day, December 80, at o'clock p. M,
1905. Coupons must be voted within
seven days after issue. Coupons cut
from The Daily Journal must be neatly
trimmed. All coupons, whether single
or special, must bear the name of the
candidate to be voted for.
The Journal prints this on Its first
page, in booming it's scheme:
Eight young women Of Oregon will
take a trip to Hawaii next winter as
guests of The Journal. The trip of the
eight young women will be taken in
January, when Honolulu, the capital.
is in all it's social glory. Special plans
are being arranged for the welcome of
The Journals guests. The party will
be decorated with leis, the great floral
wreaths with which Hawaiians welcome
and special guests to the
island. They will visit every point of
In, f1,o ;eIo
will enjoy the delights of surf bathing
at Waikiki and riding the surf in the
queer Hawaiian boats, the particular
enjoyment of Miss Alice, Roosevelt on
her recent trip to the island They will
also enjoy ride to the Pail and see
the great precipice where the ancient
kings of Hawaii in their battles en-
deavored to throw over their opponents
to death. They will visit the Island of
FIilo, the various volcanoes and all the
other points of interest.
The stay in Hawaii will be of several
weeks duration and no more pleasant
outing can be pictured. Every expense
of the trip will be borne by The Jour-
nal. The itinerary will include visit
to San Francisco. where an opportunity
Thence the party will pro-
coed on thu finest vessel leaving for
Hawaii. All the expenses of the party
while in the islands, including hotel
bills, carriage and automobile rides to
the various points of interest, visits to
he big coffee and sugar plantations and
trips to some of the large native viii
lagos in the interior, where the natives
may be seen living in the simplicity
Of the lives that has marked them for
centuries.
That is rather a picturesque bit of
ton about the Pail and the
Did kings, but otherwise the story reads
we'll, and doubtless The Journals young
will be able to inform it some
what more accurately concerning Ha-
waiian sights and history after they
nave been here a little time.