The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-25


suggest cover for new folder OF
Hawaii. to be issued by the Promotion
Committee, has chance to earn glory
and no little gold, provided his wori
be found acceptable.
1t was decided, at a meeting OF the
. Promotion Committee held yesterday
afternoon, 10 ofrer sixty dollars II
prizes for the three best designs sub
mitted, $50 for first, $40 for second
and $40 for third prize. The competl'
ton closes Sept Is and details will be
advertised Immediately. The design
must be characteristic of Hawaii and
all work submitted becomes the prop
ertv of the committee, to use as they
may see fit.
Present at the meeting were ). Gil
man, chairman, E. 1. Spalding, W. W.
Hall, J. A. NJ. johnson, representing
Chairman Smith OF the Merchants As
ISOLATION, and Secretary Boyd. +. nj.
Boyd stated that while here Messrs.
Hartman and Schwerin were too busy
to discuss matters pertaining to trans
n portation, but said that R. P. Schwerin
had asked that letter, embodylng
various matters pertaining to the wei
| fare of tourists, be addressed to him at
| Yokohama, promising to give it full
attention.
The draft of such communication
| was submitted to the committee for
| consideration.
Secretary Boyd further notified the
| committee that Schwerin had prom
| ised to use his influence to have E. ID.
Hartman order mention made OF Ha-
waii in all publications issued by the
lines of which he is the head.
An offer from the publishers OF IRA.
zier's Handbook on Hawaii to furnish
an over-run of 1900 copies at five cents
each was ordered accepted. The edi-
ton consisted of $4,000 copies, which
cost 70 cents per copy. Of this about
1000 copies remain. The committee
were of the unanimous opinion that the
booklet had done remarkably good
work al,ng promotion lines.
The folder "Hawaii" is to be re-
! printed and every effort will be made
| to secure as attractive cover design
as possible. The new folder will be
an eight-page affair, of about $500
words and containing seven cuts, ex-
| elusive of the cover design.
The matter of the coming visit of w.
J. BRYAN was discussed anu the secre-
| tary stated that he was sending pack
age of promotion literature to the dis
tinguished statesman. If some of 1t
| gets into the Commoner, with it's cir
culation of 100000, the effort win have
been well made.
| The Promotion Committee will prof
| fer their services in the matter OF ar
ranging an itinerary for Mr.. Bryan s
| said, making arrangements to enter
| tain him.
1t was decided to offer silver tro
ply for an automobile floral parade to
! be conducted along much the same
lines as governed last year S very sue
cessful affair. During the past twelve
| months the number of machines IN
| Honolulu has grown greatly and it is
estimated that where there were eight
! cen autos year ago there are forty
| five today.
The cup will be offered conditionally
on twenty-five or more entries being
| received. After the last celebration,
| illustrations of the festival appeared
in several mainland magazines, the
| Territory securing much good advertis-
ing thereby.
E. I. Spalding remarked that there
appeared to be misapprehension
among the commercial bodies and the
public generally as to just what work
was being done by the Promotion
Committee. The committee was not. he
said, solely a vehicle for the dissent
nation of literature. No small share
of its work lay in answering enquiries
relative to Hawaii and in supplying
personal information to tourists.
Illustrative of this Secretary BOYD
stated that in the dull season the cor
| respondence of the committee aver
aged 40 letters a week, while in the
winter and spring months it went as
high as 275. The offices of the com.
mittee, he said, were offered as head
quarters to all tourists and all posi-
BILE information was freely and fully
given.
Z. /. Spalding was of the opinion
that too much could not be done to
make tourists aware that the services
of the committee were at their dis
posal.
W. W. Hall and J. Gilman testified
to having personally noted the good
results of efforts made to acoua1nr