The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-12
THAT LEFT
OVER FUND
Chamber of Commerce
Talks About the
$4,000.

trustees of the Chamber of Commerce
yesterday afternoon and was placed
lon file by that body. The report dealt
with the entire trip of the delegation
and contained, only in report form,
what has already appeared in the
newspapers concerning the Delegations
work. The report added that the men,
bers of the delegation believed that
they had made many friends for Ha-
wall at the national capital.
The report of the Promotion Com
mittee for the quarter was presented
and read by Secretary Wood OF that
| organize ton. One item referred to the
| yacht race and in this connection Mr..
| Swanzy spoke of the item of S4997. 49,
the amount left over from the fund of
| $4,000 raised to send the Refund Del
| egation'' to Washington. AS stated in
yesterdays Advertiser, this amount
had been turned over to the Promo
| ton Committee by the collection COM
mittee, composed of Messrs. J. F. Nor
gan and J. G. Rothwell. The latter
| committee stated in a letter that they
| had obtained from the subscribers to
the fund the right of applying not over
| $4,000 to the transpacifc yacht race.
| Mr.. Swanzy believed that the Pro-
| motion Committee should have all that
money to use in forwarding its work.
He thought it inadvisable to spend
such a sum as $500 on a yacht race.
If the committee had plenty of money
| it would be different, but the COM
| mittee did not have all the funds it
needed. He thought, under the cir
cumstances, the committee might as
well keep a stud of .4orses to enter
tain visitors.
! Mr.. Spalding explained how the
$2500 portion had been set aside. When
the fund was peIng subscribed To sew
eral weeks ago, or couple or more
months ago, they were asked if they
would let any amount not expended
be used for the expenses of the yacht
race. At that time it was not believed
that more than $4,000 would be left
over. Double that sum had been
saved. Therefore, the committee had
ascertained from the donors of the
fund that they We're agreeable to hav-
ing $500 used for the yacht race and
the remainder devoted to the best in
terests of the Promotion Committee.
Mr.. Gait stated that plans had been
perfected to entertain at luncheon to-
day a number of main1anders who had
been extremely friendly to the delega-
ton and Hawaii on the mainland.
Secretary Woods report is as fol-
lows:
Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3, 1906.
President and Trustees of the Honolulu
Chamber of Commerce.
Gentlemen: 1t gives me pleasure to
report that for the quarter ending
March 31st, 1906, the volume of travel
from the mainland has been most sat
isfactory. All lines OF trade being
benefited thereby.
One prominent retail merchant in
formed me that over twenty-five (25Ho)
per cent of his business could be dl-
rectly traced to the stranger within our
gates.
The members of your Promotion
Committee feel greatly encouraged and
firmly believe that the tide of tourist
travel which has done so much for
Southern California, has at last turned
this way. and from now on viii steadily |
and rapidly increase.
As so often has been said the tourist |
of today is the home builder of tomor- |
row.
There are many thousands of people |
possessing good incomes living among |
other and less favored surroundings, |
who are seeking for just what we have
t1nI
found elsewhere the world over-abso- |
iutely perfect home conditions.
During this quarter the members of |
the Promotion Committee have turned |
their attention to making their rooms |
~e attractive and are pleased to be |
able to report an ever increasing num-
ter OF visitors, including many of our |
own people, whose interest in the work,
attendance at meetings, suggestions |
and advice are most earnestly re- |
quested.
The Oscillating Monograph. INSTALL
ed since the first of the year, has prov
ed to be a most valuable investment |
enabling the office force to send out |
some fifteen thousand 15,000) letters |
about different matters For instance,
when the Trans Pacific yacht race was
finally determined upon, special letter
was sent to every yacht owner III the
United States reciting briefly the plans |
for the race and extending a courteous /
invitation for the recipient to visit Ho
nolulu at that time
Some four thousand $4,000 letters
have been sent to the members of the |
National Educational Association and |
other teachers, who it was thought |
might be interested in the educational |
convention to be held at San Francisco |
next July. With this letter was sent |
a small folder compiled by Arthur F.
Griffiths. A. NJ. President of Oahu Col
lege, for the Hawai- Promotion Com
mittee giving information concerning /
education in Hawaii. Several thousand |
extra copies of this folder will be dis
tributed in San Francisco at the time
of the convention.
Snecial circnIar letters have also been