The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-21
HAWAIIAN
EXCURSIONS
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last session of the Covina Farmers
Club part of the program consisted
of a descriptive talk on the Hawaiian
Islands by Mr.. J. W. Mathews, editor
of the Covina Argus.
Miss Grace H. Tower writes under
date of December 2:
Tomorrow evening l am booked for
a twenty-minute talk on Honolulu at
ladies' night dinner which a mems
club is giving in Pasadena
Miss Tower goes on to say: I ann
not very glad to be at home, as the
of Pasadena
Mrs. Weatherred writes that she Is
already receiving eastern orders for the
Hawaiian (January) number of West
ern Tours and that she proposes send
ing out hundreds of this number as
sample copies.
Mr., l. A. Nadeau, executive vice
president of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, writes under date of No
vember 80, enclosing copy of circular
letter sent out by him to every jobbing
and wholesale house in Seattle, the let
ter reading as follows: :.
Referring to my letter of May
last, in regard to trade opportunity
with the Hawaiian Islands offered Sc
attic merchants, what was looked upon
as a possible temporary market can be
easily made a permanent one by the
exercise of energy and enterprise on
the part of the business community.
There are 165 900 people in Hawaii
entirely dependent upon outside mar
kets for supplies of every character,
fs-r1it
rice Much of their necessities, such as
lumber and coal, must come from
Puget Sound; and every other require
ment can, in a large measure, be fur
nished from here if our Jobbers and
manufacturers are so minded.
The American Hawaiian steam
ship sailing Thursday last carried from
Puget Sound 10,011 tons measurement
of freight consigned to Hawaiian
ports.
The merchants of Honolulu have
for years traded almost exclusively
with San Francisco, but that fateful
day in April when that city was prac-
ticalIy destroyed compelled them to
seek other markets. They came here
and received fair treatment in all
things, except in some instances they
complained
their orders completely filed.
1.-The many years of trade with San
Francisco brought an intimate knowl-
edge of brands and qualities of goods
best adapted to their uses, and it there
fore becomes necessary for Seattle mer-
chants to send representatives to Hoo
noluIu with full lines of samples etc.,
which, after inspection and trial, Will
enable their ordering from catalogues
Some of the larger San Francisco firms
have had resident agents in Honolulu.
Portland merchants are making
strong effort to secure this trade, ana
through the enterprise of one firm OF
that city, which sent a representative
TO Honolulu, large orders are being
filed. which could and should have
been filled here. The order of the firm
above referred to amounted TO over
$4,000, shipped by the last American
Hawaiian steamer through Seattle
II can not urge too strongly upon
your attention the great Importance TO
the commercial growth of Seattle
through which channel our future
greatness must in a large measure
come-of this Hawaiian trade, nor that
prompt action on your part Is neces-
sarv to permanently secure trade OF
incaiculable value
Representatives of Hawaiian
houses have recently protested to this
chamber regarding the apparent indif-
ference of local wholesale establish
ments toward their trade.
Il A NADEAU.
Executive Vice President
MIR. Nadeau also states that he is
giving the excursion to HaWah careful
consideration and will write more fully
about this matter later.
..The exhibit from our public schools
will be in place early next "eeA-
committee of teachers is now secu[iiis
material and will arrange the same III
an attractive manner.