The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-07


own pocket.
Then, I nave my inspectors oil the
holes and puddles vince mosquitoes
breed, and / am distributing the top
uginnows. too. L all costs money. but
the shippers fund helps me out in il,
1 think we are getting the peter of the
mosquito pest"
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fisheries, your forests, towns. schools,
flowers and life in general.
These letters generally find their
way into the newspapers and
you get all that free advertising for
only the cost of the postage. People
who read those letters will believe the
children, for they know they are not
backing some real estate or other
scheme. Iaughter)-
ADVERTISE FLORAL PARADE.
II never saw a prettier celebration
than your floral parade on Washing
tons birthday. Let alone the feature
of my ten Oregon girls-and 1 think
they are an attractive lot of girls too
it was beautiful parade. OF course,
I have seen larger ones, but the eff
feet of the pau riders was certainly
something to appeal to strangers. Ad-
.eFtlS6 tHiS DSSIn HOW 10 pre-
pare for the next one, advertise all
the year and you will have 100 people,
then to every ten you had this year.
Make it as important to the people of
the mainland as the mardi-gras or
the flower festivals of Southern Cali
fornia .
Mrs. Weatherred said that Hawaii
should establish headquarters in San
Francisco while the National Educa-
tional Association is in convention
there this summer. where literature
could be widely distributed. Letters
written by school children could be
distributed there and from these she
believed excellent results would .ob-
tain, as teachers would naturally take
interest in student-written letters and
they would take them home and even
tually to their classrooms to read to
their own pupils.
Mrs. Weatherred was thanked by the
members of the committee for her
valuable suggestions.
DINNER FOR OREGON GIRLS.
After the departure of Mrs. Weather
red the rommittee decided to tender a
complimentary dinner to the Oregon
Journal party of young ladies at the
Moana Hotel on Thursday evening.
Outside the members of the Journal
party. eleven in number. the mem bers
of the Promotion Committee will be
present
TELEPHONE BOOKS WANTED.
Secretary Wood said it was his in
tention to secure a large number of
new telephone directory booklets to
send to various organizations in the
East, in return for books received by
him from various cities. These were
extremely valuable to him in sending
out literature.
ROCK ISLAND HELPS
The new edition of the Rock island
folder contains half a page of matter
devoted to Hawaii. the Island Para
disc" This is the result of the prom
Use of Mr.. Sebastian that he would
do all he could to divert travel to
California and to Hawaii. and he has
kept his word. The matter is conspi-
cuously displayed.
Mr.. Day, editor of 1.-THE Rudder,"
advises Mr.. Wood that he will be glad
to advertise the coming ocean yacht
race from San Francisco to Honolu-
III in May.
Letters from San Francisco indicate
that the growing pineapples in sake
TUBS, which nave been placed in rail-
road and hotel offices there have at
tracted much attention. as few people
have ever seen pineapples growing.
Adjutant Allison Coe of the Saliva
ton Army who was formerly station
ed in Honolulu, sent a sample of post
ers which he issued in Frankfort KY,
announcing a lecture on Hawaii, the
Beautiful. The poster was a fine
advertisement for Hawaii as it was
illustrated with numerous cuts of Ha-
waiian scenes, and replete with de-
scriptive matter concerning the islands.
AMATEURS, ATTENTION
The Promotion Committee is still
after amateur photographers who were
out with cameras on Washingtons
birthday and took pictures of the
Floral Parade. The Promotion Com
mittee recently offered substantial
prizes for pictures of the parade, TAX
en- by amateur photographers. The
prizes are SO, $3.50 So and $3.50. The
photographs for which prizes may be
awarded viii in time adorn the pages
of booklet to be issued by the COM
mittee.
Mr. Gartley was appointed a COM
mittee to supervise the selection of