The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-28
REACHING
THOUSANDS
Promotion Literature Is
Sowing Good
Seed.


| arranging their business to allow the
secretary to be absent for some weeks
| on the mainland. Thus all the ac-
/ counts of the committee to fall due on
| October l were authorized to be paid,
| the work of the assistants in the Of
/ flee mapped out and arrangements
| made whereby the members of the
/! committee will take turn about to have
1 charge of the office and the work for
la week, putting in an hour each day.
All the members of the committee ex-
cepting A. Gartley We're present.
A letter however was read from Mr..
Gartley in which was proposed a pho
tographic contest under the auspices
could be known where suitable photo
graphic work for exhibition and ad-
vertising could be had when wanted.
Mr.. Gartley wrote:
The Promotion Committee are con-
stantly in need of suitable photograph
ic work for exhibition and for adver-
Using the islands. There is great
deal of good professional and anna
teur work doce in these islands. but it
is difficult to locate and obtain for
your use.
Il would suggest that an exhibit of
Photographic work of amateurs and
professionals be given under the aus
pices of the Promotion Committee in
their rooms or under the auspices of
the Kilohana Art League, medals or
ribbons to be awarded to the differ
ent exhibitors in the different classes
to the amateur photographers only. 1t
is hardly fair to the amateurs to ask
them to compete with professionals,
nor do I think the professional photog-
raphers would care to enter into
competition with each other. I be-
lieve they should be given the privil-
eye of placing an exhibit in the ex-
hibition room at the time of the dis
play"
This matter was favorably consider
ed by the committee and will be acted
upon at an early meeting.
ENTERTAINING AT A PROFIT.
The accounts relating to the enter
tainment of the Southern California
editors were presented. showing that
the total expenditures had been $S42.-
sponsible for 1899. For the entertain
ment of the visitors the committee had
received $947, leaving a balance to be
turned over to the treasurer.
The various accounts due and which
are to fall due during the rest of the
month, totalling s987.25, were ordered
paid and an appropriation of $500 for
the expenses of the secretary in his
promotion trip to Southern California
was passed.
AN ADVERTISING COMPETITION.
Mr.. Wood presented his scheme to
interest the passenger agents OF the
mainland in Hawaii through "a compe-
tition in which all who take part must
necessarily learn a good deal about the
Territory and it's advantages. The
scheme is TO offer three prizes, of
$10e $50 and $25, for the best answer
to the question why Should Hawaii
Expect to Become a Great and Pop
ular Resort for Homeseekers and
Tourists
The competition is to be limited to
railroad and steamship passenger
agents, and the services of three of the
best known railroad advertising
agents of the continent have been Sc
cured as judges, these being Geo. HI.
Daniels, manager of the advertising de-
partment of the New York Central;
w. H. Simpson, advertising agent OF
the Santa Fe System, and Jas. Hors-
burgh, general passenger agent OF the
Southern Pacific. 1t is a guarantee OF
the soundness of the plan Wnen 1t Is
sanctioned by these men.
Full authority was given by the COM
mittee for Mr. Wood to push the
scheme through, and the necessary
printing and mailing of the informa-
ton of the competition to the 6OOO
passenger agents will be done at once
TO REVISE THE ASSOCIATED.
A letter was read from Alex McC.
Ashley. now with the u. S. Weather
Bureau at Pittsburg, who wrote that
much of the news being printed about
Hawaii in the mainland papers was
enough to make a kanaaina snud-
der" Part of Mr.. Ashley's letter is:
Il read not long since of severe
earthquake on the island of H1io inns
is a sample. 1 am of the opinion that
most of the press dispatches relate TO
lava flows, earthquakes, tidal waves,
etc, none of which things may be re-
garded as promotion assets nave
met the local manager of the Associat-
ed Press and have volunteered 10 re-
wise Hawaiian dispatches before their
publication in the Pittsburg papers.
The offer has been gladly accepted
Mr. Ashley further suggests that the
one responsible for the cable news from
here might be shown the des1rablilty
of supDresSing sensational matter ana
substituting items regarding sports and
festivals.
The report presented by the secre-
tary was:
LITERATURE FOR THOUSANDS.
BY the Siberia are in receipt OF
communications showing that the cir
cular letter we are sending so generally
to medical men throughout the West
and Northwest is being well received,
different physicians acknowledging re
ceipt of the same, some of them send
ing names and addresses of patients
to whom they wish us to send our