The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-01-25
COMING FROM
Los ANGELES
Chamber of Commerce
Excursion Promises
Quite Well.

read at the meeting of the Promotion
Committee yesterday which showed
that lot of the work undertaken by
the committee in the interests of the
islands is rapidly coming to head
as far as results are concerned.
The committee is especially well
pleased with the success attending their
efforts on behalf of the coming excur-
sion here of Los Angeles business men.
Present were Messrs. Morgan, Nc
Candless, f. c.. Smith and Secretary
Wood
Chairman Woods weekly report was
as follows:
WOODS REPORT.
| Gentlemen: / am pleased to report
that the management of the Los Ange-
les Times has placed our committee
on its free mailing list, and what Is of
greater Importance still, Mr.. C. r.
auckland, publisher of Trans-Pacific
Trade, has been engaged by General
| Otis to supply a weekly letter to the
Times. In which valuable paper, in
teresting and readable news from Ha-
| wall will be regular feature from
now on. I have written the business
manager, asking that they publish
Honolulu's temperature daily and have
also again taken UP this matter with
the New York Herald and the Chicago
Record Herald.
| The December Rock Island and San
ia Fe Railway folders again give val
liable space to mention of Hawaii, and
we are urging the other Transconti-
mental Railway lines to continue their
good work along similar lines.
A letter from Mr.. Frank Virgins,
secretary Of the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce, dated January 14th,
states that the steamship Ohio is the
one engaged for the trip to Hawaii
and that over two hundred people have
signed up Many of the leading MEM
bers of the chamber, including the
president, a prominent banker Of Los
Angeles, will be among the party.
Mr.. Virgins contemplates renting a
store room in Honolulu during the time
the steamer is in port and installing an
exhibit of manufactured materials and
products of Southern California that
could be used on the islands, possibly
leaving the exhibit on view for two
or three months. He says, Our object
in this excursion Is to open up trade
between the two points and eventually
start line of steamers. This trip OF
ours will, 1 think, be an incentive to
the creation of Los Angeles-Honolulu
steamship company and in order that
1t may SO result, we want our excurd
sion to be a most successful one.'' Q
The committees agent IN Los Angel
les. Mr.. Childs, has, at our request,
placed his services at the disposal of
the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Excursion Committee and, according
to Mr.. Virgins is doing most effective
work. Il
Plans for the 1907 Floral Parade are
fast maturing. Mr.. Dillingham's SUBJ
committees are all hard at work and
feel confident of making the event even
more successful than last years par
ade. 1t is proposed to introduce sew
eral new and interesting features. 20
THE LOS ANGELES AGENT.
The following communication from
Lloyd Child's, the committee Los
Angeles representative, was read:
Los Angeles, California. Jan. IL. 1907.
Mr.. H. P. Wood, Sec, Hawaii Promo
ton Committee.
My dear Mr.. Wood: I have put off
writing to you until now as the COM
mittee on the excursion were at sea in
regard to the trip owing to the fact
that 1t seemed almost impossible to
secure a boat.
The committee secured ten day OPP
ton on the steamer Ohio, now on the
ways in Seattle or near there. So
many stories, all different, were told
about the boat that I had about de-
cided to go to Seattle and settle the
question at once as there was danger
at that time, of the entire excursion
falling through. q,
A severe storm arose and travel
north was entirely suspended for sew
eral days so that could not get away.
Mr.. Virgins sent kilograms by the
score to different people and the U. S.
officials and we finally have got some
definite information.
We find that the Ohio is an old iron
steamer formerly on the Atlantic and
running between Philadelphia and Liv-
| erpool. She was launched in 1878.
Length 345 IT., beam 40. and she makes
between II and II knots.
She has first-class accommodations
for about 270, second class about 100.
Dining room seats 154. The state rooms
| are small and have two berths. The
| committee has canvassed the entire
coast and this boat, while not to our
liking in many particulars. is the best
that can be secured at this time. Sea-
faring men tell us she is a splendid
| seaboat and her hull is without a patch
of any kind.
The committee has limited the num-
Der to go to 800 and up TO the present
| time We have booked about 225. We
can easily book the 800 but we are
holding off because the plan of the boat
has not yet arrived.
The rate has been fixed at $3.50 for
the round trip. The boat to leave San
Pedro harbor. Feb. % and the round
trip to consume twenty-five days. At
the speed registered for this boat she
ought to arrive in Honolulu about the
first of March.
Some of the most prominent men
connected with the Chamber here are
on the list and altogether It will be the
pick OF Los Angeles. Some OF the
business men are going prepared to do
business as they have informed me.