The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-11
PROMOTION WORK
BRINGING RESULTS
SecretaryWOOd's Quarterly Re-
port to Trustees of Cham
Der of Commerce.

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| ing of the Chamber of Commerce
trustees yesterday, the various one
needed being otherwise engaged, some
with the visiting Congressman and oth
ers on summer trips OF various kinds
| a letter from Dr.. Golfer, promising
to attend the meeting of the Chambe,
on Wednesday next and address th'
members on the various phases of th'
Quarantine law, was read and a re
port from H. P Wood, secretary of the
Promotion Committee, was Submitted
This report shows the work of the
committee for the past three months
and indicates an encouraging conuI
tion in promotion work. the repor
follows:
PROMOTION COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr.. James f. Morgan, Vice and Act
ing President, Honolulu Chamber
of Commerce.
Dear Sir: Inasmuch as this report Is
supposed 10 cover the work of the
Hawaii Promotion Committee during
the quarter just ended, L will take
advantage of the opportunity to re
peat statement made in one of my
recent weekly letters to the Commit
tee, J.. e.. that it is a source of great
satisfaction to be able to report that
by systematic, earnest and continuous
effort we are succeeding in bringing
Hawaii, its attractions and advantages
to the attention of the residents or
the northwest in a way that will I'M
doubtedly result in largely increased
travel to the islands during the com
ing fall and winter from Alaska, Brit
ish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Assiniboia, Manitoba, Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
We have had and still enjoy the
active intelligent and hearty coopera-
ton of all OF the agents of the differ
ent railway and steamship lines Operat-
ing throughout that section with each
of whom we keep up regular cor
respondence seeing also that they are
well supplied with our folders.
l am glad to be able to report at
this time that the efforts put forth
last fall at Seattle are now bearing
fruit and that the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce has definitely determined up
on an excursion to Hawaii to come off
either at the end of this year or early
in 1908. Senator Piles of Washington
when here with the Congressional par
ty expressed himself as being deeply
interested in the matter and since his
return home has given out number
of interviews favoring the plan.
Still another Southern California ex-
cursion is being planned, the San Diego
Chamber of Commerce being especial
ly interested in carrying through the
project.
The Publicity Committee of the
Chicago Commercial Association is also
considering a suggestion from our Com
mittee to send delegation of their
prominent business men on a special
trip to Hawaii and by the last mail
to the Coast l sent a letter to the
Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
of the City of Mexico calling his at
tentiOn to the important part played
by Hawaii in making the Tehuantepec
railway successful venture and sug-
costing that an excursion to Hawaii,
made up of Mexico s leading business
men and planters, would be an appro-
pirate acknowledgment of their appre-
is doing for the development of this
new trade route.
The advertising and work done in
connection with the Christian Endeavor
Convention at Seattle and the National
Educational Association to be held at
Los Angeles will, we believe, be pro-
ductive of good results; the program
of the last named convention includes
two illustrated lectures on Hawaii.
During the past three months the
attention of thousands of teachers
throughout the entire United States
has been directed to Hawaii by the
very wide publication, in different
leading educational journals, of inter
esting descriptions of the Honolulu
High school written by different pupils
of this institution at our suggestion.
While our recent work has been in
a measure specialized, yet We have en-
deavored to neglect no plan or meas
ure within our reach.
The passenger arrivals for the past
quarter compare favorably with the
arrivals for the same period last year
with encouraging prospects for fair
summer travel followed by what will,
IN my opinion, prove to be record
breaking winter and spring travel,
providing by that time our steamship
service has resumed normal condi-
tions.
The agents of the Pacific Mail
steamship Company throughout the
Orient are now taking a more active
interest in Hawaii then ever before
and are doing what they can to en-
courage travellers to stop over at Ho-
nolulu for a short period. To help on
this movement we are arranging to
send large shipment of our folder
by the next steamer for distribution
throughout China and Japan.
The Oceanic Steamship Company
stllI continues to do excellent work for
Hawaii in favoring prominent lecturers
and representatives of the press with
special rates from San Francisco to
Honolulu which has resulted in much
good publicity.
We have just completed arrange
ments with the passenger departments
of the different trauscontinental rail
ways, whereby they agree to furnish
Us with the names of all parties living
along their lines who have been re
ported by their agents as contemplate
ing western trip the coming fall or