The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-20
MANY WILL COME
IF POSSIBLE
Tourists Ready if the Steamers
Can Be Had to Carry
Them Here.

= Ine trans Itdt4oA PiopiChA' O0'NA
| days meeting was no exception to tn
rule. The secretary read numerous let
tiers of request for information fror
intending tourists all over the wester
mainland. In some instances the ques
ton of steamship accommodation wa
mentioned, but the majority of the in
quirers took it for granted that steam
ers coming and going would be tn
least of the troubles of a trip. Afte
listening to the evidence of the re
suit of the promotion advertising thu
members sized up the whole situation
by signing, elf we only had til,
steamers.
The Los Angeles representative o.
the committee, Lloyd Childs, REFEREES
to what is being done on the Coas
in the way of arranging for a Hawai-
boat, the following being part OF
a letter from him just received. He
said:
81 took a run down to San Fran
| cisco last Saturday to confer with the
Oceanic Steamship people in regard to
| excursions to the Islands this winter.
I had a long talk with the different
officers of the company and i told
| them very plainly that we would have
to get together very soon as they have
the boats and we have several or
ganizations wanting to go. Mr.. John
D. Spreckels Jr. told me that any time
we had an organization wishing to go
he would very gladly furnish the boat,
either by direct charter or by the or
ganization putting up a certain sum
as guarantee, I told Mr.. Spreckels
that there was absolutely no doubt in
my mind about the organizations TAX
ing the boat if the price was right.
fully explained to him and to Mr..
Cockroft that the price would have to
be under what he quoted to me this
summer in order to make it an induce
ment for these people to take the boat.
He finally agreed that if / would sub
NIT the matter in writing the Steam
ship Company would take the matter
up and would quote the lowest posi-
bic figure that they would accept. The
Sonoma is now available also the Ven
tura and in few days or weeks the
Sierra. If we could induce the Chi
cago people to take one of these boats
in the early winter I have no doubt
but what suitable arrangements could
be made, for one of these boats at a
price that would be an inducement to
them"
Mr.. Wood reported that so far no
replies had been received from any
of the steamship companies to the let
ter sent them by the Chamber of Com
merce, but that replies are to be ex-
peeted within a short time now.
PROMOTION LITERATURE.
On motion the secretary was author
lied to order fifteen hundred copies
of Picturesque Honolulu, now on the
Gazette Company presses. These are
to be sent broadcast as promotion
literature. Mr.. Wood reported having
sent out one thousand copies of the
Advertisers special feet number, re-
ceived from the copies of the Adver-
tiser sent out containing the only full
account published of the meeting of
the commercial bodies of Honolulu to
hear Secretary Stratus.
SECRETARY IS REPORT.
The regular report of the secretary
was as follows:
Honolulu, September 10, 1907.
Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee.
Gentlemen: In Leslie's Weekly for
September 5th, Mrs. R c. Miller, that
progressive magazines special CORE
spondent. who spent sometime in Ha-
wall with her camera a few weeks
since, has, besides an article on labor
conditions in the Islands, a panoramic
view of Waikiki beach. Mrs. Miller
writes that all of her photographs
turned out well and that her article
on the volcano will appear in the is
sue of Leslie's for September 18th.
This will be followed by a number of
other interesting sketches, all well IL
Illustrated, which should prove good adj
vertising for US.
The photographs we sent of our
rifle team to the different leading pa
pers in Ohio were quite generally re-
produced.
BY every mail we continue to re-
ceive papers and clippings referring to
the visit of Secretary Straus. Up
wards of one thousand copies of our
local papers giving a full account of
that notable meeting were sent out
covering every State in the Union and
practically reaching every city and
village.
A letter from Mr.. s. Silverstone,
agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company at Hongkong, received by
the last steamer, acknowledges receipt
of our folders. states that they are
being carefully distributed and can
now be found in all of the leading
hotels of Hongkong and that 81 dis
tribution has also been made through
out India and the Straits Settlement.
Honorable VIM. A. Priclitt, Amer
lean Consul General at Auckland, ".
H., writes under date of August 18th,
acknowledging receipt of our pamph-
lets, which he states it has given him
pleasure TO place on file in his office.