The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-25
COMING FROM
Los ANGELES
Chamber of Commerce
Excursion Promises
Quite Well.

that a lot of the work undertaken by
the committee in the interests of the
islands is rapidly coming to head
IS 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, Me-
Candless, F. C. Smith and Secretary
Wood.
Chairman Wood weekly report was
as follows:
WOODS REPORT.
Gentlemen: I 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.
Buckland, 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-
waii will be a regular feature from
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-
<e hal
good work along similar lines.
A letter from Mr.. Frank Virgins.
secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber
Of Commerce. dated january 18th,
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. viii 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 viii, think, be an incentive TO
the creation OF a Los Angeies-Honoiulu
steamship company and in order that
il may SO result, we want our excur-
sion to be q most successful one" 4
The committees agent IN Los Ange-
les, Mr. Childs, has, at our request,
placed his services at the disposal OF
the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Excursion Committee and, according
70 Mr.. Virgins, is doing most effective
work
Plans for the 1867 Floral Parade are
fast maturing. Mr.. Dillingham's SUBJ
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
araI new and interesting features.
THE Los ANGELES AGENT.
The following communication from
Lloyd Child's, the committee Los
Angeles representative, was read:
Los Angeles, California, Jan. -, 1907.
Mr. H p. Wood, Sec, Hawaii Promo |
ton Committee.
Ny dear Mr.. Wood: / have put of /
writing TO you until now as the COM |
nittee on the excursion were at sea In |
hat il seemed almost impossible TO /
secure a boat.
The committee secured a ten day OPP /
ion on the steamer Ohio. now on the /
ways in Seattle or near there GO \
oil @n1I 1
sDout the boat that I had about de-
:ided TO go to Seattle and settle the /
question at once as there was danger,
It that time. Of the entire excursion /
aIling through
Il severe storm arose and travel !
lorth was entirely suspended for sew
raj days so that could not get away.
If. Virgins sent kilograms by the
core TO different people and the u s.
,ffcials and we finally have got some
Iefnite information
We dnd- that the Chic is an old iron
teamer formerly on the Atlantic and
unning between Philadelphia and Liv-
rpooI she was launched in 1873.
ength 345 #. beam 45. and she makes
,etween Il and II knots.
she has 1rst-class accommodations
or about 20, second-class about 100.
Dining room seats 154- The state rooms
re small and have two berths. The
onmittee has canvasssd the entire
oast and this boat. while not 10 our
king In many particulars. is the best
hat can De secured al this time. Sea-
airing men tell US she is a splendid
eaboat and her hull is without a patch
Z any kind.
The committee has limited the num-
'er TO go 20 300 and mp TO the present
ine we have booked about 225. We
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