The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-13
sECRETARY's REPORT.

SECRETARY'S REPORT.
Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee.
Gentlemen: From letters to hand BY
the Persia it is evident that the local
Agricultural Experiment Station has
been most successful in its trial ship,
ment of pineapples across the Rockies.
We We're fortunate in being able to
enlist the interest of the Commercial
Association of Chicago, whose Foreign
Trade Committee made special arrange
ments for receiving Mr.. Higgins and
his car of island fruit. A letter from
a member of the association, dated Au-
gust &c, says:
I'VE have a telegram from Mr.. Hig-
gins saying he will be here the 30th."
Receipt of the printed matter and
photographs we sent was also acknowl-
edged, of which a careful distribution
was made among the different news
paper men, thus providing them with
suitable material for write-ups upon
Mr.. Higgins arrival. In closing his
letter, our Chicago correspondent says:
'Inasmuch as Chicago is the great
est fruit market in the United States,
I believe that this experiment will be
productive of general good results"
Our plan of advertising Hawaii's
pineapple industry by means of photo
graphs displayed at different county
fairs il; apparently meeting with sue
cess.
A letter from the secretary of the
Washington County Fair Association,
dated Fayetteville, Arkansas, August
%, says:
Il am just in receipt of yours of 14th
inst, also photograph of a Hawaiian
pineapple field. which is most interest
ing. I exceedingly regret that it will
not be convenient for you to exhibit
at our county fair. I will, however,
give your picture proper space with
card attached, as requested"
The editor of the Bismarck, N. D..
Daily Tribune, writes under date of
August 29, acknowledging the receipt
of different pamphlets, saying further:
I'VE shall be pleased to receive addi-
tional illustrated publications relating
to your country and will review the
same for the benefit of our readers,
many OF whom will doubtless visit your
islands in the future
Mr. Harry L. Paddock, American
Consul at Annoy, China. writes ac-
knowledging receipt of our folders,
which he states have been placed on
file in the consulate.
The secretary of the Atlantic City
IN. j. Bureau of Information writes
under date of August %:
THE photographs of your last Floral
Parade have been neatly framed and
occupy very conspicuous place in my
Office, where everyone who enters can
see them. They have attracted much IA
vorable comment, and, as you have
doubtless noticed in copies of the At,
lantic City Evening Union 1 mailed
you. several of the photographs We're
reproduced in that paper
The New York agency of Thos. Cook
& Son writes under date of August 81: |
I'VE find much enquiry for travel on
the Pacific, including Japan and around |
the world. Our first tour for this sea-
son is scheduled to leave San Fran |
cisco by the steamship Korea, Septem-
Der "a"
Mr.. w. H. simpson. advertising man.
ager of the Santa Fe. in letter to |
hand by the Persia, says:
THE corrections for map of Hawaii |
have been received and are being made |
on the Santa FEES red wall map. 1 will |
see that you receive a number of these |
maps as soon as they are finished"
Mr.. Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic |
of the Southern Pacific, writes
under date of August IS:
Your letter of August 2 received rel
ative 10 giving Hawaii representation
in our advertising matter. You may
rest assured of our hearty cooperation
in this respect
BY the steamer Persia we forwarded |
an additional supply of our general
folder Hawaii to the agents of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company at