The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-01
STRANGERS
WELCOME:
CLUB
lew Association Under
Way to Give the
Glad Hand.

u The Hawaiian Welcome Society" Is
being organized from the top down.
I president has been appointed and a
board of directors is coming to his
Support singly and in pairs.
The idea of the Hawaiian Welcome
Society has been slumbering for years
in the brain of the Rev. DIR. Doremus
Scudder. 1t was openly suggested by
tourist last spring and a few days
Z ago &C. O." wrote TO the Advertiser
demanding that such society be
made reality-in fact, he roundly
scored the inhospitallty of Honolulu.
S. saturday evening" said DR.. Scud-i
der to an Advertiser man, "I received
the following letter from friend of
mine on the Territorial Transportation
Committee, and at first did not know
whether or not he was having a little
4 fun with me:
Dear Sir: enclose clipping from
this mornings paper that will doubt
less cause you to bow your head that
in this Christian community such a
charge can be justly made. I have
I asked the Promotion Committee to ap-
IApint you chairman of welcome COM
N Mttee, and Mr. Wood intimates that
aven intended you for just such a
20 pSssion.
- 4.sxeti will atverreE organize a well
Z come society, with delegated members
10 board each incoming through
q steamer and persuade the doubling
ones to stop over for a. month in Para
disc. / caught one last trip, and had
1. five more too late in the day for them
to get their trunks out of the hold.
/ believe you would have captured
nearly the whole flock ECa
81 write to you because you rare "a /
Is busy man and therefore have@ffinestoi
z do things. I am arranging foFssa al man
TO go out and meet the steamers with
Waikiki coach ride
propositions at dollar for the day.
i Won't you help? / don't see how you
can refuse. It is welcoming the
u stranger within your gates. Take the
, writer of the letter in the Advertiser,
Mr.. G. Osborne, under your wing and
make him work too. Then there is
Mr.. James Castle, Mr. J. P. Cooke and
Mr.. j. McCandless, all with big red
autos which | am sure they would
take turns in lending fpr sending any
particularly prominent visitor for the
day for a spin Little Jimmy MeCand-
less would make a splendid member
of your society; he runs the auto and
would enjoy it. There is a lot of
waste energy that can be splendiGly
utilized in welcoming the stranger
8 within our gates. Everything seems
s to point to you as the heavenly sup
piled and appointed man to take the
: lead in this. l trust that in future I
\ may address you as Hr President of
the Hawaiian Welcome Society.
know plenty of people who will gladly
and ably follow in welcoming the
stranger within our gates if YOU would
,7only take the lead, aid + sign myself
: one of the most enthusiastic followers
along this road.
If | was in doubt as to the sin !
eerity of the writer ny doubts were
/ soon put at rest by Mr.. George Os- /
borne &c. o., who called upon me to
* urge that I form suci a society and
& permit him to work under my direc-
tfon. Then came a postal card stating
that the Rev. W. D. Vestervelt wish
ed TO support my right arm in such
/ an undertakings. while numerous other
Sc od cltlzenS, understand, are yoIun-
8 teering their assistance and advice. so
after the heavy work ef Easter season
! is over I shall put ny shoulder to
the wheel with all who wish to helm. +
a welcome society is something We
have long needed. ana it should be
! wisely directed. We should know /
from the San Francisco agents who
i are the very famous or prominent
guests aboard ship, but we should be
courteous to all. two or three of our
Z committee. perhaps. going out to each
mail steamer, one to direct two to
1Araingle and distribute printed plans for
VI day, with fun direstions to the
n ristst how TO get about. and a few
9 agenti reasons, perhaps. why they
: .aeu'q step over.''
! Thes livery stables look with favor
on the psan of the welcome society.
nThich they have long advocated. They
@stand ready 10 take their turn in line
or business from the steamers. At
2 Ne Revenue Office 1t was learned that
White the delegates of the welcome
society would be taken aboard the
Customs launch, no one would be per
1nitted to stout" for any particular
hotel or hy'ery stable The plan of
fhqse interested in the society is to
han c