The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-04
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Los Angeles branch, the members voted
to purchase five hundred feet of R.
| K. Bonine's moving picture films, to
! include the royal funeral and lei-dec-
Grating pictures taken by him. ~
Secretary's Report.
Secretary D Woods report of the
weeks business was as follows:
.'By the last steamer, we received a
letter from w. G. Neimyer, general
agent at Chicago, for the Southern Pa
cific lines, stating that he and his Of
fee force were doing their utmost to
interest the travelling public in Hawaii,
being stimulated to renewed effort re-
Gently by Burton Holmes, who gave
four lectures on Hawaii in Chicago dur
ing the week, ending November 81.
"Dr.L. B. Sperry writes from Wa:
terloo, Iowa; November 10Th, in part
as follows: Il have given my Hawaii
lecture five times this season and am
to put it on in two or three cities in
this State during the coming month.
The calored fish plates and night bloom
of attention and comment. In Boston,
where | recently gave Hawaii, - the
papers spoke highly of my views and
lecture
"'The district passenger agent of the
Canadian Pacific railway company IN
Boston, writes under date of November
16: Il have just given my map "The
Crossroads of the Pacific to a lectur
l. II
preciate it if you could send me another
one for my Office.
"CIippings to hand this mail speak
of lectures on Hawaii being given in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Troy, New
York; Peoria, Illinois, and Camden,
New Jersey.
Scarcely mail passes without the
receipt of one or more requests for our
news service. By the last mail, re-
quests came from the publishers of pa
pers in Dallas, Texas; Santa Barbara,
Cal; New York, New York, and Wilkes
barre, Pa.
''During the Congressional season,
we will send the news sheet to some
one hundred newspaper correspondents,
whose headquarters are in Washington, |
D. C.
"Among the last papers added to our
list are the News van den Dag voor |
Ned, India, and Bataviaasch Nieuws-
blad, published at Batavia, Java, and |
the Soerabaiasch Handelsblad and |
News Soerabaja Courant, published at |
SOerabaja, Java.
&C. S. Hammond and Company, I'M
der date of November 18th, write that
they have started work on our last or
der for one thousand copies of the
Crossroads of the Pacific map and will
forward the same at the earliest posi-
BILE moment.
"Mr. Van Valkenburg, having secur-
ed orders for ninetysix copies of Ham
mond S wall map of the 'Wo4ld on
Projections, - the outgoing
steamer will take an order for 100
copies which, according to agreement,
ire to be overprirted with data re-
'erring especially to Hawaii. contain
ng as well, other matter suggested by
Is, and as this data will appear on all
utllre issues of this popular map, the
lew edition should prove of great
benefit to Hawaii.
d eve are in receipt of letter from
party in st. Louis, stating that he
5 planning to come to Hawaii with
plant for making banana flour, bana-
a coffee, evaporated bananas, ETC., and
Wishing to know something about the
,anana industry in Hawaii.
GA postal card from transcontinen- Z
al traveller is as follows: 4 have just
cen your ad in a Santa Fe- folder
Please send something about your
'aradise. / now nothing of your part,
f the world, so nothing viii come
miss. I am about to quit business and
7ait for the inevitable.
'The latest Acknowledgements of the ,
eceipt Of the Crossroads of the Pa
fife map are from Cairo, Constantine
lie, Amsterdam and Gibraltar We
ave a large number of requests. for
he maps which will have to re- =
lain untitled until the receipt of the Y
ew edition.
Acknowledgements of the receipt of
ne last edition of the folder Hawaii,
Primer, are to hand from upwaE1s
f one hundred libraries. In a mum
er of instances, the librarians request
dditional copies for distribution and
peak of having secured reviews of the
utilization in their local papers"