The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-01

Thwing's Letters to the
Mainland Being
Objected To.

ssI claim that we have the cleanest
port in the world, morally and every
other way, and 1 resent the libe,ous
reports being sent to the mainland
press by Mr. Thwing. | feel that he
is doing Honolulu much harm in seat
tering the news out broadcast that we
have a lot of dangerous slums down
here. It is unjust to Honolulu and the
people who have kept this town clean,
and as a Promotion Committee I feel
that we ought to intimate to this Mr..
Thwing that we feel he is undoing our
work
f. L. Waldron, the Chairman of the
Hawaiian Promotion Committee, intro
duced a new matter before the com
mittee at its meeting yesterday in the
above words, and invited discussion.
The other members backed away from
the proposal to certain extent, al
though they were plainly in favor of
what their chairman had said.
81 don't feel like touching the mat
ter at ALL said j. A. McCandless. II
! do not want to get my fingers in the
dirty mess. YcI can't touch pitch
without some of it sticking, and this
Thwing campaign is untouchable. 1
don't think that the Promotion Com
mittee ought to refer to him at all. !"
Mr.. Waldron explained that what he
meant was the harm that Mr.. Thwing
was doing to the city by advertising it
as a place where conditions, morally,
were below that of other places, while
as matter of fact the port was ex-
ceptionally well looked after, a fact
admitted by everyone who knew the
conditions here and elsewhere. Tt was
the publicity given and the false i'm
pressions conveyed that might interfere |
with the work of the committee. Mr.. |
McCandless agreed with this, but still
thought that the Promotion Committee I
ought to keep out of 1t.
"I think the position taken by the
Advertiser in that matter was the cor
rect stand when it refused to publish |
Thwing's letters aud announced that /
it was going to keep its pages clean,
although 1t was dragged into the affair !
toward the end after ALL, - he said.
The other members of the committee
present agreed with both Mr.. Waldron
and Mr.. MeCandless, that the reports
sent by Mr.. Thwing to the mainland,
to the press, government officials and
to organizations, were unwarranted and
harmful. but that as a Promotion Com
mittee they would not go on record in
the matter at all.
MUCH LITERATURE TO BE
ORDERED.
There was not much of promotion
nature to be brought before the meet
sing yesterday by Secretary Wood, the
principal items gone over being the re-
viewing of the needs of the committee
in promotion literature in preparation
for the coming of the feet. After cam
vassing the situation it was decided
to order another thousand of the Cross
roads of the Pacific maps, at a cost of
$3.50, and twenty thousand Aloha post
card folders, in order that there may be
plenty of these on hand for the sailors
to send home to their relatives.
~ BOO6kAlAN 1lAI4E&A Ahoch.
A plan for bougainvillea arbor on
the Bishop street park, suggested by A.
L. c. Atkinson, was presented at the
meeting. 1t was estimated that the
trellie for the vines growing there
would cost $3.50, and Mr.. Atkinson ask
ed the committee to take up the scheme.
The arbor plan met with the warm ap-
proval of the members, but it was con-
sidered beyond the province of the COM
mittee. and viii be passed to the Gen.
trail Improvement Committee with the
endorsement of the promotionists.
So well was the proposal liked that
W. t. Lucas suggested an enlargement
on it. IF we could have one of our
streets built over for half or quar-
ter of mile with a bougainvillea archf
it would be one of the sights of the
world, and would be the finest thing
as an advertising asset that Honolulu
could have Every tourist that came
here and every one passing through
would visit that arbor and talk about
it wherever he went"
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FLEET MEETING TO-DAY.