The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-04
LOCAL TALENT
IS PREFERRED
The Promotion Committee Not
for Outside Publicity
Schemes.

day afternoon at the regular weekly
meeting. The matter was brought tt
this conclusion through the discussion
| of letter from Mr.. Irwin, formerly
newspaper reporter here, and now
conducting a small country newspaper
| in the Northwest, in which the writer
made proposition to the committee
to assist in getting out "Hawaiian
edition of the Pacific Coast Maya,
zine. Mr.. Irwin outlined a number of
articles on special subjects that might
be used, written by well-known men
of the Islands, and suggested large
amount of advertising from merchants,
corporations, etc.
There was general discussion con-
corning the advisability of going into
such proposition as this. AS the
committee is just entering upon its
duties for the year, it was finally de-
termined that in view of the excellent
advertising matter being gotten out
continually by the committee. and the
large expense attached thereto, and in
view of even larger advertising work
taking in folders for each island IL
lustrations, etc, that the committee
could not afford such a proposition. The
committee felt that Hawaiian edi
ton" would undoubtedly be widely
read, but the decision was to patronize
local publications as far as practicable.
Another matter of interest was the
exhibition for the first time of the
Mark Twain mantelpiece which is to
be presented to the great humorist by
the Promotion Committee and which is
to be installed in his home in Danbury,
Connecticut. The mantelpiece is an
artistic piece of work done by Mr..
Otremba, the woodcarver. 1t is made
entirely of kOa wood, beautifully pol
ished. The supports are half columns
of polished wood with flaring capitals.
The latter are carved in relief with
leaves of the taro, palapalai and hau
trees and the lima blossom. The front
board. which fits Just above the fire.
place, is adorned with letters of a
darker shade, forming the word
Aloha The entire mantel is artis-
tic and the designs conservative, moth
ing garish about the design in any par
ticular. The mantel will be on exhibit
ton for week or more, when it will be |
boxed and shipped to Danbury.
It was shown at the meeting that the |
references to alleged misinformatioR
N the committees folders, concerning |
he Bishop Museum, were without |
and the committee is fully |
sxonerated from charge of sending
tut wrong information concerning the
Islands.
Secretary Wood said that Mr.. Trenor,
Who is to represent the immigration
Board at New York, will also act for
he Promotion Committee. and the COM
nittee authorized the secretary to fur
fish him with albums filed with views
# all the Islands. He will also be sup
lied with promotion literature.
Owing to Lloyd Child's transfer to
he superintendency of the Alaska
Yukon exhibit from Hawaii, and his
bsenee from Los Angeles for some
ime, the committee acted favorably on
he cabled recommendation of Secre-
arv Virgins of the Los Angeles Cham
er of Commerce, that the daily Ha-
Taiian lecture be continued as the chief
TRACTION at the Chamber of Commerce
auditorium by a Mrs. Headley.
In response to the recommendation
f President Kennedy of the Inter !
sland Steamship Company that Pro-
notion Committee representative 90 to ,
he volcano to observe the activity of ,
he crater, so as to get frst-hand in
ormatiOn from promotion stand :
oint. it was decided to send Mr.. !
cooper of the promotion Office with the Y
1ks ;, excursion on Saturday. @
r. K BONNIE, the mOving-picture ex- r
ert, who recently went to the volcano /
, take moving pictures of the crater II
action, writes Secretary Wood that ! F
e has secured a very fine collection {
{ Photographic work, comprising NOV a
lg pictures and plates. He feels that !
is series of moving pictures represent n
lie most graphic scenes that could be
REQUIRED. The first scenes show a large o
Ddy of guests coming down the steps r
. the veranda of the Volcano House il
nd mounting horses preparatory for g
le trip to the crater. The next scene a
lows the crowd, some mounted and c
hers on foot, also guides, en- route a
ON the hotel to the trail. The next ;
lows the party on the trail just below a
e hotel. and the next the party half h
av down the trail in a pretty part of A
e wood. Then there is another scene
the foot of the trail, and an interest m
o one where the party is crossing a g
idge over a erevasse, then the trot a.
ross the lava trail, and one at the ;
rial where the horses are tethered. W
ose to the crater's edge guests are II
en- scorching postal cards over red al
t cracks. and one of the best scenes 81
the crowd is that where many are ~
aning over the edge of the crater, IL
atching the play of the live lava. Mr..
mine also took many hundred yards u: ~
films of the crater in action, both by Is
V and by night. ~
Mr.. Bonnie expects to exhibit these a. a,
ms in Honolulu in the near future, to- ~ ~
Their with many others he has taken ~ ~
around the islands during the last ~
W months. IN
Secretary Wood s weekly letter to m
, committee was as follows: w
Honolulu. September 8, 1905.
airman and Members, Hawaii Pro-
motion Committee.
Dear Sirs: l have to report that
:. LLOYD Chiids, the committees agent
Los Angeles, has accepted the posi-