Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-01
'CANDLESS DID
PROMOTION WORK
CoCoanut Heads And
LeiS Pleased
Shriners

Jim Mctu0uleSS anu Jne bIncr ilD-
nolulans who attended the great Shri-
ncrs' conclave at st. Paul, did some
excellent promotion work for Hawaii,
spreading the fame of the Territory
among the members of the various
Shrines, who will in turn carry It to
all four corners of the United States.
An excellent description of the work
done is contained in the following
letter received by j. A. McCandless
and by him kindly turned over to the
press:
st. Paul, Mimi, July 81, 1908.
Mr.. J. A. McCandiess, Honolulu.
Dear Bro. John: We arrived here
last night on the hottest day of the
year, 100 degrees: Il was 11j degrees
at Pasco, excuse me.
| had two different papers mailed
TO you for one week and they will give
you some kind of an idea of what was
going on in st. Paul. We had Il great
time: as | told you before on my road
East l met quite a number Of those
81. Paul boys. | was the first man to
register and came the longest dis.
lance. We got everything ready on
Saturday and Sunday and opened up
for business Monday morning at 10
and we kept this up for three days
and short while on Thursday in the
afternoon and evening. We had the
most popular booth in St Paul. HAD
negro to make the coffee and serve
IL and the pineapples. His wife
helped him. Madge was on hand near
ly all the time. One of the California
girls helped us out. The coffee and
pineapples We're enjoyed by thousands.
Every minute I had to spare | was
there helping and so did Charlie Muir
ray, Petrie and DR.. Grossman. They
all helped. To tell you the truth
did not have much time for myself,
but we were doing good work. They
know MS now better than over and
they have nothing but praise for the
Honolulu bunch, from the Imperial
Potentatc down. potCntate Swygart
of Osman Temple, st. Paul, was more
than pleased with what we did aud
said some very nice things about us.
came over here with the dotcrmina-
ton to show these fellows that VIC
were on the Map and We're good fell
lows and we have made good.
The lcis were as popular as ever.
They are just crazy for these. One
lady told me she had tried for two
years to get one and had failed. It
goes without saying she got one, but
| did not have near enough to go
around. but we had enough. We want
them to appreciate them; If we had
too many, they would become com.
mon.
But the greatest success Of all was
our souvenir. the CocOanut Heads.
Every delegate got one. Those that
did not come after them, we mailed
or expressed to them. They mobbed
me wherever they met me, wanting
one of these heads. On Thursday
morning, while we were at breakfast,
they bursted in my door, broke the
lock of. / don't know how many
heads and leis were taken, but
caught FIVE ladies coming out, each
with a lei on her neck and a head
under her arm. | sbamed them a lit.
lie but thoy said the door was wide
open and that they had left their
cards for me. or course, let them
go. | am only telling you this Incl
ucHb w SlON gbu no" p'pS.tA WY
We're.
We made good hit when we pre-
scented the Imperial Potentate ROM.
dy, his head with lels around it. After
roll call ON the first day tTuesday),
Lou Windsor made the presentation
speech for me. lie told them how he
Gas Potentate) had established a
Shrine away out In the Pacific Ocean;
how il had grown and what good fell
lows they were, etc; but while there,
they had planted Cocoa tree Gas he
called it, and this tree had brought
forth fruit and that these Brothers
had pucked this fruit and had
brought the largest and finest to pre-
sent to the present Imperial PotCn.
tate and then he presented 1t and wo
all chcered. Windsor made fine
speech and as the Father Of our
Shrine was just the one to do it and
then ! announced from the stage
where the Mobiles could get these
heads and you ought to have seen
them come. / think now that we Ind
better adopt this as our souvenir for
next year. DO rs Pittsburg does; they
always give a glass, only change the
style.
Charlie Murray will bring all the
souvenirs we got back with him and
he can tell you all about what we did
and how we did It. We had good
time and am ready TO go again. with
any OF the boys.
Tell Mr. Wood that his Promotion
literature came in fine and that we
had II carried to the four corners OF
the United States and Canada. |
brought some with me on the train
and gave each passenger ON our Pull.
man something on Hawaii and we
carried one of the heads with MS on
the train and everybody had to look at
him and we named him Mike and he
looked the part.
We leave here Saturday for Lake
Kachess for week or two fishing.
Show this to Brown, as it Is too hot
TO write another letter at this time.
With kindest regards to all the
boys,