The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-07
RESPONSES To
PROMOTION
indications From Mainland Point
To Good Local
Work.
Honolulu. Aug. 6. 1908.


Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee.
Gentlemen: By the Alameda, sail
ing yesterday, We forwarded, IN care
of Sergeant Barry. large assortment
Of our folders for distribution at
Camp Perry. With the folders, we
also sent several copies of the new
edition of our map s'The Cross Roads
OF the Pacific. so as TO enable our
BOYS TO show their fellow sharpshoot-
ers the location of the great military
outpost that the United States Is now
building in the middle of the Pacific.
BY the mail yesterday. We received
a large number of requests for gen
eral information about Hawaii. Let
tiers were also received from num-
Der of papers in regard to our news
service.
The editor of the Oak Lake News,
published at Oak Lake, Manitoba,
Canada, writes as follows:
Am pleased TO receive your up-to-
date news service and make frequent
use of same. I am using today the
article on your climate. .
s " Wall, Editor of the Daily
Alaskan, published at Skagway. Alas
ka, writes under date Of July Is:
We are in receipt of your circular
letter and viii thank you for a con-
finuance of your news service of
which we have made considerable use
10 this time. We like your eenter-
prise; you must be pretty live people
over there. / m thinking of coming
over To see You one of these DAYS. -
The Managing Editor of the St.
Paul Dispatch requests us TO continue
our service which he finds of great
interest.
The Editor of the New Jersey Ga
zette, published at Camden, New Jer-
sey, writes:
This Office is in regular receipt Of
your news sheets. We hall be pleased
to make notes mat will assist you IN
bringing the name Of your islands be-
fore our people and 50 do our share
in calling attention to what Hawaii
has to offer.
Joe Mitchell Chapple, Editor of The
National Magazine, published at Bos-
ton, writes under date of July 81;
II know Of no trip in my life that
I am looking forward TO with more
pleasure than the trip to Hawaii. I
want to make the Hawaiian Edition
of my magazine as complete and eff
feetive as the Panama Edition. I want
to 20 into it with hammer and toRgs
when it is undertaken for I think that
when this article IS published it viii
be effective in bringing TO you large
representation of tourists. =
Mr.. Virgins, Secretary of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, writes
under date of July IS, that the pine
apples, mangoes and alligator pears
we forwarded for processing have been
received and would soon be ready for
the exhibit
Mr.. Virgins reported also that our
agent, Mr.. LLOYD Childs. was IN Seat
tie at the date Of writing. where he
had gone at our request TO investi-
gate and report upon Seattle as a field
for promotion work | furnished Mr..
Childs with a nmber of letters of in
PRODUCTION which viii enable him to
meet the right people and obtain for
the committee the desired inforna-
ton.
Mr.. Virgins said further that the
Hawaii lecture is so popular that peo-
pie throng his Office asking why it Is
omitted if Mr. Childs happens To be
away, so he has made arrangements
to keep the pictures moving.
The Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
meree sent as samples of rattan, for
which they say, there Is great and
growing demand on the Coast and ASK
If we grow the product on the Is
lands.
Immediately upon receipt. Of the
letter, called up DR. Wilcox at the
Agricultural Experiment Station, who
stated that, as far as he was inform
ed, rattan had never been introduced
into the islands but he had no doubt
that it could be grown here readily
and would at once look into the mat
ter and see if it WERE not possible to
open up another industry for the man
Of small means in the islands.
Respectfully submitted,
Fl. P. WOOD.
Secretary.