The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-13
SECRETARY WOODS
WEEKLY REPORT
Honolulu, June 10th, 1908.
Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee.

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| Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
Promotion Committee.
| Gentlemen: BY each mail letters
come to hand acknowledging the receipt
of our news service and expressing a
desire for its continuance. We now
reach a fair sized list of representa-
tive papers which l hope may be
doubled within the next three or four
weeks.
Word came to hand by last mail that
the members of the Northern Califor-
mia Association were planning a trip
to Hawaii for their next annual out
ing. We have sent a generous supply
of our folders to the secretary of the
association and will follow the mat
ter up carefully.
The Haskin series of letters on Ha-
wall continue to attract attention. A
number of people, who have read these
letters, have been referred by their
home papers to our committee for fur
Their information about the Islands.
Mr. o. p. Austin, Chief of the Blu
reau of Statistics of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, writes under
date of May 22nd, in part as follows:
Il have just received Mr.. Jared G..
Smiths compilation of material for
the proposed Hawaii monograph and
find it excellent, so far as it relates to
agriculture and producing power and
prospects and as soon as I have time
to take up and prepare the commercial
side of the subject / shall be ready
to issue the monograph
A request comes to hand from a New
York Importing House, with several
branches in Brazil, for a supply OF our
folders to be sent to Brazil for parties
there who are DESTROYS of settling in
Hawaii.
The following letter from Rev.
Charles A Payne, the lecturer, will be
read with interest:
Your letter came weeks ago and I
have been SO hard pressed with work
that 1 have allowed the reply that
should have been written at once to
be crowded along from day to day. 1
hope you will pardon the delay.
Il thank you for the copy of Pic
turesque Honolulu I am very glad
to get everything pertaining to the
Islands. j want to keep intimately
informed of events and progress.
My lecture on Hawaii seems to
grow in popularity instead of decrease,
as does also my enthusiasm concern
ing the Islands. l have now given this
lecture seven times in Milwaukee, the
last time to an audience of over 1000
people. / left Hawaii May 1st last
year. Up to May 1st this year, l gave
the lecture eighty-nine times and to
indicate that this is not the end, let
me say that I gave this lecture four
times last week, am giving it five
times this week and expect to give it
three times next week. Early next
month l begin work in the Chautau-
quas and great Summer Assemblies
and am to lecture on Hawaii in nearly
every Chautauqua to which I go.
81 confess myself surprised at the
keen interest manifested in this lee
ture l rarely give it that people do
ot crowd around afterwards to thank
me, ask questions and many to express
a desire or purpose to go there. l wish
there were some way of telling how
many go. The lecture always awakens
very keen enthusiasm. Indeed the in
terest remains so great that | plan
to make it my leading lecture for next
fall If possible, 1 must visit you
again. I want to for my own pleasure
also. l fell in love with Hawaii and
the Hawaiian people, natives and
Americans, and / let everybody know
it. I have also printed and circulated
over 10000 copies of the circular which
1 inclose."
Respectfully submitted
H. P. WOOD.
Secretary.