The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-18
EXHIBITION To
BE: WORTHY
And Fit
Moving Pictures for
Seattle to Be a
Feature.

With but $4,000 to cover all ex-
penses for a Hawaiian Islands exhibit
at the Alaska Yukon-Paeific Exposition
at Seattle next summer, the concensus
of opinion expressed yesterday at a
meeting of the Exposition Commission
eers for Hawaii and others interested,
was that the cyclorama as an attraction
was becoming obsolete and that moving
pictures were up-to-date substitutes. In
addition the expression was made that
people go to expositions to 'sget some
thing for nothing, and also to have the
eye pleased and the tastes tickled.
With general ideas of this nature the
commissioners were bombarded yester-
day, and upon these ideas may be build
ed plan for attracting visitors to the
exposition to the Hawaiian exhibit
which will make that exhibit the most
conspicuous of ali. With moving pic
lures, Hawaiian singers, pineapples to
give away and the juices made up into
tempting dishes, also to be given away,
and Kona coffee, of famed aroma, also to
be given away in hot cbpfuls, it is ex-
pected that Hawaii could make herself
well known to the crowds of exposition
visitors.
The exposition people, through the
secretary of the Interior, intimated in
a letter to Commissioner Morgan, chair
man of the local organization, that per-
haps cyclorama of Kilauea would be
as fine an attraction as could be desir-
ed. L. A. Thurston, who was called in
to make suggestions, in reply to
query as to the value of cycloramas,
said that the cost of one, of the right
dimensions to make it realistic and not
show that it is but a mere imitation,
would take up the major portion of
$25, 1000. He told of>his experiences in
'93, when a cyelorama of Kilauea was
presented at the Chicago World s Fair,
San Francisco and Boston. He believ
ed the expense would bar a cyclorama
at Seattle. The Chicago one cost over
$4,000 At San Francisco the building
cost less and some money was made
only to be lost in Boston, where the
Volcano was shown in an elaborate way.
That, of course, was a private concern,
where admission was charged.
MI. huTSdu SdIu LHe eApOSlllUH pco-
pie thought the cyclorama would cost
about $4,000. Mr.. Thurston said that
would be mere model and not at all
attractive.
Mr.. Thurston spoke of the way in
which the Midwinter Fair exhibit at
San Francisco was shown, with ferns
and fern stumps, cabinets and eocoanut
braided screens for the building
He thought for the Seattle exhibit
many private exhibits would be attrac-
tive, and believed the Hawaiian Ma
hogany Company would send some of
its logs, etc., and the pineapple com
panies would show their products. IF |
there was large hall there could be |
Illustrated lectures.
A. Hume Ford suggested Hawaiian |
singers, drop scenes showing various |
scenes of the islands, arranged to be |
shown with lights thrown on them.
Secretary H. P. Wood of the Hawaii |
Promotion Committee presented his |
ideas in the form of letter. as follows: |
You have asked me for suggestions |
in regard to the exhibit your commit
tee proposes making at Seattle. While |
| presume the executive officer you
have requested the Interior Department /
to select will have a carefully thought |
out plan to submit upon his arrival, yet,
in compliance with your request, I have
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