The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-12-04
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Los Angeles branch, the members voted
to purchase five hundred feet of r.
X. Bonine's moving picture films, TO
include the royal funeral and lei,dec.
Grating pictures taken by him.
secretary's Report.
Secretary Woods report of the
week IS business was as follows:
"By the last steamer, we received a
letter from w. G. Neimyer, general
agent at Chicago, for the Southern Pa
cific lines, stating that he and his Of
fee force were doing their utmost to
interest the travelling public in Hawaii,
being stimulated to renewed effort re-
Gently by Burton Holmes, who gave
four lectures on Hawaii in Chicago dur
ing the week, ending November 81.
CDR. L. b. Sperry writes from Wa
terloo, Iowa, November 10th, in part
as follows: Il have given my Hawaii
lecture five times this season and am
to put it on in two or three cities in
this State during the coming month.
The colored fish plates and night bloom
ing cereus views attract great deal
of attention and comment. In Boston,
| where | recently gave Hawaii the
papers spoke highly of my views and
lecture
"The district passenger agent of the
Canadian Pacific railway company IN
Boston, writes under date of November
10: Il have just given my map 'The
| Crossroads of the Pacific to lectur-
err in this city. / would therefore APP
preciate it if you could send me another
one for my office.
"Clippings to hand this mail speak
of lectures on Hawaii being given in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Troy, New
York; Peoria, Illinois, and Camden,
New Jersey.
"Scarcely n mail passes without the
receipt of one or more requests for our
news service. By the last mail, re-
quests came from the publishers of pa
pers in Dallas, Texas; Santa Barbara,
Cal; New York, New York, and Wilkes.
barre, Pa.
"During the Congressional season,
we will send the news sheet to some
one hundred newspaper correspondents,
whose headquarters are in Washington,
d. c.
"Among the last papers added to our
list are the NEWS van den Dag voor
Ned, India, and Bataviaasch News.
blad, published at Batavia, Java, and
the Soerabajasch Handelsblad and
NEWS Soerabaja Courant, published at
Soerabaja, Java.
&C. s. Hammond and Company, un-
der date of November 18th, write that
they have started work on our last or
der for one thousand copies of the
Crossroads of the Pacific map and will
forward the same at the earliest posi-
BILE moment.
"Mr. Van Valkenburg, having secur-
ed orders for ninety-Six copies of Ham
mond s wall map of the World on
Equivalent Projections, the outgoing
steamer will take an order for 100
copies which, according to agreement,
are to be overpripted with data re-
ferring especially to Hawaii, contain
ing as well, other matter suggested by
, us, and as this data will appear on all
, future issues of this popular map, the
,, new edition should prove of great
benefit to Hawaii.
"We are in receipt of letter from
party in st. Louis, stating that he
is planning to come to Hawaii with
plant for making banana flour, bana-
ma coffee, evaporated bananas, ETC., and
wishing to know something about the
banana industry in Hawaii.
GA postal card from transcontinen-
tai traveller is as follows: Il have just
|, seen your ad. in Santa Fe folder.
Please send something about your
Paradise. 1 now nothing of your part
of the world, so nothing will come
amiss I am about to quit business and
wait for the inevitable
"The latest Acknowledgements of the
receipt of the Crossroads of the Pa
cific map are from Cairo, Constantine
pie, Amsterdam and Gibraltar. We
I have a large number of requests fol-
, the maps which will have to re-
, main untitled until the receipt of the
{ new edition.
, Acknowledgment of the receipt OF
, the last edition of the folder Hawaii
Primer are to hand from upwards
r of one hundred libraries, In mum
Der of instances, the Librarians request
additional copies for distribution ant
!, speak of having secured reviews of the
h publication in their local papers. :"
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