The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-19
FORD TALKS To
MANY CLUBMEN
Magazine Writer Speaks of the
Promotion Work to
Be Done.

Alexander Hume Ford was the CUES
| of the Commercial Club at lunch yes
terday and made an interesting address
on the subject of promotion possibil
tiles, especially in connection with New
Zealand and Fiji and the states of TIL
Australian Commonwealth.
Mr.. Ford is fertile in ideas. He pro
poses japanese village; row o.
grass houses opposite the Young Hote
for the lei sellers; $25 cruise among
the islands; Queen Liliuokalani in Sc
ries of moving pictures; a 'twelcom'
committee to meet all steamers tc
tell tourists what is to be seen
and his Outrigger club project. He
made the announcement that for par
ties of 100 the Mauna Kea would make
Friday to Monday trip, Honolulu
to Hilo, at a $3.50 rate.
There was much larger attendance
than usual at these monthly addresses,
nearly every table in the large dining
room being filed.
Mr.. Ford was seated at the Presi-
dent IS table at the right of President
George w. Smith. The others at this
table were Alexander Young, j. P.
Cooke, Manager Stout of the Seaside,
Charles R. Frazier, Richard H. Trent,
J. J. Garden, M. Shea, and r. K. b.
nine.
In introducing Mr.. Ford, President
Smith spoke of him as a "traveler
and writer and one who had so fallen
in love with Hawaii that he had thrown
himself heart and soul into the work
of promotion.
81 have demonstrated since I came
here" began Mr.. Ford, ''that there
is place in the universe for the med
dler. For the past months I have been
l came here and meddled
in your affairs, and then went to
New Zealand, and the New Zealanders
seemed as anxious for my meddling as
the proverbial baby is for Castoria. 1t
was the same in New Australia.
: Il remember once talking with DR..
who spoke of himself as
an example of one-man power. He
told me that when he had any special
work for his society for the Proven
ton of Crime to do he called his work
ers and his Board of Directors to-
gether and got them to adjourn sub
ject to the call of the chair. This
gave him leeway of at least year
to go ahead and do the work that need
ed to be done.
EtShortly before I left here some
months ago, in company with other
gentlemen / was entertained at lunch
con by Governor Frear at one of the
clubs. The matter of promotion was
talked of there and Governor Frear
spoke of the opportunities that might
meet me in New Zealand and Austria
when / got to New Zealand
went to see Mr.. Dunno who is at
The head of their promotion bureau, a
governmental affair. He was then
about to open an office in New York
for the purpose of presenting the at
fractions and advantages of New Zea-
and | asked him why not join with
Australia and Hawaii in such an en-
.erprise. The idea seemed to strike
aim favorably. / went to Australia
and the government department in New
South Wales was favorable to the idea
IF such an office, where tickets for all
,hese places and tours everywhere could
be sold at the usual commission of five
per cent which would go far toward
paying the expenses of the Office.
''New Zealand is now spending an
lually $4,000 in advertising in Amer
can newspapers alone. Often on one
nail they get a ton of letters of in
Iuiry from their advertisements. Aus
ralia is beginning to advertise in the
anne way. spending, | think about 3d.
100 year now but with the intention
If spending 100000 a year, later.
81 understand that there are two
lasses of people you want to get here:
People to labor on the plantations and
PEOPLE with some capital to engage in
industry. For the laborers,
esort must be had to Ellis Island, and |
seems to me that moving pictures
f the domestic and social life on the !
plantations shown before these people |
t Ellis Island would be good idea. |
understand that the immigration |
Board has in mind a good man whom |
intends to send to the states on
his work.
q was talking with Mrs. Kearns |
he other day. She is pretty well known
throughout New Zealand and the Aus
ralian colonies by her jams and other
roducts and in America as well. 1t
GEMS to me that hers is line of
Industry that could be aided by cooper /
ton to the advantage of the islands.
g While / was in New Zealand l
alked with the Union Steamship Com
any people. That is the fourth largest
company in the world not
it was developed in that
tile country with its million of in
abitants The Union Steamship Com
any is planning a IS day excursion
ate from Vancouver and Victoria
trough the Hawaiian Islands and New
ealand and Australia and other groups
E the South Pacific. Burn, Philip &
o., the great Australian shipping con-
,rn, has made such a success of its
80 a day excursions through some of
lie South Sea groups that with any
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