The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-03


brother, John, about the shriner con-
vention and the part the delegates
from Honolulu played. His letter,
which is interesting all through, is as
follows:
St. Paul, Mimi, July 81, 1908.
Dear Brother John: We arrived here
last night on the hottest day of the
year, 100 degrees 1t was lis degrees
at Pasco; excuse me.
/ had two different papers mailed to
you for one week and they will give
you some kind of an idea of what was
going on in St. Paul We had great
time As I told you before on my road
East, / met quite a number of those
st. Paul BOYS. / was the first man to
register and came the longest distance.
We got everything ready on Saturday
and Sunday, and opened up for bust
-ess Monday morning at ten, and we
kept this up for three days and
short while on Thursday in the after
noon and evening. We had the most
popular booth in st. Paul. I had a
negro to make the coffee and serve it
and the pineapples. His wife helped
him. Madge was on hand nearly all
the time. One of the California girls
helped us out. The coffee and pineap-
pies were enjoyed by thousands. Every
minute / had to spare [ was there help
ing, and so was Charley Murray Petrie
and Dr. Grossman. They all helped.
To tell you the truth, I did not have
much time for myself, but we were
doing good work They know us now
better than ever and they have moth
ing but praise for the Honolulu bunch,
/ from the Imperial Potentate down.
Potentate Swygart of Osman Temple,
st. Paul, was more than pleased with
what we did and said some very nice
things about US. / came over there
with the determination to show these
fellows that we were on the map and
were good fellows, too, and we have
made good
The leis are as popular as ever. They
are just crazy for these. One lady told
me she had tried for two years to get
one and had failed. Tt goes without
saving she got one, but T did not have
near enough to go around. We want
them to appreciate them; If we had too
many, they would become common.
But the greatest success of all was
Every delegate got one Those that
did not come after them. we mailed or
expressed them to them. They mobbed
ME wherever they met me, wanting one
of these heads. On Thursday morning,
while we were at breakfast, they burst
in my door; broke the lock off. i
don't know how many heads and leis
were taken, but / caught five ladies
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neck and a head under her arm. ii
shamed them a little, but they said the
door war wide open and that they had
left their cards for me- Of course, I
let them go. / am only telling YOU this
incident to show you how popular they
were.
We made a good hit when we pre-
sented the Imperial Potentate Roundy
lis head with leis around it. After
roll-call, on the first day (Tuesday),
Lou Windsor made the presentation
speech for me. He told them how hei
las Potentate) had established shrine
away out in the Pacific Ocean; how it
had grown and what good fellows they
WERE etc; but while there, they had
planted cocoa tree Gas he called it,
and this tree had brought forth fruit
and that these brothers had plucked
this fruit and had brought the largest
and finest to present to the present
Imperial Potentate, and then he pre-
scented it and we all cheered. Windsor
made a fine Speech and, as the father
of our shrine, was Just the one to do it,
and then ] announced from the stage
where the Mobiles could get these heads,
and you ought to have seen them come.
| think now that we had better adopt
this as our souvenir for next year. Do
as Pittsburg does; they always give a
glass, only change the style.
Charlie Murray will bring all the
souvenirs we got back with him and he
can tell you all about what we did and
how we did it. We had good time
and / am ready to go again with any
Of the boys
Tell Mr.. Wood that his promotion lit
erature came in fine and that we had it
carried to the four corners of the Unit
ed States and Canada. / brought some
with me on the train and gave each
passenger on our Pullman something on
Hawaii, and we carried one of the
heads with lis on the train and every
body had to look at him. and we named
him Mike and he looked the part.
We leave here Saturday for Lake
Kachess for week or two fishing.
Show this to Brown, as it is too hot
to write another letter at this time
With kindest regards to all the boys,
aloha nui,
(Signed) JIM.