The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-12
pAYNE'S
LECTURE
asst YEARS VISITOR BOOMING
HAWAII-JARED SMITH S MONO
GRAPH OFFICIALLY APPROVED.
Honolulu, June 10, 1905
Chairman and Members of the Hawai-
Promotion Committee.


Promotion Committee.
Gentlemen: BY each mail letters
come to hand acknowledging the re-
ceipt of our news service and express
ing desire for its continuance. We
now reach a fair sized list of represen-
tative 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 Editorial Association were plan
ming trip to Hawaii for their next an
nual outing. We have sent a generous
supply of our folders to the secretary
of the association and will follow the
matter up carefully.
The Haskin series of letters on Ha-
wall continue to attract attention. A
number of people, who have read
| these letters, nave been referred by
their home papers to our committee for
further information about the islands.
Mr.. o. p. Austin, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor, writes under
date of May %, in part as follows:
81 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 agri-
| culture and producing power and pros
poets, and as soon as | 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 New
York importing house, with several
branches in Brazil, for n supply of our
folders to be sent to Brazil for parties
there who are DESTROYS of settling IN
Hawaii.
The following letter from Rev. Char
les A. Payne, the lecturer, will be read
with interest
Your letter came weeks ago and |
have been SO hard pressed with work
that l have allowed the reply that
should have been written at once to be
crowded along from day to day.
hope you will pardon the delay.
thank you for the copy of Picturesque
Honolulu. l am very glad to get
everything pertaining to the islands
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 concerning the islands
have now given this lecture seven
times in Milwaukee, the last time to
an audience of over 1000 people
left Hawaii May last year. Up to
May 1 this year, l gave the lee
ture eighty-nine times and, to indicate
that this is not the end, let me say
that l gave the lecture four times last
week, am giving it five times this
week and expect to give it three times
next week. Early next month be-
gin work in the Chautauquas and great
summer assemblies and am to lecture
on Hawaii in nearly every Chautauqua
to which l go.
SOhlSoo ApSoOl oui pl IoSu az IhC
keen interest manifested in this lee
ture. | rarely give it that people do
not crowd around afterwards to thank
me, ask questions and many to express
a desire or purpose to go there.
wish there were some way of telling
how many go. The lecture always
awakens very keen enthusiasm. In
deed the interest remains so great that
/ plan to make it my leading lecture
for next fail. If possible, must visit
you again. | want to for my own
pleasure also. fell in love with Ha-
waii and the Hawaiian people, natives
and Americans, and let everybody
know it. have also printed and cir
culated over 10000 copies of the cir
cular which l inclose."
Respectfully submitted,
II. p. WOOD,