The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-25

motion Committee springs so many new
and good ideas in the line of promotion
work that those who work with him
have come to look forward with great
interest TO his weekly letter. But James
Mclean. member of the Promotion
Committee, yesterday claimed equal
credit for the EETent City, idea with
Mr.. Wood, though neither knew the
other was going to speak about it.
AS part of Mr.. Wood s letter yes
terday, suggestion was made that a
genuine tent city be made feature
here at the beach, the thing to be
handled in the same way as the tent
cities on the California coast. Mr..
Mclean, knowing nothing about Mr.
Wood S incubation of the idea in his
letter. on Wednesday evening had said
TO his wife that the tent city idea
would be good one to be worked
out here in the Islands. Mr.. Wood
and Mr.. Mclean put their heads to-
gether at the meeting of the Promo
ton Committee yesterday, comparing
IDEAS and coming to the conclusion that
the suggestion was really worth more
than either had at first thought.
Secretary Wood has also proposed
Pineapple Day to be celebrated out
at Wahiawa. The day could be made
representative, and the pineapple fea-
| ture could be carried out with good eff
| feet.
Promotion Communications.
w. H. Harper, who spent three years
| in Honolulu, has written to Secretary
| Wood regarding promotion work for
the Islands Harper is at present in
Pittsburg. Pa, where, he states, he will
be glad to do all in his power to boost
| the Islands. Frank R. Perrot writes
from West Australia to the effect that
| he is booked to give a number of lee
lures regarding Hawaii in that coun-
| try, but that he finds he has not suit
able and sufficient data. E. S. SUIT
eliffe of Montreal, Canada, has written
to the effect that he is very much in.
terested in the promotion scheme which
] is beng worked out in Hawaii and
states that he would like a copy OF
the outline of the scheme as it is car
ried out:
Secretary Woods Report.
"Our order has gone forward fol
5000 copies of the 1910 Floral Parade
poster and inasmuch as Mr.. III. M. Mist
the artist, will make the drawing OF
stone and otherwise supervise the get
ting out of the poster, we have reason
to expect an unusually good piece OF
work. In addition to the 5000 regular
sized posters, l have placed an orde,
) n ~+o1 al Il
ored) and $4,000 stickers. Upon receip
of these, we shall ask our citizens gen
orally to assist in their distribution 81
as to widely advertise the 1910 Flora
Parade and carnival. | have also re
quested Mr.. Mist to assist us in dis
tributing the posters throughout Europ
and by next mail will send him fv'
, hundred special letters in addressed en-
: velopes, each envelope to contain on
of the postal cards and to be sealet
with the special sticker. At the sam
time we post these letters, we will send
in mailing tubes, from two to five pos
tiers to the different addresses, hopin!
/, in this way, to get our posters display
ed all over Europe, even before eople
: arrive in Honolulu. We will reach ev
cry tourist agency, prominent railwa,
and steamship ticket office, as well a
the leading hotels in all of the I'm
portant business centers, seaports an
. tourist resorts, effecting the most com
0 plete distribution abroad that we hav
= ever attempted. The distribution
throughout the United States and Can
ada will be made by our agent at Sa
J. Francisco, Mr.. j. Walter Scott, VIII
= handled the posters for the 1909 parad
= SO successfully.
T. believing that our plorious summe
Il weather should be advertised as well a
2 our peerless winter weather, l hav
suggested to the pineapple people tina
arrangements be made to celebrate som
day during the height of the pineappl
= season by special doings at Wahiaw;
!. Sports of all kinds could be arrange
" for and I feel assured that the officer
I and men attached to Schofeld barrack
; would enter into the spirit of the ocet
= sion and do their best to assist in NAL
ing Pineapple Day in Hawaii a not;4bl
t. event. August % would be Just 81
months after our winter festival an
. an appropriate time for the midsumme
7 celebration which could be advertise
by poster, postal card and sticker ju:
as we ADVERTISE bUe emu Oh TeDIudl.
q and could be developed into most il
a teresting event proving of the create:
value in advertising our pineapple il
% dustry.
"The success attending the sale {
p canned pineapple at Seattle encourage
me to hope that we may be able
enlist the Pineapple Growers Associ'
- ton in our plans to establish salt
D. exhibit at Atlantic City which ca
readily be made to pay its own way an
:. at the same time prove one of tt
very best means for advertising, N
simply our pineapples, but Hawaii ge1
orally.
- GAS the summer season approache
it occurs to me to suggest that Tel
City, of course on a small scale, woul
g 8 prove even more profitable in Hawa
Id than on Coronado Beach in Southel
az California; a place where tents, sing
10 and double, with boarded floors, lighte
if possible. by electricity, simply fl