The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-03
WORKING OUT
PARADE PLANS
Harold Dillingham's Schemes for
Floral Pageant Are Liked
by Committee.

at the meeting OF the promotion com
mittee, Through Acting Secretary Win
j. Cooper, who had talked with him,
Harold Dillingham; S views were pre-
sented to the committee and met with
general approval.
There are still three months before
the parade's pageantry goes through
Honolulu s streets. and Dillingham;,
who has accepted the task Of organ
izing, designing and arranging it,
thinks that the greatest "steam
should be applied to the preparations
during the last month, in order to pre-
vent the interest of the men upon whom
he must rely the most becoming worn
or tagging at the time it is needed
most.
Up to that time he will lay his plans
and choose his aides in the work so
that when the last stretch of the work
it reached it will not be aiInless, but
will proceed smoothly along prear-
ranged and systematic lines. Cooper
told the committee that if Dillingham;
keeps up his present energy and ear
ries ont his ideas, the parade will be a
great success. He has many original
ideas that will, if carried into execu-
ton, make the parade greater than its
predecessors, as all parades should be.
Scientific Promotion.
In the distribution by the promotion
committee this week of several thou
sand circular letters, new scheme of
promotion has been worked up, orig
inal in its conception and undoubtedly
to be of the. greatest influence along
promotion lines. Previous to his de-
parture on his oriental tour, Secretary
III. P. Wood wrote back to the county
assessors in all the States in the Mis-
sissippi Basin-Ohio. Kansas. Michigan
and those adjaeent-and asked them
for list of the Weather people in
their counties who were in the habit
of travelling extensively.
The assessors answered promptly and
to the point, and as consequence the
committee became possessed of a list
of people who were the very best in
the world to appeal to. 1t would be
strange if very many of the letters
sent to them would miss their mark.
With the letters go several pamphlets
on Hawaii.
! Echoes Back.
One incident that Cooper brought be-
fore the attention of the committee
called to mind Kipling' S story of 1.-THE
Track of a Lie only this time it
t lie, but a paragraph in one
of the news letters that the committee
used to send the rounds of the main
land papers.
These letters contained items of in
terest about the island and catch
phrases that found general acceptance
among the papers they were sent to.
They were clipped and printed broad
cast and although the committee stop
ped using them in May or June the
items are still faithfully going the
rounds.
The item that came before the com.
mittee yesterday had been cut by
Cooper from an educational journal and
has become a firm fixture in the Coast
exchanges. From all appearances, it is
going yet.
18uIDlC COHllug Back.
The committee is in indirect receipt
of information from Lloyd Childs, the
federal disbursing officer for Hawaii at
the Seattle fair, that the exhibit will
arrive here on the transport Dix for
which boat it has been already packed.
Childs is waiting now for a letter from
the war department giving him permits
sion to ship the exhibit on her
Chairman w. A. Bowen of the com
mittee suggested yesterday in connec-
ton with this news that the exhibit
be displayed here upon it's arrival in
such manner as the chambers of com
merce on the Coast display their ex-
hibits and museums. On motion of
Hoogs, however, the matter was turned
over to Cooper TO look into and report
on. IF arrangements can be made the
store in the Young Hotel
now sometimes used to exhibit drum
mers' samples, will be utilized and used
for the exhibit.
A. B. Engles came into the committee
room yesterday and loaded up with
literature and "such like on Hawaii
He sails shortly fer the mainland and
an extensive tour over the
country and in Europe. He viii spend
a great deal of time in Paris and other
old world capitals and promises to use
his literature to the best advantage.
Notice has been received of the resig-
nation of Rufus P. Jennings from the
California Promotion Committee. Jen-
nings has been the heart and soul of
it since the time of its inception but
was forced to retire from its work on
account Of the stress of private bust
ness.
The Why Of It.
In his report for the week, Cooper
says in part:
''In a newspaper interview published
several days ago, Hon. D. Lloyd Conk-
ling, territorial treasurer, is reported to
have commented at some length on the
general ignorance throughout the East
on matters Hawaiian, and to have stat
ed that during his recent entire trip
he did not see a folder or other bit of
Hawaii Promotion Committee literature
in any hotel or railway station. This
may seem to be an indictment against
our work. but it ism t.
81 could have told Mr.. Conkling be-
fore he started East, that he would not
be able to find our printed matter in
the locations he mentions, excepting
that he Shauld have hpaD able "a dis