Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-03
DISCUSS FLORAL
PARADE PLANS
THREE MONTHS TO
PREPARE FOR EVENT
Acting Secretary of the Promotion
Committee, Makes Reply to the
Statement Of Treasurer Conk.
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At the meeting of the Promotion
Committee yesterday there was gen.
o!al discussion of Harold Dillingham's
plans for the floral parade. While the
floral parade Is yet three months away
there will be no time lost In making a
| beginning. the greatest amount of eff.
fort toward aiousing enthusiasm being
centered upon the last month
In the course of his report for the
week Acting Secretary Cooper of the
Promotion Committee makes reference
To II statement by Treasurer Conkling
that he did rot see much Hawaiian
Promotion Literature during his trip
East: The report is as follows.
In newspaper interview publish
cd several days ago. Hon. d. Lloyd
Conkling, Territorial Treasurer, is
reported to have commented at some
length on the general ignorance
throughout the east on matters Ha-
waiian. and TO have stated that. dur
ing his recent entire trip he did not
see folder or other bit of Hawaiian
Promotion Committee literature in
any hotel or railway station. This
may seem to be an Indictment
against our work, but It isn't.
! could have told Mr.. Conkling be-
fore he started East that he would
not be able TO find our printed mat
ter In the locations he mentions, ex-
cepiing that he should have been
able to discover some in the Pacific
coast cities. We are not making a
general distribution elsewhere. not
that 1t might not prove valuable to
do 80, but because we have not the
financial means TO do It.
Every few days someone calls at
our Office with an idea on the dis
scnination of facts concerning lla-
wall. Almost all, however. are
plans for wider distribution of our
printed matter, and while some OF
them are new to us, and am only
too glad to have this evidence that
our citizens are giving some thought
TO the work of advertising Hawaii
rel the point want to make is that
the field to be covered il not the OBJ
scure feature, but the getting of ma
terial to distribute and the expense
incident to this distribution.
As an instance in question, an en-
! thusiastic fraternity man came to
me the other day with n proposition
Ike this. The order which he has
In mind claims over half a million
members. II should not he difficult
to secure through the secretaries of
The various branch lodges an approx
imately complete list of all their
names, with addresses. Now in this
particular order there Is an unusual
~ large number of persons of means
who are In the habit of travelling,
and a. circular letter to every menu
her of the order, accompanied by
some Of our folders, would no doubt
reach very large number of per-
sons who would be interested. Now,
all this looks very good, but this is
what had to show my enthusiastic
| friend. He had never counted on
the expense. and was somewhat star
tied at such figures as these:
Postage q cents) on 100000
p'eces '','''.. 1000
100000 folders at 2 cents
each lour latest folders
cost over this amount. -. 10000
Envelopes, at $500 per NJ. 1900
$2l, 900
This total does not include any
thing for circular letters, which
were suggested, nor for clerical work
In addressing and stamping very
considerable lob.
II would be very easy to have our
folders displayed in practically every
railway station, and every hotel in
the United States, provided we had
the means to pay for the material
and the distributions Well organic
ed companies control the racks In
these places all over the country,
and are thoroughly reliable and con-
scicntious In their work. We how
ever, only patronize one, and that
one handles our folders very well In
the larger cities of the Pacific Coast.
We get some very good free service,
however, from some Of the big tou-
rist agencies and transportation
agencies, which find 1t to their ad-
vantage to make use of our matter
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