The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-18
The Secretary's Letter.

Chairman and Members, Hawaii
Promotion Committee. Dear Sirs: Mr..
D. 0. Mackenzie Of the firm of Pat
ten, Mackenzie & CO., Yokohama
Japan. write under date of May 3lst
as follows:
'.At last we have got your pictures
completed and have been successful in
getting good positions for at least two
Of them Cooks and the Pacific Mail
are SO much taken with them that
they are both giving the best posi-
tons in their offices for the hanging
of them.
IF the Grand and Oriental Hotels
give me the positions I am asking for
1 shall give them each one, and then
I am negotiating with Miyanoshita,
and Nikko Hotels which would both
be good, to give US good position.
If we can get your pictures into good
locations in each of these places there
is little doubt, but You will soon be-
gin to reap the reward of your out
lay. The pictures I should mention
are very much admired and there
would appear to be little difficulty
about getting them well disposed of.
Enclosed herewith please find the
bill for the same The framing part
of it looks good value though I am
little disappointed with the amount
we had to pay for the brass plates.
They are. however. within the limit
you allowed me and they are really
a good piece of work. They are by
IA inches in size, and the lettering
is cut out and iacquered in black.
They, by the way. are what took the
long time in having made as the cut
sing is all hand work, and when it was
| finished the only man who does this
lacquer work decently went off on a
| drunk and delayed us for about three
weeks. These plates are attached 10
| the frames by pieces of metal run
ming through the frames and screwed
on at the back. Altogether the finish
| looks very much superior to ordinary
advertising work and they cannot
| help attracting attention. 1t is just
| possible we may have to make some
small payment for sending these to
| Nikko and Miyanoshita and if have
| TO will send you the bill later
If 1 can / shall, Is requested by
| you, have some photos taken OF
| them to send YOU
The pictures referred to are some
! photographs. which are carefully Sc
| lected Cor the purpose of advertising
| Hawaii throughout Japan. To each
i frame, we had fastened brass plate
naming and locating the picture with
| 2 line stating that illustrated folders
| descriptive of Hawaii, cotld be OBJ
| tanned by writing TO the Hawaii Pro-
| motion Comittee at Honolulu.
Our plan for advertising Hawaii
| throughout the Orient contemplates
| placing similar enlarged photographs
! at Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Sing
| apore. Batavia, Colombo and Bonn
| bay. for which we viii need about
| twenty pictures. With these in posi-
| ton, we shall undoubtedly be able to
| attract a great deal of stop over
| travel. especially now that our Co
| lombo service is we'll under way.
| Our special map and folder, for use
at Colombo, where IN an average one
passenger steamer calls daily destined
for the Straits Settlements. China,
| japan or Australia, is being carefully
distributed by bright boy, employed
| for us by the management of the
| Gale Face Hotel.
| Within the next few weeks, we will
| send out additional sets Of photographs
and twenty-five minute lectures on
Hawaii to several of the leading deal
| ers in lantern slides throughout the
| United States and Europe, who make
a business of supplying lecturers with
| slides and material for lectures
While Hawaii has received most
| generous treatment at the hands of