The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-12-10
EXHIBIT MAY
Be IMPOSSIBLE
Promotion Committee Is Handi-
capped Financially Making
Arrangements.


hibit at the Seattle fair on exhibition
here when it arrives on the transport
Dix, and faced with a financial inabil.
ity to stand the expense Of the same,
the promotion committee yesterday dis
cusscd the matter without being able
to come to any definite conclusion.
The first thought, when the matter
was brought up some time ago, was to
place it on exhibition in the empty
store in the Young Hotel building, but
as the hotel people want $3.50 month
for the place, it is beyond the means
of the committee. They are waiting
for suggestions from people interested
and who would like to see the exhibit
open to the people of Honolulu who
were unable to get to the fair. The
federal government claims part of it,
as part was purchased with federal
money, but the entire exhibit is on its
way back, and will be great attrac.
ton here.
1t is desired to keep it open, provid.
ing it can be placed on exhibition, for
at least two months, for the benefit of
tourists as well as local people.
Cleveland Plans.
Acting Secretary viii j. Cooper re.
ported to the committee that he had
sent several thousand pamphlets issued
by the committee to Yokohama where
they will be placed on board the S. S.
Cleveland upon that vessels arrival in
that port. The Cleveland is the boat
that is carrying the Clark Brothers
excursion around the world and which
- Ill. 4.
Dor early Sunday morning, January 81.
The Cleveland is carrying between
500 ard 600 people and some time was
spent yesterday in discussing the man
ner in which these people should be
received here. As their program while
on the Islands has been carefully
planned out long in advance, the com.
mittee will not have to escort them
around. 1t is the intention of the com.
mittee to give them n welcome that
will make lasting impression on them
and fix Hawaii prominently in their
minds and before the recollection of
the many other places that they have
visited.
AS the tentative plans now stand, the
committee will meet them outside the
reef, and as the boat is due at six
o clock in the morning, they will have
to suffer the usual hardship of recep.
ton committee and get up early The
tug, or some other boat capable of hold.
ing the band will be sent out with
Berger's boys playing Hawaii = aloha
to the many people on board. This was
done upon the arrival of the last con.
gressional party and made splendid
impression as it is particularly effective
on Hawaii morning.
Many Leis.
host of pretty girls will accompany
the committee out, virtually loaded
with leis for the decoration of the pas.
sengers. Although great number of
wreathes will have to be prepared, the
committee thinks that they will, by
giving long notice, be able to have
them ready upon the arrival of the
party. The Aloha buttons will also be
distributed and should this reception
fail to touch the visitors, then must
they be made of stone.
Coastwise Difficulties.
Chairman W. A. Bowen has, in con.
nection with some friends which he has
on the Cleveland. run bump up against
the coastwise shipping laws and seen
things. These friends wrote him from
the East before leaving on the world
cruise, that they desired to stop off in
Hawaii and had made arrangements
with the company by which they might
sell that portion of their tickets good
for passage between this place and San
Francisco.
Mr.. Bowen undertook to dispose of
the tickets and just about completed
arrangements for so doing when he dis
covered that the Cleveland is foreign
boat belonging to the Hamburg Amer
lean line and that it is against the law
for it, to carry any passengers between
these ports. So his friends will either
have to stop Off here and lose their
money or go through and save their
money, which means that Hawaii will
lose that many more tourists.
The Floral Parade.
Cooper presented n report on the
progress in arrangements fOI the floral
parade made him by Harold Dillingham;
previous TO the latter's departure for
the Coast. The committee was very
much pleased with his ideas, and it IL
probable, although they are now tenta-
tive, that they will be carried into eff
feet.
ProGting by the experience Of former
years, when the morning floral parade
fell little fiat for lack Of an afternoon
program to keep up the excitement, Dill
bingham has arranged an entire day OF
gaiety.
The parade, as usual, will be held in
the cooler hours Of the morning and
there will be fine sports program in
the afternoon, The Fifth Cavalry will
be asked 10 give monkey drillb and
other exhibitions will be arranged. This,
Of course, is strictly tentative, and the
bulk Of his IDEAS he wishes 20 keep
quiet until they are definitely arranged.