The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-16
Pines ARE
GOING AHEAD
By Leonard wilmington.
mail Special to the Advertiser,

| $3.50 SApuBhS AoiNdiu prominently In
this section during the past month in
several different ways Perhaps most
strikingly through the wide publicity
campaign of the Hawaiian pineapple
growers. The page advertisements in
the current magazines have attracted a
great deal of attention and comments
are frequently heard on the streets and
In trains ana cars. Some of the prom
inent restaurants are featuring Hawai-
ian pineapples and the patrons of Others
are wondering why they are unable to
obtain them. One of the largest i'm.
| porting houses here has been selling
Hawaiian pineapples under it's own
brand for some time but otherwise the
fact that Hawaii could raise the luscious
fruit was hardly known to the mass of
people. The present campaign is big
publicity move for the islands as well
as the pineapple men and should be fol.
lowed up by further energetic work by
the Promotion Committee. Last week
Memorial Hall, the largest of the Har.
ward dining halls, put Hawaiian pine.
apple on its bill of fare greatly to the
| delight of the Island colony who dine
there.
Another factor in Hawaiian promo.
ton hereabouts has been series of
lectures given by Miss Elizabeth Shaw
Colwell, until recently teacher in IA.
waiahao seminary. She is now travel
ing in this vicinity and has two lectures,
one descriptive with stereopticon views,
the other with shorter description and
more attention paid to Hawaiian folk
lore. Your correspondent heard the lat
ter lecture in Medford, suburb of Bos.
ton, last week. A large audience was
charmed by the lecture which is one
of the finest pictures of Hawaii and her
people that has been heard on the lee.
ture stage. The descriptive portion was
given in language that suffered not at
all in comparison with Mark Twain IS
classic words which were given at the
close while the portion of the lecture
devoted to Hawaiian legends was a rev.
elation to those who were not familiar
with the subject.
Miss Colwell was accompanied by a
soloist who sang Characteristic Hawai-.
ian songs in Hawaiian. Such lectures
help dispel many of the popular mis-
conceptions about the islands, and the
volcano after such mastery descrip
tion as Miss Colwell IS becomes less a
bugaboo to tourists and more the mag
nifcent manifestation of nature that
it is.
Some amusement may be created il
Hawaiian circles by certain portions OF
the following press despatch which ap
peared in various newspapers recently
following the loss of the great White
Star liner Republic. Captain Sealby is
known to Honolulans and probably was
somewhat amused himself at the send
off his home town gave him during his
absence. The extracts are from the
Boston Globe of aJnuary 9th and are
as follows:
In 1897 he was placed in command
of the steamer Coptic, sailing between
San Francisco and China. Later he
commanded the Persia and Suevic, from
England to New Zealand, and Crotic
and Canopic from Boston to the Medi
terranean. He was given command OF
the Republic last July.
While in charge, of the Coptic, going
to China, Capt Sealby saved the ship
from destruction. The vessel was struck
by tidal wave, and would have gone
to the bottom but for the heroic ex
ample he set for the crew.
When the Sandwich Islands were an,
nexed to the United States, July 3, 1898
Capt. Sealby carried the news to the
residents of the Islands. The people
wanted to make him the first governor
but he could not accept the offer, and
they gave him a silver and gold loving
cup,
He was also the first person to send
out the news of the capture of Ger
vera's feet by Admirals Schley and
Sampson.
The great ocean disaster has aroused
the widest interest, the special feature
having been the use of the wireless
Had it not been for that wonderful in
venton the repetition of the La Bour
goyne disaster might easily have oc'
CURED in the fog off Nantucket shoals
The only casualties out of the sixteer
hundred souls on the colliding ships
were the seven deaths caused by tin
crash, and not one was drowned
His dynamos out of commission, Wire
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