The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-22
PEOPLE WANT
To COME HERE
Promotion Committees Mail Full
of Queries About
Employment.

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Wood of the promotion committee has
| been exhibiting there-those of Homo
| lulu taken by B0nine, the expert, from
| Punchbowl and the harbor. These great
panoramic pictures are the best Bonnie
ever took, and were perfected by means
of the latest developments in photog
raphy Mr.. Wood wmtes that they are
attracting general attention.
| Mr.. Wood also writes that he has
made satisfactory arrangements in va
rious cities of Japan to make very
careful distribution of the literature
issued by the Hawaiian promotion
committee.
He speaks of meeting Miss Helen
| Wilder and two young lady friends in
Nikko. He says he was met at quaran-
! tine off Yokohama harbor by S. Mi
yata, representing the welcome society
of Japan, and was presented with an
| elaborate certificate of membership as
an honorary member. He says he is
feeling a bit homesick for Honolulu
| already.
Secretary Wood s idea of having
steamships and passenger trains carry
a few books on Hawaii is bearing fruit
The Matson company win supply its
steamZ Libraries with several works on
Hawaii, and the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company will place
| similar books on its California Limited
train running out of Chicago. W. H.
Simpson, advertising agent, has for
warded money to the acting secretary
to purchase the books.
A. Lansing Kirby of San Francisco,
| and DR.. NJ. E. Eastman of the Santa
Barbara sanitarium, write that they are
making arrangements to come here IA
few weeks. j. w. Osborne Of the
Pittsburg Land and Improvement Com.
pany of Spokane viii also visit Homo
lulu during the winter Teachers in
Greeneastle. Indiana; Eatonville, Wash
ington; College Station, Texas, and
Rock Springs, Wyoming are inquiring
1
| school system of Hawaii.
| The promotion committees mail this
| week is loaded with serious inquiries
as to prospects for obtaining employ
ment here by men of skilled trades,
such as locomotive engineers, railroad
officemeh, men who have been at work
in Central and South America as over
seers in shovel gangs; w. B. Powell,
secretary of the Tampa, Florida, board
of trade, writes thanking the secretary
for Hawaiian literature, and adds:
"The writer spent six months in your
delightful city getting data previous to
/ the annexation question many years
ago, and has always had the kindest
feeling for the little island of Oahu.
tramped all over Honolulu and its
environments, Pail and Waikiki, and
l believe l know every foot of the is
land. While in Los Angeles recently
| spent some time at the Honolulu de-
partment of the chamber of commerce
and enjoyed a long talk with the court
eous lady who had charge of the
work. -
Cooper's Weekly Letter.
Acting Secretary Cooper presented
the following letter to the members
at the regular meeting of the board
held yesterday afternoon:
eve have the following communica-
ton from Mr.. A. T, KnQdsen, who was
commissioner for Hawaii at the Alaska
Yukon-Paciie exposition, just ended at
Seattle. The letter is a carbon copy,
or form letter from which [ infer
that the writer has sent similar ones
to others in the Territory -:
During the last summer in Seattle
the Hawaiian commission received
great many letters and hundreds
] of personal verbal inquiries re-
garding the possibilities of settling
in Hawaii [ enclose you a copy
of one of these letters, which seems
to be the most comprehensive.
People as a whole are not satisfied
with the literature that was hand
ed to them by our official infor-
nation bureau One of theif chief
points of criticism was the lack
of detailed description of any one
tract of land that was available
for settlement. What they wanted
was depth and quality of soil, ex-
posure to the sun, elevation above
the sea. and average monthly rain
fall, what crops, if any were being
3 raised in the vicinity; also the
other questions which are embod-
! led in the letter l enclose.
| viii return to Hawaii on the
. Siberia, November 16, and would
be very much pleased if you could
have given this matter some
thought, so that 1 could compare
II notes with you and make up a
H manuscript for a pamphlet that
Ii would cover the subject in a more
II satisfactory way. We certainly
can get white settlers for Hawaii
II if we show them in detail exactly
II what kind of land they can get.
II Vague generalities will not bring
a man TO Hawaii They only
catch a man s attention and make
him want to know more about it.
- l think if you will be ready to
@ cooperate with me we viii be able
to get something that will be more
in the nature of a prospectus and
bring a man to the point of decid
ing by enabling him TO know before
II hand exactly what part of what
island he intends to settle in.
"AIr. Knudsen points out a difficult