The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-02
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the pineapple business. They occupy a
stand elevated above the corner where
the pineapple is served, and when they
play the only difficulty is to keep the
tables cleared for all who want them.
The sales have averaged about 200 tins
per day, and the receipts nearly 800.
Although our building cannot begin
to compare IN many ways with some
OF the others, wits their elaborate and
costly displays, SIN there is no ques-
ton that we are attracting more atten-
ton than most of shese others A num-
! Der of persons have explained to me
i that IN the California building, the
main government building, the Wash
/ ington state building, etc.. they see
J things that are more or less familiar,
but that in Hawaii s they find things
that are entirely new. Yesterday it
rained for the first time since we have
been here. The crowd was pretty slim
. in general, but we scarcely noticed any
difference, and it is a good thing that
We are not making much of a CONNER
/ cial thing out of our exhibit, still there
is no question IL my mind that we
could have made good thing out Of
/ 1t had we prepared to sell about every
thing that We have on display. People,
want to buy the little table mats. the
cocoanuts, leis, an practically every
! thing else. [ can see still more clearly
! how your Atlantic city scheme would
work, and | was thinking Just last
/ night that if some one could have had
a concession on the paystreak, with
Bonnie IS films, or something else as
| central feature, and then sell pineap-
!. pies, in various shapes, and everything
! else that could be brought from Hawaii,
we would have made big hit Think
| 7 will bear it in mind on occasion of
another exposition. There is an Eski-
mo village in the paystreak, which has
| a colony Of ill-smelling savages living
in their own fashion This is inter
esting and draws a crowd which pays
for the privilege of getting in. and
more often than not pay more before
they get out, for there is perfect
bazaar in connection with the place. into
which the people are turned after they
have visited the village, and in which
everything imaginable from Alaska and
the arctic region are on sale.
g In the matter of our literature de-
partment, I think it is working very
well, but we are running low in some
of our matter, particularly Primers
and DR.. Wilcox's booklet. We have a
fair supply of Hawaii folders, temper
allure folders, and the several islands
folders.
eve have just received our Aloha
buttons, but | understand that it is
the intention to hold most of them
back until Hawaii day, sometime in
August.
"The girls are getting along all
right, and l think are enjoying them
selves. They have begun to get used
to being on their feet, and are not
tired at the end of the day as they
were at first Besides they are get
ting a good deal of attention, as you
may judge from some of the clippings
whica I have mailed you. Yesterday
they all attended reception for Gov
ernor Gillett, in the California build
ing, where they were fiatteringly en-
tertained. Later the Governor daugh-
ter. and later the Governor himself
came over to our building, and ate
pineapple, and were decorated with
leis by the girls, appearing to enjoy
themselves very much. However we
are beginning to get used TO this kind
of thing for the gentlemen and ladies
from all the other buildings seem to
find a great deal of pleasure in our
building, and fot the time being, at
least we are very much in the fore
ground. Childs has employed three
or four girls from the University to
serve pineapples in the afternoons so
that although the pineapple business is
| booming. it is possible to let our girls
get away TO the many receptions, etc,
for short times, in relays.
s'While / think of it, would You
mind sending us few of the A. b.
calendars. We have some trouble IN
/ keeping track of the steamer sailings;
| or. perhaps a few of the Advertiser s
time cards would answer just as well.
'FThe California Promotion Commit
| tee has been here most of the week,
! coming up in an elaborate special
train, and doing the town in great
| style.
"There is one thing that has been
commented on by others. and has i'm
pressed me very strongly. and that is
the good feeling which appears to pre-
! vail among the people connected with
! the Exposition. There does not seem
to be the least jealousy between any
Of the buildings, and all call and hob
mob in the most democratic and
fraternaI manner possible. As I stated
| before. there have been quite a mum
| Der of little teas and other such gath
| erings, chiefly among the ladies, in the
various buildings, although we have
not taken any action as yet towards
| reray-inr any Of this hnsnitality for