The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-05

some capable young Hawaiian to be
employed as an outside man for the
| committees local work, to act as guide
TO places of interest, arrange out-of-
| town trips, visit the hotels and see that
tourists are being satisfied with their
| visit and generally be rustler in the
| interests of visitors. Such man has
not yet been found, but there is posi-.
ton for him as soon as he turns up.
| The weekly report of Secretary Wood.
| which follows, is summary Of a busy
week. He writes:
The Secretary's Report.
| Honolulu, February 4, 1909
/ Chairman and Members of the Hawaii
! Promotion Committee.
Gentlemen: By the Mongolia, sail.
| ing January 80, we forwarded some
| four thousand pieces of frst-class mat
! ter by mail, as well as large number
| OF folders and marked newspapers. By
the Moana sailing yesterday, we mailed
several hundred marked copies of our
| daily papers referring to the visit of
| those prominent railway officials, Mr..
| E. E. Calvin and Mr.. w. H. Bancroft.
These we sent to the railroad editors
/ of some one hundred and fifty leading
| papers, distributing the remaining
| copies among railway and steamship
| men generally.
We have reason to expect much from
| the visit of Messrs. Calvin and Ban
croft. These gentlemen will be dill
| gently interviewed and all they may
have to say about the Islands will be
read with interest by every leading
railway and steamship man in the coun-
try. The coming of the Santa Fe party,
headed by Mr.. j. w. Kendrick, second
vice president, will cause much addi-
tional comment and serve to still fur
| Their attract attention to Hawaii.
| The Tenyo Maru, due to sail February
/ s or 8, viii also carry very heavy
mail; over three thousand pieces of
! frst-class matter, besides folders and
| marked copies of our daily papers
| These reach every state in the Union
| as well as every Province Of Canada.
Each mail to hand brings an increas,
| ing number of letters from people of
small means, say with from $4,000 to
$4,000, who are planning to come
| to Hawaii to see what the chances are
here. We are also getting more com
| munications from the class of people
! whose incomes have built up and made
Southern California prosperous, class
| of residents the Promotion Committee
| is diligently and Systematically seeking
| to interest in the Islands.
! While the present season of travel is
most satisfactory, [ believe it is safe
| to predict that the season for 1909-1910
| will see an increase of, at least, twenty
| five, if not fully fifty per cent. in the
mn hns az Ict+ aIe
| pect a satisfactory year through travel
1t is difficult to appraise the value
of the advertising we are receiving by
| the Pearl Harbor developments and the
establishment on the Island of Oahu
of a large military post. No city, the
| world over, is more thoroughly before
the public today than Honolulu.
| By March 10, our distribution OF
folders at Colombo will be under way.
| believe this campaign will result in
our securing larger number of stop
overs from the constantly increasing
transpacifc travel.
A letter from st. Joseph, Mo-, to
| hand by last mall states that the
writer is making up q party to visit
| Hawaii and asks to be supplied with
additional advertising matter.
BY last mail, we received the copy
for the special red plate overprint Of
Hammond and Company IS Map of the
| World on Equivalent Projections. I
looked over the copy carefully and af-
| ter noting few additions and correc.
| tions, was able to return the map by
| the Mongolia. We may expect COM
| pleted copies of this valuable travel
map by the middle of March
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writes that they have just added FIVE
new but well known men to their staff
and are preparing to push their valu-
Fable publication with vigor. We are
asked to furnish a number of articles
on Hawaii which will be published with,
out cost.
| A gentleman writes from Hankow,
/ China, asking to be supplied with our
pamphlets which he will undertake to
/ place to Hawaii S advantage
The South Manchuria Railway Com.
pany write asking to be furnished with
our advertising matter and express a
desire to enter into friendly relations
with the Hawaii Promotion Committee
| offering to reeiprocate in every way pos,
sible.
i A letter from the Webster Company
OF Seattle, dealers IN stereoptIc0ns, etc,
state that their illustrated lectures on
\ Hawaii are in use all over the North
west. They ask for additional matter
in order to revise their lectures. We
are sending a set of fish plates. suggest,
ing that they have several eolored Ian,
tern slides of these made up to add to
their lecture.
| We are now running the eolored fish
slides at our daily lecture in Los An
/ geles with good effect.
Respectfully submitted.
II Ell. P. WOOD,