The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-09
HOW TWEED|E DID
UP THE MAUNTES
laps Wanted Lottery Prizes, but
Drew Tons of Incubator
Advertising.

(Mail Special to The Advertiser)
KAUPO, September 2.-For ways
that are dark and for tricks that are
vain one Daniel Tweedie must be con
ceded TO be peculiar.
rweedie. representing the San Fran
cisco Examiner. went through the Is
lands IN 1909 on a subscription eXpe-
dition. making nice cleanup. His
paper was conducting lottery, a
chance going to each subscriber, and
one or two plantation Japs were
fortunate enough to draw prizes in
the 1909 deal
\ few months ago Tweedie again APP
peared on the scene. this time on Maui.
He was selling the American Weekly.
He did a good business among all
classes and nationalities on Maui and
departed for the Coast with, accord
ing to his own statement, $4,000, this
total probably representing the result
Of his 1910 campaign in the Islands.
HaoIe subscribers waited for the
American Weekly to appear but got
the Weekly Call instead. In place OF
a magazine which they had been prom
ised as a premium they received the
Petaluma Poultry journal, a snide ad-
vertising publication, published to
boom a certain incubator. They waxed
exceeding wroth, but on examining
their receipts found that they had
been properly "stung," for the name
THE American Weekly printed
thereon had been crossed out family,
and ..Petaluma Journal inserted
above in microscopic rubber type.
With the Japanese on Maui the
shiftv Daniel worked a different
scheme He handed out printed state
ments to the effect that certain
Jap on Hawaii had won an automobile
in the last lottery and that another Of
their countrymen had been fortunate
enough to draw gold mine.
The japanese swallowed the bait,
hook, line and sinker; dug up their
money like little men, and pocketed
receipts for a year s subscription to
The Petaluma Journal across which
was stamped the notice: ''The Amer
lean Weekly conducts no lottery or
drawing of any kind. This receipt for
reference only
A few weeks ago Petaluma Poultry
Journals commenced to arrive on Maui
by the thousand. The Jap subscribers
refused TO take them away and a
number of postOffices, notably Hama.
are chock block with the publication
much to the annoyance and perplexity
of the various postmasters
Indignant haole subscribers to the
American Weekly are writing indig
nant letters to the management, and
several hundred japanese await the
glad news that they have won prizes
in the lottery for which they pur
chased tickets.
Tweedie told Engineer Bethe, of IA
eleku Sugar Company, the Examiner
had "done him dirt and that he
intended to get square by switching
over his subscription list to the Call.
When Bethe quizzed him as TO the
ethics of the deal with the Japanese,
Tweedie replied that he was poor
man and needed the money. and that
the fool Japs would never know the
difference anyway.
Several Tweedie Lynching Societies
have been organized on Maui, at a
meeting of one of which the devious
Daniel Will. it is hoped. be the guest
of honor.
Hawaii and the other counties have
vet TO be heard from
Down Puunene way and from there
across to Hama, the season for news
paper subscription solicitors has been
declared eternally open.