The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-25
THE DREAM Of A
LONELY REPORTER.
Surprise Visit From Santa Claus
and the Night Watchers
Christmas Gift.
By J. M. Giles.

The reporters room in The Adver-
user office was deserted except for the
man on the night watch. There was
nothn dom in the office and gradu-
ally the eyes of the lonely watcher
dropped lower and lower. The nearly
hnlshed cigar fell out of his hand and
dropped on TO the floor. it smoldered
Tor a space and then went out. This
was AiS luck to be alone while every
one else was ENJOYING himself-his
CHRISTMAS present the welcome sound
OF the foreman : voice announcing that
fhe last form had gone to press. The
office clock ticket on silently in the
night and from the street came the oc-
easlonal bray Of a horn. Outside the
window there was the sudden rush of
, air and form like a great bird was
shhouetted against the sky
'Hulloa there. is any one IN - came
a CHEEKY voice from the darkness
>leepily the newspaperman rubbed his
tired eyes and lifting up the window
poked his head out.
Great jumping snakes, " he excIaim-
cd. as he caught sight of the machine
outside.
IT'S ali right, answered the same
| CHEEKY voice, Il only last looked in
to see how Won were before | went
along on my travels again. m Santa
Clans. You know, followed as a sort
Of afterthought.
| Instantly the mind of the newspaper
man woke to activity. "'Come on in
side he said. Here take this chair
and make yourself comfortable "
There was a quickened chug chugging
/ OF the machine as it swung up along
/ side the window and then entered the
well-known form of Santa Claus
! Dressed in white furs from head to foot
| he presented a strange appearance in
/ this semitropical cline, but as he at
! terward explained this was necessary
| owing to the GOODNESS of the air when
rushing through it at a great rate
And now Mr.. Claus began the
reporter. II should be glad if you will
tell me how YOU are finding things this
Christmas. and also what sort of trip
yo1 have had this year
/ We'll. replied Claus ''on the
whole, | think | may say that through
out the world | have found things good
| everywhere. 1t Is more with matters
American. though, that YOU will want
me to deal, so | VIII confne myself TO
them. Throughout the whole of the
! United States | have found an in
creased prosperity. Everything has
/ grown and ! tell Won it took me a con
| siderable time arranging and fixing up
presents for over one hundred and one
millions. Back there in my workshops,
however. l have 81 good staff of work
men. and by putting in overtime we
just managed it."
And round about Honolulu. Mr.
Claus. How did You find matters here?'
Much better than | expected. The
town has gone ahead with wonderful
rapidity and everybody about seems to
have money. | suppose you know how
| I work my business and find out lust
| exactly what each little boy and girl
in the different towns want. No? Why,
then, l viii explain it to you. The first
thing I have to find out is what each
person wants and in order to please as
many of them as possible I have made
arrangements with the postal authori
ties to deliver all letters to my home
factories Months before Christmas
great bags of mail come pouring in
and are handed over to my sorters.
Each town is sorted out and then the
orders are sent on down to the fac
tories AS there are a great many
things which you might call stock, such
as dolls. trumpets and the hundred and
one things that 90 towards making the
juvenile heart glad, these are of course
easy to handle,
"Resides this. we have some very
large special orders coming in. One,
which 7 have Just delivered tonight,