The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-22
HAWAII At
ATLANTIC CITY
Promotion Secretary Wood Tells
of the Arrangements
Made.

Hawaii will be well represented at
Atlantic City this summer, for the pro.
motion committee has leased one Of the
finest locations along tho famous mil
lion-dolar Board Walk for its pine.
apple exhibit. According to Norman
Watkins, member of tho promotion
committee, who attended convention
of fertilizer firms there last summer,
the location Is in the very midst of the
hotel district and where the crowds are
greatest. He is of the opinion that the
committee has made no mistake in its
selection of location. AT the meet.
ing of the promotion committee yester.
day afternoon long letter from Score.
tary IL. p. Wood, dated April and ad.
dressed to Chairman Mclean, was read,
as follows:
"Upon my arrival here / was met
by George s. Lenhart, secretary-director
of the Atlantic City Bureau of Pub.
LEFTY, who had kindly interested the
president of the hotelmen s association
and the mayor Of the city, in our plans.
In company with this committee care,
fully inspected the Board Walk, look
ing at every vacant place (less than
/, resolved itself into two places, a store
in the Marlborough Blenheim Arcade
fronting that splendid hotel and cor.
nering on Ohio avenue, and vacant lot
opposite Captain Young million-dollar
pier, upon which the owners offered to
construct suitable building for an
annual rental of $3.50 per front foot,
the width of the lot, however, nineteen
feet, was somewhat less than it should
, be and then the immediate surround.
ings were not attractive or desirable,
that part of the walk, as the mayor
termed it, being in the Bowery.
"The Marlborough Blenheim store is
2Sx90 feet with a good basement of the
: same size. 1t is at the corner of the
leading hotel and in the center of the
=, best hotel district, just where the class
: of people we wish to reach may be
found. l could not get even ten hours
option, and though the price was high,
4 $500 per month, was advised to lose
no time in closing and have arranged
Q to take the lease from date though our
S rental will not commence until May /.
s You can not lease from month to month
Q here, the rental is by the year. Our year,
!. however, viii end March l, 1911, with
$ the privilege (at our option) of two
IS years more at the same rental. The
Q proprietors also agree to put in a new
}, oak floor and to redecorate. This is
the first time, am told, that the MARI
l. borough-Blenheim people have agreed
l., to lease for longer period than one
year. The Los Angeles people have
not been able to secure any such con-
cessions and their rental is the same
as ours though they occupy smaller
), room, and an inside room at that. /
j consider our location one of the most
desirable on the Board Walk.
X ~ shall have two electric signs, just
q the word Hawaii, in large plain black
- letters on the Board Walk and Ohio
ts avenue sides of the corner post, which
W you will note in postal cards. The one
re on Ohio avenue will be seen n greater
distance away than any other sign on
:" the Board Walk shall be very anx.
W ious to get to work, and regret to note
er by the New York Herald shipping notes
q. that the Virginian did not get away
until March "a, which will delay the
receipt of our exhibit material. / will
IN have the place ready, however, and will
go ahead with the sale of pineapple and
= pineapple drinks.
7 off we do well this year | hope by
next season that we can induce Aus
tralia, New Zealand and Fiji, also Java
to participate with us in Hawaii and
South Seas Exhibit or Hawaii and
All-PaciGe Exhibit, sharing the expense
thus reducing the expense and not inter
fering with or lessening in any way the
value of our work. | have preached
the matter to the parties interested anG
should anything come of it will submit
> their replies for your consideration.
z "I cabled today that desirable loca
ton had been secured, signing the name
Promotion, in order that you nigh
know my code address here. / hop,
that every Hawaiian visiting the east
ern part of the United States this sum
mer may run down to Atlantic City ant
see what the Hawaii Promotion Com