The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-04-07
OUR TOBACCO
!. IS FIRST GRADE
PROMOTION COMMITTEE RE-
cEIvEs oPTnTIsTIc REPORT
coNCERN1lSo OUTPUT.

The promotion committee continues
to keep in touch with the whole world,
according to Secretary Ii. P. Wood, who
in his weekly letter to the committee
yesterday afternoon gave samples of
inquiries originating in various parts of
the globe. His letter follows;
1 am pleased to be able to report
that while in Honolulu, c. H. CrOcker.
who, as you know, is a great traveller,
frequently called at our rooms and be-
fore leaving expressed himself as spe-
eially gratiicd at being able to secure
! from our files such complete informa-
ton concerning the places he proposes
visiting on his present trip l. e., Fiji,
New Zealand, Australia, Java; China
and Japan, romplimenting us by stat
/ ing that he had not been able to secure
such full and interesting line of
printed matter on the Coast Mr..
Croker also kindly offered to make a
point of calling upon all tourist and
information bureaus along his route of
travel explaining to those in charge
the work we were doing stating that
the Hawsii Promotion Committee rooms
were headquarters for transpacific
travel and that all matter that might
be sent to us would be distributed
advantageously.
/ I have to report the receipt Of re-
/ cent large consignments Of folders from
Australia, Japan and Java, interesting
| data much sought after by the traveller.
Consuls Give Assistance.
A matter of much satisfaction is the
receipt of letters from different mem
! ber3 of the consular service stationed
at Honolulu stating that they had
written to their home governments rec
onimending all tourist bureaus, gov
enmentsl and private, to send their
folders and other advertising matter
regularly to the Hawaii Promotion
Committee for midpaciic distribution.
The latest organization to offer to CO
operate with us is the italian Tourist
Bureau which, at the present time, is
especially interested in advertising the
expositiohs to be held at Turin and
Rome. sa
!, The Java Tourist Bureau. is now
sending out the first number of an in
, tercsting publication in English which
they propose issuing quarterly. We
have number of these ON hand for
! distribution.
Scare Doesn't Scare.
While the scare headlines in Coast
papers concerning our recent slight
cholera epidemic unquestionably affect
ed travel, yet it has not lessened in
, terest in Hawaii as the following let
ter from Bellingham, Washington,
7, would indicate:
"Will you please tell us if Honolulu
is still under quarantine as 1 would
like to go over there in the near fu-
ture and see about buying some city
property"
The following letter from Warwick
! shire,1 England, of interest:
Having read some of your folders
in our library with considerable
amount of interest, l am writing to
ask you for further information re-
speeding Honolulu as to its suitability
as place of residence for an English
man and his family. Please give cost
of living, educational facilities, health
conditions, etc"
That our map, "The Crossroads of
the Pacifcv continues to be appreciat-
: ed is evidenced by the following from
the secretary of the Commercial Club
of Kalamazoo, Michigan:
"'Yo1r Crossroads of the Pacific
map Jared better than is usually the
case in Uncle Sam IS mails, arriving
cupies a prominent place in our recep-
ton room, where it attracts much at
tention.''
Hawaiian Tobacco o. K.
A letter from a New York firm of
tobacco buyers indicates that Hawaiian
grown tobacco is attracting attention,
speaking of a shipment Of Hawaiian
tobacco recently received there. The
letter goes on to say that it was well
sorted, cured and that the firm in
question can readily place such to-
bacco.
Two letters also came to hand last
mail from parties DESTROYS of taking up
land and growing tobacco in Hawaii.
The 1914 Railway Passenger Agents
Convention is still simmering. 7. G..
Peck, general passenger agent of the
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
hallway, writes under date of March
10 as follows:
81 trust you win pardon the delay in
answering your letter of Feb. /, but
conditions here have been such that
all our time has been taken up with
the trouble we are experiencing on our
line.
"I heartily agree with you in the
proposition advanced, as believe the
benefits that would accrue from a
meeting to be held in the Hawaiian
Islands by the managers sand general
passenger agents, to include the mem
bers of the American Passenger
Agents Association would be eyerlast-
ing to those who would attend and l
| will be glad to lend my influence to
| bring about the desired plans. Most
of the members of these associations
are acquainted with the conditions in
| the States, but few of them realize the
| possibilities in the Islands, and as we
| arc all interested in the matter of
| transportation, /, for one, would favor
| Honolulu as meeting place"