The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-01-06
HAWAII APPEALS
TO OREGONIAN
President, Marshfield Chamber
of Commerce Delighted
With Honolulu.

''Pin your faith on Coos Bay, Oregon,
and spend your vacations in Hawaii"
is the new motto of Dr. J. T. McCormac
of Marshfeld, Oregon, who is paying his
first visit to the Paradise of the Pa
eifc.
Doctor McCormac is a guest at the
Macdonald, He came here for his
health, and although he has been here
but for about six weeks, he already
declares he has been much benefited.
He expects to remain for two or three
months longer.
~ feel very much at home in Homo
lulu, " declared the doctor this morning,
in describing his experiences, "for L
have already found three old Coos Bay
citizens whom / have known for years
very well. They are Hugh and Jim
Coke and j. Lando. ! guess you have
captured them for good, but they were
once good Coos Bay citizens.
Doctor McCormac is president of the
Marshfeld Chamber of Commerce, hav-
ing lust been elected to his fourth term
of office. OF necessity, therefore, he
is the best kind of a booster for Ore
gon, and especially for his section of
Oregon, which is on Coos Bay, in Coos
county. some two hundred miles south
of Astoria But the doctor is also en-
amored of Hawaii, and especially of
Honolulu.
~ came here for my health, and 1
am already greatly improved, - said he.
=. was suffering from rheumatism, and
although | don't know that / eyer heard
that the Islands were recommended for
that maladv, | certainly have expert
enced great benefit from the change.
Your climate is about as nearly perfect
as | can well imagine.
81 am also interested in number
of the institutions here, especially your
public schools, the Royal Hawaiian
Band and the Bishop Museum. 1 have
spent good deal of time lately taking
photographs of schools and the pupils
attending them. These / am sending
back home, where / know they will be
of much interest to our educators l
have also made the acquaintance OF
Captain Berger, who has been kind
enough to furnish me with the scores
of quite a number of Hawaiian songs,
including that most beautiful selection
Aloha Oe.' This i am sending to the
superintendent of our schools, asking
him to have our school children learn
it as part of their work. also hope
that a number of other songs may be
introduced into our schools in the same
way. OF the band music, am sending
quite a selection to our bandmaster-
| for Coos Bay has band"
Doctor McCormac has also collected
auite a bit of Hawaiian literature, in
| Guiding a number of books by Doctor
Brigham and other Hawaiian writer's,
promotion committee literature, etc,
which he is sending to the Marshfeld
public library.
Doctor McCormac talked Interestingly
concerning his particular section of Ore,
gon. "We have splendid barber,
said he, "of good many times the
area of Honolulu Harbor. 1t is per
fectly landlocked and some day will be
of great commercial Importance. Ore
gon is destined to become one of the
great manufacturing States of the West,
| if not of the entire country, while its
immense agricultural possibilities are
lust beginning to be developed. 1t is
only a matter of time until we will be
connected by railroad with the lest of
the State, and then, with our superior
seaport advantages, we are certain to
become one of the important manufac-
turing centers of the Pacific Coast.
"Just at present Marshfeld, my home
town, is but one of several small towns
on Coos Bay, which very shortly will
be combined under one charter. The
three which will be first brought to-
gther are Marshfeld, North Bend and
Empire. Their combined population is
about ten thousand. There are import
ant coal deposits on the bay, one mine
of which has been supplying fuel fol
more than fifty years. The coal is used
mostly for domestic purposes.
"Our chamber of commerce, of which
have the honor to be president, has
the distinction of having as it's secre
tary woman-Miss Violet Henderson
1 think this is the only commercial body
in the West with woman holding.
-similar position, if not in the entire
country, and, moreover, it would b'
hard to find more active secretary o.
chamber of commerce anywhere.
, 81 have been sending a great deal o.
Q your promotion committee literature
back to my friends, and I expect t.
1 see number of them here on the eX
! cursion from Portland, which is coming
=. down by the steamship Queen on Feb
+ ruary H.
e Doctor McCormac will be here unit
/, after the Washington Is Birthday Flora
e | Parade and declares that this will no
q hbe his last visit to Hawaii.
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