The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-08
PROMOTIONiSTs
NEED MORE Coin
Results from Work Done Show
That Much More Needs
To Be Done.

"Charles S. Fee Of the Southern Pa
cifie, and one Of the best workers on
the Coast for Hawaii's tourist bust
ness, announced to the 1915 fair com
mission in San Francisco that the en-
tire railroad system would be taxed to
its limit during 1915, and l believe all
the steamers that can be added to the
present facilities between Honolulu
and San Francisco will be taxed to
tneir utmost, - decared Secretary II. p.
Wood at the promotion committee
meeting yesterday.
Mr.. Wood also stated that at the
present time all the steamer accom-
modations which have been added by
the Matson and Oceanic companies are
practically taken up on each "trip, the
tourist business to the Islands having
been unusually large since last winter.
The secretary stated that IN view of
ing given on the mainland Just now
the travel to the Islands next winter
will be unusually heavy.
In addition to number of profes.
sional and volunteer lecturers, the
Bird of Paradise" play has been one
means of attracting attention to Ha-
Gently received from people who had
seen the play and noticed the promo
tion committee Is ad in the programs.
One of the inquirers is a wealthy cat
tleman of Montana, who says he was
figuring on winter trip somewhere
when he saw this ad, and he expects
to come heIe this winter.
The secretary said his small office
force is almost swamped with CORE
spondence and in mailing literature all
over the United States, Canada, the
| principal cities of Europe, and particu-
larly in supplying railroads and steam
! ships with literature, although, owing
to the meager funds at the committee s
! disposal, when literature gives out in a
place it is not easy to re-supply it i'm
mediately. Mr.. Wood said the commit
tees work in this respect is extremely
heavy, and with developing new sources
of tourist travel and continuing to sup
ply the old places, the amount of litera-
ture obtainable is far too small.
The cost of printing new issues of
literature is great, the postage and ex.
press account is almost appalling when
considering the limited amount of
money ON hand, while the office force
| W lUIWdTu
ature and take care of the correspond.
ence is altogether too small.
Will Ask for More.
| The question of finances was gone
over carefully, in consideration with
the treasurer's report, and a special
committee consisting of the treasurer
and Messrs. Waterhouse and Warren
was appointed by Chairman Meyers to
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their monthly contributions.
Zone of our troubles,'' said Mr.
/ Meyers, "is that we do not toot our
own horn enough, to show what really
good work we are doing. A careful per-
usal of the records of tourists arriv.
ing here, their increase and the in.
: creased volume of business in every
| branch of the industrial side of our
community-and those ON the other is
! lands-shews that promotion work pays
us. We already need additional medium
: priced hotels and boarding houses. All
we have are doing good business, and
it is because of tourist travel.''
1t was stated that as result of the
! tourist business the InterIsa Steam
ship Company had been able to put on
two steamers a week to Hilo, where the
railroad and automobile concerns reap.
ed the benefit on account of the increas-
ing travel to the crater of Kilauea.
'We need much more money in or
der TO work up in the next two years to
the possibilities that the vast travel
toward San Francisco in 1915 will mean
for Hawaii" said Chairman Meyers
In order to stimulate travel to Maui
and give additional Photographic knowl.
edge to the world of the magnificent
natural wonders in the Islands, r. X
Bonine, the moving picture expert, will
be sent to Maui on October IS to take
a series of panoramic and motion pic
lures of Haleakala, the largest extinct
crater in the world. Mr.. Bonine's mo
ton pictures of the crater of Kilauea
are being viewed by thousands on the
mainland, where they are being display
ed by lecturers and in theaters.
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