The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-15
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nolulu than the other Cleveland
party" I
Manager Dawkins of the Culman
store, at Fort and Hotel streets, said
that although the patronage of the
Cleveland tourists was not as liberal
as he had expected it was not at all
disappointing.
81 found them pleasant people" SAID
he, "but they were not liberal spend
ers. In the first place many of them
I found had travelled extensively and
had been here before. This class of
tourist does not invest in curics to
any great extent. I believe that the
city profited as much by this body of
tourists as it did from the last which
the Cleveland took to the Coast, and
while neither lot patronized us as
much as we expected ! have no
grounds for complaint"
f. Fl. Mcnamara, manager of the
Island Curio Company, was impressed
differently by the spending qualities
Of the visitors.
1--WE did a splendid business with
them" said he this morning 1t
seemed that those who knew the most
about Hawaii and had been here be-
fore bought most literally because the
curios meant more to them. This was
the first stop on long trip for those
I.people and they would naturally be
spending cautiously, and, as a matter
of fact, I did not expect to see them
spend as much as they did"
julius Unger, manager of M. A.
Gurst & Co.. 81 don't think any mer-
chant has any complaint to make. Our
business was helped a little for the
two days, but it's good kind of ad-
vertising. Those people all pass the
word along about Hawaii, and the
town will ultimately benefit from IT,
No one should have any complaint
REGARDLESS of wha4 business he did
or did not get"
e. NJ. Cheatham. assistant manager
of B. F. Ehlers & Co.. I'VE noticed
some increase in our sales, and we
had spent a little in special advertis-
ing to get it. But those people VIII
all write home about Honolulu ana
the good things they will say will be
worth a good deal 1t seems to me
that there is too much effort made
however, to entertain such parties,
which prevents them from having
time to visit the stores as much as
they would. They have money, but
they don't have time to spend it. The
tourists who are spending some time
here this year are spending big lot
of money with local merchants"
Don't Limit Tourists.
Fl p. Wood, Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee: "It is a mistake for anyone
to imagine that the Cleveland party
did not have full freedom of their
time as far as local interests we're
concerned. The promotion commit
tee met them with leis, but that was
all. The street cars chartered were
furnished by the steamship company
as was the lunch at the Moana-it
was a part of what the tourist palu
for when he bought his ticket. After
noon the first day there was nothing
pre-arranged Such visits help ad-
vertise Hawaii very much. We also
aim to follow up, as we did with pre-
vious Cleveland excursions, by mail
ing to each members home address
after he gets home special printed
matter on Hawaii, and we shall keep
in touch with them from time to time
We have been able to trace a good
many visits to Hawaii to this work
IN the past"
A. ]. Gignoux, vice-president OF Ben
son, Smith & Co.: Our store was fill
ed with Cleveland passengers at diff
ferent times yesterday, and, while
purchases where generally small, they
) helped a lot. Those people are al
great boosters. 1t most certainly is
worth while to have them come, shor'
es the visit is"
L. Tenney Peck, cashier of FRS
National Bank THE banks have
, no means of telling how much benefit
in the way of added cash in the com
munity, is due to such a visit !
would be a big job, if not utterly I'm
possible, to get at the proposition