The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-05-22
Tells H0NOLULANS.
THEY ARE Asleep
l. A. Thurston Hands Hot
Ones !" to AID Club Members
at Weekly Luncheon.
anon wodnesday Adycrtirer.l

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is far tho speakers to stand on chair
in order to be better heard. j.. A.
Thurstcn announced yesterday that he
did not propose, as representative Of
free and independent Hilo, to be boost.
cd NJ On a chair to speak TO bunch
like that Unanimous bowls Of aoa
the chair speedily brougiii the speak
er TO time, however, and getting into
| rcsitiop he said;
sTnGt was just bluff. only wGot.
ell TO see if you fellows were asleep.
You appear to be awake, at least with
your lungs II you are half as wiio
awake with your brains as with yonr
voices, you are, all right, But / don Il
believe you are, In fact, j think that
the whole Of Honolulu is half asleep.
You need to come up to 1Iilo and get
few pp,t9,datc ideas on how to do
things.
with all your money and numbers
you are asleep when II comes to side.
walks. Why, Hilo has more cement
sidewalks than Honolulu right now.
Perhaps you won't believe me, but Il q
fact, nevertheless, that the Bishop
Estate is now building 1900 feet Of ce.
ment sidewalk in Hilol You, need to
wake, up and find out how Hilo does t.,
for i know Of a good deal more than
1900 feet of Bishop Estate land in Ho-
nolulu that hasn' 4 any sidewalks at all.
70 say nothing about cement ones. Hav.
ing found out, 60 to it.
Big Business In Dull Times.
Another lesson you can learn from
Hflo is how to do big business in dull
times. About a month ago the Hilo
merchants decided to have "Mer.
chants Day."
They first asked the railroad com
pany for cut rate on Saturday, which
westgranted, the railroad also permit
ting any passenger TO bring fifty pounds
of produce to market free.
Then the merchants advertised in
fonr languages that all goods would be
sold at reduced rates on merchants
Day, " and they also guaranteed TO buy
oil the produce brought to town, al
market rates. 9 ..E. IA
We'll, you ought to have seen the
rush ''H ~ ir
Mr.. Wears Of the Emporium said
nc did the biggest business Of any day
since he had lived in Hilo.
s4' Mr., Holmes told me he took in
more money than he did the day before
Christmas; and ono store on Front
street had to close its doors three
| times, because the crowd was SO dense
they couldn't get around. E%"
4 - Now, that's what little enterprise
and advertising did IN street and .a-
half town, with only Iaborinp non.
ulation to draw from, with no tourists
OF soldiers TO help out
On the strength Of that example, IL
the Honolulu merchants would only
wake up and do likewise, and throw in
a. Few Ad Club stunts and pull the leg
OF the 1.eilehua, outfit half as hard al
they pulled yours at the County Fair
the Other day, why you would all have
crowds reaching across the sidewalk, as
they have over at Jordan IS on Fort
street, where ! hear you can buy 4
dress for nineteen cents and suit Of
that, ~ r .aN F'7f'f ?
Renorts on County Fair.
Captain t. G. Seherer, Fourth Cav
airy, reported on the County Fair. II,
alleged that he knew less about it af
ter the affair was over than he though
nc knew before the event started. II,
very magnanimously blamed the A,
| Club for the small success OF the ceIe
hration!es phe management did. no
maIe anything The thing was almos
n dead loss, from a financial standpoint
as they only cleared six cents-that i
to say six cents a second! They wer,
only $1,000 ahead of the game at Tn,
end of the second day and thew wouIr
have made more if the Ad Club hadn |,
got tired out and gone home.
Captain Scherer said that Honolulu
people had captured the, woyld 3 recor,
for being suckers. Elsewhere IL haf
been figured out that there was ON,
sucker born every minute but Honolulu
hqd raised that to LIZ suckers pei
minute, He proved this to the delight
OF ms audience by relating the success,
OF one OF the side shows where timer
only were allowed To gaze into al
empty kerosene tin at five cents )
throw, This beautiful and ,'toueh
ing human exhibit netted the Fail
management exactly sixty dolla-s-al
profit, CAPTAIN Sche.er thanked the All
Club for their enthusiastic assistance
in making the County Fair such !
! grand success. "a. Z
President Wallace r. Harrington
read a. Patriotic Code; which he
claimed that John Efinger was thu
father OF. Heialso congratulated can,
didate Joe Cohen. Young Mr., James
OF Los Angeles boosted for and boosted
OF that Californian village. q. III
Gere was elected the 370th member of
the Ad Club, but declined to mako 4
speech, 3fa ~.
Vigilance Committee Reports.
The Advertising Vigilance Committee
bad some eaustic remarks co make
ABOUT recent advertisements published
in both the daily newspapers which
held out the lure Of forty per cent
profits on small advertisements, also
$600,0O0 return from $3.50. ILL.,. Z
Col John H. sqper, chairman OF the
spsh committee, reported that il
seemed 10 be a hopeless proposition TO
get the supervisors to fix tho world.
famed three and a half mile SOFT SPOT
lin tho koolau belt road. Il. j. Kerr