Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-04-05
AID CLUBLUNCH
ATTENDANCEIS
SHOWING BETTER
Business Meeting and Call of
States Part of Today'S
Program

With very much improved attend
ance, augmented by a number of WIS.,
itors from the mainland. the regular
meeting of the Ad Club at its lunch
con today took the form of business
meeting and a call of states.
Mr. Harrington called on c. NJ.
Hicks, who has been absent from the
islands for nine months, in which time
he and his wife have visited "all the
things that any rairoad or any steam
ship company represents as worth
SEEING" and a good deal more He
says that Keokuk, Iowa, is one place
that surely needs an Ad Club. Mr..
Hicks was in Washington, D. c., at
the time of the burial Of the F4 vic-
tins who lost their lives WHEN the
submarine failed to come up a year
ago last March in Honolulu harbor
good in every section of the country,
and even on the Pacific coast, where
conditions have been hardest since the
European War started, things are
looking u1.'
Disclaiming am pretensions at be-
ing poet, Mr.. Pinckney Of Chicago,
who left his home city last July for
the Orient from where he is just re-
turning, recited some verses that he
wrote some time ago over the death
of a notoriously obnoxious character
in his home city who didn't believe in
advertising.
They built a fire church at his very
door
He was not in it.
They brought him a scheme for reliev-
ing the poor
He was not in it.
Let them work for their money as
have done;
wouldn't ask help from any one
He wasn't IN it.
A carriage passed down the street one
day
He was in it. 4
The funeral trappirss made quite a
display a
He was in t.
st. Peter net him Cith b. and he'll
Said he: Your ticket is f"r-Weu.
Your elevator goe? 10 w in u minute.
He was in 1t. <<''
Mr.. PiackneT has heen connected
with advertising Edison's mimeo-
graphs for 20 years, and their foreign
representative during tie Vast five
years. When war broke out in Eur
ope, it caught him in Liege. Not be-
ing able to continue there, he went to
Australia, New Zealand, and the Orr
ent Mr.. .Pinckney states that he has
been very much surprised by the I'm
mense quantities of American-made
goods seen on every hand in Australia
Eand fJsw Zealand. >& sasa- ~, . = ~s--
Great Northern Canvass. ...
Mr.. C. G. Won Hamm spoke briefly
on the results of his canvass for the
$25,000 guaranty fund for the return
OF the Great Northern, to which In
less than a week more than $4,000
was subscribed, which, he believes.
will insure the return of that vessel
to the Hawaiian run in November. He
spoke in high terms of the splendid
Hberality and broad -mindedness of the
merchants of the city. Mr.. Won Hamm
said that never before had the hotels
been so full, and never had so many
tourists been in the islands at one.
time as was the case when the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific steam
ers came here at Carnival time.
Mr.. Brown, a merchant at Los An.
geles, said that he came to Honolulu
to repair his broken down health last
January so as to be here for the Car
niyal, and that he had enjoyed it so
well here that he hadn't been able to
return and didn't intend to return un-
til May or June. &
C. H. Dickey, who asked that the Ad
Club appoint committee to keep the
Tantalus motor road open to the pub
lie and to tourists, Just escaped being
made chairman of that committee by
announcing that he was leaving for
the mainland where he intended to
remain a, year. ~, .,-as... 49,. II " /.
Mr.. G. G. Heiser, Jr., was made
chairman Of that committee, whose
other members are p M. Pond, Super
visor Horner, J. T. Taylor, C.. E., and
John A. Palmer, all of whom spoke
on various phases of the subject.
President W. R. Harrington read sew
CioL CO1uAuuutCdLlOLlS1 Ou6 lEOIu JACK
Desha, secretary to Delegate Kuhio,
now residing in Washington, D. c., at
tending law school, announcing that
he would be glad to represent the Ad
Club of Honolulu as a delegate at the
annual convention to be held in Phila-
delphia in June t s year. Another
communication was signed by VIM
Mckay, chairman of the 5th annual
civic convention committee of the ,Hilo
Board of Trade, in charge of the next
convention which is to be held in Hilo,
September 21-25, 1916. =. .
The nominating committee announc-
ed its list of nominees for the offices
of the club, the election fer which
will be held at the next meeting, al
though the newly elected officers won't
take office until the first meeting in
July. - -.
Professor A. L. Andrews of Puma
hou academy, who will be in Boston
in June, was appointed a delegate to
the annual convention of the Associat-
ed Advertising clubs to be held in Phi
ladelphia. II
G.. C Won Hamm. G. M Hicks. Mr..