The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-13
Death Comes TO Man Who First
Put the Promotion Bureau Of
Hawaii On It's Feet
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL
BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON
lnterment Win Be In kohaIa'
Where Mr.. Wood Lived For
Many Years

lot haWhl AT the. Ban FranclscO eN-
position and for ten years Hawaii 3
publicity agent to the world, died yes
terlay afternoon at his Manoa Valley
home.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Wood was striek-
en- with pleurisy and had been con.
fined to his bed since, Complications
set in developing pneumonia and Mr..
Wood passed away at half.past one
0 clock yesterday. He was in his six,
ty-second year having been born June
9, 1855. aE.|. H., p
| NJ. Wood is survived by a widow
and by two daughters, Mrs. Roland
Durston, now in the Malay States, and
Mrs. Huffman Young of Lahaina. Mrs.
Wood IL q daughter of the late Doctor
Wight of Kohala.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at three o'clock at st. Glenn
ent's Church, Makiki. The body viii
be cremated. The ashes will be taken
to Kohala Wednesday on the Mauna
Kea for interment at Kohala.
Honorary pallbearers will be w. H.
Baird, John Guild, William Thompson,
Q. Il. Hemenway, J. N. s. Williams and
Judge O. +. Clemens.
The promotion committee, with
whose work the name of H. p. Wood
win always be attached. will close its
Offices this afternoon in respect of his
memory. y.
From the East to the Far East, from
Atlantic City to Manila, Hawaii Is
\ 4 o.. n. ~
scenery were .hlazoned before the
travelling public and the tourist by H.
p. Wood while he was director of pub
licity for the Islands. He was hailed
as the tfMan Who Made Honolulu
Famous,' and was known in railroad,
sfeamship and tourist agency Offices
Throughout the United States.
Mr. Wood had the faculty of attract
ing attention and he used that genius
60 place Hawaii before the travel
world. Friends aud business associates
yesterday were warm in such praise of
the late Mr.. Wood and pointed out
numerous instances of the monuments
to his success now being used as promo
|. ton methods. , N' f..
The system Of publicity established
by Mr.. Wood for the Hawaii promotion
committee work is considered model
an the mainland and scores of cities
have copied his methods for boosting
their own communities.
Mr.. Wood first came to the Islands
IN the eighties from California, his
native State. He was born in Rough
and Ready, little mining town in
Mendocino county. He lived in Kohala
for some time and there was married
Later he came to Honolulu for a while
before returning to California where he
became secretary of the San Diego
Chamber of Commerce and the city's
chief booster. IN r1F t&
On the reputation he made in San
Diego, Mr.. Wood was secured for SINH
lar work in Honolulu and on November
I, 1895 he becime secretary and direc-
tor Of the promotion committee, then
managed and fnaneed exclusively by
the chamber of commerce. At the same
time he was made secretary of the
chamber of commerce.
The, promotion committee had been
IN existence for three or four years
when Mr.. Wood took charge and only
the foundations OF the work were laid.
he nude OF the small organization,
with lew connections IN the tourist
world, q publicity body THAT won the
admration OF transportation men and
tragei agents throughout Ihe country.
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