The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-28
HONOLULU GETTING
MORE IMMIGRANTS
THAN ARE NEEDED
Lure of the Tropical is.es CatsA-
People In All Parts of the
World


Honolulu, r. H., Sept 2S.-The ro-
mantle lure of the south seas has be
come SO potent throughout the world
that the Honolulu Chamber of Com
mcrCc is faced with an increasingly
unClCus and embarrassing problem,
is officials announced here recently.
For Inhabitants OF the Grass, cold
commercial; world Of the Temperate
Zone desire-and make their desires
known in a pile Of mail that is in
crcasng constantly with each steam
er--to leave their unromantic atmOs-
phere and come to Hawaii. the land of
music and flowers, where tradition
has the .,cldcn moon always full and
whore Il PERSONS life. according TO
popular belief, consists of lolling on
the shaded beach al Waikiki. famed
hy me cooling trade winds and reach
ms up occasionally 20 pluck enough
fruit from the overloaded hOughs to
afford sustcnancc.
The writer's ui the last steamers
mail ranged from stcnographcr3, edr-
Gators chropudists. eX-iOckeys. to
school boys and countless others. All
emphasized the great sacrifice they
would make in coming to the islands
The "nly condition they impose about
the positions they hoped to obtain was
that they he soft" according to Mrs
y *. Stone acting secretary OF the
chamber
That's all they want" she added.
The number of letters cOntainin@
the same request is increasing with
each steamer and some drastic meas
urcs viii have to he taken soon to
cope with the situation 1t can't go
Cn. or the Chamber building will be
inundated"
Olc graduate of four leading uni-
vcrSities. with a long string Of degrees
capped with Il "Ph. b., desired to
come to some local corporation as an
deficiency cducator''
Another letter asked whether hem
stitching was popular in the islands.
II 50, the Woman desired to transport
her sewing to Honolulu \ young mau
in the back woods of Main offered to
travel 3,Ge0 miles to Hawaii to in
struct the residents in higher cduc'-
ton.
y girl in California referred to the
spell that the Hawaiian moon has cast
ever her and wondered whether she
couldn't help out some business man
by doing lust little tipping"
Some o. the letters show that the
writers have at Least little knowl-
edge about the islands," Mrs. Stone
said. Others are lust as iar-fetched
as that written recently by man in
. SMALL Virginia town. He wanted to
know whether there were any nice.
warm tropical islands for sale in this
vicinity. | answered that he could
md. without any trouble, real estate
lilm that would sell him part OF this
very island but doubted whether he
could even obtain a lease ON all of it,"
Another incident illustrating the
lure of the tropics concerned letter
that some friends of an army enlisted
man stationed here wrote TO a news
paper in Portsmouth, England. signing
the private $ name without his knowl-
edge.
This is more or less Il lonely ife
for fellow in Honolulu. as white
women are scarce" the Joking letter
read
More than one thousand women in
England have written thus far. offer
ing to marry the man, he said recent
ly. The women range in age from II
to 40. but all have felt the urge of
the south seas. The letters are SO
numerous that postal authorities in
San Francisco tie them in bundles OF
nifty each. The man said: THE truth
OF the matter is that don't want Il
wife as | can't support one"
Meanwhile the letters continue to
pour in to this man at the rate of at
least 500 every steamer