The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-17
HOUSING the ENGINE.
Banquet Given by Honolulu Engine
a.. In Honor Of the New Euginr.


drawn from the Union Iron Works,
where it had been set up, to the
house of the company on King street,
which had been suitably repaired for
the machines accommodation. A
pair Of handsome bay horses bought
in California for $500, by Mr.. j.
Buckley of the Fashion Stables Com
pany,. and paid for by the aid of sub
scriptions of Honolulu merchants,
drew the engine. The horses are
seven or eight years old and well
matched. They are not lacking in
spirit although safe and steady
beasts, and they ran into the house
with the engine as naturally as train
ed fire horses. The principal change
made for the reception Of the new
machine and to suit the employment
of horses has been the construction
of turn table over circular brick
ashpit, by means of which the en-
CINE is Immediately wheeled round
on returning from fire and made
ready for the next run. AS the
guests invited to the banquet arrived
they crowded into the engine room,
where the officers of the Department
and the company explained every
thing about he engine and team to
all enquirers.
At eight clock Mr. Robert More,
foreman of the company, invited the
guests upstairs to The meeting hall
Tables were arranged in the form OF
a hollow square, and set for about
1925 persons. Mr.. More, as master
of the feast, sat at the middle of the
cross table To his right were: His
FIX. j. Mott Smith, Minister of
Finance: His Exceilency W. A.
Whiting, Acknowledgement; Col. j.
II. Boyd and Mr.. Geo. Norton, res
pectiveIy Second and First Engineers,
Fl. f. D.; Mr.. B. Ordenstein, Mr..
F. A. Schaefer, Mr.. j. II. Patty, Mr..
Alex. Young, Mr.. Slessinger, Hon.
G. w Macfarlane. TO the left of
the chair and elsewhere were seated:
Mr.. j. n. S. Williams, Hon. G. B.
Wilson, Marshal of the kiagdom and
Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart
ment; Messrs. G.. c. Kenyon, Chas.
Creighton, j. ID. Tucker, A. p.
Peterson, II. f. Hebbard, John
Lucas, Geo. Buns, j. S. Walker, jr.,
j. c. White, Supt. Water Works, j.
Neil, Fire Marshal, f. B. Thomas,
Thos. j. King, Walter Hill, c. L.
Gulick, Geo. Sandman, j. Lums-
den, Geo. Galbraith, W. G. Ashley,
Chris. Gertz, John Mott, j W.
Mcclure, j. w. Pratt, j. j. Sulli-
van, H. M. Dow, Jos. Tinker, Deputy
Marshal j. A. Mehrten, Geo. Robin
son (oldest fireman presently, z.
Hughes, engineer of No, l, d. X.
Kalawala, foreman of No. 4, Hang
Sam, foreman of No. 5, Julius Asche,
foreman of Hook & Ladder Co., j.
w. Mcdonald, assistant foreman of
No. 2, D. W. Kratzer of the Adver-
tiser, d. Logan of theBULLETIN, and
the members in general of No. l.
The banquet was an elegant one,
prepared by Mr.. Hamilton johnson,
host of the Hamilton House. There
was great variety of well-cooked
viands, and nobody was neglected by
the busy walters. For the well-order-
ed arrangements Mr.. j. A. Mehrten
IS largely to be credited, he having
been head of the committee and I'M
sparing of exertion to make the
event success. When the clatter
of knives and forks had subsidized,
Mr.. More initiated the bill of in
tellectual fare.
Her Majesty Queen Liliuoka-
lani," the first toast, was drank with
honors.
"The Cabinet" was received with
the song, "For they are jolly good
fellows"
His Excellency j. Mott Smith
responded. He gave some amusing
"reminiscences of the Honolulu Fire
Department in the ffties, when it did
not have any heavy appliances for
putting out fires. He praised the
great efficiency of the department at
this day, holding that it was equal to
the paid departments of larger
cities. In closing he proposed
"The Foreman of No. l." Mr..
More in responding gave credit to
the Chief Engineer for getting them
their new engine. 1t was capable of
doing four times as much work as
the old engine, and they had a strong
company capable of handling four
times the work hitherto done. More
over, they had fine span of horses,
for which they had to thank the
guests of the evening who had kind
ly donated the money. He repeated
his thanks to Her Majesty's Cabinet,
the Chief Engineer and the mer-
chants for the excellent equipments
whose acquisition was being cele-
brated.
Mr.. f. A. Schaefer, as President
of the Board of Underwriters, in a
few happy remarks proposed the
health of the Chief Engineer, to
whose ability and energy the elfici-
ency of the Fire De yartment was
largely due.
Mr.. Wilson in response said the
efficiency of the Department was due
TO the unanimity and devotion of its