The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-23
American C0lOrS Are Freely Shown
About Honolulu.
MANY PLACES ARE DECORATED
Some Pretty and Novel Schemes.
Almost a False Alarm - Liquor
Made Tabu BY the Big 100.

The town is in fast colors in antici-
patton of the arrival of United States
troops en- route to the Philippines. The
red, white and blue is seen everywhere
and Old Glory waves by day and by
night. Here is a list that includes most
of the establishments decorated up to
Saturday evening:
| Hawaiian Hotel, Arlington Hotel
! Queen, Eagle and Occidental Hotels,
| Miss Killean's, King Bros, Hart & Co.,
Ltd, A. E. Murphy & Co., Davey Pho
tograph Co., Benson, Smith & Co, Ltd.
T. H. Thrum, J. J. Egan, J. ]. Williams,
| n. S. Sachs, Ltd, Lewis & Co., E. o.
Ltd, Bank of Hawaii, Pacific Hard
ware Co., Metropolitan Meat Co., Cri-
teriOn and Pantheon saloons, l.. H.
Dee's saloon, Levers e. Cooke, Golden
Rule Bazaar, McInerny's, Star Publish
ing Co., Wall, Nichols Co, w. w.
Dimond & Co., Hawaiian News Co.,
IICastIe & Cooke, Ltd, Harry Armitage,
Attorneys Humphreys and Gear, At
torney ]. Q. Wood, Bruce Cartwright,
Attorneys Robertson, and Castle &
Weaver, Hawaiian Gazette Co, John
Mott, Jas. F. Morgan, ]. #. Waterhouse,
L. B. Kerr, Hackfeld & Co, Wilder S.
S. Co., and Wilder & Co., Inter-Island
S. S. Co, Hotel Stables, Club Stables,
Mrs. Hanna, Alexander & Baldwin, and
a few score of others.
The Drill Shed looks a different
place now 1t is a perfect bower of
beauty. Mrs. Hutchinson and the
Misses Along have done artistic and
effective decorating. Mrs. Fuller and
her assistants have the tables arranged
and the dishes ready to spread din
ner. Three electric fans have been
placed in the big hall. All over the
interior are. pictures and cOlOrs and
flowers and green's. The words Re
member the Maine are shown in ever
green. On the stage a field piece has
been prettily set Above the artillery
is a picture of Washington, which is
flanked by likenesses of Presidents
Dole and Mckinley.
Around town there are a good many
attractive outside and window decOra-
tiOns 1t must be conceded that the
most artistic showing has been madd
by A z. Murphy at his shoe store.
Photographer Williams shows from
upper windows camera fronts covered
with flags. This is a unique idea, Civ
ing a realistic cannon effect The
Davey Photograph Co., has flags Of
Great Britain, Hawaii and the United
States, with a number Of pictures Of
people of the hour.
Theo. Hoffman, manager for the Ha-
waiian Electric Company, proposed the
piece de resistance. He proposes to
have at the Pacific Mail dock the
words Remember the Maine" in a
line of twenty-four feet, with letters
wrought of colored lights. The tails
manic sentence thus shown will make
an impressive greeting.
ALMOST FALSE ALARM
It is now known to everybody that
the sign for a troop ship is five whis-
ties from the Hawaiian Electric Com
pany's Works. At 8 o'clock on Saturday
evening a young man VINO rode Wheel
stopped at a Japanese store on Bere-
tania street and asked leave to use the
telephone. This was granted. The
scamp called up the Hawaiian Electric
Works and announced that the S. S.
City of Peking was "Off Koko Head. 3"
The man in charge in the engine room
had his hand on the lanyard cOnrtOll-
ing the whistle when it was learned
that an effort was being made to create
a false alarm. Central had become
suspicious and found the truth just in
time to save a whole lot Of trouble and
excitement. Manager Cassidy, of the
Mutual Telephone Company is making
with the police, every effort to discover
who had the meanness and poor idea
Of a joke TO thus attempt to incOnveni-
ence hundreds of people. Marshal
Brown says that if the culprit can be
identified punishment will follow. The
Japanese shop keeper is positive that
he will know the man who did the tele-
phoning. Central and the Electric
Works people have now agreed upon