Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-17
sHARPsHooTERs At TABLE.
They Attack an Elegant Dinner at Es-
pepse of Losing Team.

On Saturday evening the Sharp
shooters held their fourth annual
dinner at the Hawaiian hotel
Acc ,rdIng to custom the feast had
to be provided by the losing team
in grand match at the butts.
This time the team headed by
Lieutenant j. l.. Mclean lost to
that headed by Lieutenant John
Ca sidy,
Captain Frank S. Dodge pre-
sided. He was supported on the
right by IL L. Cooper, acting PIE
sident and Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and w. b. Wall, former
captain, and on the LEFT by John
KidweIl, former and first captain.
Joseph Mar-den occupied the vice
chair. Covers were laid for fifty
five and there was no vacancy.
Decorations were red flowers and
wax caudl-s with colored shades.
The banquet was most elegant
one, rejecting great credit on the
house, and the service could not
have been better. With the coffee
Captain Dodge started speaking
program. He was bright in his
introductions, and his genial
spirits proved infectious to thos,
called ON for responses, as we'll rs
to the entire party. There was
only one formal toa-t, and that to
"The President Of the Republic"
Acting President Cooper was
received with applause in res
ponding for the chief executive.
He considered that a v'ry pleas
ant meeting aud est4-med it
great honor to be present. Ii all
went we'll Pre-. ident Do wou'd
now be on American soil, aud the
latest indications were that he
would land "a American soil
when be returned t. Hawaii nei
The Presidents mission to
the United States VS. due
to a cri, is in Hawaiian
affairs il the Uuit'd States. It
was felt that if they should he irx
in any OF their eff rts they w"uld
be liable t. camsura. @ r ainly
nobody coul tver have ! # fnr
the shores of America on more
important mission THAI that on
which Mr.. ID lie had gone, Whru
the monarchy WAS g ne it was
taken for G autad tina iudepeu
dent stable governmrut tor
these i-laud- VAS gone. I'll ,s-
who hal DO the dissppo n
ments and trails f many YEAR,
in effort- t. improve the condu, &
of affairs, fit that the md had
come. The p Vi ional Govern
ment was "n'y rm d to bridge
over the peuot until that day
when their elf"rt- sh ,uld ne
crowned with succ - Aud he
felt that they were uea'ing tina
period wher thosA con ucting this
government shrulh down aud
out, to maxi way f,r a NV era of
peace aud prosperity under til
Stars and s ri a.. The peak I
cordially o knowldged the Ser
vices of the Shrrpshooters from
first to last, in upholding the gov
eminent and it, pc icy of anuexa-
ton.
DR.. Emerson was called up as
the historian of the company, aud
gave happy reminiscent sketch
of the Sharpsho' ter, both in their
couns Is and stations Of duty.
Lieut.. Cassidy came forward on
call and, in a few humorous re-
marks, was decorated by the
chairman with brass medal as
leader of the wiuni, G t am. Iu
reply the recipient made ringing
speech refe' ri G to the triumph
AMI record of the whole company,
wi \ especial reference to its vic
tories over the Denver and Mas
sachusett4 teams, He objected to
calling that days shooting poor.
1t was good enough, for his team,
because it won.
Lieut.. Mclean, chief of The
losers, got a leather medal. The
chairman, as one of his comrades
in defeat, consoled him ny saying
there was a hole in the bullseye
when his side shot. Lieut.. Nc
Lean, however, pointed out that
the ten highest scores on the los
ing siIe beat the corresponding
ores of the winners.
Mr.. Marsden answered for the