The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-11
Officers CLUB Sensation
PAUL SMITH AND HIS LAVISH
ENTERTAINMENT
Kalakaua Relics Said to Have Been
Given Away as notwithstanding
Investigation to be Made.

There is a sensation in the Officers
Club. 1t was sprung concurrently with
the departure of Captain Paul Smith
for Manila.
The sensation comes in the form or
stories now thoroughly disseminated
among the members of the club, of a
course of lavish entertainment accom-
| panied by .lrodigal distribution of cut
glass, silver ware and Kalakaua relic
souvenirs, of Captain Paul Smiths
| friends and acquaintances among off,
GERS on passing transports and others
who were only officers in the mimic and
petticoated pageantry of the vaudeville
and operate stage, both entertainment
and souvenirs being at the expense of
the club.
Some of the accounts current describe
| these entertainments as "orges" and
fix the time when they took place as
after midnight a time when the Off
GERS Club house according to it's rules
is closed, and when no one not entrust-
ed with keys has access to it. Captain
Smith for the past year or so has been
chairman of the house committee and
so had keys for everything in the club
house.
In detail it is said that cut glass;
silver plates and medals bearing Kala-
kauas crest and monogram, ribboned
relics of the monarchy and many other
similar things with which the club
house was furnished and which We're
| among it's treasured curios, have been
| given away as souvenirs to people
whom Captain Smith took as guests
openly or clandestinely to the club
house. One specific case that is men
toned among many others is that two
singers from the Orpheum who left for
the Coast not long ago, carried with
them silver plates bearing Kalakaua' S
monogram, which they received as
souvenirs of a visit to the club. The
drafts on the clubs sideboard and cell
lar are said to have been something
surprising.
Lieut-Col Mccarthy, to whom the
Craftsmanship of the house committee
fell when Captain Smith went away
said, Yes, l have heard these stories.
People began coming to me with them
Just as Captain Smith was leaving and
after he had gone, when it was too late
to face him with them. 1 am now look
ing into the matter and trying to find
out about them. So far have not oeen
able to find that anything of real value
has been taken away. l am sure that
some of the stories are not true because
the articles said to have been taken
away never were at the club. For in
; stance, I can't find that any cut glass
has gone
II have been a member of the hodst
committee for some time, but every
thing was left to the chairman as y ha!
been for years. Some time ago severd
appointments were made between Smith
and myself for him to turn over the
affairs of the house committee to me
: Finally we did get together, but just ~
we got down to the business in hand We
were interrupted by the arrival of Off
GERS from one of the transports and no
thing was Gone. Smith had no system
for keeping the accounts of the cor
mittee, but then, other chairmen of tnt
same committee before him didn't
either. Smith did some things that
don't like but | haven't found yet that
he did all he things he is now charged
with
; Other members of the club speal
, with less reserve on the subject, and !
! is understood that a thorough anc
searching investigation will be mace
One result already manifested, is tn'
strict enforcement of a rule that ha'
always existed forbidding members
from bringing women as guests to tn
club a rule which has been relaxed
somewhat lately in the case of women
> wives of officers and others passin!
: through on transports to Manila.