The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-26
THE MYSTIC
CREW GONE.
ShrIners Depart For
San Francisco.
GIVEN A BIG SEND OFF
Some Will Wait for the Queen--Zea-
landia was a Pretty Sight
Yesterday.

open book-knows that the good Nob,es
and their Ladies win occupy the first
Few hours of their voyage home To san
Francisco by scraping from their feet
the clinging mud which they have
stolen from the streets of the biggest
city in the Pacific Ocean.
They have gone,
The -Sons OF Islam have departed
Even now their glittering caravan mas
slid over the horizon of the watery
desert and their camels are humping
themselves speedily over the trackless
waste in the direction of that aurifer-
Gus portion of the Greater America
which will give Mckinley twenty thou
sand majority in November. That's
what the most mystic of the Shriners
said would happen so it must be a sure
thing.
| Promptly at o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon the Zealandia left the Oceanic
Wharf with the majority OF the Shriners
aboard and steamed away for San
Francisco amidst the frantic demon
STATIONS Of couple of thousand people
on the steamships wharf and along
shore. About thirty-five Shriners re-
| NAMED in Honolulu to wait for the de-
parture of the steamship Queen next
Tuesday. So entranced were they with
Honolulu and its inhabitants that they
must needs remain to taste the
sweets of the Paradise of the Pacific
yet little while longer. Indeed some
of the mystics may remain here indef-
initely. 1t is whispered in the strictest
confidence in esoteric circles that Gu
pid has shot his shafts to good effect
I nf Of . 10
bles who made the pilgrimage here
from the Coast and that they are Likely
20 settle down here. Be this as it may.
the fact IL patent that the Shriners had
a glorious time here ana will proclaim
the spendors Of Hawaii far and Wei
upon their return to the land of their
birth.
IL looked something like the getting
away of the Australia in recent days to
see the Oceanic wharf one mass of liv-
ing. pulsing. enthusiastic humanity be-
decked in leis. wreathed in smiles and
dressed In their best for the occasion.
About an hour before the sailing
the procession of home returning An
cient Arabfans began to form on Fort
street. up town, and then to surge
down the street towards the steamship.
They went down in pairs, in punches
and i'm crowds. And with them they
carried little souvenirs of Honolulu.
Some were armed with heavy pieces
OF sugar cane like unto the samples
displayed in n store window on Fort
street. from South Kona. Some had
fresh poi in tins which they intended
putting on ice when they got aboard,
so that their friends on the Mainland
might sample the Hawaiian staff of
life.
I Some were wearing native lauhala
hats and others had numbers OF these
/ finely-worked examples Of native art
under their arms.
ponderous Noble went webbing
lalong with a calabash under one arm
and little stone god und,r the other.
while his lady was proudly bearing the
small hranc,i OF a mango tree with a
single green mango attached thereto.
Beauty was adorned with necklaces
of little shells. scarfs of tapa cloth.
brooches of sharks teeth. and few
sported the feather lei. some of which
are genuine and expensive, while 9TH
ers are limitations and as cheap as a
=
Several ladies wore belts made of Ha-
waiian half dollars and quarters.
bracelets made Of the Hawaiian dimes
and other ornaments of money. Two
or three mobiles carried rolls OF native
mating. while II was learned from the
guardian II the Zem-Zem Springs,
aboard the Zealandia. that some of the
more mystic potentates, anxious to be
able 20 invent "a new drink, took
aboard In convenient pocket TASKS,
samples of swipes. ava and okolchao.
Once aboard the Zesdandia, the
Shriners slowed their sugar cane, poi,
IIauhaia hats. stone gods. calabashes,
lkahilis. tabu sticks. kukuis. mangoes,
leis. sharks teeth. mating, tapa cloth
and Hawaiian stamps and coins, TO say
nothing of the samples of swipes. ava
and okClehao. and then they were
ready to commence 90 say good-by.
Ladies' who wore wells lifted them up
onto their noses. all ready to- osculate
with those entitled TO good-by kisses.
Men who were leaving part Of their
families behind to wait for the Queen,
began TO give instructions as to how to
see the most and do the most in Homo
lulu before the Queen sails, and every
body. the departing Shriners. Shriners
who were not departing and the
crowds on the shore. was In the usual
state of excitement attendant upon the
departure of a big ocean steamship.
A big. fat potentate with a cornet
lcommenced to make music right after
the first whistle blew. He was master
Of the various bugle calls. and so
amused himself and others with deliv-
lering them at regular intervals. First
he blew good night" then get out OF
bed" come TO dinner" and boots and
saddles" He was just going to blow
something else appropriate when q
bIushing blond rushed up to him, threw
her open-work arms around the cornet
and the fat mans neck with a hearty
"Good-b by. Pepper, SO, glad you let
Mommer and. me stay until next
weeks'
The fat man.wept paternal tears. the
blond dried her eyes and then they
broke away and the crowd which had
.collected to see why the cornet had
! stopped. dispersed and the bugle blew
again. He was good musician and,
AUD Lang Synes'' 'ERed, White and
IBfue." and %Star Spangled Ban
ner" were flowing from his brazen
throat appendage with melodious ease
and delightful harmony until jolly