The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-03-19

~ Wela IA Hao! sang the three
a hundred Shriners and ladies
who sat down at the grooming
banquet tables at the Moana hotel last
night on the occasion of the compli-
mentary dinner given by Aloha Temple
Of Honolulu to Imperial Potentate Lou
b. Winsor, the Imperial officers and
Associate Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine.
with music, clinking of glasses filled
to the brim with the sparkling Juice n
the grape, and in the presence of the
fairest of women and the noblest OF
members of the ancient Arabic order,
the banquet was the most successful
one ever given in the Hawaiian Islands
Praised be the Faithful!
Six long tables, white and shining
and with vases of the choicest of iia-
waits blossoms-red and pink carna-
tons, yellow coreopsis, white and yell
low marguerites and roses of the dam
test of hues-made picture that grew
upon the Shriners and their ladies as
they stepped within the threshold of
the hall in which the banquet was laid.
Music there was, of course. From
the orchestra gallery, itself a pictur-
esque creation of the architects mind,
music noated ever and anon, mingling
with the blinking of the glasses and the
surge of the surf. Music was in the air.
The irresistible national anthem drew
forth vociferous melodies and the Red,
White and Blue never found more will
ing and patriotic throats to carry its
Impressive strains out upon the breeze
swept shores; the rhythmic measures of
nifty to be thrown to the winds and
hands, heads and glasses waved in the
air as the catchy strains merrily broke
in upon the gayety at the banquet ia
bles. When a march was played the air
caused the feet to tap in military pre-
cision upon the polished floor and as
"Whistling Rufus" greeted their ear, all
thought of formality was thrown aside
and the lips OF all, handsome men and
fair women, were puckered in an effort
to carry the air.
No banquet in Honolulu was ever at
tended with more informality and yet
with such marked degree of attention
to those who were the guests The
guest of honor, Imperial Potentate Win
sor, was in his element, and when call
ed upon to respond to the toast THE
Imperial Potentate," the graceful COM
pliments which rolled melodiously from
his lips. both to the Aloha Temple
which was responsible for the feast in
this Oasis and also to the ladies, drew
praise from his many admirers who
are legion and come from every state
and territory in the Union, including
the baby territory-Hawail.
A man of handsome physique, pos
sessing the oratorlcal voice, whose
words were delivered in a way that
charmed the auditors he was at once
the man of men at the banquet. Speak
the name of Winsor and 1t Is like rub
bling the lamp of Aladdin-for the genii
of the Mystic Shrine at once respond
to It.
The assemblage which gathered be-
meath the roof of the Moana hotel was
probably such an one as the Pacific
has rarely seen. No pilgrimage of the
highest officials of the Shrine has ever
before been undertaken into such far
away Oasis as Hawaii, and at no time
has the Potentate and his Council ever
had such an escort since the days of
the Crusades. These We're the greatest
men known to that ancient Arabic or
der. The women who have journeyed
in the caravan across the hot sands
with their lords and masters were ar
rayed in the most beautiful evening
gowns and We'd with their Honolulu
sisters In dazzling the eyes of the fez-
wearers Masonic fraternity made them
all one, and there was little need of in
Productions as the towns folk came into
the spacious corridors of the hotel and
were greeted with aloha, aloha oe''
Noble Louis n. Grant OF Aloha Tenn
pie was master of ceremonies to be
proud of. He was assisted In marshall