The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-31
AKINA HOLDS A RECEPTION
THE THRONE A SOUVENIR BAR
GAIN COUNTER.
Teachers Swarm Into the Government
Offices in the Capitol Building-The
Speaker Gives Souvenirs.

Il hope they'll leave the building
when they CO." said Senator Bill White
this morning as he sat at Kanihos
desk in the House and watched swarms
OF school teachers gathering souvenirs
The third House was in session as
usual under the algaroba tree. 1t has
7 already begun an extra session and
seems disposed to keep it up. Speaker
Akina was at his desk, and the young
men and women from the transport
made bargain counter of the throne
/ room and scrambled for souvenirs.
Akina is nothing If not ponte and
accommodating, if he is a Car when
members try to talk him and each
other to death, and when pretty school
ma ans began to steal on tiptoe into
the room of sacred memory to Mon
/ archy, he was willing to help all he
could that they had a pleasant visit.
The first thing that cauPht the eye
OF souvenir-hunter was a pad of
letterheads, of the First Territorial
Legislature of Hawaii. She swooped
down upon it and wanted a sheet.
Aklna smiled that anyone should make
so light request, and tore off a dozen
sheets. The teacher had to have en-
Velopes to go with them. 1t would be
so lovely to write home on letterheads
of the First Territorial Legislature of
hawaii. Akina dug up the envelopes.
Soon teachers crowded into all the
space in front of the Speaker, and
Clerk Meheula got out of the way to
make more room. Akina's pad of let
I terheads was a thing of the past in no
time, and natural born reachers emp
tied his box of envelopes. A box of
cigars met with the same fate, box.
ribbons and all. The little Car seem
ed quite pleased about it, and when
/ 90 gtter
the Speaker of the First Territorial
House of Hawaii, he was quite willing.
Young women and young men kept
MN busy after that. 1t was like a
presidential reception, while those who
were waiting turns at the Speakers
hand kept their eyes peeled for stray
souvenirs. If all the stationery in
sight Is gone and sundry pens and
pencils, to say nothing of ink pots and
mucilage bottles, II will not be Mehe-
ula's fault, for no man could be ex-
pected to watch several hundred young
Americans just from college, out on a
long journey and intent upon gathering
all the souvenirs they could as well
as all the material for their Journals
The throne room seemed to be the
hrst place the teachers were looking
for. On entering the Capitol building
all enquired for the throne room, and
I
Then they went up and down stairs.
They peeped in where Attorney General
Dole sat silently brooding over habeas
, corpus interference with a wedding
"trip. went to see the room where Act
ing Governor Cooper anXiously waited
for bond message from Mckinley
and stepped out on the lanai to look
down upon the extra session of the
/ third house.
n off IL, tIa
lected. Treasurer Wright handing
out monthly salaries, and Jimmie Boyd
| tigurinP on how to make use of appro-
priations when there is nothing to ap-
/ propriate, were both disturbed, and
down stairs the teachers saw Jared
Smith calculating the cassava crop and
/ Bugologist Perkins waiting to hear
about the bug crop on Kauai. An in
! ternal revenue bureau is not supposed
| to be new to Americans. but Chamber
lain's bureau seemed to be of interest
perhaps because 1t called up visions OF
mysterious concoctions of okolehao and
swipes, and several punches of Hilo
grass that Wray TAYLOR left outside his
office We're duly picked at.
The Judiciary building was also visit
ed, but there was little going on. The
lonely Portuguese whose mania leads
him to spend all day worshipping the
statue of Kamehameha had plenty of
company today The palace building
was too attractive, however, for the
other structure to hold the visitors
long.
Great disappointment was expressed
that the session of the Legislature had
ended before the Thomas arrived. The
teachers did not know about the Alga-
roba session. where KalauOkalani and
Makekau and Keiki HaaheO and Pa
ele held forth. keeping in practice for
an extra session.