The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-02-16
TRANSFORMING THE DRILL SHED
INDICATIONS POINT TO A VERY
SUCCESSFUL MARDI
GRAS BALL.
There Will Be No Free List-Even
the Ladies Who Have Worked
Hard For the Affair Will Have
To Pay the Regular Price.


Shed for the Mardi Gras ball. the final
meeting of the efficient committee
which has brought the plan of aiding
the Honolulu Eye and Ear Infirmary
SO close to successful consummation.
was held and the last touches were put
on the little details which are neces-
sary to insure a perfect success in an
undertaking of this character. There
were about twenty of the ladies pres
ent and as the meeting progressed A
G.. Halves and Tarn McGrew came in
and listened while the members of the
committee went over the work before
them.
The ladies expressed themselves as
being delighted with the appearance { I
the official souvenir of the ball which
had just been finished by the Robert
Grieve Publishing Company. The
souvenir is a very neat bit of work
and consists of twenty-four pages of
printed matter bound in Bristol board.
with red silk faslenlngs. On the first
page of the cover there is a cut rep
resenting creole masque in black
and yellow. The descriptive work con-
vi iiAA5 bAO OtlC1to VI l1C thtCi tdAA-
ment was carefully prepared and tells
of the work which LAS already been ac-
complished by the Infrmary, it's trials
and the difficulties which, il is to be
hoped. will be overcome by the finan.
cial results of the ball A full list
of the ladies who have undertaken to
make the dance an artistic as well as
financial success is also printed A
general list of instructions to the dan
GERS follows and then a series OF notes
and small talk is set out The souve.
mir close with an acknowledgment
to Captain Berger for the arrange
ment of a really fine musical program
The changes in the Drill Shed are be-
ing made with as much speed as pos
sible and the interior of the barn-like
structure is beginning to assume the
appearance of dance-hall The row
of private boxes along the north side
of the nall is about completed and the
stand for the musicians has been CON-
menced.
All was confusion and piles of lum-
ber Uttered the floor in all parts of
the hall. The sound of the busy ham
it was with difficulty that the ladies
couW make themselves heard above
TO din. But they persevered and when
an adjournment was taken there was
little remaining TO be done between
the present and the time OF the ball.
All that now stands between the com.
mittee and success. is the disposition
of the people of this city toward the
objects of the festival and beyond
any doubt the people of this city want
the Infirmary to be placed on a firm
financial basis and so the ladies are
quite jubilant over the outlook.
The tickets are not being sold as
fast as the committees could desire
but it is confidently expected that the
bulk of the pasteboards will be dis
posed of within the next twenty-four
hours. Absolutely no free tickets will
be distributed and each of the persons
to whom tickets nave peen given for
sale has agreed to make a strict oc
counting for the. tickets or to be
charged with $3.50 for each one ot
them Admission cards may be pro
cured from any of the following per
sons:
wall, Nichols Co., Benson. Smith
& Co., Hebron Drug Store. HOLSTERS
Bergstrom's. Thrum's, Hawaiian News
Co. Brasch & Co. Nolte's, Lycurgus
Restaurant. Hawaiian Hotel. Hawaiian
Annex, Waikiki Inn, Charles Desky
Esq. Miss Killean's, Doctor Clarke's
Mr.. A Jones. Mr. F. Peachy, Mrs. E.
d. Tenney, Mrs. Mary Gum, Mrs. E
Freeth, Mrs. H. A Isenberg. Mrs. Tom
| May. Mrs. G. Wilder, Miss Maggie
Walker. Mrs H. Cooper. Mrs. W. C
Wilder, Mrs Annis NJ Turner. Mrs. S
NJ Damon. Mrs Mary Widdifeld, Mrs
NJ. NJ Estee. Mrs Harold Motf-Smi.h
Mrs, Mamie Phillips. Mrs. waItel
Hoffman,, Mrs. II. wichman. Mrs. ]
NJ. Dowsett. Mrs james G. Spencer
Mrs NJ. NJ Scott. Mrs ]. T. Mcdonald
Mrs. Refs. Miss Anna Paris. Mss Ba
con, Mrs Shaker, Mrs James Camp
bell. Mrs. F. NJ Hatch. Mrs. Pond Mrs
s. NJ Parker, Mrs E W. Jordan, Mrs
]. s. Walker. Mrs A. NJ. Brown. Mis-:
]. Kaufman. Mrs. F. NJ Swanzy, Mis-:
Bacon. Mrs K Brown. Miss Angus
Mrs T. Rain Walker. Mrs. wm- r. Al
len Mrs n l. Walker, Mrs A. Atkin
SON
Money received in payment 10;
tickets should be turned over to s
Edward Damon at Bishop & Co.'S bans
or to Mrs A G. Hawes. Jr