The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-10
Visiting Chief
Fethers is
Honored.
RECEPTION AND
BALL FOR LEADER
Uniform Rank Makes a Brave
Show-Fine Address on Tenets
of the Order.
GALLANT knights of the order OF

~ ALLANT knights OF the Order of
eY Pythias and fair ladies. greeted
Supreme Chancellor ogden F..
Fethers and Mrs. Fethers in Progress
Hall last evening. and afterwards
danced before the distinguished guests
until the midnight hour had come and
all too swiftly .;,ed away. The knights
in their handsome dark uniforms with
trimmings of red and wearing the
cross-hilted swords. presented a brave
appearance. The reception was
pleasant affair and the distinguished
chief of the great order Increased the
bond OF friendship existing between
dress which teemed with the noble
principles Of the order.
Progress hall was handsomely decor
ated- Upon the walls were hung
shields, emblematic OF the order, en-
blazoned with the Pythian motto. sus-
pended against crossed swords and
spears The archway beneath which
the Supreme Chancellor received the
guests and afterwards sat and watched
the dancers was an artistic feature.
The platform was fringed with potted
plants and appropriately draped with
flags. Upon this were the Hawaiian
musicians who played the airs of Ha-
waii nei while the Sir Knights and
their ladies tripped away in the deux
temps and the waltz.
Rank, x of p, twenty-five strong.
marched into the hall in command of
Captain Salter, and Lieutenants J. H
McKeague and o. Whitehead, and
forming in two lines facing each other
awaited the coming of the chief. When |
the latter arrived the Sir Knights
barred their swords and raised them |
over the intervening space until the
points almost touched. The Supreme |
Chancellor, with Mrs. Fethers leaning |
upon his arm, and accompanied by Sir |
Knight Towse. and Sir Knight and |
Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. Alvinza Hay |
wards, passed between the lines and |
stood beaeath the arch of bunting,
where the guests were received. The |
Paris gown worn by Mrs. Fethers was
made expressly for the state dinner
given by President and Mrs. Mckinley
10 the United States Commissioners to
the Paris exposition of 1900, on their
return to the States Mr.. Fethers was
vice president of the Paris commits
sioners.
Previous to the opening waltz the
Supreme Chancellor was prevailed up
on to make an address, and he re-
sponded in patriotic speech. He said,
in part, as follows:
II am told that this is the first visit
OF a Supreme Chancellor to the Ha-
waiian Islands. If all the good men
who have held the office before me /:
had had any realization or apprecia-
tion Of the delights OF visit to these /!
Islands, and of the courtesises extended ]
upon the part of brother knights, / am
sure that they would all have left the |
shores of California and come To Ho- {
noIuIu 1 cannot quite understand &
why i am the first one TO come here. in |
view OF the royal pleasures that have {
been extended to me and to my wife. /
and to Mrs. Haywards. member of
our little party. I want to thank you
all most sincerely for the pleasures we !
have had since we came here As TO
myself. L am a little banged up. but I
as the saying goes. am still in the ring. I
1 don't see my brothers often enough, |
but 1 understand their wives object 10
their husbands coming TO see me in the
evenings. The women are prone to be !
n bit fauIt-fnding. 1 suppose that IS !
your mission in life. but l am very
glad indeed to see so many ladies OF
Honolulu here. OF course every one