Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-26
Marine Engineers Of Hawaii
AT BANQUET BOARD
Celebrate First Anniversary

The anniversary banquet OF Lodge
No. 100, Marine Engineers Associa-
ton, held at the Hawaiian Hotel Sun
day evening was one Of the most pleas
ant gatherings about the banquet
board that has ever been held in the
city. 1t proved the captains of the en-
CINE rooms to be good fellows, good en-
tertainers and fully alive to the i'm
portant duties resting upon them as in
dividual factors in commercial progress
and as members Of one of the strongest
organizations Of the country
The banquet table was laid in the
large dining hall II was very taste
fully decorated and the menu was all
that could be asked. II was about s
O'Clock when the members and their
guests filed into the hall. II. ]. Platts
presided as POSTMASTER. Thanking him
on either side were Judge NJ. VI. Estee
and Judge A. S. Humphreys, District
Deputy James II. Quinlan. Ernst Kop-
Ike, A. W. Keech. &. A. Graham and
representatives of the Advertiser and
the Bulletin. Members of the order
present were as follows: George Dren-
non, Louis Marks. L. Paulos, c. a.
Thompson. w. McCowth, w. G. Stable.
George PORTE, J. II. Davis, A. Comes,
G. Gardner. J. A. Colbron, d. Bellew,
J. Grace, Il. Fernbach, J. S. Purdie, j.
o. Wilder. John Kelly. +. b. Lee. r.
Windrath. VI. Kuan, w. j. Donnelly,
J. p. Lynch, II. +. Mocine, G. Bonner.
+. NJ. King.
When the POSTMASTER proposed the
President OF the United States ami
called on Judge Estee. the Judge made
one of his characteristic. brief and
pithy responses. II was not an Grafton
but in his quiet conversational manner,
the Judge called attention to the high
regard which all Americans have for
their President. He cited an incident in
the life of Lincoln showing his kindly
were as kind hearted and as thought
full for honest citizens. He closed with,
Boys, fear God and love your country
and you can't go astray."
The Prosperity of the Territory OF
Hawaii" was proposed and Judge Hum
phreys called upon to respond. The
Judge opened his remarks by pleas.
ant reference to Judge Estee and the
press. Making a short reference TO oC.
Casional difficulties met with in our de-
velopment under new conditions. The
Judge expressed his full confidence in
the capacity of Hawaii's citizenship to
carry successfully all the responsible
ties placed upon It as an American
community. The people OF the Terri
tory were not only capable of properly
administering a Territory but they
have a right to look forward to the
Statehood. The Judge said American
rights were equal rights. He expressed
in positive terms that were greeted
with rounds of applause, his lack OF
sympathy with an element of the COM
munity which qualified an American
citizens right to speak and act as u
member of the community by length OF
residence. He believed the honest Am
eriCan who arrived in the Territory
with no other possessions than those
contained in his grip sack TO be as
worthy of consideration as the million
aire or those who traced their lineage
TO the early days when semi barbarity
was in evidence. The future of tho
Territory rests with its honest Ameri.
can citizens and that future was bri
with the promise of sound progress.
The Judges remarks were received
with an enthusiasm showing hearty
approval of his sentiments.
District Deputy James II. Quinlan
made a very happy response to the
toast Of the association. He traced the
growth OF the order, its reputation for
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