The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-12
SOCIETY



No sooner does Honolulu society take
up bridge whist and go wild over 1t
than the announcement comes from the
mainland that it is dying out there An
eastern paper puts it this way: Away
with bridget you would be smart.
Whist is now the proper caper in Gotham,
bridge being left to the toiling bour-
geoisie. You love your bridge? To be
sure you do. But can you risk your
reputation by cIinging TO that which
abe smart set leaders pronounce passe?
Whist-that's the thing now. At least
that is what Mrs. Stuyevesant Fish,
Mrs Gerry, and Mrs. Aston say OF
bridge
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Among the guests at the Field-Mc-
CauIey wedding in San Francisco a
couple of weeks ago-the bride and
groom are now at the Moana Hotel
spending their honeymoon-were some
of San Francisco's most exclusive So
ciety matrons. Their gowns are de-
scribed as superb. Mrs. Henry Dutton
wore a gown of extreme beauty.
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Goodbye. Little Girl, goodbye.
With this pretty little sentiment in
ballad form the officers and men of
the Twenty-first United States In
fantry, sang their way out of Honolulu
harbor yesterday morning as the trans
port Sherman bore them away en- route
TO the land of the Igorrotes and Moros
in the Philippines. Never before has
q regiment come to Honolulu and de-
while to the accompaniment of its
splendid regimental band. The inno-
walton was unique TO Honolulans and
was the more appreciated by the hun
dreds of townsfolk who made fast
friends with the officers during their
stay.
The transport departed at IL o'clock
sharp. At that time the naval dock
WAS alive with humanity, and it was
noticeable that the gentler sex was
present in force. 1t was pretty
scene both on the naval dock and on
the transport decks. Leis were abund-
ant and no officer left without a wreath
of red carnations, the carnation being
the regimental flower. The Hawaiian
Government Band. under the direction
of Bandmaster Berger, played on the
promenade deck of the transport for
an hour, concluding with Aloha Oe
and Hawaii Ponoi. the chorus of the
former selection being taken up by the
soldiers and people on the dock. Then
the regimental band struck up Good
Bye, Little Girl Goodbye" The
chorus from nearly thousand threats
was impressive. and was a distinctive
hit. 1t was like THE Girl Left Be
hind me-" 1.-The Captain With His
Whiskers'' and 1.-The Little Octoroon"
of Civil War memory. The decks and
rigging of the u. S. gunboat Petrol
across the dock were filled with white
uniformed jackies, while the naval Off
GERS used megaphones to say their last
good-byes as the troopship slid out into
the stream. The Sherman and Petrol
exchanged flag saIutes. Colonel Will
Hams and the officers of the regiment
massed upon the runway forward of
the bridge where they waved adieux
and gave three cheers for Honolulu and
especially the fair sex. The cheers were
returned for the Twenty-first Then
came the West Point yell and the An
napOlis yell. Colonel Williams was pro-
fuse in his praise of Honolulu and it
reception of his regiment. He said he
was also proud of his soldiers. for they
sustained their reputation as a regi-
ment which could go among strangers
and every man prove himself good
citizen. A crowd of people went out
on the tug Fearless accompanying the
troopship as far as the harbor entrance
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Music lovers must prepare themselves