The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-06
PRIZES FOR
BIG PARADE

the interest In the Floral Parade in
creases and the committee in charge
now looks to a most successful out
come. The auto owners are planning
the decorations for their machines.
carriage owners are studying designs
and Pau riders are trying horses. The
Promotion Committee, in whose Office
the details are being worked out, In
thoroughly alive to the matter, and at
luncheon given at the Hawaiian Ho-
tel yesterday by A. Gartley, vice-chair-
man OF the Promotion Committee. and
in general charge of the special COM
mittees work, the general plans for
the parade were outlined.
Mr., Oartley's guests were A. A.
Young, Walter f. Dillingham;, A. M.
Brown, Frank Andrade and A. F. Judd.
Gerrit Wilder, member of the com
mittee. is absent from the city.
The committee decided to award only
blue ribbons for first prizes and red
ribbons for second prizes in ell classes.
Mr.. McCandless has charge OF the
classification OF automobiles as fol-
lows:
Motor cars. runabouts and interrne-
diate machines. Each class will have
two prizes.
Entries made with A. A. Young or
Secretary Wood OF the Promotion
Committee.
Carriages have been classified, with
prizes to be awarded. as follows:
Best six-in-hand best four hand:
best tandem; best pony, or Juvenile.
turnout; best trap; best decorated
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| Entries for carriages can be made to
A. +. Judd or Secretary Wood.
| Pau riders will be looked upon as
special feature of the parade Such
riders have not been seen in Honolulu
for many years. 1t has been decided
to offer prizes as follows:
Best lady Pau rider, s25; second
! best, SIS; third best. $40; fourth best.
S5.
Best Juvenile girl Pau rider. S.;
best Juvenile boy rider. s5: second
prizes In each class. $3.50.
Best appearing cowboy. 500.
| Blue ribbon for best appearing lady
rider and blue ribbon for best appear
ing lady rider in other than Pau
| costume.
Blue ribbon for best appearing
| couple.
Best original character subject on
| horseback, IS.
Mrs. George r. Carter, wife OF the
Governor, will present the prizes to the
winners. Queen Liliuokalani has been
given a special invitation to be pres
ent as the guest of honor and she has
accepted. The judges in the various
divisions have been grouped as fol-
lows:
| Automobiles-Mrs. F. NJ Swanzy,
Mrs. E. Faxon Bishop. Mrs, Cecil
Brown, Mrs. r. c. Van Vliet Mrs. X.
de b. Layard.
| Carriages-Mrs. f. A. Schaefer, Mrs.
c. b. Cooper, Mrs. Samuel Parker.
Mrs. f. w. Macfarlane, Mrs. w. M.
Giffard.
| Pau riders-Mrs. Helen Noonan.
Mrs. H. w. Lyon. Mrs. C. II. Holloway,
Mrs. Eben Low, Mrs. Helen Holt
The plans call for the assembling of
autos and other vehicles around
Thomas Square. The horseback riders
Will assemble within the square. The
judges will occupy positions facing
| King street The autos and carriages
wards in motion. and the Pau and
other mounted riders will be reviewed
only while in motion.
! Supervisor Lucas assures the COM
/ mittee that he has in mind the COM
ing parade and win have Waikiki road
| in proper shape for use on that day.
| The parade will be reformed again
in Kapiolani Park and will be review
ed from the old race-track grand
stand. Mr.. Gartley, Marston Camp
bell and Roscoe Perkins will study the
I landscape at the park meantime, with
a view to selecting the best back
ground for the panoramic photographs
which are to be taken of all divi-
sions.
| Sheriff A. NJ. Brown will be grand
marshal of the Floral Parade and
Frank Andrade is in charge OF the
Pau riders; A. A. Young of the autos
and A. f. Judd of the carriages.
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to the planting, experiments at the
plantation at Sisal have convinced him
that 1t was better to set the plants
about nine feet apart each way.
YUCATAN JEALOUS.
Mr.. Weinrich explained the process
of getting the sisal fibre from the leaf
by machinery, and showed samples OF
, rope and paper and mattress stuffins
made from sisal, the paper and mat
tIess stuffing being from the waste
that the decorticating machine did not
save. He said that the best fibre was
made from sisal by hand and that in
Yucatan hammocks made from this
class of fibre sold for their weight in
silver. The people of Yucatan, how
! ever, were very jealous of their indus
| try. and It was almost impossible TO
get plants from them. They would
| scald them before shipment so that
they would not grow Heat was the
greatest enemy the sisal had. Here I'm
/ Hawaii there We're no pests that harm
ed It. although they had beetle In
Yucatan that killed the plants, The
speaker explained the remarkable fe-
cundity OF the sisal, one plant pro-
ducing between 1000 and 5000 young