The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-08
WELCOME
STATESMEN
Everything Is Arranged
for Receiving the
Visitors.

Today the transport Buford viii ar
rive with the members of the Con
gressional party who are to be the
guests of the Territory for the next
three weeks and all arrangements to
give them a welcome to Hawaii by the
citizens of Honolulu and by those rep
resenting the Territory on the occasion
have been completed. The sighting of
the transport will be announced by four
blasts of the whistle, the signal for
those who are to go out to meet the
visitors to get busy and an invitation
for everyone in town to HE to the naval
wharf and give enthusiasm 60 the land
ing Of the distinguished Mainlanders
on Hawaiian soil.
The members of the Territorial COM
mittee and a few guests will go out
TO meet the Buford and board her,
presenting the aloha of the islands. In
this party are to be the Delegate to
Congress, Senator Chillingworth, J. R.
Gait, Geo. w. Smith, Sheriff Iaukea,
Senator Palmer P. Woods, A. G. M.
Robertson, Senator John G. Lane, and
Secretary Atkinson. Accompanying
the Admiral 8 launch. which will carry
this party, will be the T. s. S. Iroquois,
which has been put at the disposal of
the committee for the purpose, carrying
as many of the Oahu Entertainer
committee as desire to go, and as many
of these will be placed on the Buford
by the launch as time will permit.
As soon as the transport docks a COM
pany of lei girls will board her and
decorate each member of the visiting
party with leis as he or she comes down
the gangplank. The Hawaiian band
will go out on the 1roquois and will play
as the party lands, while two companies
of the National Guard will be drawn
up on the dock to salute the Congress
men.
From the naval wharf the party will
be escorted to the Naval Station, where
a salute of seventeen guns will be fired
In their honor, the Admiral having re-
ceived instructions from the Navy De-
partment to receive the visitors with
all the honors due their rank. In this
connection it is pointed out that horse
vehicles will not be permitted to ap-
proach too close to the landing place,
there being q danger of the horses
boiling when the salute is fred and in
iurine someone of the many who will
undoubtedly be present. The police
have received orders to keep all rigs
back and the rule will be observed
strictly.
Following the reception from Admiral
Very and his staff, the party of visitors
will be taken in autos and carriages
to the various hotels where they will
stop while on Oahu.
Up to this point the visitors will be
in the hands of the Territorial commit
zee. but once settled ashore the Oahu
committee will look after their enter
tainment and be in charge of all other
matters during the partys stay on the
island. All the details for this were
threshed out at the meeting Of TINS
committee held last night at the Young
Hotel. at which about thirty members
were present. There was some little
amusement at George Davis resent
ment at what he termed a slight OF
Senator Lane, who had not been IN
cluded among those to go out IN tue
launch. in the course of his remarks
on this subject Mr.. Davis informing
Secretary Atkinson that he was only
a common citizen clothed with little
temporary authority" The Secretary
agreed with him.
Chairman Hustace of the Board Oh
Supervisors ruffled the committee
little by telling them that the oano
was not altogether at their disposal
the Eagles having spoken for 1t Tor
the night of the twenty-seventh, While
the Aala Park and Thomas Square con-
certs must not be cut out altogether,
The matter was suitably and amicably
arranged.
SEEING POINTS OF INTEREST.
The chairman of the Oahu committee
Continued on Page Four.)