The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-03

able and the pretty figures they danced
reflected great credit upon themselves
and their instructor, Miss de Lartigue.
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OAKLAND, April 1s.-Oahu canoe of
the Wal Kai Kai fraternity held a
banquet at the Hotel Athens last night
to celebrate the installation of officers
for the ensuing chapter year. Vincent
j. Whitney, retiring paddle and presI>
dent Of the canoe, installed Ernest G..
Ochs as the new paddle, and he in turn
installed the following officers: Franz
L. Keser, vice paddle; Henry H.
Sprague, secretary; Beverly w. Tfeo-
pold treasurer Charles G. Heiser Jr.,
master of ceremonies; John A. Cook,
sergeant at arms; Alex. B. Charlton,
chaplain. The banquet room was dec
GRATED with red carnations and black
trimmings, symbolizing the colors of
the fraternity During the evening a
gold watch fob, decorated with the en-
blem of the fraternity, was presented
to retiring Paddle Whitney. A phos-
phorescent canoe, suspended beneath
phosphorescent skull and crossbones,
was one of the features of the decora-
lions.
Vincent J. Whitney acted as toast
master and the following members of
the order responded to toasts: F. P.
C. Muhlner, Outlook of Hawaii Ca
noe:" E. J. Ochs, Hopes of the Oahu
Canoe;" J. B. Cathcart. History" H.
H. Sprague, Organization; c. G.
Heiser Jr., Athletics"
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A number of the employees of Hack
field & Co. were entertained on Mon
day night by Richard NJ. Isenberg, the
occasion being in the nature of fare
well. Those present were w. LAM,
Geo. Rodiek, VIM. Pfotenhauer, r.
Gussefeld. B. Won Damn, A. j. Black
man, F. J. Linderman, P. c. Cleghorn,
E. G. Duisenberg, H. J. Holmes, C.
]. Bayer, P. Bartels, G. B.
Isenberg, A. Hamburg, H. Lemke, F.
c. Lyser, o. Buchholtz, G. Bayer, H.
Hagens. c. s. Weight, C. Dunkhase, c.
Reinecke. A. C. Spohler, A. Constabel,
Fl. SchuItze, H. Hugo, c. du Roi, c.
J. Bomke, F, Baering, P. Hesse and H.
Rose.
General and Mrs. Pratt, S. A. Duke
and Miss Marguerite Duke, who are
guests at the Pleasanton, will leave for
their homes in the Manchuria on the
twenty third.
San Francisco News Letter.-The
sort of an engagement an
links the name of Miss
Gertrude Hyde-Smith with that of
Baldwin Wood. Matrimony is evident
y as catching as the measles, for only |
4 few weeks ago the Hyde-Smith home
was all a-futter over the wedding of |
Miss Margaret Hyde-Smith and Wal
Ter Dillingham;. Now comes Miss Ger
rude. and shares her secret with her |
friends. Mr. Wood is member of the /
and University clubs, and |
s a prominent young attorney. Society |
s congratulating itself that marriage |
will not take Miss Gertrude away, for
t could not spare both OF these attrac-
i've young women. Mrs. Dillingham;
will, of course, frequently run up from
Honolulu on visits, but it is not as
pleasant as being a permanent factor
n the social world. The wedding of
Miss Hyde-Smith and Mr.. Wood win
,e an event of the early winter.
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The John n. Dowsetts arrived here
N the Nippon Maru from Honolulu
and will be guests at one of
he large hotels for several days. The
)owsett family is well known here, as
yell as very prominent in the Ha-
vaiian Islands Mrs. Stuart Dunbar,
whose death a few weeks after her
Tedding year ago so shocked society
ere, was Miss Genevieve Dowsett.-
all, April Is.
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