The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-09
FTERMATH Of
THE BIC FLEET
Money Saved From the Sum
Collected in San
Francisco.
Especial Correspondence by Mail.
b. Ernest N. Smith.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2-The fleet
reception committee, after providing en-
tertainment for the feet for two weeks
and carrying out practically all the orig
inal plans, found by careful manage
ment that nearly $1,000 had been saved
from the amount collected, and it was
decided to put this money into a per-
manent naval clubhouse, the great sue
| cess of the latter during the stay of the
fleet seeming to warrant the permanent
establishment of such building
| That the whole entertainment went
| off as well as it did, and that money
was saved at the same time, is primar-
lily due to the fact that the city bust
est and most progressive men were will
| ing to give up large part of their
! time to committee work, and the caliber
of the men is shown by the fact that,
although there were sharp personal diff
ferences between men on the committees
owing to outside matters, personalities
were forgotten in the general desire to
| give the fleet good time. In that they
| succeeded.
Although there was a tremendous
| plished quickly and with little trouble
| There were no unwieldly committees to
| be handled, or many persons to be con-
suited at critical moments, but the men
| IN charge knew what to do, and did it.
There were but seven subcommittee
and five men on each committee, and
the heads of the subcommittee with
two or three outsiders constituted the
executive committee, which passed
finally upon all the plans and arrange
ments. The subcommittee being small
could be quickly gathered, and these
committees had charge of Finance, -
I" Decoration - Entertainment, -
reception and Parade, - "Sightsee-
! ing - Entertainment of Enlisted
Men, and 'tPress and Publicity The
seven committees handled the entire af-
fair, and pursued the even tenor of their
way undisturbed by the action of the
other committees. If one committee
| chose to ask women to asst in some
entertainment, the women were asked
| irrespective of what other committees
| did. These few points are noted in view
of various rumors which have reached
the Coast concerning discussions in the
| Honolulu committee.
THE CORRESPONDENTS.
The correspondents who accompanied
| the feet were in the thick of everything
| but, correspondent-like, no one ever
knew exactly whether these men would
attend a function or not. Invitations
| were sent TO them covering the entire
| plan of entertainment and quota of re-
ceptions, and generally at the very last
moment some of them would decide
an11II
arrive.
Apropos of this, good story has just
| leaked out concerning Henry Reuter-
dahl, the correspondent who recently
| made himself famous by criticizing the
navy in a magazine article. One of the
| committees sent a cordial invitation
to the correspondents, inviting them to
make trip up Mt Tamalpais. Moth
ing was heard until late in the after
noon of the day before the trip was to
be made, when a special messenger
| dashed into the California Promotion
building with note. 1t was from Reu-
| terdahl, accepting the invitation with
telegraphic brevity: "Be pleased to ac-
cept invitation Tamalpais tomorrow.
| Address ST. Francis.'' 1t was written
on small scrap of paper which proved
to be torn from a box advertising DR..
| Dash s linen-mesh underwear accord
ing to the red-typed tad on the back.
As it was more than likely to be cold
| on Tamalpais, this was taken as fur
Their evidence of the fact that Reuter-
dahl really intended to make the trip,
and the tickets were sent to him post
haste
FINE OPENING FOR A REUBEN.
h. TsIo
IDENTIFY missing a splendid chance to in
vest in sugar, and it is probably due to
the shortsightedness of the Island in
weston that someone has seen fit to APP
peal to people here to aid in putting a
plantation back on its feet agan. Wit
ness this advertisement, recently insert
ed in the columns of a San Francisco
paper: Hawaiian plantation owning
| large freehold desires additional capital
/ of from $4,000 to $4,000; very large
profits assured; investor can, if de-
sired, secure appointment as superin-
tendent of plantation. For interview,
address, etc
A letter has already been sent on it's
way for an appointment, and it is
| hoped that within a few days more
definite information will be forthcom-
ing regarding the plantation which
| needs some assistance.
Il STANFORD'S TROUBLES.
Stanford University has closed for
the summer vacation. and the most
disconnected set of students that has
ever left the university have gone out
into the world to try and convince
people that Stanford men are neither
drunkards nor "unsavory.' In spite of
all he IF
it is unlikely that. there will be peace
at the big college next year, owing to
recent actions of the Indiana push,
who still maintain a firm grip on af-
fairs. Professors Cathcart and Swain,
who resigned from the student affairs
committee Immediately upon the close
of college. have been replaced by Reg
istrar Elliot and Professor Show, the
latter a former Congregational minister.
At the same time. the board of trustees
have passed a ruling absolutely pro-