The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-11
PARADE MAY USE
PUNAHOU GROUNDS
Manager Gartley Hopes to Sc
cure Beautiful College
Green for Fete.

It is regarded by the management
Of the Floral Parade as we'll assured
that the beautiful grounds of the Pu-
nahou College will be put at their dis
posal for the finish of the parade and
as place where the judging may take
place. This is better even than the
baseball grounds, which has been de-
MED the committee. except that if it
is allowable at all. to charge an adj
mission fee to the grounds the receipts
can net be expected to be as large as
might have been the case at the ball
park, with it's grandsrand. This will
be more than made up for, however,
by the attractive setting of the Pu-
nahou campus for the decorated auto
mobiles, floats and carriages and the
very large number of equestrians,
while for the taking of the moving
pictures of the parade no better place
could be selected than the beautiful
date palm avenue there. Altogether,
unless some future decision of the
Punahou directors disappoints the
committee, the failure of the attempt
to get the baseball park may turn out
to be one of the best things that could
have happened.
A Gartley, chairman of the parade
committee, visited the college yester-
day and discussed with those in charge
the probable arrangements that would
be made if the grounds were thrown
open to the paraders, and his ideas
will be presented at a meeting of the
directors on Thursday, when final
decision will be given. Mr.. Gartley
stated last night that he was quite
sanguine in the matter, a favorable
decision on which will make practi-
cally certain the success of. the third
annual fete.
Otherwise, things are decidedly en-
couraging. George R. Carter, who is
handling the automobile section, the
principal section of the parade. re-
ports excellent progress and his Sec
ton will be far and away above any,
thing that has been seen. The other
heads of committees report equally
good progress, the enthusiasm at the
present time, eleven days before the
event, being greater than twenty-four
hours before the date on any former
year.
The Consuls representing locally the
British, Portuguese, Japanese and
Chinese, have definitely promised Jus
tice Ballou that they will undertake
to have their respective countries fit
tingly represented in the National Sec
ton of the parade, while it is ex-
pected that the German, Belgian and
French communities will decide to
take part. The Germans, who include
many of the prominent citizens of the
Territory among their number. are in
a particularly good position to enter
a special float or decorated car and
will very probably do so.
A j. Campbell, who undertook to
handle the most difficult section of
the parade, that of the carriages, re- !
ports that he is meeting with much |
more success than he anticipated, and
the line under his charge. A large
number of people, good whips, own
splendid teams, but so far very few
of these have seemed willing to ex-
hibit them as a part of the Floral
Parade fete. Whatever has been the
reason for this, Mr.. Campbell seems
to have overcome it, and nearly a
score of carriages will be out on the
IxA1l ~, oil
is one of the finished whips of the
Territory and one of the few who have
been in both the former parades.