The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-04

seated on these chairs and surround.
ed by the ladies and gentlemen OF
their mimic court that the Prince and
Princess viewed the .pageantry of their
throne that their royal commands fol
merriment and revelry went forth.
BY eight o'clock the liege subjects
of Mardi Gras began gathering at the
place of reyelry. There were knights
and ladies. gypsies and fortune-tellers
tians. and all the fantastic sorts and
conditions of men and women who in
habit the realms of revelry., There
were buffoons and clowns and merry
makers in all guises. At the same
time there began to arrive those for
whom the entertainment was to be,
the spectators, who gave testimony by
their presence of their enjoyment of
the affair. Among those in the boxes
were Governor and Mrs. Frear with
Mrs. Dillingham;, former Governor
Carter, Judge and Mrs. Stanley, DR..
McGrew, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Will
cox, the Princess Kawananakoa, DR..
and Mrs. Humphris, Mr.. and Mrs.
Focke, Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Spalding,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Cooper, Mr.. and
Mrs D. Howard Hitchcock. Mr.. and
Mrs A. Gartley, Mr.. and Mrs. C. w.
c. Deering, Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Wilder
and many others
Throughout the early evening the
Hawaiian band discoursed a pleasing
program of music. Shortly after 8
O'Clock, the master of ceremonies, Mr..
G. A Jordan, announced the arrival
of the Prince and Princess of the Car
nival. They were preceded by clown
and jester. Reynold McGrew and
Louis Renton. The Princess, Miss
Ethel Spalding, was beautifully gown
ed in white satin with court train of
Alice blue, the train borne by Ivan
Graham and Bobo Schaefer as pages.
The Prince, Gus Schaefer, wore white
satin small clothes with white silk
stockings and black shoes, waistcoat
of Alice blue and a dark blue court
coat trimmed with lace. They were
followed by the court ladies, all in
Empire gowns, pink, blue or white.
with masks to match, and powdered
hair. They We're:
Miss Garden, Miss Restarick. Miss
Alice Hopper, Miss Irene Mccarthy,
Miss Eunice Pratt, Miss Charlotte
Hall. Miss Adele Morgan, Miss Alice
Cooper, Miss Rennie Cation, Miss Belle
Miss Irma Ballentyne,
Miss Tucker. Miss Jane Winnie, Miss
Genevieve Langton, Miss Cordelia Gill
man, Miss Katherine Hopper, Miss
Alice Hedemann, and Miss Sarah
Lucas.
And then followed the train Of
and jewellers, each in his
1wn fantastic guise, merry throng.
The band under the direction of Cap
.ain Berger played one of the cap
aims own compositions, the Mardi
Tras March, a pleasing thing. The
Prince and Princess were enthroned,
With their court ladies, while their
evellers marched around and around,
doubling and counter marching until,
It a signal, the march ceased and
Iuick two-step broke the long lines of
narchers into a maze of dancers. The
Bal Masque had begun.
From that time on it was a quick
uccession of waltzes and two steps,
With an occasional Virginia reel or
ther old fashioned dance, each a yehi-
le for gaiety.
While the reyels were yet young. the
'rince through his Master of Cere-
lonies made this salutation of well
ONE and proclamation of the revels:
Friends. strangers, citizens, and XII
.hanas, I am glad to see you all to- {
light. The ones I see and know [
elcome as friends. To the strangers f
n our shores we are glad you are here ,
nd bid you a hearty aloha TO our !
Tardi Gras. /
you may like this one so much that f
ou will decide to come again next
ear Now in the presence of their l
oval Highnesses and their suite, bid $
,u all a hearty welcome. Eat. drink $
I'd be merry and, remember it only {
,mes once a year. Now once more in I
,e name of the Prince I bid you alo- ?
/. aloha nui, aloha pau loa." I
Then came the Mardi Gras adbica- +
on. The Princes Fool whispered in T.
e ear of the Master Of Ceremonies. I
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