The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-20
PRESS
MEN DLNED
BANQUET GIVEN BY COMMERCIAL
CLUB TO VISITING AND LOCAL
NEWSPAPER WRITER'S.

The dinner given by the Commercial
Club last Saturday night with the fleet
press correspondents and the local
newspapermen as guests was a most
delightful affair. President George W..
Smith presided, seated at the head OF
long table with the guests of the ev-
ening. Franklin Matthews, of the New
York Sun, and r. H. Patchin, of the
New York Herald, sat on each side Of
the president and at the foot of, the
table was w. r. harrington with r..
d. Mead, editor of the Planters Month
Ily,, and H. l.. Clotworthy, OF the Unit
ed Press Association,
The tables were effectively decorated
and delicious menu was served, fol-
lowing which President Smith made a
short speech in which he introduced
Mr.. Harrington as POSTMASTER. Before
doing this he called for a silent toast
| to the President of the United States.
which was drunk standing Earring
! ton called upon the representative of
the United Press Association first.
Mr.. Clotworthy told OF being here
| for three days during the war of 1898,
when he was a member of a Colorado
regiment He told of his fondness for
Hawaii and of it's being the most beau
tiful place on earth in his opinion and
then took up the trip of the Atlantic
fleet. Its greatest result would be, he
said, the development of a national in
stead Of a sectional feeling. That
through this trip, which some had OPP
posed. the Middle West, which had
once looked askance at our Navy,
would support it strongly. He refer
red to Pearl Harbor as the greatest
naval base that the country would ever
possess and stated that, with an out
post such as this in the Pacific, the
United States would ensure to all ma
lions free trade on the Pacific. In
closing, the newspaperman stated that
he hoped to return here before long
and to find, after the establishment OF
the Pearl Harbor naval base and the
opening of the Panama Canal, the har'
Dor crowded with merchantmen. all
bearing the Stars and Stripes.
Mr. Matthews was next called or
and made the speech of the evening
He said in part:
Gentlemen, | want to speak Of one
thing in particular Your Pearl Har
hOr here is as important as the city o
New York | do not mean by that t
say that il is the greatest thing OF
aarth, but with such an outpost in thu
midst of the Pacific we can urge on thu
Oriental commerce and make it de
finite that there shall be no trouble
among the nations of the world in thu
waters of the Far East. We must havt
peace in the Pacific Ocean and tn
United States will have that peace i
she has to fight for it,
"There may have been many rea
sons for the sending of this flee
around the Horn. President Roosevelt
himself told me that there were, an
then remained wisely silent. be
lieve, however, that the President
one idea was to show to the nation
of the world that the United State
had arrived and to show our cOuntr
as nation before the world Tn
United States means by this parade O
ships to ensure a free field for all o.
the Pacific. We do not mean that any
one else shall tell us to get out, but W
shall remain and shall have the mar
kets of the Orient opened wide to IL
and also to all other nations"
r. H. Patchin was next called on an
commented on the fact that Honolul
had not run her entertainment of tn
fleet into the ground by having man
official functions to which the officer
would be ordered and compelled TO &c
q whether they wished to or not Whe
that was done he said, it gave the Off
GERS no time to make personal aC
quaintances. Here he said 1t was evi
ldent that everyone was turning to an