The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-02
RECEPTION Of BIC FLEET
Continued from Page one.)

| plans of the subcommittee have bee
tentatively approved of and variou
amounts have been voted, totalin,
s9325, approximately two-thirds .
what it is estimated the total cost o
| the entertainment is to be.
Nothing in the way of a distinctly
| Hawaiian entertainment has been don
| with the exception of the talk of tn,
grand hokupo, which has not as ye
materialized into anything definite
is the hope of the committee that thi.
may evolve itself into a luau. The
matter of giving a luau to be paid
for out of the subscribed funds is ou
of the question, the cost being pro.
hibitive. 1 is thought, however, that
if the hookupu idea takes root. the af-
fair will develop. If the Hawaiian cit
liens show a desire to contribute as
their share of the entertainment the
materials for a luau and will look
after it, the affair can be given and
be a great success. The Inter-Island
steamships will carry free of charge
anything contributed on the other is
lands, and the poi factory has agreed
to prepare free of charge all the poi
that can be made from contributed
taro, going further in their offer by
promising to supply all the poi over
what is contributed that may be
needed for any luau.
If there is anything to be done with
this. however, it will have to be de-
cided very shortly in order that it can
be made known throughout the outside
districts that the luau is to be given
or the hookupu and the gathering of
supplies arranged for.
In regard to the reception and dance
for the officers, which cannot be dis
pensed with, even if outvoted by the
committee, it has been suggested that
the chairman of the entertainment
committee ask some one to take the
affair in hand, draw up a list of four
hundred or more names and ask those
men to act as hosts for the affair, sub
scribing to meet the cost. This is the
only way the reception can be given
without friction and is, after all, the
only proper way.
WATER WAGON RESOLUTION.
The resolution of the executive COM
mittee to put every intoxicant from
simple cider to swipes on the tabu list
was sprung at the meeting yesterday,
dl WHICH IitSltilS tilCIC "CIS sever al
things happening, including the
naughty stalking out of the represen-
tative of the Star, after he had ex-
changed repartee with George r. Car
ter. L. Tenney Peck, in quoting the
opinion of a subscriber to the fund,
asked the reporters present to regard
the quotation as a privileged commune
cation. Reporter Brewster refused to
promise anything without direct au-
thority from his office, whereupon
Chairman Carter invited him to take a
walk Brewster sat tight and the
chairman threatened to adjourn the
meeting Then Brewster telephoned to
the Star headquarters and departed.
Mr.. Peck took up the thread of his
remarks again. which had to do with
booze Waldron then moved that the
committee go on record as refusing to
pay any account incurred either di-
rectly or indirectly for liquors. This
was carried by a unanimous vote, al
though J. F. Morgan asked to be put
on record as not voting at all.
There was no discussion of the booze
question, for or against.
Some small appropriations were
passed, the press committee getting
SITS for their work and the informa-
ton committee $500 for preliminary
printing and incidentals.
Colonel Jones reported on the prog
ress of the decorators and asked that
$1,000 be appropriated for the work of
wiring the streets for the incandes-
cents This was passed.
The committee went on record re-
garding what it would consider cost
when contributors offered to do work
or furnish supplies at cost" as mean
ing that amount of money which would
be lost to the person or firm if no pay
ment at all were made
The formal thanks of the committee
was passed to the Hawaiian Electric
Co. the Honolulu Iron Works, Cation,
Neill & Co. the Hawaiian News Co
and Wall, Nichols Co, all of which
firms have offered to supply material
for decorations and power for electric
lighting at the bare cost.
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