The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-02-25
SHR|NERS ARE
SPLENDID
HOSTS
From Saturdays Advertiser)

From Saturdays Advertiser)
Guests Of the members of the Aloha
Temple, o. Ter of Mystic Shriners, tC
the numl er of several hundred
thronged the ballroom and lanais OF
the Moana hotel last night at the very
successful ball, the first of what is
hoped will be an annual affair. Splen-
didly did the knights of the scimiter
and fez carry through their plans and
thoroughly enjoyable was the bril-
liant function arranged by them. The
broad lanais and roomy reception hall,
card room and ballroom, proved quite
equal to the task of accommodating
the many present, while the table set
lawn and driveway where the refresh
ments were served at midnight, add
ed distinctiveness to the affair which
was as enjoyable as it was novel.
The guests began to arrive shortly
after 9 o'clock, being greeted in the
vestibule by the members of the re-
ception committee, Messrs. H. E. Muir
ray. DR.. Wood, E. c. Brown and DIR.
Grossman. The majority arrived very
closely on the appointed hour of nine
o'clock and the gathering guests list
ened to the band music, strolled about
the lawns admiring the general dec
orations or clustered on the lanais and
busted themselves with the program of
dances. Before 10 o'clock the dancing
commenced, being kept up. with the
interval for supper, until the time OF
the departure of the last of the spe-
cial cars for town at o'clock.
Carnation red, the Shriners colors,
was used to beautiful effect as the
color scheme in the ballroom. Great
ropes of crimson bougainvillea were
draped from the four corners of the
ceiling to the center, where a center
piece many feet in diameter swung.
Through this and at intervals along
its streamers, blazed scores of incan-
descents, each snuggled in a large
crimson hibiscus blossom. At the ma
kai end of the ballroom the Shriners'
emblem blazed in colored incandescents
from the wall, while throughout the
room and on the musicians balcony,
palms and ferns were used to good !
effects.
The grounds and lanais were particu- |
larly beautiful and gay with the very
many promenaders throughout the !
evening. In the lanai entrance of the |
ballroom scores of Chinese lanterns
shed a soft radiance, the trees and |
shrubs about the lawns bore brilliantly |
colored fruits of many hued incandes- |
cents, while over the doorways of the |
hotel proper were draped nags an0 /
banners against a background of green /
palms. On the makai lanai, back of |
the reception hall, and along the drive
way before it, the tables for the re-
freshments had been placed, making |
an out-of-door fete brilliant in concep-
tion and admired by the hundreds who .
strolled along the pier or on the lawns,
the music of the band, stationed here, |
mingling harmoniously with the wash
of the rollers on the sands.
The front entrance of the hotel was
decorated only with incandescents and
two large flags, the National and the
Hawaiian colors, while the decorations
of the reception hall were limited to
the potted palms and plants artistical-
ly arranged in the Railways. The par
lor was left to those who preferred
the fascinations of bridge and pedro
TO the dancing.
The arrangements were almost per-
IecI throughout, the result OIL the nara
work done during the past few days
by the members of the Arab Patrol,
whose twenty-four members made up
the various committees for the affair.
These We're divided as follows:
Gneral Committee-H. z. Murray,
Geo. H. Angus, F. B. McStocker, ]. ].
Belser and F. L. Hatch.
Finance-F. B. McStocker T. H. Pc
trie, Robt. w. Shingle, K. B. Porter
and E. ]. Lord.
Hall and Decorations-J. ]. Belser,
Sam Johnson, c. G. Bartlett, Emil
Waterman and Theo. Hoffman,.
Reception Committee-H. E. Murray,
DR.. Wood, E. C. Brown and DR.. Gross ,
man.
Invitation and Floor Committee
Geo. H. Angus, F. c. Smith and NJ.
Phillips.
Printing and Program-F. L. Hatch,
c. G. Bockus and w. H. Goetz.