The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-05
PARADE MANAGERS
ASK SUGGESTIONS
Ideas for Decorations Wanted
---Chairmen Having a Busy
Week of 1t.


rade general committee, that the com
mittee authorize the publication of an
official souvenir of the coming pageant,
a copy of which should be presented
to each person entering vehicle in
the parade. Mr. Petrie, as well as
other members of the committee, to
whom the idea was mentioned. think
very favorably of it, and it will be the
subject of a report at the general
meeting of chalrmen to be held this
afternoon at four clock in Mr. Pc
tries office.
The souvenir, if the idea is carried
out, win be in the form of an album
in which will be reproduced in high
grade photo-engraved cuts, pictures of
every automobile, carriage, float, BIZ
cycle, equestrian, or other unit of the
parade. The photographs from which
the engravings will be made, will be
furnished by the committee, and viii
be of uniform size. Each picture will
occupy a single page, which will be of
ample size to bring out all the details.
The Promotion Committee yearly sends
out large numbers of pictures of the
Floral Parade, which always excite the
greatest interest everywhere, and it is
believed that there would be big de-
mand for the kind of album proposed.
Moving Pictures Also.
Arrangements are already being
made by R. K. Bonine, the motion pic
ture expert, to make an elaborate lot
of pictures of the parade in motion.
These will be used among others, for
advertising Hawaii at the Alaska-Y u-
kon-Seattle Exposition, as well as other
places on the mainland. Mr.. Bonine
made pictures of last year S parade, it
will be remembered.
Elks Advertise Parade.
Through the courtesy of the Honolu-
lu Lodge of Elks, full page was Of
fered the committee for advertising
the parade, in the handsome souvenir
program being prepared for the Elks'
minstrels on Thursday and Saturday
evenings. This is just an instance of
the way in which almost everybody,
and every organization seems to be
doing all that they can to boost the
big Washington birthday celebration
along.
There is great hope among the mea-
hers of the committee that practically
every school in the city will be repre-
scented in the parade by some kind of
decorated vehicle or float. Already T.
G.. Anterior, chairman of the sub
committee in charge of the schools
representation, has been advised of
five which will be in line, and which
are already at work planning for their
appearance. These are the Kamehame-
ha schools, Oahu college, Kawaiahao
seminary, High school, and Aliiolani
college
Schools Want to Help.
Practically every school in the city
wants to be represented in the process
sion, the more so since others are al
ready getting ready. Some of them,
however, cannot see their way clear to
raise the fifteen or twenty dollars
needed to buy bunting, flags, etc. This
suggests a way for some people who
will not be able otherwise to help the
parade to do so The automobile com
mittee, J. NJ. Dowsett. chairman, and
the carriage committee, Frank Arm
strong, chairman, will probably. be able
to furnish suitable conveyances to
such schools as need this assistance,
but somebody nAIst make provision
also for the expense of decorating
materials.
Decorators Wanted.
In this connection Chairman Frank
Armstrong, of tAe carriage committee,
states that ind cations are that the
committee will be offered more car
riages than it will know what to do
with. The owners of many rigs are
also owners of Automobiles, and prefer
expending their energy and time in
decorating their motor cars, and are
willing to let the committee place
their spare vehicles to the best ad-
vantage Mr. Armstrong would be
glad to see anyone who would like TO
decorate and drive a swell rig in the
parade, at his Office on the Castle Il
Cooke floor of the Stangenwald build
ing.
Ideas Wanted.
All of the committees, and especial
" the committee of the automobile
section, are being besieged by owners
of machines for ideas in the way of
decorations. This has caused Chairman
Dowsett's inventive faculties to be
| worked overtime, and he wants some
| help If anybody can't do any more
towards helping make the celebration
a success, it may be that they have
some ideas which will be as good as
gold to some one. So you can help
by simply sending to Mr. Dowsett any
| designs or suggestions for the artistic,
or novel decoration of an auto, ear
! riage, or float Mr.. Dowsett already
has collected quite large assortment
of designs, and photographs, which are
at his Office on Merchant street and
are available to anybody who needs
suggestions in the matter of deeora-
| ton.
Miss Hannah Cummings, who is a
student at the Priorv. has been select