The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-26
CARNIVAL WAS
A GREAT EVENT
The Rink Crowded With Skaters
in Costumes of All Kinds,
CoIors and Designs.

If anyone had had any reason to
doubt the advancement of Honolulu
generally during the past two years, a
visit to the Princess skating rink last
was real city jam there for the car
nival, with over three hundred skaters
on the cement in costume and with two
thousands or so spectators lined around
the rink looking on, some hundreds
crowded about the gates trying to get
in and some hundreds of others perch
ed on eoigns of vantage on all the sur
rounding buildings. Heretofore, in
events of this kind, a score of cos
TUNED skaters and another score of
boys with masks on constituted the
Honolulu carnival. The difference be-
tween what has been and what was last
night marks the difference beteen Ho-
nolulu now and Honolulu as it has been.
There was tremendous rush for ad
mission. When the gates opened there
were hundreds massed around each en-
trance, across Pauahi street and along
the lane from the Hotel street en-
trance. The management of the affair
was particularly good, however, and the
big crowd was handled without trouble.
In spite of entrances made to accom-
| modate only about one-fifth of the at
tendance, there was no roughness at the
gates, no persons unduly jammed and
no one with any serious complaint to
! make. Inside, the management was
equally good. What had been adver-
| tised was carried out. The masquerad-
/ ers had the rink to themselves so far
as the skating went until nine o'clock
and the onlookers had an excellent
| chance to watch the skaters and ad-
mire the bewildering array of costumes
| on the floor.
| OF these there were no limit in the
| way of variety. Modest nuns cut cor
ners with Indian braves in war paint
| flower sellers and Chinese mandarins
went hand in hand; hula girls and
college professors in cap and gown
skated and fell together; Uncle Sam
| put on skates for a girl in a kimono,
and tramps, priests, soldiers, geisha
girls, witches and soubrettes Joined in
one whirling, merry throng, all on
pleasure bent and apparently enjoying
themselves quite as much as the ones
who watched.
To choose the prize winners from SO
many good costumes was a difficult task
for the judges, but no criticism can be
made of their final selections The
Judges were Mesdames Mamie Phil
Hips, James Dougherty and Henry
Along Miss Ada Rhodes, Miss Annie
McCrosson and Prince Cupid.
At the appointed hour the costumers
were formed for the grand march, the
double line completely encircling the
rink and making a splendid show The
skaters then went past the judges
who made their selections as follows:
Lady's best costume, Miss Anna
Decker, who wore a dainty costume
composed of natural flowers; man s
best costume, w. D. Maxim, a Chinese
mandarin.
Lady s most original costume, Mrs. NJ
L. Gerst, who represented The Adver-
tiser; man s most original costume, A
Baeker, who had covered himself with
playing cards, looking like an animated
pinoehle deck.
Best sustained costume. E. Gibson
as Uncle Sam; best sustained ladv's
costume, Miss Nellie Johnson, as a
squaw, with papoose, and most conf
cal costume, NJ. Akeo, d Happy Hooli
gan.
The event was decidedly the best
of its kind so far seen in Honolulu
well managed. well attended and car
red through without hitch.