The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-01-29
HAWAII TO CO
TO YACHT CLUB
(From Thursday IS Advertiser.)


At the annual meeting of the Hawaii
yacht club, held in the Commercial Club
rooms last night, the members were
notified that majority of the donors
to the yacht Hawaii fund had signifed
their willingness to transfer their in.
terest to the yacht club; and it was
unanimously resolved to take over the
Yacht and assume the Indebtedness of
$4,000 as well as the amount already
paid out. by the committee in charge,
for maintenance of the yacht since the
race.
OF those who consented to turn over
their interest to the club thirty.fve
agree to become members of the club,
thus bringing the active membership
up to more than a hundred. Before
those who subscribed 30 the yacht fund
can become members, by turning in
their certificates of donation in place
of initiation fee, the charter of the club
must be changed. This matter was
placed in the hands of competent COM
mittee and will be seen to at once, so
REIMBURSEMENT.
Up till now there have been two
classes of members of the club. Those
who held no stock. Under the new ar
rangement those who subscribed to-
wards the yacht fund can turn their
certificates in and receive shares of
stock in return, thus becoming regular
members. AS all the members subscrib'
ed, they will naturally all become stock.
| holders.
The annual election of officers was
held and the following were elected to
office for the ensuing year: G. L. Will
der, commodore; james Jaeger, vice
commodore; A. w. Nicely, secretary and
treasurer; H. d. Bowen, port captain;
| o. l.. Sorenson, measurer; Robt. L..
Scott, r. B. Rietow, t. V. King, Z. l..
Kruss and F. L. Miller, directors. Chas.
! Crane, Geo. c. Beckley and j. N. Den
sham, regatta committee.
Several changes were made in the
bylaws, most of them bearing on the
new adjustment of stock. Among them
were changes allowing others than pure.
ly amateur yachtsmen to belong to the
club and Il lengthening of the time nee
essary fora member to be absent in
order to be exempt from dues.
The members were notified of the
gift by Commodore Spalding of the
South Coast yacht club of cup to be
sailed for by sea wrens, this cup to be
1 won three times before becoming the
property of the winner. Other condi-
tons were left entirely to the yacht
club management. vote of thanks
to the donor was passed.
The matter of the course of the race
for the Irwin cup was discussed and il
was finally decided to have it from the
harbor spar buoy to a mark off Koko
Head. back to the outer Pearl HaIbol
entrance buoy and thence to the spal
buoy again. This race must be Won
three times before the cup becomes the
property of the yacht winning it and
will be an annual event.
The luau at Pearl HarbOr arranged
for next Sunday was brought to the
attention of those present and most OF
them took tickets and arranged to SEE
to the distribution of more. There ha!
not been much doing in catching circles
, lately and the yachtsmen are very anx
ous to make this outing success. Al
, already stated in the Advertiser, ticket
, may be obtained from McInerny's sho'
store and must be called for before
noon on Friday so that the committee
, in charge may known how many t.
, cater for at the luau.
!. A train leaves Honolulu at OILS fo
. the Peninsula and Mr., Jaeger will NEE
4 the train with his launch to take tn
yachtsmen over to Ford Island, the us
[ of which has been donated by MI
I. Brown for the event.
Q Many of the yachts will leave Homo
Y lulu in the morning to sail to Pear
9 Harbor and each will carry good dech
!. load of-owners friends. Judging b
t the number of tickets already take
y there will be quite a crowd out and
y thoroughly good time will be the re
s suit.