The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-01
AMERICAN REACHES N0RTHP0LE!
IN
The CASE

There is no real trouble between
the Mayors office and the Office of the
Governor over the luau to the Con-
gressional party next Friday evening,
and all the talk to the contrary arose
over the anxiety of young lady to
attend.
In the first place the Coz ernors
Office seems to have no right to kick,
even supposing II Goes kick, for an
officially typewriter list OF people
eligible to invitation in the Terrific
rial government departments was
prepared in the Governors office and
sent to the Mayor, and invitations
nave been issued for every person,
high and low, named in the afore-
mentioned official list authorized in
the Governors office.
But it seems that young lady, ap-
parently not realizing that invitations
are addressed to gentlemen only, not
to ladies, each gentleman being given
the privilege of taking with him a
lady, inquired why it was that she had
not received an invitation. Her invi-
tation, If she gets one, must necessari-
ly come from some gentleman who
has been invited and, because of his
invitation. is expected to take with
him a lady.
There are five hundred invitations
issued to gentlemen and, if each takes
lady and all who are invited should
go, there will be a thousand people
present.
| The anxiety of the young lady in
volved, to get an Invitation, easily be-
came an exaggerated complaint and a
wrong Interpretation was put on the
information derived from the complain
ant, according to the authorities in
terviewed in the premises this morn
ing
Mayor Fern laughingly denies that
he is ''insulted" by the attitude of the
| Governors Office. in fact he knows
nothing of any latitude" and broad
ly intimates that the printed morning
report of an "insult" and an attitude"
is unauthorized" even If written by
an authorized" reporter
"The matter Is so plain that 1t is
difficult to imagine any possibility OF
misunderstanding" said His Honor,
the Maycr this lroIning. Il look
over all the invitations sent out and
there is absolutely no reason for a
statement that the Governors Office or
any other office is slighted Invita-
tions are sent, as is the custom, to
gentlemen only. not to ladies, and the
gentlemen are expected to bring the
ladies. l think that, at the very least,
for decency's sake, such imagin-
airy grievances must be restrained un-
til after the visiting Congressman
leave the islands Must we exhibit our
petty jealousies and spites for the edi-
fication of the Congressional visitors?
I'm sure they are not interested In sill
ly, local squabbles!"
The only ladies directly invited to
the Mayors luau, without the invita-
tion being made through invited gen.
tlemen, will be the hula dancers, and
they, of course, are engaged, not in
vited. They will be paid for their
artistic efforts.
Married men who are invited, viii
probably take their wives, while un
married men will take whomevel
ronors them with their gentle com
pany.
The young lady who complained o.
receiving no invitation upon discover!
that invitations are not issued direct
ly to ladies, will no doubt accept thu
invitation of some gentleman friend
AS far as expenses for the luau arr
cI ncerned, the money will be forth
coming ard whac IS not made up IL
other ways will, so the official infor
, nation indicates, be made good by thu
City ond County, for, 10 matter wha
, is said to the contTar 1t Is indeed Il
be the Mayors luau, though. of course
it Is not Ferns luau.