The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1909-12-11
Tribute to
Their Dead
EIkS Hold Impressive Mem
Orial Service.

Honolulu, December 6.--Impres-
Sive ceremonial exercises in memory
of departed brothers marked the
annual commemoration services of
Honolulu Lodge No. GIG, Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks,
in the Hawaiian opcrahouse yester-
day afternoon. Not only did the
ritual, orations and music lend an
air of serious import to the sad duties
incumbent upon the lodge, but the
scenic effects upon the stage present.
ed picture which carried the lesson
of the devotion of the living to the
virtues of the dead. The stage scene
was original, unique and beautiful.
All over the world, wherever there
is lodge of Elks, the same devotion
was accorded to the brothers who
have passed to the Great Beyond.
When the officers of the lodge
were seated in the gilt chairs from
their hall the audience saw Il group
of men in II sylvan setting, the stage
being bordered with trees. The
exalted ruler and two officers occu-
pied an elevated station at the rear
of the stage, and behind them was
IA scene representing Il ruined church,
with tombstones rising here and
there. Upon this scene, softened
lights played. In the foreground an
elk's head reposed upon table which
was covered with the Stars and
Stripes. Palms arranged about the
sides of the stage gave very pleas
ing effect. The design and the exc
cution of the plan devolvcd upon A.
II. Cunha.
The usual ritual was observed
and the .roll-call of "Our Absent
Brothers. was asked for by the cx-
alted ruler.
The stage was darkencd and the
secretary called the roll. As each OF
the eighteen names of the brothers
of the lodge who have died, since it:
organization, was called, Il bell toll
ed, and upon the scene in the back
ground II star appeared. Slowly the
stars flashed upon the sky scene
until perfect cross blazed. 1t wa'
the calling of the brothers, and tn,
cross was symbolic of their presence
during the ceremonies.
Following the invocation by Rev
Mr.. Kroll of Lahaina, doubl
male quartet sang Mains THE DE
parted" I" and this was followed b.
Brother Frank f. Thompson, VIII
gave the oration. He spoke in par
rs follows:
The speaker said that on this day
when throughout the entire land al
Elks have their ears attuned to TIN
words of endearment of the dead, i
is pleasant thing to look upon tin
3 faces of 50 many brothers an
friends. Nothing 50 touched tn
heart of an Elk as to feel the han
= of another Elk. 1T is a pleasar
; thing to think of the pleasant thing
: of life, and sad to think of I'll
solemn things, and yet it is befittin
e that once a year we should dwell fC
: "A time in the house of the dead, bl
IL "A kind word to the living is bctt'
e than an Grafton to the departe,
re Personally, | think it is better to pi
Ie red rose upon the breast OF Il
d living than to plant an entire gardt
of flowers upon the grave of Il
. dead"
=" The speaker said that upon I'll
= = assumption he had chosen for i
~ topic an extract from Pauls epistl
that in which he exhorts servar
c. to obey their masters and show go'
Is fidelity. Charity, with st. Paul,
y said was used by the great apostle
a poets license in his flight into t
realms of poetic expression. The