The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-28
FLORAL PARADE
PREPARATIONS
Things Look Promising for an
Interesting Fete
Day.

Director Petrle and the members of
the various committees having in hand
the preparations for Henolulu's great
fete day, the Washington IS Birthday
Floral Parade, are greatly encouraged
by the general lively interest being
manifested by almost everybody in the
city who has been approached on the
matter of taking part or assisting in
the affair This interest insures the
fullest success of an event which has
come in the past few years to have
much more than local note.
"This is my first experience in di-
recting the Floral Parade said Mr..
Petrie, yesterday afternoon, "and the
job IS no sinecure. bnt I believe we shall
have no trouble in giving show that
will be far ahead of any previous years.
We ought to, most certainly, for we
have good many more resources than
any of the former committees had to
draw from. There are about a third
more automobiles in Honolulu now than
there were a year ago, including quite
a number of visiting cars, a number
of the owners of which I am informed
have expressed their desire to take part
in the parade and try for some of the
prizes to be offered. Then there are
the new army and navy troops. We
are sure of at least one squadron of
the Fifth Cavalry, Col. Jones tells me,
and possibly more. There viii be many
more tourists in the city than ever
before at the time of the parade, and
they are going to see something that
they will tell their friends about
Senator j. M. Dowsett, who is chair
man of the committee on automobiles,
is also very optimistic. His committee
is made up of Geo. F. Davies, R. D,
Mead, F. E. Richardson, G. P Wilder,
E. H Paris and J. A. Kennedy.
eve have taken a list from the reg
istrar's Office of the auto owners in the
city, said the Senator, "and have
divided it among our committee
have not been able to see all the per-
sons on my list as yet, but I have talk
ed with enough of them to feel sure
that there will be no lack of interest
among the motorists generally. Some
of the persons who had decorated cars
in the parade last year have suggested
that they be allowed to take it easy
and not take part this year, but we
MT stand for that; we want their
experience and help as much as We
want the new ones, and we got to
have it, too
Senator Dowsett is getting together
a collection of pictures of the cars
which have been in previous parades in
Honolulu, and also of those from Pasa-
dena and other places, which will be
available at his office to persons who
| may be seeking suggestions in the deco
ration of their cars.
eve want to get every automobile in
Honolulu decorated for this parade, or
as near every one as we possibly can, -
declared Chairman Dowsett. Several of
the persons on my list viii not be able
to take part personally on account of
other engagements for the day or press
of business, but every one of them of
fered the use of their machines to the
committee, so that we will have some
decorating ourselves in all probability.
What | want to see worked up, and
from the persons | have seen about it
[ think there should be no trouble to
do it, is to have all the civic, fraternal,
| and athletic organizations take part by
being represented in the parade by an
appropriately decorated ear or float.
The cost to the individual members of
such organizations in hiring a car and
decorating it would be very small, and
all it would take would be some head
| work and a little time of few mem
bers. We want the Chamber of Com
| merce, the Merchants Association, the
various boat clubs, yacht club, golf,
| polo, tennis, baseball, and any other
| clubs of this order, to decide right
away to take part, and then to spend
a week or two in studying up some
thing that will be worth while. The
University Club, the Pacific Club, and
other social clubs; the Masons, Elks,
knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, and
such fraternities should all be repre-
scented appropriately. The matter will
probably be brought formally to the
| attention of these societies and organi-