The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-08-05

down to a luau on the spacious lanai of
the Seaside Hotel last night where the,
competing crews in the transpacifcI
race were toasted and Toasted to their
hearts content.
Commodore Jaeger of the Hawaii
Yacht Club occupied the center seat o.
the center table. offering the first toast,
and VIII McInerny, who was RESPONSE
Bile for all the arrangements and who
didn't get all the credit that was com
ing to him as there wasn't time, was
the principal speaker of the evening,
The malihini crews attacked the
spread in the same heroic manner that
they sailed out of Pedro harbor on the
long cruise and with dozen anxious
hosts to a guest managed to dispose of
at least part of the Hawaiian delicacies
laid before them.
Commodore Jaeger introduced McIn.
erny who forthwith sailed into the as
sembled guests until the storm of APP
plause caused him to take a reef and
ship the oratory over to the other end
Of the table where Frank Thompson
was trying to illustrate the proper
manner of eating two-fnger poi to
Mollilouan.
Thompson promptly kicked because
McInerny had not left him anything to
say and apologized for being land
lubber by saying he was born that way,
He added that he had expected to see
something doing at the feast when he
first came down, but that after all it
reminded him of the Pacific Club.
Looking down the table, he observed
that Commodore Jaeger had supplied
them with everything except water of
which they had had a suficiency and
assumed that he had been chosen to sup
ply the wind of which they had had
none.
When he was invited he didn't know
that he was to speak, so he said, and
after this lame introduction, he started
in to roast Colonel Parker.
"'What do you know about ships7"
he asked me as we we're coming down
tonight when he heard that l was 60
ing to present the trophies and make
n speech [ said that l didn't know
ANYTHING at all; that l didn know
a pinnacle from barnacle, nor boz
line from bow line. He SAID that he
WASH t going to come then but after
wards his love of poi overcame his I'M
Willingness and here he is"
Then he called Captain Wilder of
the good ship Hawaii over, and present.
ed him with the trophy falling to the
winner of the race. ''I present this
to YOU in the name of the people whom
you have served so we'll"
Captain Wilder set the shining koa
bowl before his plate and made his
little speech which was full of deserved
compliments to the crews and the ships
with which he had competed.
He said that the Sweetheart, while
not new boat, had been altered in
hull and rigging until she was to all
purposes a new boat and also that the
Moililou had come directly to the start
ing line from the builders hands.
He compared this handicap under
which they labored with the similar one
under which the Hawaii sailed in her
first race now. with no chance of try
ing her out before the race.
Upon the completion of Captain Viii
der response Thompson arose again
to present the second trophy to Com
modore Smith of the Sweetheart.
"'There are some who say he said,
''that when Captain Cook came here we
dined on him. Since that time we have
progressed some in hospitality and now
you're dining on us. Now I've heard
of Cupid who deserted his Sweetheart
in midocean - and so forth and so
forth, until he took advantage of the
applause-punctured atmosphere to call
Commodore Smith up and present him
to the second trophy with a warm and
flowing testimonial to his proves as
a seaman, a good fellow and mar
whom Hawaii delighted to honor.
Thte Sweetheart's commodore stood
at his place for a few minutes look
ing at the shining koa and jockeyed fol
a start, but he could not get a fail
wind and had TO admit after awhile
that he couldn t find the words to ex
press his feelings. Which WASH u at al
necessary anyway, as they were per
fectly evident and made the lOca
yachtsmen feel good by acquaintinG
them with the fact that their efforts
were appreciated.
He finally got started and declared
that the best boat had won and tina
they would have been very much dis
appointed if it had not. He paid trib
ute to Hawaii IS hospitality and apollo
gized for the lack of it in southern
California which also was not necessar!
for Los Angeles is the warmestheartet
city in the country and Hawaii know
it. He added that down there the!
did not know what hospitality was
they didn t do it because they couldn
they didn't know how but they kney
how, now.
''Since he had seen Hawaiian hos
pitality he wanted a new word in tn
English to describe it because the oil
one was threadhare and worn out"
He concluded by saying that tn
,transpacifc race was the greatest zach
race that is ever sailed and that h
was sorry that out of the seve
Yachts entered and later augmented b
the MollilOu only three started. In
few years, he said, there would b
yachts from every yacht club on tn
Pacific Coast, many from the Atlanti
and even from over seas and in ou
time, too, which was warmly applaudeC
for the crews of thirty yachts can fin
places at the Hawaiian board,
After Kaai Is orchestra which wa
supplying the music of the evening ha
PLAYED a small selection, Commodor
Smith rosa oUain and asked nprmigsiO