The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-09
To GIVE INVITATIONS
FOR REGATTA DAY
Boat Clubs Won't Keep Oper
House-Say Butters-in Crowd
Out Ones They Want.

The boat clubs have decided not to
keep open house on Regatta Day this
year. The Healanis are going to issue
invitations, in the form of little ribbon
badges of blue, which is the club color,
and the MyrtIes will probably send out
similar invites of red, which is the
Myrtle hue These badges will entitle
the wearers to entree at either club
house
Tom King of the Myrtle Club said
Yesterday that all the members would
be requested to send in the names at
once of all friends whom they wished
to invite, so that the invitations could
be got out in time, as Regatta Day
is only about a week off. Committees
of both clubs were dated to meet last
night, the Healanis said at their, and
the Myrtles said at their, house, to
agree on the proposition, but they
didn t get together. The Healanls
said Ray Reitow told them that he
would 90 to the Myrtle headquarters
first and reconcile Tom King and Bill
Lyle to the plan, and then delegation
from the Myrtle Club would cali upon
the Healanis to confer about it. Irwin
Spalding, who is one of the regatta
committee, was invited to the confab,
and he was the only one of the confer
ence committee to show up. 1t dldn t
much matter, however, as both clubs
seemed to favor the shutout policy,
and the Healanls SAID they were going
to abide by it whether the Myrtles did
or not
Tom King said that he was agreeable
to the plan, and the only objection That
, could be raised was that once before
when they tried to exclude the public
generally the merchants who contrib
uted to the fund to finance the affair
opposed the exclusion act, claiming thar
their contributions were public bene-
factions and they were net content to
have the funds used to promote private
entertainments. But, King said, that
was when Honolulu was not so populous
as it is now, and there WASH t the same
kind of a crowd to butt in early, gobbIe
ND all the feed and crowd the desired
people out ''What s the use of being
a member of a club,' he declared, - II
every time there is anything dong all
the riffraff Of the community IS allowed
lust as much privilege around the club
| house as the members?
All the crews say that heretofore
when the boat clubs have kept open
house on regatta day the hoodlums from
all over flock down to the clubhouses
for one grand feed. The kids sprawl
! around all over everything, punches of
half soused ones looking for trouble
come over and it generally ends up
with a rough house, so that the better
! class of Honolulu citizens don't care
to mix up.
Kenneth Brown said yesterday that
! one time when he rowed in the regatta
! dav races he was through about noon
and went into the clubhouse to get a
bite to eat. Everything was gone, he
/ said. and he saw a dirty kid digging
| ice cream out of the freezer with his
/ hands.
The clubs serve refreshments on re-
oatta dav to make it more Of a festive
occasion for their friends and, they de
clare. it is not got up for sweet eharl
tvs sake to feed all the hungry ones
in town. There is plenty Of room 1o'
everybody along the waterfront and OF
the different wharves. say the club men
and the public should be glad to leave
them their clubhouses 10 entertain Ihei'
! friends.