The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-18
.ELKS PLAN
4 MEMORIAL
Annual Service to Honor Dead
Will Be Held Early in
December.

The annual memorial service of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks will be held in the operahouse
on Sunday, December 4 A special eff.
fort is being made this year to have
the service eclipse those of previous
years in point of attraetiveness and
impressiveness, The music will be bet.
ter than usual, and the program will
include the names of Professor and
Mrs. ingalls,, the latter having prom
Used to render a violin solo, accompanied
on the piano by hem husband. Mrs. In.
gals recently returned from Germany
and France, in which countries she has
been taking finishing course in music.
1t is probable that double quartet
will figure in the program.
The eulogy will be delivered by Judge
A. G. NJ. Robinson, but the orator has
not been determined on as yet
Z. A. Douthitt of the Elks' memorial
service committee has been trying, to
secure Judge Parsons of IIilo to deliver
the address, but unfortunately the lat
ter IS duties will prevent him coming
to Honolulu for the purpose. The fol.
lowing interesting correspondence re-
lates to the matter;
The Invitation.
Exalted Ruler Douthitt's letter to
Judge Parsons follows;
."'As,you know, the annual memorial
service of the Elks will be held on the
first Sunday in December. know that
you will think that l have a consider
able amount of nerve in addressing you
this letter in connection Herewith.
am member of the memorial service
committee, and to me has been allotted
the duty OF procuring an orator for
that day. Your name suggested itself
to my mind, and when l stated this
fact to the other members of the COM
mittee it met with unanimous approval.
Would you not kindly consent to de-
liver the grafton for our lodge on that
day2 l trust that you may see your
way clear to accede to this request,
for, as you know, we are endeavoring
to make our annual memorial services
feature in this community, and l
venture to state that nothing has had
greater tendency to lift the tone of
the order in the estimation of the COM
munitv than these services. should you
decide to accept, you could leave Hilo
on Friday and return on the following
Tuesday, and, as is customary in lodges
on the mainland, we would be very
pleased to defray your expenses. -
.,,, Gould Not Accept.
Judge Parsons's letter to Mr.. Douthitt
follows:
" Arrangements for the coming term
of court make it impossible for me to
leave Hilo during the first week in De-
eember Under the cumbersome statute
now IN force, we have been without n
jury since the adjournment of the May
term and have been unable to dispose
of any matters in term since last Au-
gust, when the useless uonokaa term
was adjourned.
"The trial jury has been called
for the 2Sth instant, and the present
indications are that it will be engaged
several weeks in the trial of long
delayed cases.
81 hope to be in Honolulu, after the
urgent work of the term is finished and
to express personally to you my appre-
citation of the honor conferred by your
invitation and my regret at not being
able to accept your offer.
% Whoever is chosen will have diff
ficult task to perform, and one likely to
cause him much embarrassment, in ad-
dressing an audience composed largely
of people who listened, two years ago,
to your own excellent Grafton.
"With assurance of my fraternal re
gard, / am, sincerely,
"OHARLISS i. PARSONS"
The Elks' memorial service is ex-
tremely beautiful, and its purpose is to
pay tribute to the memory O. the de-
parted brothers of the order. The serv-
ice is held every year on the first Sun-'
day in December, and the occasion has
come to be one of the annual features
of Honolulu life. The service is always
largely attended, and nothing has had
greater tendency to elevate the tone of
the order and to let the general public
know what Elkdom really means than
these annual services.
The fraternal side Of Elkdom is omni
present, but there is a serious side,
which finds appropriate expression in
the memorial service. The keynote of
the order is charity, and how well it is
lived up to no man knows, for no Elk
tells Suffice it to say that at the sea-
sons of Thanksgiving and Christmas the
Elks of the United States combine to
relieve poverty and suffering wherever
found, whether in the family Of an Elk
or elsewhere.
The annual Elks' carnivals given in
Honolulu are for the purpose of obtain
ing funds to erect an Elks' lodge which
shall be a credit, not only to the order,
but to the town, and wherein the worthy
principles of Elldom may be better OBJ