The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-02-24


the great gold key of the city of Ho-
nolulu to Imperial Potentate Fred A.
Hines yesterday afternoon at tile Sea-
side Hotel, in the presence of all the
visiting Shriners and local fez-wearers,
the simple action was a linking of hands
across the seas, for as Imperial Poten-
tate Hines is sovereign among his own
powerful people, no less is Mayor Jo-
seph Fern ruler in the Little Island,
the only mayor of the Pacific. The act
was greeted with applause, and for the
time being there were just two big men
at that festive gathering-the potentate
and his honor.
| If Imperial Potentate Hines became
the lion of the visitors among the peo-
pie of Honolulu, Mayor Fern leaped
into instant popularity with the fez-
wearers from the mainland There was
eordiality expressed on both sides,
and that one little act of the transfer
of the golden key Of the city of Homo
lulu, decorated with the colors of the
Mystic Shrine, has done wonders in
making fast friends for Hawaii among
those who look to Allah for words of
wisdom.
Out there at the Seaside Hotel, on
the spot where the royal Kamehameha,
the Napoleon of the Pacific, was once
wont to hold his court, when the beau
tiful yellow and red feather cloals were
the symbols of Hawaiian royalty, just
as the same colors are today the symbols
of Shrinedom; where thousands of war
canoes once lined the entire shore Of
| the crescent bay of Waikiki; where,
| beneath the magnificent fronded cocoa
nut palms, the grass houses of the king
and his chiefs reposed, and where the
| king took his ease and held great feasts
| to the accompaniment of the dance and
athletic games, and where even today
| there is still the grass house of Kameha-
meha ", the Shriners of the mainland
with their own potentate, mingled with
/ those of Aloha Temple yesterday after
noon, and the oldtime native feast, the
/ Hawaiian dance and the athletic accom-.
| plishments of canoe and surfboard rid
ing were repeated.
It surely is a coincidence that more
than a century ago the king of the
islands ruled there, clothed in his red
4 and yellow feather cloak, and that yes
terday a potentate, draped with the
same cclors, should preside at a great
feast, the like of which has not often
been seen beneath the cocoanuts of that
1 Lsefn
] ocean Looked Fine - From Ashore
| At two clock automobiles dashed up
to the hotel and deposited loads OF
fezzed people, men and women, all gay
and happy and the embodiment of care
free life. All was yet strange to the
: visiting men and women, and they saw
many strange things out there. But
chief of their delights was to view the
ocean from terra frma and to look for
ward to dip in that same sea, with
the temperature nearly eighty, the ali
and water as warm as if it were mid
summer, instead of winter, with its frost
and snow, as they knew it only a weel
or so ago.
Scores of people were gathered in the
/ grounds and in the shade of the big
trees, with the Hawaiian band and
iKaai g quintet of Hawaiian singers
playing when the reception was held
/ by the ladies of Aloha Temple for the
visiting Shriners and their ladies.
In the receiving line, with Imperial
Potentate Hines and Mrs. Hines, were
Mrs. James s. MeCandless, Mrs. M. q
Grossman. Mrs. Robert Levers, Mrs. @
B Wood and Mrs. O. G Bockus 1t wal
Il merry line OF people VINO passed ~
review before the receiving line, and
i as soon as the reception was over al
ewes we're turned toward the screened
space under the trees, where seven long
] tables, each covered with a napery o.
fern and ii leaves, were set with the
dishes SO well known to the Hawaiian
feast.
There were bowls of poi; dishes con
tanning opihis, delicacy Of the sea
llimu; pig cooked in ii leaves, smoking
from the imu, where hot rocks had
cooked the flesh to a turn. There wer'
many little dishes, unknown TO the Wis
itors, although some averred their be
lief they were being treated to frieas
seed Newfoundland, but everyone tool
at once to the many fruits Of the Is
lands.
This space, set apart for the luau
was enclosed IN stoekade Of pain
branches, artfully laced together, form
! ing a splendid green wall. A booth
} raised high above the ground, composed
entirely OF palm branches and decorated
PILES cUReD M 8 70 n DAYS.