The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-31
.ELRS' CARNIVAL
SPIRIT GROWING
Something Of the Program for the
Occasion, Which VIII Be
Best Ever.

Some folks abroad seem to have an
idea that every day Ia n holiday In
Honolulu, probably because We arc In
the semitropics and eternally kissed by
summary hreezes; but such Is not the
case. In Honolulu there is just as much
spirit Of hustling In proportion TO the
size Of the city, as there Is anywhere
else in the world, and all work hard
enough to really appreciate true holi-
day whom IL comes.
Christmas, Fourth Of July, Kameha-
meha Day and Washington's Birthday
are the greatest Of the local holidays,
and tho greatest Of these is Washing.
ton s Birthday; and the reason Of this
is that on Washington's Birthday, not
only the world-famed Floral Parade is
in progress, but the Elks' Carnival as
well.
The Elks, hustlers that they are, start
in with the festivities on the night be.
fore Washington's Birthday, February
81, with the opening of the greatest
carnival held anywhere in the expansive
Pacific waters.
How 1t win Be Done.
And the opening of the carnival this
year will be rendered especially inter
mated, that President Taft will open
the celebration by putting his honorable
finger on an electric button in the
White House, in the City OF Washing
ton, at such time as will correspond
to about seven O'Clock in the evening
here; which pressure of the button will
send along the telegraph lines of the
Western Union system a spark which
viii notify the cable operator in San
Francisco, who will flash the intelli
gence to Honolulu over the system Of
the Commercial Pacific Cable Company,
which will in turn be sent like lightning
to the Alakea wharf, where the show is
to be held, and then the thousand elec-
trio lights will be turned on and Der
ger 3 band win play a snecial march,
composed bv BERGER himself.
On the following day the Elks win
figure in the Floral Parade with float
depicting the birth of the Stars and
Stripes, presenting a truly patriotic and
inspiring spectacle, with drum corps
and half a dozen other attractive fea-
lures in their section of the immense
floral procession.
viii Keep It Up.
On the evening of February 90, Wash.
ingtons Birthday the Elks will again
hold forth with the continuation of
their carnival at the Alakea wharf.
1t must not be forgotten that on the
opening night there is to be great
mask ball, when dancing, en- masque,
will occur in the attractive galleries
of the big Alakea shed; the dancers
being able to behold below them the
fourteen remarkable sideshows Of the
main floor, Gus Murphy being the chief
of the side show committee,
Not that the masked dancers in the
galleries are going to be able to see
everything that goes on in the side
shows beneath, but they will be above
the side shows and conscious of the
fact that all these good things are
going on beneath them. Tickets to the
masked ball are to be $3.50 each. ad-
hitting one person. this price including
admission to the building.
On the second night there is to be
dance, not a masked ball, but dance,
where the admission, including entrance
to the building, will be but one dollar.
Attractive Side Shows.
! Two of the most attractive and fas-
chatting features of the side show will
be the automobile and popular lady con.
] tests. You go to the country store
booth and pay one dollar for a chance
Mt new 1911 model Overland automo.
bile, and you have as much chance as
anybody else to obtain for the insig-
nifieant sum of one dollar an automobile
which will endure for years and which
will afford you great deal Of pleasure
for long time.
| In voting for the most popular lady,
you take votes at so much per, and
/ it is a nominal fee of few cents. for
the purpose of sending the winning
member of the fair sex, whomever she
may be, to San Francisco and return
on vacation trip, with two Weeks
stop Mt the Hotel Stewart, without any
charge to herself. These two features
are exciting great deal of attention.
There are many more pleasant and
exciting features of the carnival; vau-
deville shows, hula dancers, geisha girls,
the Apologize Court, and many others.
Already are Elks flags for sale at
the stores, and the carnival spirit is
even more evident everywhere than are
the flags or other outward material
signs of the great show, which is soon
to be produced by the Elks.
The Elks are doing this stunt, for
the second time in two years, for the
/ purpose Of building themselves a fine
new building on the site of the present
| Y. M. @. A. Not only this, they are
booming Honolulu and advancing pro
motion and giving thousands of people
the best of entertainment at reasonable
/ fees.