The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-22

writer, who made the round trip on
the last world-encircling cruise of the
S. s. Cleveland as official historian
of the tour, has begun to get some of
his impressions in print in "syndic-
ate" form in various mainland news
papers. AS to Hawaii, his taste seems
to have centered largely IN the eXpur-
gated hula arranged by the Hawaii
Promotion Committee for the benefit
of the passengers of the Cleveland,
for the one article which has thus
far appeared from his pen deals al
most entirely with that festive enter
tainment
1t is currently whispered however,
that Mr.. Forbes was not at all salts
fed with the Promotionists' hula, and
as a consequence managed to hunt
one out for himself and a few of his
companions-one that more nearly
conformed to the average malihinis
ideas of what hula is, or should be.
The article in question is illustrat-
ed with a cut of Madame Puahi, Ho-
nolulu's chief professional hula pur-
veyor, together with number of
pictures captioned TYPES of Hula
Dancers" Mr. Forbes story follows
A week out from Yokohama and on
the way to Honolulu, the big Cleve-
land was being showed steadily
through a choppy sea that would have
made an ordinary ship hop about like
an "Old Hickory" farm wagon bump
ing over road of loose cobblestones,
From some cavern of the winds off
the port side came an infant gale,
testing it's strength against the steel
plates and making the promenade
deck careen at times to such an eX-
tent that pedestrians making turn
across ship had all the sensations of
running down hill. The Lady Chaser
ESQ named because of his principal
occupation afloat and ashore) was
! promenading with the Porch Lounger,
a wealthy lady of the party.
At one of the turns, both came
down the hill like Jack and JILL and
brought up sharply against the rails
what perfectly jolly ROLL" ex-
claimed the Lounger, gasping for
breath.
There seems to be a list to star
board, said the Lady Chaser, who
had been impressed with that nautical
phrase in one of the magazines.
Surely you do not mean that my
weight caused it,"
"By no means" said the Chaser
TT may be due to that coal that we
took on at Nagasaki.
Wrong again!" called out the Nye
Humorist, who often said near-funny
things after carefully working them
out in his stateroom.
Then WHAT" demanded the Chaser.
THE list is due to the weight of
the come-on literature piled up in the
chief stewards warehouse"
"Where'd he get it?" T.
Hawaii promotion committee"
What is that - an examining
board?" asked the Lounger.
mot exactly explained the Nye
Humorist. 1T is a crowd of Homo
lulu gentlemen selected because they
have strong lungs, and it is their job
to yell about the glories of Hawaii, to
yell so loudly that everybody afloat
on the Pacific shall hear, and then to
keep on yelling. In reality, the name
ought to be Hawaii com-motion COM
mittee."
81 think have heard of it before"
said the Chaser.
Both before and behind" said the |
N: H, "If you haven't, you better see
an ear doctor. They began the joyful |
chorus when we were at Singapore
and the only intermissions since have !
been for the purpose of refilling the
lungs Didn't you hear the announce
ments at the close of the ball last
night-three days out from Honulu-
LUZ"
mo; what were they?"
Wireless from the H. p. C.-Wel.
come to Honolulu! Another wireless
from Promotion'-Elks of Honolulu
preparing a great feast for the ant
Tered herd on the Cleveland. Another
Shriners on the Cleveland
requested to wire number will accept
hospitality of Honolulu shrine. An
other-How many tickets at the opera
house shall we reserve for Cleveland ii
party? All this three days out at sea,
mind you!"
But let us drop the rest of the con-
versation into the Pacific and skip
along to the story AS soon as the
Cleveland had been sighted off Dia-
mond Head, the members of the ~ P.