The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-02
MANY TREAD HOT
SANDS OF ARABY
"MangIed Remains" Forced to
Eat and Worst Of All See
Vaudeville Show.

(From Sundays Advertiser.)
They trod the burning sands,
The blistering, red-hot sands,
The Arabian Hawaii sands
The King street-capitol sands,
The Alakea-Beretania sands,
And other sands.
No one claims that the above is
poetry. Neither does anyone claim
that the Shriners are poetic. They
marched yesterday, and took new
Arabs across the deserts and got their
shoes full of sand, and their back fuu
of welts and their stomachs full of eats
and drinks. That's quite combina.
tion, to be sure; but it is a straight
proposition compared to the Shriners
of Aloha Temple themselves as they
appeared yesterday afternoon upon the
streets of this city.
They made great show and many
hundreds of the good people of Homo
lulu, without paying cent for it, look
ed on and laughed and wondered. Some
of them are wondering yet. Some of
the Shriners are not even wondering
just now for the banquet and vaude-
vile which put the climax upon the
day was long drawn out and very
merry.
New Bedlouins.
The occasion for it all was the bring
ing into the tribe of dozen bedouins
who never knew what it was to mean
der barefooted over the desert with the
sun at $50 degrees on the pavement.
All the crowds watching the caravan
pitied those poor fellows being dragged
to worse than slaughter. Some of the
units of the crowds were foreigners,
Japs, Chinese and the like, and it was
no wonder that they figured the be-
turbaned host as some body of invad-
ers fresh from some fantastic land
where people go in for head decorations
that make the Fiji adornments mere
skullcaps in comparison.
Great Day for shriners.
But it was great day for Shrine
dom. The parade was all that it could
be and little more. 1t was not mile
long, thank goodness; but it made up
in other ways for it's abbreviatior at
one end.
The police, mounted and unmounted,
led. Then came the Hawaiian Band,
as good as ever band was upon the
Sahara. Then followed the officers of
the lodge-'and Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed as one of these. -
Never. Solomon would look like a
chimney sweep alongside Imperial Po-
tentate Hodgins yesterday. At the last
end came the Arab Patrol-they that
will represent Honolulu at Los Angeles
in red and blue and green and other
colors. They were under the immediate
command of Colonel Sam Johnson.
Line of March.
The line of march was from X. of
p. hall down Fort street to King, to
tania and back to the lodge rooms. In
King street, in front of the capitol, the
Arab Patrol was put through drill
that surprised the natives and some out
siders. The drill was truly good and
the onlookers were not fully satisfied
with a twenty minutes entertainment.
Liberal applause greeted the patrol
upon the conclusion of the lance drill
WibhOuJ COUuulduub. IL WAS T..
1t would seem that vanity even stalks
barefooted upon the desert, for upon
the steps of the building from whence
emanate the laws of the Territory, the
Shriners formed step above step that
their faces and coats of many colors
might be photographed. Drillmaster
Wilder of the Boy Scouts overlooked
the Arabians for camera purposes and
three distinct shots were fred at the
big group without a Shriner winking.
The camera stood the test wonderfully.
Rock for Theirs.
Immediately upon returning to the
camping place of the tribe the cap
tured bedouins were put to the rock
and the sand dunes for blocks about
resounded with tremendous cries of
"Allo.ma-nah, Jig-is-up," which in
plain Webster means, ''help, police,
help!" But there was no response
from civilization. Those who heard
knew the victims had walked deliber-
ately into the trap and that swift death
would be too good for them. Not a
finger was lifted nor voice raised in
behalf of the anfortunates. Yet, Homo
lulu will subscribe twelve or fifteen
way on the other side of the Pacific!
List of wounded.
Perhaps this list, obtained from one
of the torturers, now on his way hot
foot to Mecca to make atonement,
should be published in the obituary
column, but as there is no proof that
they are all dead it may be inserted
here: w. M. Giffard pounded full of
SANDY, J. H. Fiddes Compelled to eat
three camels on the hump-shelD, James
D. Dougherty, Collaboration who de-
manded the protection of the Palmyra
Island fleet (tramped upon by desert
folk and made to say Amen y, Frank
Damon (forced to carry the pyramids
from wherever they were and throw
them at the dagos in Tripoli), DIR. J.
M. Thompson (given large doses OF his
own medicine and forced to chew the
bills for same), e. H. Ehrhorn (de-
horned and nroddad with ifN pauma 81 or