Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-18
MAYOR FERNS
INAUGURAL BALL
new YEAR'SEYE
Mayor Ferns Inaugural Ball:

Mayor Fern inaugural BAH.
1t will. be danced on New Years
Eve on the spacious pavement along
Bishop Square, opposite the Young
Hotel. Under the warm mid-winter
sky of hawaii, with the balmy breezes
of Hawaii's perennial summer blow
ing, etc, Mayor Fern will lead the
grand march and other prominent
| city and territorial officers will join.
That is the plan now on foot by
the merchants association, which is
arranging for the big New Years Eve
celebration. Yesterday julius Unger,
who is in charge of arrangements.
conceived the idea of a dance on the
pavement, and this morning announce
ments were made that Mayor Fern
will be asked to lead the grand march
and that the big midwinter dance is
TO be called the Mayors Inaugural
Ball.
Not only would dance on the
pavement be moved feature in Ho-
nolulu and eminently suitable for a
carnival of mirth such as we will
have on this OCCASION" said MIR.
Unger this morning, but it will be
agreat piece of promotion work for
Hawaii. The fact that people can
dance in the open, here all the year
around will be spread all over the
world. People in the uttermost parts
of Milpitas and Madagascar and Tim
buctoo will hear with envy that in
Hawaii the stately waltz and the
blithesome two-step can be tripped
here at twelve o'clock, December 81,
with all the comfort and speed that
terpsichoreans display on the waxed
ballroom floors of New York, Lon
don or way points.
Mayor Fern is to be asked to lead
the march. The pavement will be
scrubbed clean and waxed, SO that
it's surface will be as easy to glide
upon as the ice Of old New England.
There will be music to set the feet
twinkling and lights to cheer the New
Years Eve merrymakers to the full
est extent"
Today the committee is sending out
the following letter to all the retail
merchants in town:
"Gentlemen:-At the meeting of
the directors of this association held
December a, 1912, it was unanimous
ly decided to take active steps to-
wards changing the public carnival
spirit from Christmas Eve to that of
New Years Eve, believing same to be
for the best interests of business and
all retail merchants in particular.
This being the first event in
which the Chinese population will
celebrate on this occasion, and the
fact that the Japanese have always
helped to celebrate, it rs deemed adj
visable by the directors of this as
ISOLATION that this, is a most oppor-
tune time to bring about this i'm
portant change. -
'As the previous demonstrations as
carried on in the shopping districts
of the city on Christmas Eve have
proven to be a great menace to retail
merchants.
"To aid in bringing about this i'm
portant change, it is already arranged
by the committee in charge, for a
public concert, lasting from 800 p.
m. until midnight, and the Alexander
Young Hotel has promised to make
an elaborate electrical display. The
merchants association earnestly re-
questS Tie merchants 10 refrain from
selling confetti and serpentine until
after Christmas, and to illuminate
their stores on New Years Eve With
the above aim, the merchants assocfa-
ton respectfully ask the cooperation
of every business house, and all in
diViduals in general TO make the oc-
casion one of long remembrance
"(Signed( N. B. YOUNG,
Assistant Secretary"