Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-03
JOURNEY Of CONGRESSIONAL PARTY
FILLED WITH HAPPY CAMARADERIEI
Tpperay Adapted For Occasion BY Representative cony
Many Cities and Towns Along Route Travelled BY Party

people of every community towards
Mr. Cannon. Kind words. hearty hand
shakes, compliments and well wishes
have been showered upon him and he
has received them all with show
| ing of appreciative kindness and mod
esty. Some one of the party asked
him if he did not find people in all
parts of the world who knew him
Yes" he said. Pm pretty well known.
The cartoonists have helped get peo-
pie acquainted with me and then, you
know, I'm such an old sinner that pref
ty nearly everybody knows something
bad about me-" ....5 -.z
SAN FRANCISCO HoSPITA6CE.
San Francisco speeded up to its
highest gear in entertaining the Con-
gressional visitors during the day and
a half of their stay. Every hour
brought some new sensation in the
sightseeing line. Early in the morning
after the party arrived a trip about
the bay was taken on the "Slocum.
the chaperones and cicerones of the
party being Representatives Julius
Kahn and John l. Nolan. Commission
er A. Caminetti, assisted by a Ha-
waiian committee consisting of Chief
Justice A. G.. NJ. Robertson. F. w.
MacfarIane. A.. y. Campbell, H. G. Riy-
enburgh and Mr.. Brecknam. The party
returned from the cruise in time to be
the guests of the San Francisco Com
mercial Club at luncheon attended
by several hundred business men OF
the city. =.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon was the star Of
the function. He was the last speaker,
but hundreds of the business men stay
ed on long after they should have re-
turned to their offices in order to hear
him. He was cheered to the echo both
on entering and when leaving the din
ing room and at the close of his speech
when he declared that, while both
parties made mistakes, the country is
ruled by law instead of by revolution.
After the luncheon the party was
whirled in automobiles, not jitneys, to
the exposition grounds where the
United States troops stationed at the
exposition passed in review and
smart military band, after the review.
led the party through the various
magnificent courts and along the at.
tractive main street of the Zone. Pa.
mama and the various State buildings
were visited and the grounds were
left just in time to rush the visitors
back to the Palace hotel to dress for
a banquet given them at seven o'clock
in the New York building by Senator
James ID. Phelan.
GREAT BANQUET HELD.
The Senator's guests numbered over
one hundred and fifty and included the
entire membership of the Congress.
sional party, President and Mrs. Moore
of the exposition, Major General and
Mrs. Arthur Murray, Mr.. and Mrs. La.
mar, Mrs. F. G. Sanborn and others
connected with the exposition. While
coffee was being served short ad-
dresses We're made by Senator Phelan,
Mayor Rolph, President Moore, and
Representative Scott Ferris, Of Okla
homa .' -. ....
From the banquet hall in the New
York building the party was escorted
by the host and his friends to the Cali
fornia building to attend the reception
and bali given in honor of the Con-
gressional visitors. Here until mid
night music arose with its yoluptuous
swell" and four thousand Californians
and their guests from every part Of
the globe danced or looked on until
after midnight. -. So