Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-17
Big Crowd at Heinie's Tavern
Devote Evening to Informal
HiIarity

For more than five hours, last night
HeiBie's Tavern rocked with hilaEity.
II was the high jfnks" Of the Homo
lulu Id Club, conceived as a fitting
farewell party for the club president.
W. r. Harrington, who leaves next
week for the mainland ON an extend
ed vocation.
The High Jfnkers knew neither
fear nor favor in Ger linking. Be-
fore the evening was through they
had exposed to alternately shuddering
and applauding spectators half doz-
en- grave scandals in the lives Of Homo
lulsns, had charged Harrington In par
ticular with grave and heinous Of
lenses, had tried him before a Jury OF
men and women who in advance de-
cided 20 call him guilty, and had final
ly let him on with solemn warnings
for the future.
And In token OF what the Ad Club
thinks Of its president dropping for
a moment the mock pomp and cere-
mony Of the court and putting aside
gaiety-the club presented its chief
with !. handsome gold watchfob where
on is engraved the emphatic motto Of
the Associated Advertising Clubs,
Truth. . Tom Sharp made the speech
Ia good one.
And In between and before and af-
ter the special stunts, there was rev.
elry by night. as poetic Charley Fra
zier remarked. Aided. abttt ted and en-
couraged by music Of all kinds, COM
mon and garden. plain, fancy, clas-
steal and otherwise, there was dane
ing galore, al fresco, ensemble and
a Ia carte. There were songs by the
leather-lunged AID Clubbers. There
was parading around the tables of fly
ing.squadrons Of merrymakers, out to.
chyte Gloom far to sea-and they sue
cee>led.
BIG crowa Out.
Heinie's big diningroom-by- the-sea
was crowded with gaiIy-ligfted tables
shortly after 7 o'clock, when the ar.
fair began. BY s II was still more
crowded. The Ad Clubbers, their
wives and sweethearts we're out In
force.
Matters progressed gaily but not
startlingly until about o'clock there
was sudden shout OF Extra Elk
tra!" and In rushed Star Bulletin news
boys with an extra which carried the
headlines in seven-c0lumn type aFar.
ringt0n Charged Embezzler." The ex.
ira told IN very black type how the
Ad Club president had embezzled Ad
Club funds-a 50-cent check being
cited. stolen ]. d. Leyenson's famous
unexpurgated and inexplicabie sigma
ture, and otherwise busted the law in
several placee
President Farfihgton. stunned with
horror at the expose. was not left long
in his chair at the table where he had
been peacefi1lIy albeit happily com.
porting himself. big copper w. H. /
Hutton on other d1I1 but Murphy,
sor" last night stalled across and
grabbed the president and yanked him
to the center OF the room In a min
ute the dining-ro0m had been convert
ed into court J. Morton Riggs took
the bench as Judge with Judge A. ID. |
Larnach as advisory associate. Tom
Sharp. called sharp Tom, was prose
cutting attorney. Harry Strange attor-
ney for the defense. Murphy" officer
OF the court, while Elmer Sehwarz-
berg, hidden under a huge and grin.
ming mask and bearing an enormous
executiOner's axe, strobe around threat
ening necks and appefites. Howard
Case, clerk Of the court and
Raymond c. Brown summoned
the Jury Mrs. Harrington was one Of
those called upon to pass on her hus-
bands guilt or innocence. Other men,