The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1915-05-01
Maui Will
Be Ready
For Party
Valley Isles Welcome Will Be Al
That It Should Be.-Party Keeps
On Observation-Disclosures Dinner not
A Luau.

The latest figures from Honolulu in
dicate that the congressional party
will number 160 persons. Also the
general committee, headed by Secre-
tary Thayer, is up against a proposi-
tion as to how $4,000, appropriated
by the legislature is going to cover all
expenses, which even now loom up to
the startling sum of $45,000. This
matter has not as yet been solved,
up to latest advices. However, it is
stated that no Honolulu ladies are to
be allowed to join in the tour of the
islands, and that the list of escorts
from Honolulu is to be held down to
the lowest possible number of official
personages.
Local plans for entertaining the
congressional party on next Thurs
day and Friday, when it will visit
Maui, are being definitely shaped up,
and should go through without a hitch.
Chairman d. H. Case, Secretary d. C..
Lindsay, and possibly other members
of the Maui chamber of commerce
committee, expect to go to Honolulu
in time to meet the visitors and re-
turn with them. By the time they
arrive at Kahului on Thursday morn
ing, every one in the party will have
been assigned definitely to some Maui
home or hotel for entertainment. They
will be provided with cards beari1 D.
the names of their hosts, and will be
taken in charge and to breakfast at
the homes assigned, as soon as the
ship docks. This will probably be
about 1880 o'clock.
To See Homesteads.
At IL o'clock the visitors are to
leave Wailuku depot by train for Hal
ku, where subcommittee composed
of pineapple men and homesteaders
will entertain with lunch to be serv-
ed in one of the big new warehouses
of the American Can Company. There
will probably be few short addresses
made at this lunch, which is to be
followed by an inspection of the
homestead district (weather and
roads permitting) and of the cannery
and can making factory. At 4 o'clcSk
the visitors will return to Puunene,
except those who wish to visit Halea-
kala, who will proceed direct from
Haiku by automobiles.
Puunene Thursday Evening.
A special committee at Puunene is
arranging for an attractive program
for Thursday evening, which will in
clude some athletic exhibitions, among
which will be a swimming race in
which Duke Kahanamoku will star
General Reception Friday Morning.
]. w. Kalua, T. B. Lyons, and ID. H
Case have been named committee tc
look after decorations nrd seats at the
court house grounds, Ngaiiuku, where
a general reception will be held be
ginning at 10 o'clock Friday morning
Judge Mckay, R. A. Wadsworth, ant
d. H. Case are also committee tC
arrange for the lunch to be served il
the armory at noon.
Not Luau at Lahaina.
The committee at Lahaina, which
has charge of the final features of the
entertainment, has entered a denia
that the feed under the banyan tree!
at Lahaina, on Friday evening, is t.
be a luau. 1--WE do not believe tina
we should try to feed the visitors on ;
purely Hawaiian MENU" stated Georg'
Freeland. of the Lahaina committee
for the reason that few malihinis ap
preciate all of the luau delicacies. Be
sides they will get plenty of luau
elsewhere. We do propose serving ;
mighty fine dinner. and to include al
~ any Hawaiian dishes as eXperienc,
has shown will be relished. But it il
a mistake to call it a luau. Tha
isn't our idea at all"
The plan is to take the congressmel
and their wives to Lahaina about tn,
middle of Friday afternoon, having
them visit Lahainaluna, and otLe
points of interest in the vicinity be
fore dinner time Following the din
ner there will probably be a short pre-
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the Big Island, at 10 o'clock.