The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-11
AD CLUB TO GIVE
BIG SHOW IN H|LO
People Of Crescent City Intend To
Make Things Mighty Pleasant
For HonoIuIanS

The AID club has some great things
W it's sleeve for the county fair and
civic convention week in Hilo next
month. Just what they are is going to
e held very close secret until the
time comes to surprise the people of
he Big Island city, and the darker the
secret the greater the surprise. The
club is not revealing anything but to
say that there will be four hours of
run provided.
All this and a lot more was thrashed
out at dinner given by the club on
the sixth floor of the Alexander Young
t!ot"l last night, with Wallace X. Far
rington, president of the club, in tn
chair. For the first time the club let
town the bars, and the women friends
and relatives Of the members were very
much in evidence. The music commit,
tee had made arrangements for a most
Successful program, and when at the
last moment it was found that what
Mr.. Harrington called the "wind
piano. was not to be had, an emer
gcncy call was sent out with excellent
results.
DlnneT 10 map campaign
The dinner was given with the
aN"""d object Of mapping out a cam
PulBn for working up the Ad club show
at HIlo ON the Friday of civic cOnven.
ti"n week, but it was some little time
brf"r" the meeting got down to this
business, IN" reports of the membership
and roads committees taking up the
setter purt of half an hour.
J.. ". dc Nis-NOrtOn, chairman Of
the clNIr convention committee of the
Ad club, WAS finally called upon for
his statement of the aims of the meet
ny He pointed out the necessity for
getting down to hard work at once, as
n" TIM" is dwindling rapidly, and IL
great amount Of work remains to be
done if tn" club is to be properly rep,
resented at Hllo in September.
Mr.. Il" Nis.Norton outlined in detail
N" advantages of the trip to the Hilo
lvlr convention, stating that the
members Of the AID club will be the
guests Of Hlo in trip along the
HamnhuH coast and later to the Vol
"ano Of kllnura. The speaker stated
that the aim of the club Is to give
HI" an entertainment that will surpass
'nythrng the Crescent City has ever
seen; that the Second City will put it
self out t. entertain the visiting dele
gates, and it is to be the purpose of
he Honolulu visitors to put themselves
'ut q little more, if possible, to enter
ain their hosts.
1Olored Soldiers May Go
l. l.. hoped that the band Of tn"
twenty firth Infantry will be able TO
D; k" the trp with the Admen in II
'"d\. and Mr. de- Vis.Norton stated
hat IL" Twenty fifth Infantry can put
III "u" O. the best "coon" shows in
h" N"'I" II will, therefore, be ar
rngrd, il possible, FIR the soldIe.s to
ting" popular progIa1 as part Of
i"n"Inlu : entertainments The speak
r cou'Iudrd with Il plea for all the
poets Of the Adj club to bend their
h"''> I" writing topical songs for the
"r' SION Of the big visit to the Hllo
I'VE clLN,utIun.
Nj. y" NIs horton was followed by
Z Cannon, acting manager of tn"
lI"n"Iu l'ns Company, with n state
lent Of what tn" music committee has
friendly accomplished in the way Of
"undIhE ~ the tnl"nt of the club for
he Ia" show 1T HilO. Cher speakers
"ll"Mrd Nr Cannon. including Carlos
rr"r"s and Nril Slattrry.