Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-24

cTS- Ou get up IN the morning anC
buy a paper Price enc cent Before
you have finished reading it along
comes a later edition. Another cent
and so on in an endless chain. II
you are news hungry all you have
time TO do all day and all night is
to read the newspapers. After q
while you get wise and have regular
then you have an hour or two day
TO tend to business
The convention was held in the vari
Gus buildings of the University oil
Pennsylvania. 1t was expected t!at
there would be large inspirational
value in holding the meetings in a
big university founded by Benjamin
Franklin, but / think this was a mis-
take. The university grounds were
too far away from our hotels and
the buildings too scattered when we
got there, so too much time was lost
However, we attended the general SEES
sion in the big auditorium and lat
er went to the exhibit in Houston
Hail. We looked in vain for the Ho'
nolulu Star-Bulletin exhibit such as
was shown at Toronto, but the whole
exhibit was not up to the Toronto
standard. E".'
In the Zig Pageant.
Monday evening we prepared for
the big pageant. 1t is said that this
pageant was the largest and finest
ever held in Philadelphia. can well
believe it, for il was mighty i'm
pressive affair. Our float consisted
of beach scene on which was grass
house and in the water was an out.
rigger canoe. In the canoe were the
Hawaiian singers, and some of the
delegates with pretty Philadelphia
girls we're seated in the grass house.
1t was quite an effective piece. Pre-
ceding the feat were two automobiles
containing the ladies of our delega-
ton who were entertained by Wich-
man, Won Hamm, DIR. Anderson, Brasch
and Levenson. Marching in front of
the two autos were ten Philadelphia
maidens wearing hula skirts over
their own skirts and grass anklets
covering their shoes. They all were
dark haired beauties and wore their
hair streaming down their backs with
Ieis around the crowns and shoulders.
The girls marched two abreast and
between each pair Of girls marched
one of our delegates. marched sihgly
at the rear of the marchers, so as
to see IL any one gave out, in which
case gave the weary one a spell
in one of the autos. So there were
sixteen of us marching. We tramped
six miles and it took us two hours
and half to march the full dis
lance. Yes, we were pretty tired, but
our stunt received much applause, SO
we felt well paid for the fatigue and
trouble.
The next morning some of our par.
ty departed and the rest of us at.
tended such sessions as we were most
interested in.
Hawaii News In Public Ledger.
1t was mighty fine to see the Ha-
waiian news every day in the Public
Ledger. The Ledger people gave it
special display. We got great deal
of publicity considering that the con.
venticn, even of seven thousand PEG.
pie, was only a passing incident in
Philadelphia. We were really surpris-
ed to see how much interest was tax.
en- in the convention, however, by the
people. Between 100000 and 100000
were out to see the parade Monday
night r.
Thursday afternoon all those of our
delegation that remained were pres
ent to receive the Boston mileage ban.
ner which was presented to us with
great applause. We had no very close
competition. At this meeting Presi.
dent Houston was reelected and while
he was receiving an ovation our Ia
dies came forward and placed sew.
eral strings of leis around his neck.
Wilson Among the Decorated.
They also decorated John Wana.
maker at the Wanamaker reception,
Cyrus Curtis and President Wilson.
They made a real hit with the pre-.
sentation of these leis. At the last
meeting before the convention broke
up we distributed the leis furnished
us by the Promotion Committee.
They were eagerly sought after and
almost caused a stampede. We had
about 1900 but needed three or four
times that many r.. p
did not stay for the Thursday
night water pageant nor did go to
Atlantic city with the delegates, but
left the Desha boys, the Andrewses
and Levenson to finish up. The conyen'
ton was a great success and the Ho'
nolulu delegation was well pleased
at its part IN it. We voted for Hughes
mo, I'm ahead of myself--we voted
for ST. Louis as the convention city
for next year, again demonstrating
the Honolulu AID Clubs ability to pick
winner. Speaking of Hughes, / feel
sure that the people at large wanted
Teddy, but evidently the politicians
didn't-so they took Hughes. / was in
a picture show the other night when
Hughes photo was flashed on the
screen. At first there was no ap-
plause-no one thought of it-then
somebody woke up to the fact that
Hughes is the Republican candidate
and there was a good conservative
lid - oIanDiu0 Ruf Whon Taddy's