The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-07-14
RETAIL MERCHANTS
ETODECORATE.
F()RNExT Carnival
Boards Moral and Financial Sup
port Pledged For Great q
Festival in 1917 +
DISPLAY LAST SPRING
,~s DECLARED DlSGRACEFUL
Immense Crowd Is Expected To
Be In Honolulu During Next ''''
Big Celebration ..

Two hours Of lively discussion of tn,
matter of street decorations for tn,
l917 Carnival by the board Of reta;
trades, yesterday afternoon, brough
out two Propositions on which opinion
seemed to be unanimous, the first be
ing that Honolulu's showing in I'll,
past, especially last year, was dis
gracefub and the second that for tn,
next Carnival the city will do some rea
decorating. The final action takei
was the adoption of a motion TO civ,
the moral and financial support of tn,
board to any plan that may be adopteC
1or a uniform decoration scheme.
II was brought out very forcibly in
the long discussion that in the carni
walls OF the past four or Eve years tn,
merchants of Honolulu have failed X
come through on the decoration propo
sition. E. A. Berndt, for years a mem
Der Of the Carnival and promotion
committees, stated what he considered
to be the Carnival committee attitude
on .the subject.
Cooperation Is Wanted.
He said that the managers of the
Carnival, could not successfully handle
the decoration problem.
1.-THE Carnival committee he said
wants to enlist the services of the
chamber of commerce and this subsidi,
nry body thereof for the planning of
real decorations for the next Carnival.
Honolulu ought to be ashamed of the
showing made last year.
I'VE want the town decorated, but
possibly there win be no decoration
eommittee of the Carnival organiza.
tiCn this year. We believe that in or.
dcr to do, the decorating the merchant
Should agree upon some plan and back
it up. -,
1--WE do not want to repeat the side
show of last year, aud unless this board
of retail merchants will back propo.
sition for decorations there win -iot be
any better showing. The Carnival
committee has tried TO handle the mat.
ter, and can not do, il. In the coming
Carnival season there are going to be
larger crowds here than at any Car
nival we have held. The steamship
companies, hotels and railroads know
this. We ought to be ready for the
crowds. I think that the board of re-,
tail trades can better handle the mat
tor than the Carnival committee.
Matson Line Is Preparing.
Z. THAT the travel here is expected to
he larger than ever is shown by news
our firm has just received that the
e. Matson company is working three
shIfts a day on its new steamer for the
Hawaiian, service, in order to get it
ready for the expected business
The discussion was started by an ex.
hibitiOn by William B. Webster of q
drawing of a decoration plan which he
wanted the board to endorse. 1t pro-
vided for electric and bunting decora-
, ti0ns in the central blocks. Webster
has been connected with previous Car
Hiyals a. q decorator, and has had lot
of experience in California in the same
line of work, and ne gave an expert
talk in favor of the plan he proposed
He also informed the board that unless
the orders for color decorations went
forward at once they would probably
sct be filed at all, as the material was
getting scarce.
James d. Dougherty, twice a direc-
tOr.general of the Carnival, suggested
that the board defer action until 1t
heard from other persons who might
have decoration plans He paid com.
yplimentl to Mr.. Webster for the work
be had done in the past two Carnivals,
but said that the board should hear
from others before adopting plan.
Attitude Should Be Decided
Chairman w. H. McInerney also said
that he didn t think that action should
be taken at once, on any definite plan,
but he did think that the board should
decide whether or not it wanted to
back any organized plan of decora-
tons. On the basis of this suggestion
u desultory discussions> with no motion,
before the chair, continued for more
than an hour ~.
Dougherty proposed that the com.
mittee go on record as favoring decora.,
tions, invite hearings as to plans, and
then go before the Carnival committee
with its suggestions. F, W. Maefarlaae
suggested that a scheme be framed
whereby all the community, regardless
of locations benefited by the decora.
tioas, pay their share of the cost of
decorations. He said that his concern,
the. Union Feed Company, which was
not near where any decorations would
be, would pay share, and that the
plantations also should pay.
"The Carnival is a proposition for
the Territory all round, The said, "and
all should help"
During the discussion that followed,
S. s. Paxson, A. R. Gurrey, J. T. War
rem, w. R. Harrington, Ed Towse and
others spoke. Berndt made motion
for meeting In a couple of weeks, to
get together all the retail merchants
and whoop up the decoration PROPOSE,
tion. Paxson thought that the board
should first pass the matter up to the
Chamber of Commerce, which meets
next Wednesday.
Support Voted On Motion
Harrington said that if the board
was going to 60 to the chamber of
commerce with an appeal, it should go
with clear cut proposition and not
expect the chamber to listen to a two
hours discussion on the subject. AS