The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1917-11-13
Special Meeting Of the
Chamber Of Commerce

Der OF Commerce was held on We'd
nesday afternoon to make arrange
ments for the entertainment of the
Congressional party sooE to visit
Kauai. The secretary read the cor
respondence which apprized the
local authorities that the party
would consist of some twenty-five
persons and that they would arrive
on Kauai on the morning of the Goth
of November and leave on the eve
ming of the 21st.
In addition to the original party
there would be ten or twelve Homo
lulu people who would accompany
them. Messrs. J. Ii. Coney, G. H.
Wilcox and J. H. Moragne had
been suggested from Honolulu as a
local Island committee to cooperate
with the general committee of ar
rangements in Honolulu.
Mr.. Coney explained that the
legislature had made a generous APP
preparation for the purpose of enter
tanning the party and that we would
not be expected to bear any consid-
cradle burdens in that line. But it
was up to us to handle the whole
affair so that the limited time would
be well spent and the party be well
treated.
He suggested that committees
should be appointed to handle the
whole matter, as on former similar
occasions.
The first idea was that they should
be entertained at the hotels, but
this soon gave place to the convic-
ton that we should entertain them
in our homes, as we had done form
er much larger parties; and that we
could not well go back on our good
reputation for hospitality and cour-
tesy: it would be for only one night
and the party would be compara-
lively small. This view finally pre-
vailed without any question.
In regard to transportation, it
was pointed out by Mr.. Coney and
others, that in MANY cases it would
be very inconvenient for those en-
tertaining guests also to furnish auto
transportation; especially for those
not employing chauffeurs it would
be difficult to drive their guests to
far parts of the Island. 1t was ac-
cordingly tacitly agreed that trans
portation should be furnished out
side of the entertaining hosts to be
paid for out of the legislative ap-
preparation
Request for an estimate of ex-
pense of the party while on Kauai
having been made from Honolulu
Mr.. Wishard suggested that such
an estimate should be made and for
warded. The appropriation made
by legislature was $4,000. The
party will spend about a tenth of
the whole time on Kauai. The
central committee notify us that
they will pay $4,000 for the charter
of the Kilauea to bring them to
Kauai. How would it be to ask
for the other $4,000 for entertain
ment purposes on Kauai?
After some discussion this sug-
gestion was accepted and Mr.. Coney
was authorized to reply by wireless
giving this as the estimate of the
requirements of Kauai.
The matter of the necessary COM
mittees to make all arrangements
and conduct the enterprise then
came up for lengthy discussion with
considerable difference of opinion
and a good deal of desultory talk,
the final outcome of which was that
the chair should appoint four COM
mittees of three members each, to
wit: Finance, Transportation, En-
tertainment and Public Interests.
This latter committee, public inter-
ests, should see to it that the various
interests and requirements of Kauai
be set before the Congressional par
ty in the most convincing and ap-
pealing light, 1t was felt to be
much better to have a definite COM
mittee with a definite responsibility
to attend to this matter than to
leave it to the interest and initia-
tive of private individuals who
might have varying interests and
ideas.
1t was the sense of the meeting
that there should be a public recep-
tion presumably at the armory in
Lihue, on the one evening that
they were here, and day excursions,
to the various points Of interest !;
one day to the Waimea side and
the other to Hanalei
The Proposed Inter-Island