The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-04-16
Shrine Initiates
Game To The Last
Submit T Honolulu Pep-Parade
Streets In Mirth-PrOvoking Ar
ray-Brilliant Ball And Banquet
-Lahaina ChOwder Ends Affair.

The ceremonial session of Aloha
Temple, Mystic Shriners, which took
place on Maui last Saturday. was one
of the largest as well as most success
full affairs of the kind ever held by
he Honolulu shrine. More than 80
initiates CROSSED the hot sands" in
most approved fashion, and according
10 reports, all made the trip success
fully, albeit more or less the worse
for wear. Twenty-siX of the new
members are Maui men. ~.
The Honolulu shrine officials a..
more than 100 members of the order
from the city arrived by the steamer
Kilauea early Saturday morning, the
vessel having been chartered for the
occasion. They brought with them
the 17th Cavalry Band, which furnish
ed much appreciated music for the
various events on the program. The
Maui public had a share in some of
le fun, notably in the mammoth
street parade which left the Wailuku
armory about l o'clock Saturday af
ternoon and slowly wended its way
10 Kahului where the finishing touches
were put on the new Shriners by their
devoted instructors, in the territorial
building at the fair grounds. The
garbs of the shrinking candidates in
which they were exposed to the jeers
Of the multitude, were grotesque and
terrible and the careworn abstraction
of the victims later in the day in
dicated that the ceremonies as whole
had left their imprint.
Ball A Success
The big ball on Saturday evening
at the fair ground, was very largely
attended and was a most pleasing
social event. 1t was given by the
members of the order who proved
| splendid hosts. Music was furnished
| by the cavalry band and was greatly
lapprec ciated by the throng of dancers.
| The ball was one of the most brilliant
affairs of the kind ever given in Maui,
and made especially so by the beauti-
full gowns of most of the women pres
ent
Bankers Pull Sensation
At the banquet at the Grand Hotel,
earlier in the evening, an apparently
rue-to-goodness controversy be-
tween d. C. Lindsay and c. d. Lufkin,
winding up in pistol shots across the
banquet table produced a profound i'm
preston. During the gun-play the
| lights went out, a few sacks of bot
tied judiciously dropped simulated
broken Gro" ~y-and, well imagina-
! lion ee oil the story. When
the ligh, on, some
people W Junu under uab.~-. others
in corne md some had managed =
make escape entirely The hoax
was a TSry great success.
| On Sunday the visitors were enter
tanned with sightseeing trips, and at
noon-time by an elaborate chowder
luncheon at the Lahaina armory pre-
pared under the auspices of George
Freeland.
The Honolulu crowd departed for
home at 10 o'clock by the Kilauea, be
ing given rousing send-off as the
boat pulled out.
| The 26 Maui men, on whose ac'
count the big affair was so largely
prepared, are
DR.. G. S. Aiken, W. o. Aiken, j. c,
Blair, f. A. Campbell, w. H. Engle,
G.. H. Farnsworth, J. p, Foster, j, II.
Foss, r. A. Hudson, ]. C. Jameson,
G. l.. Keeney, A. p. Low, J. S. B. Mac
Kenize, A. MacPhee, H. McNicol, j
Meinecke, E. C. Mellor, F, w. Pea
cock, ]. H. Pratt, w. A. Robbins, p
H. Ross, Chas. c. Savage, G. n
! Weight, j. j. Walsh, w. X. Watkins
DR.. J. II. Raymond.