The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-06-17
HANDSOME SUM
FOR CHILDREN'S
HOME BY LUAU
Two Thousand Dollars Added
To Fund for Benevolet Pro-
ject; Abundant Feast and
jolly Afternoon.

Profits of the luau and carnival
held at the fair grounds Eamehameha
Day have increased the fund for the
Maui Children's Home by $4,000.
Checking up and recapitulation On
Monday and Tuesday was followed by
the announcement of those figures.
trom the point of view of amusement
ana entertainment the affair was
equally successful. The committees
which had its various details in hand
nave every reason for satisfaction at
the results achieved.
kamehameha Day, while observed
on Maui, has not been a holiday rec
oSnized by the plantations and for
that reason the outpouring of Satur-
day was the more remarkable. II
was recognition of the worthiness
of the cause as well as a search for
amusement. And the home project
will benefit later from the advertising
and popularizing it received on Ka-
mehameha Day.
Throngs Come Early
Long in advance of the noon hour
The crowd commenced to stream
through the fair ground gates and be-
lore the doors to the commercial
building, where the tables for the luau
were spread, there were more than
enough waiting people to fill the ia
Dles. Days OF preparation, first in
gathering the supplies, next in pre-
pairing them and lastly in seItin;: the
tables and decorating them made he
interior of the building an attractive
and appetizing sight as the diners
flooded i'll through the doors and
found sats at thetables, heavily laden
ed with good things of Hawaiian
cookery. Each diner was served in
abundance and seldom if ever before
has there been such a bountiful re-
past served for SO small price. Gate
admissions TO the grounds were more
than $iOO.
In the center of the room was a
large platform where instrumental
musicians and singers held forth and
entertained the diners who were seat
ed at the fern covered, food ladened
tables. About the room fitted wait
ersand Mattresses and service was
prompt and rapid, three or four sit
tings following in rapid succession
before the music ceased. And even
then diners kept floclIing in until
about six o'clock supplies were ex-
hausted and the luau declared ended
From the luau the crowd drifted to
the other attractions, the hula dane
ing in the Agricultural building and
20 the granstand where soon every
shaded seat was occupied and stand
ing room at the back of the stands
pre-empted
Entertainment Attracts
Four tumbIers, John Hendricks,
Richard Santos, Benny do Rego and
Chadsey penhallow showed skill and
agility and 80 children from one of
the public school gave a pleasing ex-
hibition Of calisthenics. G.. Fujimoto
and E. Fujimoto sprinted in through
the gate and onto the track, winners
of the marathon, finishing alone out
of five starters. Boy Scouts showed
their abilities in fire making, water
boiling and first aid to the injured.
There were two good bouts between
kid boxers and there was some re-
markably good Japanese fencing and
then came the ball game.
In the Agricultural building there
We're three hula dancers who gave an
excellent exhibition of the ancient
Hawaiian dance Mrs. George Cum
mings having charge of that enter
tainment. And so the minutes fitted
into hours and the hours flocked by
until the afternoon drew on toward
evening and the luau and carnival
were ended.
Thanks Are rendered
Mrs Foster Robinson asks Maui
News to express her thanks to each
and every member of the committees
and to all helpers for the efficient
work they did and for the help then
loaned to making the day so Splend-
idly successful.
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