The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-02
Press Congress Plan
For Entertainment On
Maui to Be Started

transportation and the dates of the
visit are finally and formally settled.
This necessitated the putting forward
of the Fair to the dates originally sell
ected for that annual event, October
1915. The Press congress commit
tees of the Chamber of Commerce
and the Fair Association will be ca
ed to meet Tuesday afternoon to take
up work of outlining a program
devising ways and means for the
carrying of it out.
Uncertainties Removed
All uncertainty that has shrouded
press congress plans and especially
visits to the Islands of the group was
banished by the return of l.. A. Thurs
ton from the mainland on Wednesday
of last week. A meeting of the central
committee in Honolulu was held the
same morning and Mr.. Thurston rem
dered his report. He has had splen-
did cooperation from the Matson line
n others, he reported, and all may
now go Onward without further de-
lays. There are six weeks for Maui
to get ready to receive her visitors.
Under the final arrangements as re-
ported by Mr.. Thurston and approved
by Press Congress officials and trans
portation heads and the Honolulu
committee, the Matsonia will leave
San Francisco a day ahead of her
regular schedule and will reach Ho-
nolulu on Monday, October 10, instead
of Tuesday the 18th. She will sail
for Hilo on Wednesday morning, DC
tober 10, and will leave Hilo for Ka-
hului, Friday evening October IA, and
reach Maui Saturday morning, Octo-
Der Is, remaining until Sunday night.
While on the trip, except when going
to the Volcano, the party will sleep
and take their meals aboard the Mat
sonia. All expenses for their trans
portation n meals and sleeping
aboard ship are covered by their
tickets so no part of that expense
falls upon the various Islands they
will visit.
Time to Act Now
One proposal that will be laid be-
fore the entertainment committees of
Maui at the coming meeting will be
that the steamer be met at the dock
n the visitors welcomed and told
that Saturday is given over to seeing
the Fair and the resources of the Ter
r1tory there shown and the various en-
tertainment features provided and in
resting. 1t will be proposed that on
Sunday they be taken over the new
io't, lOWh Tie INe6ule
and then taken on up to Makawao.
perhaps as far as Kula if roads are
IN condition. Then that they be al
lowed a little time for rest and an
early dinner and taken up to Puunene
where an invitational swimming meet
Tor them would be staged by the
swimming committee which purpose
10 mold an aquatics carnival on Mon.
day and Tuesday night following their
visit. 1t would not be a public affair.
only for the visitors with no admis.
sion fees charged and it will be the
only opportunity afforded them to see
an eXemplification of Hawaii's great
est sport and the leaders of it, includ.
ing Duke kahanamoku and others of
the brightest stars who will later
participate in the public carnival. 1t
will also be proposed that the COM
mittee be enlarged in number so that
Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese
may be represented and transporta-
ton and other problems met. 1t is
argued for such a program that it
would be not only effective but sur
prisingly inexpensive.
Territorial Appropriation
Another important point settled at
the meeting was how the $4,000 leg
1slative appropriation will be spent,
whether all the Islands would be ex-
pected to contribute to the other fund
of $4,000, how the expense of enter
tainment should be borne and wheth-
er h various Islands could draw
from the legislative appropriation for
entertainment. John R. Gait, treasur-
er and chairman of the finance com
mittee explained this.
All of the $25, 900 appropriated by
tho lapiClaturo will no Cnant fp, a.
benefit of all the Islands and no part
of it drawn upon to meet expense of
entertainment. Honolulu will raise
all the money spent for entertainment
features there, Hilo all the entertain
ment expenses for the Big Island and
Maui will do likewise for them while
here. The $25, 900 appropriation goes
in the way of money guaranteed to
the Press Congress by the original
projectors of the plan to bring them
to the Islands, to publicity and to the
souvenir book that will be prepared
for and given to them and similar eX-
penses. The big burden falls on Ho-
nolulu which will have them for two
weeks after the Islands trip is ended.
Hilo pays for the carnival, dance, ban
Quet. etc, n an auto trip around
town but not for the trip up to the
volcano, which the visitors must meet
themselves.
Costs of Entertainment
1t was originally proposed that the
raising of the additional 1926, 900 be
prorated amongst the Islands but this
would nave meant a larger payment
into that fund by the Island of Ha-
wall and Maui than if each bear its
W expenses and let Honolulu shift
for itself also. 1t was anticipated such
a plan would cost Hilo about $500
and Big Islanders told Mr.. Gait they
were not prepared to meet thai
amount. On Maui the chief problem
will be securing the automobiles to
show them Valley Isle sites on Sun.
day. 1t is also proposed that the few
who may feel up to making the crater
trip may be afforded an opportunity