The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-04-04
Greatest Luau
Ever Prepared
Served to Maui
Viands for 1900 Prepared and
Served To Happy Multi
tudes; Delegate Journeys
From Place to Place.

Never in the history of the Islands
has such a feast beer prepared at one
place as vas cooked at Kihei and dis
tributed to various points of Central
and East Maui on Saturday when
those sections of the Valley Isle cele-
brated the political victory of the
week before. From three great steam
ing mus the food was brought forth,
packed into barrels and sent out,
some to go as far as Ulupalakua, some
to Haiku, to Paia, Makawao, Keahua,
Wailuku and Kahului. At each of
those places tables fairly sagged and
groaned under an abundance of good
things for enough had been prepared
to supply more than 1000 persons.
First plans for 5000 laulaus grew and
the final outturn was 1900. And the
people Toasted, made merry and re-
joiced. Best of all the new delegate
and Mrs. Baldwin went from place to
place and visited practically everyone
of the happy gatherings. Even hos
pitable Maui had known nothing like
it before.
Everywhere there was music at the
feasts, at some there were something
like set programs of entertainment,
at others there was dancing and at
all more or less speechmaking, but
everywhere there was an abundance
of good cheer and rejoicing.
WaiIuku's Crowd Largest
Waikiki was the most largely at
tended of any of the great feasts. The
armory had been decorated and tables
that would seat 600 at n session
laI IAAn 1t,,Dxr1 xryst1 Innyno nnd
bright hibiscus blooms among which
nestled ~laulaus, steaming hot, sweet
potatoes, shrimps, opihi, loli and other
good things. Time after time the
places that were made vacant by de-
parting feasters were filled by others,
and it is estimated about 1900 Toasted
there.
For a long and busy time willing
women workers and men, too, had
been busy in the armory and long be-
fore the set hour the crowd had be-
gun to gather outside. Some drove
in their W cars, others were brought
N automobile trucks and still others
walked, and all c~ongregated out in
front of the armory. And they kept
coming after the doors had opened
and kept filing into the halls as places
were made vacant and new settings
made for the later Corners.
It was a little after 5 o'clock when
the doors slid open. There was no
rush, just an orderly procession but
it was a few minutes only before
every seat was taken. A little later
Delegate Baldwin, Mrs. Baldwin, Miss
Kathleen Dickinson and Lawrence
Judd and PARTY arrived. Sweet
women's voices rendered Hawaiian
airs as the delegate and his party
were fairly smothered with leis. Most
" they were roselani leis, green ferns
setting forth the brilliant red of the
Maui rose. One upon another they
we're passed over the heads of the
recipients until they reached above
the eyes of the delegate and almost
! as high on the others. Senator Harold
Rice was there and he fairly lifted
Delegate Baldwin upon a fight OF
steps where he sought briefly to ex
press the pleasure he felt in the recep'
ton rendered him and for the vote
hat had been given him the week be
fore. Cheer upon cheer rang out fol-
him and for Mrs. Baldwin and then
the party made their way out to the
waiting car and speeded on to Kahu
lui. s%lt in the armory the Teasing
continued.
KahuIui Makes Merry
At Kahului the tables were laid in
the agricultural building at the fail
grounds and attention had been paid
to interior decorations sc that all in
all the affair was probably the most
elaborate of any. From Puunene ant
outlying camps transportation in haG
Iza,, f,,Y,oighnd onA fnl1u R0n on inUn(
the feast and the fun. More of a pro
gram had been arranged there. Bill
Feuerpeil was brought to the platform
for a speech and he gave one of his
best and had to supplement it with {
song. Jack Walsh put on a stunt il
which he telephoned to Charley Nc
Carthy and President Harding that {
new delegate was coming, told who he
was and extolled some of his gooC
qualities, the lei bedecked Delegate
having to stand an embarrassed anC
confused listener meantime. He haC
not known what was coming and die
not know what move to make next
AS quickly as he could he introduced
Chairman Lawrence Judd of the Terri
forial Central Committee rs a substi
Cute speaker. "Aunt" Becky Wilkin
sG2 added to the fun with a hula ant
a little girl in costume also rendered
the old Hawaiian dance.
Abundance Everywhere
All Paia tables were spread on thu
tennis court and after full justice hal
been lone to the abundance of foo
adjournment was taken to the dancing
platform and the rest of the evening
was spent in the dance.
1t was only in details of entertain
ment that the other luaus varied
There was a large gathering at tn
ranch in Haiku and smaller ones a
MakawaO, Ulupalakua, Keahua an,
Kihei, the greatest gathering of tn