The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-07
The Baud. the Ball, AMI Minor Incidents
Of the Day.

The celebration Of the Fourth Of July
was commenced on Tuesday evening, by
the Royal Hawaiian Band playing some
American National AiT- at the Palace and
Hotel a smaller band paraded the town
till early morning, and fire crackers re-
sounded throughout the night At D O'Clock
yesterday morning the Antiques and Hor-
ribles at Mays store, and headed by a
band, paraded the principal streets of the
city, calling EN- route at the White House,
on Nuuanu Avenue, where refreshments
were kindly supplied by the proprietor.
They numbered about forty, and were
dressed in original fantastic costumes, the
most noticeable Of which were the repre-
sensations Of a gallant military gentleman
and his corps of local troops.
At . am. a salute of Il guns was fired
from the EspIanade battery, under the
direction Of His EXcellency Governor
Dominis. BY this time everybody was
thoroughly abroad, indeed it seemed "a if
but few could have taken IA nights rest.
All the business and private houses Of
every nationality were gaily decorated
with bunting, the shipping in harbor,
especially the L. :. :. Essex and II. |. j.
VI. :. Rinjio, being a particularly pretty
sight, each vessel being decorated from
stem 10 stern.
At 10 O'Clock the Hawaiian Band march
ed to the corner Of Fort and Merchant
streets, there awaiting the arrival of a de-
tachment Of sailors from the Us :. =. Essex,
whom they escorted up Fort TO Hotel
street, passing the prettily decorated resi-
dences of Dr.. MacaIlister and GrOssman,
and Mrs. Macfarlane, before arriving at
THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL,
Where the exercises of the day were to
take place. The hotel was gaily decorated
with flags and the American National
coIors all along the balconies and tops of
the corridors. During Tuesday nilht we
regret To say thai a number of small flags
placed OH the fences of Mrs. Macfarlane's
house and the Hawaiian Hotel we're stolen.
Many ladies adopted the cOlors of the day
with pretty effect; cabs and cabmen seemed
to vie with each other in the adOrnment of
their vehicles and horses. Some consider
able amusement was created by the dis
covery that most Of the badges worn an
nounced this as the lOSth Anniversary of
Independence, instead of the 10th. a
roomya and suitable stand had been erected
on the hotel lawn for the ladies and gentle
men taking part i'm the days exercises. On
the verandah Of the hotel we noticed His
Majesty the King, His Exceliency the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency
the Minister of Finance, His Excellency
Governor DOminis, the Captain and of
ficers Of the u. :. >. Essex, the members
of the Diplomatic Corps, His Honor the
Chief Justice, His Honor Associate
Justice Austin, Marshal Parke, Captain
Thomas Spencer, Hon. q. VI. Whitney,
Mr.. and Mrs Thorne, DIR. and Mrs Nc
Grew, besides a large number of other ladies
and gentlemen. There must have been in
all, nearly $500 persons present, including
a large number Of the seamen of the L. SIS.
Essex and II /. ]. VI. >. Rinjio..
The Rev. O.. Wallace opened proceedings
with n short and impressive prayer.
SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT.
The President Of the Day, Ills Excel
Iency RoIIin NJ. Daggett, spoke as follows
FsHOrO-C O~tmtryueH and Friends: 1t is a
pleasant privilege to call to order such an
~assemblage at such n time, at such a place,
and for such a purpose. / see before me
the representatives of almost all national
flies. Beside the American is the English
man, the Frenchman, the German, the
Portuguese the Irishman, as well a. the
gentle Hawaiian, who comes with his
kind aloha to the stranger within his gates.
All have come to give cOuntenauce to the
anniversary of the birth of human free
dom on earth-to this day of days-and if
not with the enthusiasm and devotion of
the American, at least with a respect that
it is we'll nigh akin to them. Nor can |
fail to note among this goodly gathering a
number who represent that grand army of
patriotic and sturdy men, who in a time of
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saults of treason that the Republic might
live, and this day might be celebrated
forever. Among them are whitened locks
and MANNED limbs but wherever I see
them, either at home or abroad, a halo
seems to surround their heads ;. and if ever
I cease to be grateful to them for assisting
in the salvation of a country whose wor-
ship to me is a religion, may heaven cease
10 be mercifuI to me and if ever the cOun-
try fOrgets their services, may heaven for
get its blessing, for a nation without graft
tude is a nation without heart, and a ma
ton without heart, alike with an indi-
viduaI, is unfit to cumber the earth. CAp-
plause.)
The great of Massachusetts,
said in substance, with "A rhetoric almost
divine, that the morning drum-beat of the
British Empire rolled around the earth
with the rising sun so, one day in the
year at least, the acclamations of the chill
dren of the Great Republic, scattered every
where throughout the earth, move round
with the rising sun in a continuous hOsan-
ma and here upon these Islands, between
the east and west, we add our voices TO the
JOYOUS anthem. Hear, hear
My friends, l have sometimes found
cause to complain that the chairman of s
meeting has, in opening 1t, not only tres
passed upon my time, but-more serious
stiI1-upon my subject Thus ~admonished,