The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-04-15

| 10 Olu you welcome 10 tnlS, your
most noble palace, on behalf of the
builders of the same, and the
Dircctor-G General of the grandest
Exposition the world has ever seen.
1--WE have gathered here all that
is good and beautiful TO bid you
welcome. In the name of the 1861
600 people assembled here bid you
hail and thrice welcome.
eve have here to receive you the
sweetest musicians the world has
ever heard, from loyal and royal
Mexico. We have here from your
Governor General of California gold
and silver and fine quality of
brandy. We have here from the
Governor-Gcneral of Louisiana the
sweetest things on this earth-pretty
women and plainly of excellent
sugars.
1.-The Carolinas send diamonds,
and also beautiful women. l well
come you as King, in the name of
the 100000 people, to all these
splcndors of your ample palace.
" Mississippi is here with cotton,
and also the prettiest ladies on earth
or this side of Oregon. l bid you
welcome to this salubrious. land in
the name of the $50, 900 people here.
And when you come here next year
the great South will have still more
ships, more men, more pretty
women, and lots more money"
The Proteus pageant occurs on
the eve Of Mardi Gas, and the re-
presentation of the myths and wer-
ships of the Chinese was very good.
Imperial robes of yellow silk and
satin. dragons, birds, pagodas, and
towers appear in profusion, each
separate " float giving al allegor-
cal representation. The subjects,
as announced on swinging banners,
we're: the "Son of Heaven "Cre-
alton" "Tower of Fo-Kcu,' Tar
tar Mausoleum, terrestrial
Kings 1.-The Grand Lama"
"Birth of Confucius," Festival of
Lanterns" ancestral Worship"
"Temple of Fo," "The Chinese
Minerva" Judgment of the
Dead, ""I In Paradise" and "Hell,"
the last including hell of fire and
one of ice.
No expense is spared in making
these gigantic representations as true
to the ideal as possible, but the dig
nifty which such tableauX possess
upon the stage is sadly marred by
the inevitable motion impaired by
the mules.
The Rex procession on Tuesday
afternoon was a representation of
scenes from Scott's "Ivanhoe,"
comprising some twenty tableaux.
AS in all the others, the costumes
were magnificent, but the glare of
day was too much for them. An
active Imagination could fancy that
here were pictures corresponding to
the descriptions of the famous
authors, but at the same time it was
little bewildering to see towers,
apparently built on solid rock, tot
tering on shaky foundations. The
darkness of night was needed to
invest the scenes with more reality,
and the Menus procession that
closed the day had some charming
illusions. "Legends of the Beauti-
full" as the moving tableaux were
called, represented spritcs of earth,
air, fire, and water, and the display
was by far the best of the three.
One has only to imagine scene
from "Iolanthe" taken from the
boards of the theatre, transferred
to wheels, and drawn through the
streets, to get fair idea of these
glittering shows.
The cost is fabulous. In the first
place, the highest bidder is made
Rex, he paying some thousands of
dollars for the honor. The floats and
costumes are, of course, paid for by
the secret societies, but an idea of
the original cost may be gathered
from the fact that the whole display
was sold to the city of Dallas, Texas,
last year, as of secondhand value,
for $35 900, which was but fraction
of the first cost. But the people de-
light in it, and to thousands it is the
one holiday in the year, the only
bright picture in their monotonous,
workaday lives. With what infinite
patience they stand for hours waiting
the approach of the perpetually de-
layed procession! At least a hun.
dred thousand, it was estimated,
lined Canal Street alone on Tuesday
night-men, women, and little chill
dren-yes, even babies in arms but
the whole atmosphere was one OF
patience and joyful anticipation.
We saw no rough pushing, no dis.
order, no drunkenness, but a well.
bred and courteous recognition Of
the rights of others, too often lack
ing in Northern crowd. Corr. ~