The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-07-31
ST. LOUIS COLLEGE.
Closing ExhibItion-A Vast Audience
Interesting PerfOrmances-The Prize
Winners.

The closing exhibition OF st. Louis
College began at three O'Clock on Friday
afternoon, before an immense audience
that crowded the large iron hall in every
part. Altogether there must have been
from l 900 to 1900 people in the build
ing. Among those present were the
King and Queen, Princess Liliuokalani,
Princess Kaiulani, Prince Kawananakoa,
the Bishop OF Olba, Hon. A. s. Cleghorn,
Hon. Justice McCully and Mrs. McCully,
Rev. Fathers Leonor, Sylyestre, Gull
stan and Matthias (Waialua), Rev. v.
II. Kitcat (St. Andrews Cathedral /;
His Excellency Geo. W. Merrill, U. 5.
Minister, and Mrs. Merrill; Police JUS
tice Dayton and Mrs. Dayton; Hon. W.
E. Foster, Mr.. A. T. Atkinson, Inspec-
tor-General of Schools, and Mrs. Atkin-
son: Mr.. John McCabe, teacher OF the
Mission school at Keolau; Mr.. Richard
Stewart. teacher OF the Mission school at
Waialua; Prof. H. Berger and Mrs.
Berger, Deputy Marshal Hopkins, Col.
H. F Bertelmann, Mr.. C. ii. White,
assistant principal OF the Royal School;
Mr.. T. A. Lloyd, Road Supervisor OF
Kona Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hill, Mr..
and Mrs. T. r. Lucas, Mr.. W. Forsyth,
and many parents and friends OF the
pupils.
The exercises opened with an overture
-'' Crown OF Gold" (Hermann)-by the
- NH
is director and Bro. Francis accompanist.
This was followed by a creditable address
delivered BY Solomon Kaleiopu.
A toy symphony coming next was an
amusing but not unmusical novelty.
VIM. Jarrett played nightingale, NJ,
Hopkins cuckoo, K. Kaaepa quail, Z.
Osborne locust, B. Lloyd cricket, NJ.
Anton rattle, John Dias bells, P. Anton,
trumpet in C, q Hopkins trumpet in u,
and the chorus was given by the junior
choir.
selections" Lucrezia Borgia"-were
beautifully performed by the junior
orchestra, consisting of: VIM. Sumner,
B. Petrie and o. Wall, first violin; John
Ferreira and q. Long, second violin;
VIM. Mott, flute; Henry Mika, clarionet;
Henry Mahiai, bass; John Crowder,
piano.
A chorus" The Band"-was rem
dered in splendid style by the choir.
"The Blind Beggar," an oPeretta in
one act, performed by w. Cuelho and
Thomas SYLVIA, made the most sedate OF
the auditors shake with merriment,
while the mass of spectators made the
rafters ring with laughter and applause.
w. Berger sang =" The Little Hero,
by Stephen Adams, in the clearest OF
boys treble, SO expressively, too, as to
put the audience in full sympathy with
the pathos of the piece.
Part 2 opened with an overture-the
familiar " Bohemian Girl''-executed by
the orchestra in manner that would do
no discredit to any music hall. ;
An extremely amusing piece OF choral
pantomilne-the - Frog Cantata,' by Z.
Hennig-was sung by the choir, but,
after the first bar, the music WAS com
pletely drowned in the furore OF mirth
provoked by four large limitations OF bog
croakers, that were made to work their
mouths like real frogs in time with the
singing
1.-THE Magic Flute" comedy in
four acts, was well presented by the fol
lowing named boys, revealing much
dramatic talent most OF them: James
LLOYD, w. Kaae, Aug. Vieira, +. Quincy,
Charles Murray, A. Fernandez, Fred.
Beckley, Carlos Long, w. Sumner, w.
Cuelho and James Thompson. The
foreign dialect speech OF the two last
named struck the listeners very comic
ally ~, n-.,. r...,,.o,,, r. w Root,
bv the choir, was rare piece OF har-
nonic vocalization, the voices Ginning
like the parts OF great instrument.
The closing piece was success IN
both comic and spectacular features. 1t
was a solo and chorus-"The German
Fifth of New York"-sung in character,
with brass band accompaniment, by a
company of twenty to thirty boys in
military uniform. w. Cuelho, as Cap
tain, was very funny to the end, playing
an excellent joke on the audience in
retiring. While walking in front OF his
command giving their time by repeating
the word cleft" the company suddenly
cleft" him and then he ''leit," and only
came back to tell the audience they
were cleft" if they expected to see the
"Fifth" again.
Mr.. Atkinson then by request adj
dressed the gathering, making his re-
marks brief ON account OF the late hour.
They had all seen how excellently the
pupils had done everything undertaken,
but this was only their play time as it
were. The real work OF the school had
been exhibited at the examinations,
and it would bear comparison, not only
with the best schools in this country,
but with those OF the States and Eng
land. Great progress was manifest and
he hoped each succeeding year would
show similar advancement Great credit
was due the Brothers who bad under
taken the training OF these children and
been SO successful He hoped to see
this school 90 on. Private schools car
ried on by such worthy body as this
were benefit to the community, as
we'll as the public schools that had
shown such satisfactory results to him
during the past few days.
The Bishop Of Olba heartily thanked
the audience for their presence, to which
great deal OF the exhibitions success
was due. They had observed for them
selves the pupils attention to their
teachers and to their duties.
The Bishop took seat upon the plat
form, and Hon. A. g. Cleghorn being
seated on his right, Princess Kaiulani
and the Inspector-General on his left,
these divided between them the cere-