The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-20
FOUNDERS DAY"
Appropriate Exercises at the Kameha-
meha School.
other.


zamehameha schools on the anniversary
If the birthday of Hon. Mrs. Beruice
Pauahi Bishop, granddaughter OF Ka-
nehameha the Great, and founder OF
the institution known by this name. The
boys from both schools were gathered in
the large hall. Lovely bouquets of
flowers decorated the platform. A large
company of honored and sympaihizing
visitors were present to assist in doing
honor to the occasion, H. R. 81. Prin-
cess Liliuokalani, Gov. 10. Dominis,
Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, Chief Justice
Judd, Judge McCully, Hon. w. o.
Smith, E. Bailey, Col. w. F. Allen, G.
A. Brown. A. T. Atkinson, A. Rosa, r.
w. Meyer, representative of the AD-
vERTIsER, and others, with many ladies,
besides the trustees, Hon. G. R. Bishop,
Rev. G.. NJ. Hyde, and G. M. Cooke.
The glee club under the leadership Of
Mr.. Richards sang artistically and affec-
lively as a part song "Bright and Best"
After which Rev. DIR. Hyde offered
prayer.
Hon. C. R. Bishop congratulated the
boys on the pleasantness of the clear
cool morning, auspiciously opening their
annual school holiday, wishing that all
who had been or might be connected
with the schools would always esteem it
their privilege to hel p celebrate Found
school since the last anniversary and he
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their fidelity, diligence, and success in
the various kinds of work in which they
were engaged. A record of all connected
with the school, with further record OF
their various residences, occupations,
and achievements after leaving school,
had already been begun, and he hoped
that every boy would be ambitious to
have his name stand fair and high on
this roll OF honor. Hawaiian boys ought
| to know what would interest and stimu'
late them in patriotic endeavors to emu
late those who had been honored lead
ers and helpers of their people. Kauike
aouli in giving the people constitu
tional government and clear title to
the land they occupied, had shown &
self-sacrifcing and regal magnanimity
which it would be hard to parallel in the
history of any other people. Others haC
done much for them, too, not of thei
own nationality. Mr.. Richards, DR.
Armstrong, DIR. Judd and especial,
Judge Lee. Mr.. Bishops persona
friend, a man whom he had loved for hi
unselfish devotion and unwearied labor
for the welfare of the Hawaiian people
Surely they would be prompted by thu
example and memory of such men t
prove themselves worthy of the sympa
thy and affection that had been show
by these and other friends and bene
factors. He wished that he could hav
visited the school oftener, could know
every boy by name and closed by assur
inn them of his personal interest in tn
success in life of every one.
The whole school, under the direction
of II. S. Townsend, then sang with clea
full-voiced precision the Christmas an
them, clark the Herald Angels Sing.
Mr.. Oleson, the principal of the school
then introduced the orator of the day
Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, who delivere
with fine effect in pleasant, converse
tional style, a most appropriate address
as follows:
Washington Irving, famous Amer
lean author, tells story of one Rip Va
Wrinkle, who, going into the mountain
after game lay down to take nap, an
slept twenty years. When he aWoke
supposing he had only slept few hours
his clothes were in tatters, his gun ha
rusted and fallen to pieces, his bear
had grown long, and turned from brow
to white, and his limbs were stiff an
rheumaticky. Amazed at this, he hob
beld down the mountain as best b
could, to his home, where he was aston
ished and bewildered to find his wife a.
old woman, his young children grow
up and married, with babies of thei
own, and that the small village which
he had left, as he thought, only tn
night before, had become a large CITY
with new and handsome buildings
Looking round for his young boon com
panions, with whom he had had many
jolly lark, he found they had suddenl
become stately, sedate old gentlemen
who did not recognize him, but greete
him with grave courtesy. Now m,
young friends of the Kamehameh
school, as I stand before you to-day,
feel as if l were a second Rip Van Win
kle. Long before any of you were Dor
lived at these beautiful islands. Fo
twenty very pleasant years, enjoye
this charming climate, the hospitalitie
of the King and his people and the inter
course with warm and loved friends
Then l went away, and now, ate
thirty-one years absence, have bee
permitted to return, and, like Rip Va
Wrinkle,
/ STAND AMAZED
and almost bewildered, by the wonder
full change that / find here in my oil
home. Barren plains, where were the
neither grass nor foliage, are now COY
cred with pretty cottages, which are en-
powered In trees and shrubbery. WheT
left grass huts find stately publ
buildings and elegant private mansion
which would attract attention and az
miration In any city in the world. An
on this spot, which l remember as III
slightly, and almost impossible, covere
with rocks, and uninhabitable except
goats, my eyes are gladdened by til
sight OF the beautiful and commodiou
buildings of this Kamehameha schoo
The little boy used to trot on my knee
while l sang and told stories to him,
now the Chief Justice and Chancellor
the Kingdom. The young men I le
here, are now white-haired and balt
headed old fellows, and they try to max
me believe that / am, too (but you and
know better than that, while the sma
boys, who went barefoot, and played i
the mud, or climbed trees, and tore the
clothes, giving their anxious mothers n
end of trouble, are now grownup men
immersed in business, or affairs of state
or engrossed in the missionary worl
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