The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-06
OLD GLORY
ON. FRIDAY
Officials C0lld Not Manage for
An Earlier Day.
PROCLAMATION NEW OFFICERS
Closing Up Many Matters - Much
Ceremony for Memorable
Event-OffIciaI Etiquette.

The Flag Raising, which was in a
way scheduled for Tuesday next, will
take place on Friday, the 18th inst. At
a conference yesterday morning of the
big officials arranging the formal or
final ceremonies it was decided that
day earlier than Friday OF next week
would scarcely be practicable. The
American Minister and Admiral Miller
on one side and the Cabinet here on
the other, had thought from their own
view points that everything was inI
readiness for the great event but inl
the course of meeting it was learned
that a number of matters required to
be closed up before the sovereignty of
the country vent over through the
function of Flag Raising.
At the time the flag goes up there
will be put forth a proclamation and
the new list of officers for the new do
main will be announced. 1t was stated
yesterday that nothing would be
known of these matters till the mo-
ment of their official publication. The
proclamation, of course, Will be with
in the authority or limitations of the
Joint Resolution of Annexation. SO
also will be the commissioning of Of
ficers. 1t seems reasonable to suppose
that those who are to fill the offices
will have some inkIing of appointment
in advance.
The exact hour at which the Flag
Raising is to occur was not fixed upon
yesterday There Will be much cere-
mOny. Effort will be made to have
the incident of a nature throughout
that will make it memorable in the an
nails of the two countries to the com
pact.
The information that Friday, the
18th inst, Will be Flag Raising Day, is
from official sources. There is not q
remote likelihood OF any change or
pOstpOnement.
Considerable was said in couple Of
local or town papers yesterday by way
of effort TO disabuse such portion of
the public mind as need disabusing OF
that sort, concerning the Improperly
of any official party to making up the
program naming a day Independent OF
others Immediately touched. Just how
the idea or impression that any of the
gentlemen upon whom such a fault |
might fall would be guilty in the slight |
est degree Of such a breach, is extreme |
ly puzzling.
From what the Advertiser could |
learn Thursday and Thursday night it |
was concluded that the Flag would go |
up on Tuesday next. The Advertiser |
states now, in the face OF the fact that |
Friday viii be the day, that provisions |
by no means unimpOrtant, were actual |
ly made for Tuesday. A number OF |
officials and others were told that it |
was the same as determined that Tues |
day, if arrangements could be made, |
would be the day.
There are to be, before all is COM |
pleted for the transfer a number of
meetings between Minister SewaIl and
Admiral Miller, for the United States, |
and the Hawaiian Cabinet. A vast lot
of work must be accomplished by the
Government here before the end. Cab
met councils viii be numerous and
long. Land matters require much at
tentiOn. A number Of purchasers and
lessees of tracts throughout the Islands
are very anxious to have title from
the Republic before the change IS made
by the Sign Of the Flag.