The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-30
BIG TINE
OR ''BUST'
HiIo Getting Ready For
the Fourth.
MANY HONOLULANS. THERE
Rainy City is Going to Have Prize
Fights, Horse Races and Lots
OF Tannmn's.
Especial Correspondence

H1LO, June 27-Prospects for the cele
bration of the Fourth of July grow
brighter as the day approaches. Every
thing is about ready for mammoth car
nival of sports and a festival of pieasr.r
which will completely eclipse anything q
the kind ever attempted on the island ~
Hawaii before.
The advance guard of the Honolulu dal-
egation arrived on the Kinau. after a
passage remarkable for its roughness ana
the ail-around good time enjoyed by the
Honolulu contingent. Baby, Ruth. who
was passenger, was the life Of the pa,.
ty. and although suffering from NAL de
mer. delighted the company with manv
songs, and ruled prime favorite from tie
time Honolulu was left behind until She
d -sembarked at Hilo.
The horses which were shipped-Silas
Skinner ard the shapely Dfrectress-we-e
landed safe and sound and are now sta-
sbled out ct the track.
Rumors of big crowd coming from the
capital next week have resulted in nran-
aratons being made to provide adequate
accommodation tor them. Today If is
weil-nigh Impossible to secure a room In
town. The Rainbow Hotel is fun ana
the Hilo Hotel and I4ycurgus' are filling
up rapidly.
The program for the Fourth commences
at a. m. with swimming races at Wafa-
kea and patriotic exercises at the race
track. At e:15 m. an athletic progr;. m
viii be carried out, to be followed nv The
horse-rac.ng. A baseball game will also
be numbered on the program In the
evening grand ball will be given in the
| race track theater. The program of
THURSDAY, July 5th, will consist of nine
racing events.
( The race track, which is named Hooli
! la Park, is mile and a half from town
and five-cent bus runs thither every ten
! minutes.
The track is half-mile one composed
or layers of lava rock, sand and red CLAW.
AT present 1t is in bad shape and very
! soggy, owing to heavy rains. Until to-
day 1t has been almost impossible to ex
1 ercise horses on it, and as there is no
place to jog the stock, both runners ana
harness-horses are somewhat backward
J In condition. gang of hundred men
are working on il day and night. and next
/ week will witness vast Improvement.
!, The grand stand Is 40 feet by 100 feet Wit,
a seating capacity Of 1.100. Adjoining ana
back of 1t is the Opera House, so feet by
100 feet, seating 1,2o0 people Both stanu
and theater are elevated ten feet, and the
space so gained will be used for dispens-
ing refreshments. The whole is surround
| ed by high board fence. Romeo ana
juliet will be presented in the theater
| on the evening of the Fourth, assisted by
Baby Ruth, and another show is billed
for the next night.
If owners wish it. racing will be con-
tinued on Friday and Saturday, and the
management has offered to provide six
500 purses for each day.
The thirty stalls at the track are all
full aud horses keep on arriving.
The baseball game will be between the
Volcano Stables team and Richards and
Shoens combination. The game is for
800 winners and $50 losers. ..Old Man,
lGorinan has been annexed by the Vol.
canos.
A half-mile walking race for a gold
medal has been arranged between H. NJ
Ayres ana BOD -urns, TO occur on the
morning of the Fourth.
Fights are scheduled during race week
between "Dink'' Davis and Bob Burns.
Billy, Watts and Jimmy Pollock, ana
Aleek Hanson and an unknown. Burns
and Henson are training hard, the latter
having well-appointed quarters at Lycur-
gus.
The horses here are as follows: Frank
-, Naples, Evereth, Virgie A, Blooming
Chance, Watossa, Rejected, Loupe, Out
cast, Dewey, Billy McCloskey, Hakalou
Boy, Daisy Bell, Van Wagner, Dixie
Land. Uncle True. J. r., Antidote, Gener-
al Cronje, Directress, Silas skinner, Ha-
wan, | Go, Lady Lightfoot, Beauty, I'm
fandel, Isabel, Oceanic.
The jumping race will be over six
flights of hurdles. There are plenty OF
jockeys here.
Joe" McAuliffe has his hands full OF
work, as have all the home boys. The
former Is training for George Rodiek. ana
mis- string IS in excellent trim