The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-06
CROWDS SAW PARADE.
Streets Were damned While the
Republican Procession Passed.

Multitudes such as seldom gather on
the streets of Honolulu saw the great
Republican torch light parade Satur
day evening. 1t was sight that must
have stirred the pulses of the most
blaSe individual in all the world. Her.
aided by red fire that shot tongues of
rudy light far into the sky, it passed
through treets crowded and packed
dozens deep at every corner, giving the
parade scarce room to move on its way.
1t was an enthusiastic crowd, not
disposed to cavil at anything but to
shout and laugh and enjoy it all whole
heartedly. 1t gathered at every turn
ing cheering enthusiastically for the
Republican nominees on the National
ticket and for the passing organiza-
tions. 1t cheered Captain Berger and
his band boys playing SO merrily at the
van, and the marching clubs We're each
greeted with salvos of applause and
cheers that made them step yet more
proudly along. And when the parade
had passed one point, and the following
red fire wagon was gone by, there was
a stampede of the thousands, rushing
and hurrying and a scurrying for
places of vantage and some other fav
orable spot.
The parade, too was all that could
have been asked. There may have been
/ longer parades in Honolulu hitherto
and parades upon which more money
had been lavished, but there has GER
tainly been none so wholly satisfactory
from scenic point of view For once
Honoluiu's narrow, tree-arched streets
served purpose, for they furnished a
setting for the scene which could
scarce have been improved. The spout
ing flames from the fire wagon at the
head of the parade danced among the
| boughs of the overhanging trees, and
spread a rosy radiance far heaven
wards, making the scene unreal, and
like glimpse of a fairy spectacle up
on some vast stage, the crowds, half
seen through the glare, seeming the
envious gnomes. looking on at the fairy
celebration. The myriad dancing lights
of the torches, borne in orderly fashion
by phalanx of smartly marching
men, and others in the hands of the
and shouting mobs of future Repub-
licans, made the streets seem stream
of living fire, tossing and leaping with
the ardency of it's burning.
Following the fire wagon at the head
were the wheelmen, each with his bicy-
Gle gaily decorated with colored lights
One tandem was covered from handle
bars to rear forks with acetylene gas
lamps and it's brilliancy was almost
unbearable pear at hand, while from q
distance it seemed fiery dragon spout
ing light in all directions. Then came
the grand marshal, w. H. Hoogs anc
his aides, Captain Fox of the mounted
police and marching squad of officers
and then the Hawaiian band, witt
Captain Berger marching proudly al
it's head. Close in the rear of the bane
and keeping excellent time was the
Republican club of Company f, y. G
H, clad in duck trousers with blue
muslin sashes and red neckties. and
led by Captain Sam Johnson, spick ant
span in white duck. A Mckinley trans
parency followed and then came Cap
tain Murray's marching company, Will
red blouses and white trousers. The
uniform was reminiscent of the ole
uniform of the kings soldiery, the frs
uniform worn by the soldiers of Ha
wall after the coming of the mission
aries to the Islands. Next was Cap
tain Wilcox, with his company o.
marching young Republicans all il