The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-14

While throng OF several thousand
people sang the Star Spangled Ban
Mes" eight white-gowned young girls
hauled the flag of America to the sum-
init Of the High School building YES
Serday morning. Bravely it foated on
the breeze against the gray and blue of
The sky, the symbol of new Hawaii.
the lands whose destinies will be guild
ed by the young men and young wom-
en- now learning their first lessons of
life ia the structure over which it flies.
The former home of several prin-
cesses of the Kamehameha dynasty
never looked gayer than during the
exercises. The wide veranda on the
Inanka side had been decorated with
Hawaiian and American flags. with
red, white and blue bunting draped all
about them and palm branches fasten-
ed to every cornice and coping. Across
the base of the veranda, boldly in
scribed, was the motto:
Westward the course Of empira tak.s
its way,
Times noblest offspring is the last"
Under the trees beneath the veranda
a broad platform had been erected and
All about 1t had gathered an immense
crowd, crowd which spread over tbe
gravel walks and over the wide lawns
and even perched on the fences all
ABOUT the grounds. School children
they were for the most part. children
from all the schools in the city-frop,
the High School to the tarthermost nr,-
mary school in the suburbs. yo,,n,.
men almost ready for college and girls
an long dresses and the latest hats min
gied with bright-eyed little toddlers In
kiits or In kimonos and clogs scarcs.
y able TO lisp the alphabet. Every
one Oh them was in holiday attire of
white dresses and duck suits and Spr-
day hats. and. with the crowd of old
esrs in Panama hats and ducks or new
gcSyns and Gay-plumed bonnets. tbe
scsIrs was a brilliant one.
The schools in attendance with their
teachers were as follows:
Normal, Edgar Wood: Practice. hIrs
Edgar Wood; Emma Street, Miss Eth
'el Mossman High and Grammar. M
NJ Scott; Kaakopua, Miss NJ J. Cour-
sen; Kaiulani, Mrs. Nina l.. d. Frash-
er: Royal. Rev. a. Macintosh; Pohu-
kama. Miss Zoe Atkinson; Kalihi-wae
afNs %f' ioS6diNt ROBERT
iTRS, Kawaiahao, Mrs. Mary Gum:
Beretania Street, Miss Rhoda Green:
Punahou Street, Miss Mary Ferreira;
Maemae, Miss Cora Henneghan: Kau-
1uMela. II. NJ. Wells; Manoa. Miss
Maggie Dawson; Kakaako, Miss Clara
Quincy; Pauoa, Miss Louise Aheong:
Maxnalua. Miss Ada Lycett.
Promin snt People Preseat.
On the veranda were seated Presi-
dent Dole and Mrs. Dole, the speakers
of the day. the members of George w.
De Long Post, Grand Army of the Re-
p.,s}ie, the donors of the flags; Hon. E.
a. Mott-Smith, Minister Of Public In
st-uction, and Mrs. Z. c. van c. Hall,
Commissioner; Judge Perry, Hon. J.
Lot Kaulukou, Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid,
Mrs. w. F. Allen. j. B. Anterior. and
other weil-known Honolulans.
Under the trees opposite the veranda
were stationed Captain Berger and the
Government band in their newest uni
forms and while the crowds gathered
and the troops of school children came
marching into the grounds, each ac-
compared by their teachers, and took
position about the stand, the band
made the air merry with a program OF
ats latest music.
AT 10 o'clock the exercises began with