The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-17
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Regatta Day was celebrated on Sat
urday with all the traditional features.
From early morning until late evening
Honolulu was at the water front. There
was long day of races and aquatic
games that kept the crowds interested
over towards the Waianae mountains
and every one was weary and tired out
with the excitement and the fun of the
day.
If you had searched the whole world
over you would scarcely have found
fairer sight than the harbor presented.
With every vessel in port fiutter from
bow to stern with flags and bunting,
with the club boat houses smothered
in waving pennants and colors, every
dock head and coign of vantage crowd
ed with people in their Sunday best the
whole scene was one that will be pho
tographed on the memory of every
man. woman and child that saw it.
Not only were all the deep water
craft along Naval Row decked out with
flags but the Island steamers and the
small fry of the harbor, too. Every ma
tive boatman was out with his little
boat. a flag at her bow, the craft all
clean, neat and spick and span with new
paint and gay cushions. The yachts,
such of them as We're not entered in
the races, swung at their anchors with
flags strung from topmast to bowsprit.
and many of the wharves were also
hung with flags.
And the crowd was everywhere. The
Wilder ana Inter-Island wharvcs were
banked with people dozens deep. the
Pacific Mail dock was thronged all its
great length with them. Those of the
Island steamers which lay at their
wharves were so crowded from upper
deck to steerage that they listed heav-
lily to the side where the interest COR
the moment conferred. Ol Naval Row
the ship captains kept open house and
the awning covered quarter decks were
all alive with men in duck and ladies
In the gay colors of one or the other
= boat clubs. The two big harbor tugs
were strung with the American and
Hawaiian colors and all the flags in
their signal lockers and they also bore
crowds of sightseeing visitors. Little
steam and naphtha launches darted
hither and yon over the crowded wa
tiers, yachts with all sails set swooped
up and down, native canoes, manned
with stalwart brown bodied Hawaii
ans SKINNED back and forth. and shore
boats by the hundreds, loaded to their
water lines with men, women and
children were everywhere.
The government tug Eleu was about
the busiest and most important craft in
the harbor. She carried during the
most of the day the members of the
Regatta committee. Arthur Wilder,
with a big megaphone in hand stood
conspicuously on her quarter deck and
there directed the course of events,
called out the starters for the races and
informed the public of what was doing
and what was to be done.
When the yacht races began and all
of the boats had been sent over the line
the Eleu with newspaper men and off,
Gals on board went along with the
yachts and accompanied them over the
entire course to watch for accidents
and generally to see that all went on
well.
Later in the afternoon the Eleu took
on board Captain Berger and the Ha-
waiian band. which up to this time had
been playing with futile vigor in the
midst Of the crowds on the Wilder
wharf, and circled the harbor during
the rest of the day. serenading the boat
clubs or laying alongside the judges
stand to play for the winners and the
losers In the different events Besides
the band there were a number Of ladies
on board and they sang Hawaiian songs
and National melodies to the delecta-
ton Of everyone.