The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-27
DEN0UNCES THE
HAWAIIAN MIDWAY
Miss Rose Dawson Raises a
Breeze Among the
Directors.

| The latest Town Talk" contains an
article on the Hawaiian hula shows
lat the Pan American Exposition in
(which the affair is given severe slap
lby Rose c. Dawson, commissioner
from Hawaii During visit to the
| Hawaiian Village Miss Dawson took
I'occasion to score the promoters of the
| show roundly for the vulgar produc-
ton which they were giving to the
people, and gave them a tongue-lash-
ing which they probably remembered.
Town Talk says;
| The hula hula, as exhibited at the
Pan American Exposition, has created
more talk among the commissioners
than if the gods of Mauna Loa had
risen in riot. Miss Rose Dawson, the
special commissioner from Hawaii
started the crusade. Miss Dawson is
a native with English blood in her
veins; she is a teacher and evidently
knows how to tighten up school topics
and burn down hula hula exhibitions
She stayed over time here in San
Francisco and was consequently tri-
file tardy in reaching the Exposition
grounds. OF course, her first walk was
direct to the Hawaiian Village. There
she started back aghast to see the hula
hula in its widest swing and overhead
giant banner proclaiming to the
world that the SenSuous movements
and gay things on exhibition repre-
scented the simple village life OF
peaceful Hawaiians."
The spieler and ticket agent hadn't
missed a trick and had a show going
that they warranted hot enough to
burn the rest of the Midway regular
hasheesh dream of the Orient spectac-
ularly staged with western reckless
ness AT the sight of it all Miss Davi-
son threw up her hands in horror and
fled straight to the director general S
department. Her eyes famed With in
dignation, while in vigorous terms she
denounced the lewd orgie and declared
that the dancers on exhibition repre-
scented only the very lowest strata OF
Hawaiian humanity moreover they
are never seen and seldom heard of in
Haawiian life. Only vie, depraved be-
ings assiduously hunting the slums
there would ever stand the slightest
chance of finding such immoral things
1t is a crying shame that they should
be allowed to use the name of Hawaii
on their banner and thus misrepresent
the customs of good people In this
manner. gray-beard director at
tempted to appeaSe the flushed and in
oignant young woman by calling her
attention to the fact that the good
names of other nations were being
similarly traduced by rapscallion off
scourings but Miss Dawson rightly re-
piled that that was no excuse to so
traduce the land she specially reprer
scented, and forthwith she gave them
another ten minutes roast on the
scandalous show that was too indecent
even to be tolerated in Hawaii. She
had the directors on the hip, for every
body had to privately admit that the
exhibit really raised the temperature
of hot day in the East.
Miss Dawson went to Buffalo to pre-
pare a school exhibit, to illustrate ma
tive education on the Islands Origi-
nally the long-headed directors had as
signed space for it to the extent of
6x feet, almost room enough to ex-
hibit a wafer blackboard; at the same
time the happy hula hula Hawaiian
villagers had been allowed several
thousand square feet, all of which went
to show how the management figured
out the value of life and education on
the Islands. But after Miss Dawson 6
scathing remarks the directors pursed
their wise brows and endeavored to
ideal out a measure of exposition JUS
tice; they promised to order the hula
hula toned down, and to give her
40 so feet for her school exhibit. So
the voice of Hawaii prevails at the
Pan-American Exposition, and on the
strict Q. T., SO do the movements of
the insidious hula hula, nothwith-
standing It's condemnation, for on such
persecution do such, things thrive.