The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-28
SALUTED
THE FLAG
Patriotism Shown
at Kaahumanu
School.
THANKSGIVING
EXERCISES
Pretty Tableaux Performance by
Various Glasses Written by
Miss Alice King.


patriotic demonstration as that which
took place yesterday at noon at the Ka-
Iahumanu School, when the Stars and
Stripes were raised aloft to the peak of
the new flag staff by grizzled and war
worn members of the Grand Army to
the inspiriting notes from the bugles of
artillerymen from the United States
garrison at Camp Mckinley. Five
hundred and sixty pupils who daily
gather within the handsome school
structure were grouped at the foot of
the towering pole and as the beautiful
emblem of liberty slowly rose to the
peak, five hundred and sixty small flags
were waved enthusiastically and from
the threats of children arose the swell
! ing refrain of America, My Country
'Tis of Thee" 1t was an inspiring sight
when these Young Americans in the
beautiful ceremony of ''Saluting the
! Flag" demonstrated more completely
than the tramp. tramp, of regiments
of soldiers that the principles of Ameri-
canism were being implanted firmly in
the hearts of the coming citizens of the
island territory.
1t was a strange, heterogeneous gath
| ering of boys and girls. File after file
of young Hawaiians marched in the.
shadow of Old Glory, and intermingled
with them were scores upon scores of
Chinese and Japanese, Portuguese and
South Sea Islanders, with here and
there a small sprinkling of Anglo-Saxon
faces Despite the mixture of nationali-
ties which were gathered to do honor to
oil inf he
spirit of the occasion and Indicated
their patriotism in many youthful
ways.
The day will be a memorable one in
the history of Kaahumanu School. The
presence of a dozen veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic which car
ried the same Stars and Stripes through
storms of bullets and shells on the
battlefields of the South which
these young Americans are just begin
ming to read about, was a lesson to
them and the children gazed with in
terest upon these men who were SOL
diers forty years ago, and then upon
the fresh young faces of the two blue
clad soldiers from the garrison at Camp
Mckinley, who have yet to receive
their baptism of fire. When the two
young buglers raised the bugles to their
lips and sounded the beautiful army
Salute to the Flag" another lesson
in patriotism was given the children
and the meaning of the f1uttering SYM
Dol was made more apparent to their
minds
Following the hag-raising ceremony
were the Thanksgiving exercises which
were a complete surprise to the large
audience. inasmuch as it partook of
the nature of a novelty in school en-
tertainments which would be we'll TO
initiate. The piece de resistance was
a Thanksgiving Hookupu," written es- |
pecially for the occasion by Miss Alice |
King, one of the public school teachers.
The Hookupu was in reality a series
of tableaux Illustrating in so many |
scenes the products of the stands, each
class going upon the sage and relating
the history of the products. There was
a cast of characters, typifying Hawaii,
the stage being set with a throne up
on which Hawaii, the queen sat- sur
by kahili bearers to receive the
homage of her subjects. The words and
music were fittingly appropriate to the
and the author is deserving of
much credit for her ingenious com
position. The afternoon exercises were
a literary and musical feast.
Shortly after the noon hour the Ha-
trees in the school yard and played sew
eral selections, while the teachers ,
the pupils into the grounds
and aligned them near the Flagstaff.
At it's foot stood the veterans of Geo.
w. De Long Post, G.. A. r., as fol-
ows: Post Commander w. L. Eaton.
Comrades Geo. W. Smith, John W.
Francis, Louis Adler, ST., r. ]. Green, {
Robert Nelson, VIM. McCandless, Fred
Sherman, L. L. La Pierre and V. S.
Oennison. Near by stood buglers Ar
hur Gendling and John Murphy of the
18th company of Coast Artillery, u s.
\. On the steps We're grouped a bevy
# pretty young Hawaiian girls wearing
els on their hair, who sang Rally
Round the Flag" under the direction of
Y. L. Hogs.
The address was delivered by Rev.
= P. Erdman, who related the history 7
# the making of the flag and gave in
eresting incidents of the flag made of
blue shirt, a white shirt and a lady's
kirt which was hoisted over a fort
Turing the Revolution after a British
orce had been routed.
I'VE are here today to raise another O
lag of the same character. although a
much more beautiful one. We raise it
yer a fortress also. This school is a
ortress where we are all assembled to o
rage war. not a war to kill other peo-
lie, but to kill other things. We are e
ere to fight for the truth. virtue and p
Industry. We are here TO fight against
ice, ignorance and idleness. This flag
ill be a symbol that we have already
ION one victory. When We raise this F
ag it will be an indication that we
ave won victory each day and we
'ill be the conquerors. That is what
e are here for. There is no better F
lace for Old Glory to be flung to the