The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-29
How the Day Was
Celebrated
Here.
THANKSGIVING
IN THE CHURCHES
Turkey Feasts in Homes and
Hotels = Sports and Drives
EnIivcn the Occasion.

TT WAS not a real old New England
Thanksgiving in Honolulu yester-
day, but a real Hawaiian day for
giving thanks for the plenty and pros
perity which has visited these Islands
during the past year. But the spirit
of the oId-fashioned family thanksgiv-
ing was apparent in all things just the
same, and all that was lacking was
the falling OF snowfiakes, the jingle of
sleighbells, the bobsled coasting. skat-
ing upon a min pond and washing the
girls faces with snow to redden their
cheeks. These were the elements of
the Down East" Thanksgiving which
were not apparent in Hawaii yester-
day. but the big, juicy turkey gobblers
filled with toothsome dressing, graced
the tables which were surrounded by
grandparents. parents, and the ex-
pectant boys and girls, and there was
just as much cranberry sauce, and as
many mince and pumpkin pies as were
to be found on a New England Thanks
giving table. and in addition. one had
but to look out of wide open windows
to see a landscape studded with nod
ding cocOanut trees. swaying palms. a
nanas and a vista that was all green
and tropical and beautiful. Such was
Thanksgiving day in Honolulu. But at
many a dinner table yesterday there
were homesick ones who expressed a
desire to again be eating their Thanks
giving turkey in a room where a blaz-
ing log-fire cracked and sputtered its
warmth around the guests, where the
window panes were covered with a
thick coating OF frost so inviting upon
which to trace ones initials, and
thence to gaze out upon a landscape
white with an ever-thickening mantle
of snow. Sweet to these in Honolulu
yesterday would have been the distant
sound Of the tinkle. Jingle. tinkle of
sleighbeIls and glimpse of a cutter
swiftly coursing over the white surface
behind a steed all a tingle with the
crisp. biting air.
But Honolulu wore a far different as
pect. for it's Thanksgiving. From
morning till night gay crowds of peO-
pie were upon the streets going or
coming from church. making eXcur-
sions into the country or to the beach
TO take dip into the surf at Waikiki,
and all were attired in costumes suit
ed to a tropical country and to with
stand the fierce onslaughts of Old Sol.
whose face beamed never SO brightly
upon Honolulu and it's holiday crowds
as yesterday Many spent the morning
ir driving TO the Pail and TO Moana-
lua: climbing to summit OF Tantalus
and Diamond Head. or Journeyed into
Manoa Valley. carrying with them well
filed lunch baskets.
Morning services were held in st.
Andrews Cathedral Central Union
Church and the Catholic Cathedral,
and hundreds We're presePt to give
praise and thanks TO God for the gifts,
prosperity and peace which they had
enjoyed during the past year The
services at Central Union were for the /,
Methodist and Christian churches. as
well as for the Central Union. and the (
offerings were divided equally among !
the churches. and the sums so set |
apart were used In providing Thanks !
giving dinners for many who would /
perhaps otherwise have gone without Z
them.
In the afternoon all roads led to the !
campus OF the Oahu College at Puma
Eou' where the Thanksgiving football
game was played. The electric cars
were crowded TO their full capacities
throughout the day. and for two hours
before the game began the cars fol-
lowed one another out on the line to
Punahou in quick succession. several
thousand people being thus carried
through the city Carriages. hacks and
almost every kind OF vehicle which
would hold human beings drove but
two ways during the afternoon-to Pu-
nahou and To Waikiki.
Hardly was the football game over
than the dining rooms were thrown
open, and by o'clock il is safe TO say
that almost everybody in town. who
was not seated al a luau eating young