The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-03
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION
EVERYBODY SEEMED TO TAKE
PART IN IT.
Highly Successful observance of the
Day-Parade and oratory in the
Morning-Sports in the Afternoon.


enjoy the public holiday and from first
thing in the morning until after the or
chestra had furnished music for the
last dance everybody seemed to enter
into the general spirit of holiday max
ing with a zest. The parade of the La
Dor men, to whom the day belonged,
was unusually excellent, everybody
went to the reviewing and listened 20
the orators of the Jay, Lorrin Andrews,
T. McCants Stewart, Francis Murphy
and Franklin Austin.
In the afternoon came the sports out
at Kapiolani Park, with races of all
descriptions and two good baseball
games. The day was turned into a
grand picnic party and few stayed
away from the field sports. At night
the ball at the drill shed brought out all
those who were not already too tired
with their holiday making and put a
lifting and animated close to perhaps
the most successful and heartily ap-
preciated holiday that Honolulu has
enjoved for many days
The parade started shortly after 9
O'Clock with greater show OF prompt
tude than is usual. forming on Miller
street and marched directly through
the grounds of the Executive building
passing in front of the reviewing party
while everybody was fresh
The band led the long procession in
to the grounds as il swung i'm excellent
order into the space i'm front of the re-
viewing stand, for which the Eva
portico of the Executive building had
been selected.
On the stand were Governor Dole
and General Breckenridge with the
officers of the staff, Mrs. Dole, Mrs.
Robinson. Mrs. White and Miss Adams
being members Of the party.
After the band and Grand Marshal
Heffner with his aides came the reg
ulars, marching in excellent shape un-
der the command of Major Davis. They
consisted of the two batteries COM
manded by Captains Shaker and Ketch-
am and were in fine fettle with their
khaki uniforms and well kept accou-
trements. As the men passed the stand
they pres nted arms and received the
returning salutes of their reviewing
officers. Immediately following came
the various unions of the men i'm whose
honor the day is held, with their floats
and attractive costumes salutug the
reviewing Dartv as they passed.
The crowd followed the parade out
of the grounds where thousands more
were awaiting the grand march of the
parade through the streets All the
street crossings were packed and pro-
gress up Fort street to points of van
tage was no easy matter.
After some delay in getting the line
up, the parade formed in marching or
der and with mounted patrol policemen
to clear the way started in procession
headed by the Grand Marshal and the
band of the Territory. Next came the
big banner with the emblem of labor,
the arm and hammer. heralded upon
its folds with the Stars and Stripes
and the Hawaiian colors, followed by
Marshal Thomas McRae with his aides
and officers and the orators Of the day
in carriages; Lorrin Andrews and T.
McCants Stewart with Francis Murphy
and Franklin Austin. Uncle Sans
regulars, close behind set the step and
formed a pattern of precision for the
main parade.
The first union represented in line
was that of the plumbers, nattily at
tired in white and bearing little Jap
anese sunshades.
They marched well and presented the
opulent appearance that was to have
been expected. Shirtwaists were the
order of the day. Thirty electrical
workers carried wands of brass tipped
with red white and blue globes, every
man being crowned with a carnation
lei. Their float was gai1y decorated
with bunting and carried a stock of
electric fans, dynamos, meters, bells
and telephones with the fans and the
bells in WORKING order. The carpenters,
plasterers and bricklayers in neat cos
tunes and light marching order came
ahead of the painters float, which con-
sisted of a canvas house into which
the details were sketched by the artists
with paint brush and pot during the
march.
| Two clowns on asses followed the
float with the Painters Union at their
heels. More music emanated from
the Portuguese band almost drown
ed by the hammeringg from the
boiler makers float farther down the
line. Perhaps the most popular union
in line yesterday came next, the sail
ors. All were dressed as nicely as comic
opera sailors with white blouses and
blue trousers. The Stars and Stripes
went ahead with their float whale
boat transformed into the model of a
full rugged ship with all sails furled.
The moulders had a life like model of
a furnace on their float with flame
and smoke rendering things hot and
choky for the men that tended it and
the moulders marching behind, who
tried to defend their eyes from the
smoke with the parasols they carried.
Clang! Clang! Rattlety, Bang! came
the noise of some enthusiastic MEM
bers of the boiler makers, who, inside
monster boiler on a dray were call
ing attention to their calling by ham,
mering away at rivets and working in
like manner on a supposed section of
ship building work.
A sausage WAGON, the Hawaiian Soda
Works, squirting soda water impartial
ly from siphons. Miller's candy wagon
and the display of the Brewery were
all welcomed by the crowd, many of
whom tasted samples of the various
Industries. One of the Brewing Com
pany's wagons represented in paint
and canvas a model Of the elevation of
the brewery itself, while a tovial gen
! tleman in Shakesperean costume and
an impossible wig acted the part of
the deus ex machina and dispensed
liberal schOoners of the amber liquid.
Levers and Cooke had over a dozen
well teamed wagons in line carrying an
exhaustive display of the firms stock
Including every imaginable style of
lumber from shingles TO gate posts.
The parade was enthusiastically re-
ceived the length of the line by the
who followed hack IN the