The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-26
|p,tine Address of Rear Admiral
ReardsIee at the Place of
Decentralization.
isas on the Spot Where His Old Com
mander Brought Civilization to the
Hermit Empire.

generosity of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha
in placing the ship free at the disposal
of the Beiyu-kai. The officers-Captain
Tsuji, Chief officer Tominaga, Chief En-
gineer Hawaii and Purser S. Sugihara
gave every possible attention. To the
last named, especially foreigners were
indebted for special acts of kindness
The weather was the all-absorbing
subject as the Hakuai Maru started
After about an hours steaming there
was break in the sullen skies and it
was hoped that there might be gen
eral clearing up. But such hopes were
doomed to disappointment and when
the Hakuai Maru rounded to at her
destination in Uraga harbor at IL
O'Clock the scene was discouraging As
a fiotilla of launches put out to bring
the guests ashore, the warships lying
by saluted; there were some dismal at
tempts to set off rockets on shore,
which was crowded to the water with
Japanese, whose yellow umbrellas,
closely ''testudinated," presented a sol
id foreground to the open end of the
horseshoe shaped scene of the actual
ceremony. The outer rim of the horse-
shoe is formed by the surrounding hills
and in the center about 200 yards from
the shore is the Perry monument. The
monument had been surrounded by an
tenelosure open at the side towards ss.the
sea by an imposing tori gateway made
of foliage. The monument itself which
/ was covered with a white cloth, occu-
pied the center of the north side of the
enclosure, the wallis of which were COM
/ posed of covered sheds for guests.
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the Hakuai Maru, from the warships,
from the Yokohama yachts drawn up
in the berths assigned to them, head
ed by their flagship (Mr scidmore's
Yamato DamashiD, from Yokosuka and
i the neighborhood of Uraga ITSELF flock
ed the guests of the occasion. The Ha-
! kuai Maru contingent had been provid-
ed with a pier constructed of pontoons,
whence a walk of hundred yards UP
the beach brought them to the enclo-
sure. Local enterprise had reared two
efhgies on the left-hand side of the en-
J trance-one representing Commodore
Perry and the other Toda Izu-nokamf,
supposed to be meeting. Commodore
Perry's figure was at least startling If
not ferocious. Within the sandy en-
iciosure, whittier the somewhat bedrag-
Igled guests were courteously shown to
their seats by self-sacrificing members
of the Beiyu-kai, there was temporary
lull, while the assemblage was being
completed The seats on the north end
on either side of the monument had
been set apart fer the japanese and
American notables respectively. In
one of the boxes" to use a theatrical
term, dressed in civilian costume, were
General Viscount Katsura, Premier;
IViscount Enomoto, who wore naval uni
form and mass of decorations, and
Imany other leading Japanese, mostly In
official dress. In the olher were Baron
Kaneko. President of the Beiyu-k -kaf
admiral Rodgers, commanding the
United States squadron on this station;
Mr.. E. C. Bellows, United States Con-
. sui General; Mr.. G. H. Scidmore, Dep
uty Consul General, and a considerable
contingent of officers from the ships.
The other sides, except that towards
the sea, were occupied by white-unt-
formed japanese officers and by the
Japanese and foreign civilian guests.
Slowly the guests came in, the appear
ance of the ordinarily garbed arrival
being varied by the entrance of corps
of cyclists and the distribution Of fans
by an enterprising japanese firm.
Shortly before noon a Japanese navai
band (that of the Hatsuse) marched IN
and took up it's station facing the me-
morial in front of which was a roofeo
rostrum and platform from which the
addresses were to be delivered. A strong
guard of honor, consisting of about 5oo
, men, landed from the Japanese ships
also arrived and formed up in Two
large companies behind the bano ana
also fronting the monument
At 1904 .. m. the proceedings pegan'
the band striking up japanese ar
, and Admiral Rodgers being conducted
to the base Of the monument, whence,
first uncovering, he 'fbroke out tne
cords that had previously held i1snt
cloth in front Of the inscription, per-
hitting the characters to appear TO tne
spectators. This was loudly applaudeo.
The monument is huge slab stand
ing upon a square base of granite, ana
this again rests upon large granite
foundation rising some four feet ABOVE
the ground and sloping gently upwards
The inscription on the side facing the
sea was written by Marquis Ito, and
consists ofggilt characters, of which the
, following is a translation:
, This monument marks the landlng-
place of Commodore Perry OF the Unit
ed States of North America.
Marquis Ito .Hirobumi. Highest Or
der of Merit"
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