The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-29
TO GET OFF
AT BUFFALO
Kimokeo and Opu Will Challenge
World and Emulate Webb
at Niagara.

w. Maurice Tobin, or King of the
Midway as he is sometimes called, who
has for some time past been here in the
interests of the Hawaiian Exhibition
Company, which will show at the Pan
American Exposition to be held in Buff
falo, n. Y, this summer, has completed
the recruiting of his company and will
take back to the States with him on the
Ventura, which leaves on April I'd, some
of the leading singers and musicians OF
Honolulu and the other Islands.
Among those who will go are the Ka-
mehameha Glee Club, made up of grad
yates from Kamehameha School. A
number of mat-makers, fan-makers and
! hat-makers have also signed contracts
and will give the American public object
lessons in Hawaiian industries.
! Two Hawaiian ladies, who are well
known in Honolulu as soprano and alto
vocalists, have also been engaged, as has
David Nape, the celebrated composer and
musician and Meka, for long time the
leading flute player in the Hawaiian
band. Mekia is an excellent piccolo SOLO
list and made a tour of America a few
years ago.
Mr. Tobin has decided to take with him
Kimokeo and Opu, two of the best SWIM
mers in the Islands. Kimokeo has beaten
Dan Renear, the ex-amateur 100-yard
swimmer of the world twice, and Opu
has beaten Kimokeo three times. Mr..
Tobin intends to have the men properly
trained and to challenge the worlds best
short-distance swimmers on their behalf.
/ Opu will attempt to swim the rapids at
Niagara. He was at the Worlds Fair
and has seen the rapids and signified his
4 willingness to make the attempt. Dan
/, Renear says that with proper training
the men should more than hold their
own.
players will also make the trip and add
the proper weirdness to the exhibition OF
the Burning Mountain of Hawaii.
( To an Advertiser reporter yesterday
Mr. Tobin said:
II have been engaged while here az
most entirely in the interests of the ex-
hibition, but have tried to stimulate
enough interest to have a representative
Hawaiian exhibit sent to Buffalo. I find
I that nothing will be sent, but that the
prospects of a frst-class exhibit being
! forwarded to ST. Louis in 1903 are ex-
I ceedingly good. I want to see Hawaii
represented at that exposition as she
should be.
II am taking back with me forty peo-
think, not speaking realistically, that I
have secured the best party that has ever
left the Islands. Among them are w. :.
Coelho, the eminent baritone, and g. Fl.
Baker. late of the police department, who
possesses a phenomenal bass voice.
Honolulu was a great surprise to me.
1 didn't expect to find it such an up-to-
date city and was astounded to run
across automobiles, police department
equipped with the latest thing in call
boxes, and 20-second turnout fire sys-
tenn.
1.-THE Volcano consider to be the most
wonderful sight on earth both on ac-
count of its stupendous grandeur and It's
awful depth. l have visited Niagara
yon of the Colorado and the Palisades of
the Hudson, but the Volcano eclipses
! them all spectacularly.
"I am exceptionally pleased with the
kindness and courtesy extended to me
by every one with whom I have had
dealings. Wherever I have been I have
been received with the utmost cordially
and listened to with the utmost consid-
Grafton.
Il have handled natives of nearly ev-
cry country on earth during my twelve
years of exposition life, but I must say
that the native Hawaiians are the most
interesting people, the sweetest singers
and the best musicians OF any of the
dark-skinned races. I will go further and
say that they are the sweetest singers
IN the world
'T had heard stories of the prowess of
the natives in swimming, but until saw
them I did not believe that human be-
ing could get through the water as they
can. I anticipate great results from XII
mckee and Opu when they meet Ameri-
cas- best swimmers, which are the best
on earth"
It is rumored around town that Ben
Bruins will shortly leave for the States
with a native quartet and a company of
hula dancers who will work in connac-
ton with a stereopticon exhibition and
tour the country.