The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-09-27
BUSINESS TO BE ENTIREIY Y
SUSPENDED.
The Decorations of Mourning Continue
To Go up-Memorial Services at Ka-
waiahao Church in the Morning.

| hipuSh IlOUOlulu IOr several DAYS has
| already shown her citizens feelings of
grief over the great national tragedy at
! buiIalo the city will observe tomorrow
| as day set aside for mourning and
| prayer. Indications are that the obser-
vance will be universal. All government
| ofilces and all the courts will be closed
business houses generally of all nation
| allties will suspend busines and even
! the saloons Will close their doors at nine
in the morning and remain. closed until
one o'clock.
Governor Dole and staff will attend
| the exercises at Kawaiahao church IN
the morning and the officers of the Ma
tional Guard will be present in full uni
| form. The Federal officials here will
also attend, and of citizens generally
there will undoubtedly be an assem-
bIage that will fill the large church to
its utmost capacity.
About town new black decorations are
still going up, and many pictures of Nc
| Kinley are shown, draped with black
| The city generally will wear an ap-
| pearance of mourning A few business
houses, mainly those which supply ne
| cessaries of life and which the public
Will have to patroniZe before Monday,
VIII be open part of the day.
The interior of Kawaiahao church is
being draped with black in readiness
for the memorial services tomorrow.
Two sailors from the Iroquois are as
sisting the church workers in the work
which is being done in an effective
manner. ONLY the one tone, sable, is
being employed, relieved by the Stars
and Stripes and quantity of palms
brought from the Government Nursery.
The gallery as well as downstairs is
draped with mourning folds from the
clock to the pulpit. Outside the massive
pillars on each side of the door are
swathed in sable.
There will be memorial services to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock at the
Roman Catholic Church, out of respect
to the memory of President Mckinley.
Several priests are expected on the
steamer Mariposa from San Francisco
but if they do not arrive in time to
deliver the address, His Lordship, the
Bishop of Panopolis will officiate.
Kawaiahao church will be dark with
crepe when the exercises begin. Men
are at work today decorating the in
terror. The choirs' gallery will be drap-
ed in black and all woodwork. the win
dows and pillars will also be draped
The pulpit as well will be covered with
the drapings of sorrow. Outside, the
enrthnce. the columns and the gate post
will be draped.
The inside of the building Is being
arranged for the special accOmmoda-
ton of many of those who are to at
tend. There will be places reserved for
the officials. for members of the various
committees, officials. etc.
The banks will be closed all day to-
morrow, all of them having decided to
suspend business. The Stock Exchange
will hold no meeting, and the court of
Chinatown Fire Claims, which has been
the only court in session since the
news of McKiney's death arrived will
adjourn this afternoon until Monday.
hoe in a n
today, as it has a lot of work to do in
two month limit and cannot afford to
lose and time.
The ornate decorations of the Execu-
tive building are draped in the gloomy
colors of funeral pail today.
The fluted columns with their fOrid
capitals are shrouded in black. The
Italian balustrades are hung with the
same mute trappings of woe. Where
ever the architect set the seal Of his
happier and brighter impulse, black, in
solemn funereal folds hides the deco
ratiOns and reduces the Capitol build
ing in the semblance of a mighty maui
soleum, a symbol of the Territory's
mourning for the lost head of the ma
ton.
The designer of the drapery, A. e.
Murphy of the Public Works Depart
ment has conceived and carried out
most effective scheme. 1t is not an
easy thing to arrange the decking of so
large building as the late palace. on
account Of its fiorid stvle of decoration
and the quantity of cloth necessary for
eIIectiVe results.
The various store windows are ap-
propriately draped throughout town and
timely symbols are shown by the Bank
of Hawaii. The designer of the bank
ing houses draping Charles Fraser, has
been very successful in using just
enough artstically arranged cloth and
ribbon to render a most effective tri- |
butte, the lines of the building being ad-
mirably adapted in the design.