The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-19
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FOUNDERS DAY MEMORIAL
EXERCISES.
Services at Mausoleum Grounds Beauti-
ful and Appropriate-Luau This
Afternoon-Services This Evening.

The memorial services i'm celebration
of Founders Day at the Kamehameha
Schools were carried out with imposing
ceremonial this morning a the MausO-
leum grounds on Nuuanu Avenue. The
brilliant weather. the beautiful sur
roundings of the monument, the wen
set up manly looking boys, from young
sters in white suits to the lads in their
smart uniforms of cadet gray, the fine
healthy, hearty looking girls in white
dresses, all conspired to make the cere-
mony imposing and beautiful.
AS the procession of some three hum
dred pupils marched i'm slow procession
and afterwards grouped themselves
with military regularity and precision
around the monument 1t was hard to
imagine a better looking assembly from
any public or private institution in
America. Everybody marched well,
boys and girls alike, and seemed to en-
ter thoroughly into the spirit of the
occasion with gravity Of demeanor
that behtted the day and the respect
paid to the memory of their beloved
founder Bernice Pauahi Bishop.
At half past eight this morning the
companies formed at the schools and,
seated i'm special cars on the Rapid
Transit lines, We're taken to Judd street
the boys band directed by Captain
Berger playing Maui" and other airs
during the ride and the subsequent
march down Judd street and up Nuuanu
valley to the gates of the mausoleum
grounds.
The formation had a muddy march
along Judd street and detours were oc-
siOnally made to avoid the larger pud-
dies. Approaching THE grounds the
music changed to a dirge, the drums
were mufhed, and with slow step the
pupils proceeded to the monument
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bearing also the names of the last Ka-
| mehamehas Facing the granite erec-
ton behind which the mountains with
their crests veiled in clouds peeped
brightly between the luXuPiant foliage
the pupils drew up in the following for
nation after wreaths and leis of flowers
had been strewn around the base of the
memorial.
To the right and left in slanting lines,
forming two sides of a hollow formation
and inwards stood the girls forty-four
in each company in double rank. The
third side, directly facing the monu-
| ment, was composed of the younger
boys from the Preparatory School also
| in double file of regular formation
| Back of them We're ranged the elder
lads in double file and in three COM
| panies, the band being in the middle in
''fours deep"
Major E. G.. Wilson. in command of
the battalion kept the ranks aligned
and was the leader of the march. After
the decoration, the girls clear trebles
! repeated in unison texts selected for the
| occasion followed by the piping voices
of the youngsters from the Preparatory
| school, followed in their turn by the
deeper tones of the boys, many of them
with an adolescent growth of early
beard and the gruf voices of early
| manhood.
c. r. King, musical director for the
! schools then stepped forward and un-
| der the direction of his baton the en-
j tire assembly sang in pleasing harmony
the hymn only Remembered" Next
! came the most poetic. most pathetic eff
feet of the ceremonial.
AS at Chatauqua and similar institu-
tions, the girls Of the Kamehameha
schools have 'call' of their own,
! which i'm this instance is particularly
! appropriate coming from the girls
| whose care and education under such
! happy circumstances was made possible
! through the liberality and womanIy
! thoughtfulness of their founder once a
girl of their own race, and age who
provided for future generations what
! the past mad for SO many ages lacked.
Across the green lawn in front of the
monument, under the smiling skies of
| HAWAII, while every one stood bare
! headed in reVerent remembrance the
! call OF the girls to their founder sound
| Vu SNeelly' fdlnIly at tlrSt from one
rank, taken up by the opposite, echolne
from the trees and the mausoleum
! where the remains of their beloved
founder lie sleeping aloha Pauahi''
swelled and died away, to be taken up
! again by the clear, fresh young voices
in musical phrase, ending I'm a few
sweet notes Of farewell and love that
must have thrilled through the heart
OF the granite mausoleum and stirred
the ashes of the sleeper beneath.
! The boys replaced their hats, which
| mad been doffed during the ceremonies.
Major Wilson gave the command and
the band, this time at the head, led the
procession and played a funeral march
as the pupils filed out of the gates
| ranked in "fOurs." First the elder BOYS
then the younger ones and finally the
girls The procession turned mauka
| and marched to Wylle street where
they rejoned the cars.
A big luau is to be held this afternoon
starting at 1870 at the manual school
and will serve to make the day a me-
mory of pleasant thoughts as well as
sad ones. At half past seven this even
! ing public memorial services are TO be
held at the Bishop Memorial Chapel.