The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-31
CARNIVAL
IN HONOLULU
A Suggestion for a Wild and
Happy Event in This
City.

They had just returned from the
Merchants Fair. A California man had
just lighted a cigar and settling back
in his easy chair on the hotel veranda
seemed entirely at peace with the
whole world.
lust imagine for a moment, said
he, what great possibilities there are
for next year to get UP q carnival IN
Honolulu. Organize carnival III con
nection with next years Merchants
Fair. Start the carnival right now
and keep at WORK on it fO1' a whole
year. Why it would be a laundering
bis scheme and would surely draw
r,any tourists from Japan, China, Aus
tralfa. New Zealand, Canada and the
Mainland If the thing should be done
on lines that L could suggest II would
be the biggest affair ever seen on !
Pacific island. My idea would be 20
take the Capitol building square and
allow hundreds OF pretty boo-hs and
sideshows to be constructed there.
Have rnerry-go-rounds, cane racks and
all that sort of thing. and have every
tree and shrub in the grounds covered
with q few thousand colored lanterns
Then I would utilize the street on each
side OF the square, that is King ana
Hotel streets, for a street fair where
every sort of thing that these islands
can produce could be shown. The
manufacturers could show iron work
ing exhibits ard woodworking exhlb-
its, and If we were clever we could get
Uncle Sans people in Guam, Samoa
and Manila to send along exhibits.
MY idea" ne continued, would be
10 have this carnival last couple OF
weeks. On the first day I would have
a monster street parade in which all
societies, labor bodies. police, fire brig
AIDE. soldiers, etc, would be represented.
On the second day / would arrange for
p parade composed OF nothing but chi
nese, their societies, schools, etc Ihe
Japanese could have the next night, |
and then the natives could be given
show. Following this there could be !
parade of Honolulu maidens-for you
know that you've got some of the pref |
test girls in the world here Then |
there could be happy-g o-lueky parades.
in which every one could be masked. |
This thing I tell you has great pos
sibiIities and two weeks OF the revei- |
cries like / speak of would leave many |
thousand dollars in the hands of your
business people,
But the steamship companies would !
not give us rates to get the people |
hcre.'
Nonsense. The steamship managers
are business men the same as you or
/ are. If they saw that smart. hust-
ling body of live men were filling up |
really big Honolulu Carnival they
would get their heads together and
send hundreds of tourists IN
here on special rates.
Look here, Bill said another
believe that there's something in what
YOU say Many carnivals in cities on
the mainland get hundreds Of visitors
and you know that there would be ten
times as much novelty in coming to
carnival down here in the Pacific
But in addition to that down mere
In the Pacific novelty business there IS
a fine sea trip for the carnival visitor
and we would be sure to draw them,
only it would have to be done in the
right way. We should have to adver-
tise well and in the right quarters
among the right class of people. I'm
going to have yarn or two to bust
ness friends OF mine during this next
week and see what they think of the
Honolulu Carnival.
wen. here's success to the Homo
lulu Carniva1.'