The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-28
MERCHANTS
FAIR IS A
SUCCESS
Pavilion Is Filled
With Pretty
Exhibits.
GREAT CROWDS SEE
OPENING SIGHTS
Every Branch of Trade Is Repre-
ssnted in Well Filled and
Decorated Booths.

THOUSANDS of people passed
through the aisles of the Mer.
chants. Fair pavilion Saturday
evening and admired the displays
made by the merchants represented
So great was the crowd that it was
impossible for the visitors TO be kept
in motion. and at some times there was
a complete congestion of the passage
ways. Estimates of the number of per-
sons In attendance vary, but conserva-
tives think there were from 5000 to 5000
people about the building and the
grounds during the evening.
order out OF the seeming chaos which
distinguished the condition of the pa
viiion during the earlier hours Of the
day, came with the lengthening of the
shadows. and when the lights flashed
and to the accompaniment of the rnu-
sic of Berger the crowds began to pass
through the building. there was ready
for them display which in it's units
was one full of merit. In its way, con-
sideration being given to the time in
which the exhibits have been got to-
gether and as well the circumscribed
space allotted to the various firms taxi
ing part. the fair of the Merchants
Association is one which would be cred
liable to any community. In the mat
ter of the artistic displaying of the
goods and the perfection of the deco
rations there is not perhaps in the en-
tire list one exhibit which would not
rank we'll with the best things ever
done at the MECHANICS Fair N San
Francisco.
There are in the fair thirty-four ex-
hibits. distinctive as to their showing
of materials and so divided that there
is little chance for a visitor to look
for something and not find it. IN ad-
dition to this exposition of the trade
facilities of the city there is a feature
which appeals to the practical side. for
the association has taken the space be-
tween the doors ON Hotel street and
which Is in charge Of Mr.. Bucklan3,
who receives and makes at home any
visitor and furnishes Information as TO
the exposition and the city and acts as
Rrepresentative of the fair commit
Tee in all ways.
The complete list of the exhibitors in
the fair as as follows: Levers & !
Cooke. II. Hackfeld & Company, Homo
lulu Iron Works, the display being that |
in fact OF the master plumbers. for the
goods came from the works but were
prepared by exhibition and bear
the names of the plumbers; Hawaiian I
Electric Company. California Feed
Company, eastman & Nelson, Guy
Owens Electrical Company, Union Feed
Company. Honolulu Brewing and Malt i
ing Company, Bergstrom Music Com
pa1y, National Cash Register and Sing I
~ Sewing Machine Company, Pacihc
Vehicle and Supply Company, c. F.
Herricl< Carriage Company, G.. Schu-
man & Company, j. G. Costa and ".
c. Macedo. Pacific Guano and Fertilizer
Company. Pearson & Potter Company,
Rainier Beer, w. W. DImond & Com
pany. A. a. Montana. Benson Smith
* Company w G. Peacock & Com
pany, Henry May & Company. Terri
torial Messenger service. J. A. M. john
son. Rice &. Perkins, Porter Furniture
Company. Hawaiian Fertilizer Com
pany and the Metropolitan Meat Com
pany.
In point OF interest the display of the
Hawaiian Electric Company held the
center OF the stage with the crowds
last evening and promises to so con-
tinue during the life of the fair. The
novelties there displayed which held
the attention of the visitors are so new
that even recent visitors TO the main
land have never seen such exhibitions
of the power of the electric fluid and
the phenomena are curious and full of
The principal effect is one
which brings into action 10000 volts of
electricity and there is produced light