The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-20
REGATTA DAY WITH
ITS ENJOYABLE
FEATURES
THE WATERFRONT CROWDED
WITH PEOPLE TO WITNESS THE
RACEs-THE MYRTLE BOYS WIN
THE FIRST EVENT.

Regatta Day opened bright and clear
with a crispness in the air that was a
sort of echo of the chill that made
blankets comfortable during the night.
But the crispness very quickly wore off
and the chill of the night melted under
the hot sun untempered by enough
breeze from any quarter to break the
flags that were everywhere hung out
from their flag staffs.
But there was abundant evidence
everywhere that it was a holiday. Mute
and dissolving testimony to this fact
was given by the melting blocks of ice
left by the icemen at the doors of the
down n-town business houses, doors
which in most cases were not to be
opened during the day except to ad-
init some clerk anxious to clear up
work that had fallen behind, or the
head of the firm taking advantage of a
quiet day to work out some Of his busi-
ness problems.
But there were more heads of firms
out enjoying the holiday than there
were solving business problems in the
quiet of closed offices. A good many of
them were out with the youngsters of
the family and had to listen to juvenile
expert opinion of the relative merits
of crews and yachts, and even to join
in the discussion of victory and defeat.
1t may be said however that for the
most part these heads of firms who are
also heads of households seemed to en-
joy both the discussions and the holi-
day a well as anyone.
There was evidence that it was hol-
iday too, in the direction of the stream
of travel on the streets. Everybody
seemed bound for the water front.
Pains cars used the seldom used tracks
along the Esplanade, but the crowds
brought by the electric cars had either
to walk from the car line to the water
front or take hacks. But there was no
mistaking the direction in which the
crowds were going.
Further evidence, if further evidence
were needed, that the day was a holi-
day, was given by the attire of those
on the street. There was little to sug-
gest the work-a-day world. Everybody
had on holiday attire and nearly every
= body showed the colors of one or the
other of the rival boat and yacht clubs
whose rivalry at the oar-was one of the
most absorbing features of the days
program.
The entire water front was early a
scene of the greatest life, activity and
color. The crowds got down early.
The boat club houses were the rendez-
yous of many of the holiday makers
The Myrtle club house is in a location
new since last regatta day, and this
was the first opportunity many of its
hundreds of friends had had to see II
since it was moved out beyond the
channel wharf. And although the new
location makes it much further from
town than it formerly was, there SEEM
ed no indication that any friends re-
manned away on this account, so gen.
erous was the hospitality dispensed
and so generous the response to It,
The Healani club house too was the
mecca of hundreds of friends who
make regatta day a long enjoyable ho-
liday. The fact that the two club
houses are not now almost side by side
was a new feature of this Regatta Day
and was much commented on by the