The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-22
At WORK ON DISPLAYS.
FAIR PAVILION GETTING IN
SHAPE
The Territorial Band Has Special
Program on Hand For The
Opening.

Inc exhibitors are getting down to
work with their displays i'm the big
pavilion of the Merchants Fair The
building is receiving the finishing
touches today with strips of weather
boarding to fill up the cracks by which
. the peeping Thomases of the com
muHity might poke inquisitive sticks
or the whirling dust get inside to the
detriment of exhibits.
Henry May and Company have their
designer at work with the carpenters
| erecting the skeleton of booth in
which their goods will be shown Rice
and Perkins are next door with a big
showing Of photographs of local
scenery and portraiture. over in the
mauka Waikiki corner the Honolulu
| Brewery has erecte dthe muslin clad
walls of a bower which is being turn
ed into an arbor with clinging hop
vines growing over the lattice under
the skilful hands of a scenic artist.
The Pacific Hardware Company ex-
hibitors were over looking their space
this morning and from overheard fra
gments they will have an interesting
stand displaying some specialties car
ried by the firm in which live stock are
to take an active if involuntary part.
The center of the floor space, aside
from the Offices and information bureau
of the fair, will be mainly occupied by
exhibits from various carriage con-
Germs with a brilliant display of the
very latest and SWEETEST things in We
hicles and harness.
T. H. Davies and company and other
wholesale firms will make exhibits at
once interesting and novel. " is colt
in these quarters that the fair offers
the practical advantages of an annual
catalogue without the expense attach
ed to the lattr and will, beside display
ing lines of goods to the outside mer-
chants of the islands, succeed in di-
verting many of the orders for goods
which are now sent to the mainland
in the idea that local wholesalers either
do not carry the lines or carry them
lat prohibitive prices. Many lines
which cannot be carried by travelling
statesmen nor adequately described in
any way short of exhibiting the actual
article will be shown i'm the pavilion.
Pearson and Potter have a line of
sporting goods for show which will in
clude the latest ping pong parapherna-
liza and a table fitted up for the use
of patrons Of that pastime, who visit
the fair.
The Hawaiian Electric Company,
who will have a model of high ten
sion testing machine as their exhibit
through which many effective expert
ments with a high voltage and long
arcs can be shown, are busy Install
ing connections for the pavilion. Eight
big arc lights wifi illuminate the in
terror while many of the exhibitors
will have individual lights in their dis
plays.
Professor Berger has been hard at
work arranging and copying scores of
many of the choruses and some of the
solos from Lucrezia Borgia and is
persistently practising the chorus Or
chestra and soloists. The band has been
divided into a string and brass orches-
| ira with several of the men reserved
as singers. Mrs. Alapai and Miss j.
Keliiaa sing the solos while three girls
augment tn chorus. The effect is very
pleasing, the male choruses in parti-
cular being rendered eXcellently.
This program has been arranged es-
! pecially for the fair by the kappelmeis-
ter, who has spent much time over it.
/ The orchestra will be placed in a tent
The band will play at the races at
| Kapiolani park in the afternoon and
also in the evening at the pavilion.
The baseball league holds a meeting
/ today at which it is expected that the
baseball games for Saturday win be
| postponed until Monday or Tuesday.
! The cricketers have some of them pro-
| missed not to play and those who wish
| to play out the match will be hard put
to 1t to find full elevens, A baseball
| team from Maui is expected to arrive
! on the Claudine Sunday and in that
lease a game win be arranged between
them and the Kamehamehas or the II.
A. c. The polo race and gentlemens'
riding race have both received many
| entries and those events are now a
| certainty for the race program.