The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-11
HOW H|LO
TOWN WILL
CELEBRATE
Big Doing for the
Nations Natal
Day.
Races. and. Barbecue,
and Perhaps a Bull
Fight.
Progress of the Organized Labor
Movement of the Big
Island.

They propose to have a big time
down at Hilo on the 4th of July. Con-
corning the racing there, the Tribune
says:
Racing at HooluIu Park this year
on the Fourth will be up to the stand
ard of former years. The purses
hung up to attract the horse men of
Hawaii and other islands aggregate
! 81 ,5OO.s There will be eleven track
eventss arranged to attract the best
equine metal in the Islands. Should
race number f1ll,- as the committee
hopes. it will be the banner race of
the season on any track. The purse
| is to be S4O0 for this one mile free
for-all dash, providing the we'll known
quartet, Carter Harrison, Aggrava-
ton, Weller and Racine Murphy, will
start If but three starters show up
in this race, the purse is to be $3.50.
The terms are, three TO enter, three
to start. Entries close at noon, Thurs
day, July 2. Scratches must be made
before o'clock a. m, Friday, July 3.
Entries, 10 per cent of purses and no
stall rent charged except to winners.
The races will be under the super
vision of special Fourth of July
committee, consisting of F. Brughelli,
John O'Ronrke, Alex Wilson, j. F.
Clay, John Fitzgerald, Chr. Casten-
dyk, C. f. Wright, Albert Horner and
E. N. Holmes. This committee with
the sanction of the Fourth of July Elk
ecutive Committee has made an agree
ment with the owners of Hoolulu
Park, taking over the entire manage
ment of the races. The Park people
will be paid a percentage of the gate
receipts.
Subscription lists will be circulated
for funds for general celebration and
races, two accounts being kept. Any
surplus left over from the racing this
year will be deposited in the bank
for races for 1904. No subscriptions
for racing will be used for any other
purpose than that for which it was
subscribed.
The races will begin promptly at 1
o'clock on the afternoon of July 4th.
The barbecue, which begins at IL
o'clock a. m, will be over in ample
time to give the people a chance to
see the first race. Horsemen from the
other side of the Island will bring in
their strings and the public will not be
disappointed with the quality or guam
tity of racing.
The suggestion has been made to
the Tribune that the Wild West fea-
lures of the Hilo Fourth of July cele-
bration be given greater variety by
the addition of a Spanish bull fight.
The suggestion is a capital one. A bull
fight would round out the day TO per-
lection. As toreador in chief we sug-
gest choosing a man who is an eques-
trian expert and close student of the
idiosyncracies of bulls. Mounted on
1.-THE polo pony, attired in fluttering
robes of purple, green and red, there
is not a bovine on Hawaii that would
not show fight if confronted by him
in the center field at Hoolulu Park.
His lance would glitter in the air with
dazzling effect before it sought the
heart of the OK. The OK could then
be turned over to the barbecue conf
mittee to be roasted for the multitude.
In the same connection the Herald
has this:
In addition TO the racing events
there will be other attractions which
should bring n large crowd TO HilO.
The events viii all be in the hands
of the committee and prizes will be
offered for base ball and polo matches
as we'll as for brOncho riding and rop-
ing and tying steers.
The ceremonies attending the for
nal breaking ground of the Kohala-
Hilo railway will be made interesting.
There will be speeches, recitations,
vocal selections and choruses and in
strumental music by the Hilo band.
The barbecue will be an interesting
feature: at least three steers will be
roasted on the spits and the meat will
be served to the audience.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The Hilo Agricultural Society held
a special meeting last Saturday after
noon at the Office of c. Furneaux. The
meeting was called to consider COM (
relating to having a rep
resentative of the fruit shippers in
San Francisco who would look after
their interests, it being the intention
of the shippers TO consign all ship
ments as a whole TO the one represent /
alive, thus doing away with the COM 1
missions to the various consignees, /
which in the past has proved unprofit-
able. The meeting was one OF the
largest in attendance since the organ
ization and enthusiasm was shown by
the various talks made on the banana,
and forage plants. Tapioca
was found TO be grown to consider
able extent in the district, one mem