The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-03
San Francisco, Jan. 1, 1908.
II. p. WOOD,
Secretary.

San Francisco, Jan. 1, 1908.
Hon. Sanford B. Dole, Governor Ter
ritory of Hawaii, Honolulu.
The Board of Trade of San Francisco
on behalf of it's two hundred members
and by the courtesy of the CONNER
cial Pacific Cable Company, heartily
congratulates the people of the Hawai-
ian Islands upon the successful laying
of the first great line of the electric
chain which will unite the Occident with
the Orient, through the Paradise of the
Pacific. We join in the Fluctuations
over the momentous event and believe
the cable will be an important factor
in the commercial and Industrial sue
cess and prosperity of Hawaii. May 1t
bind us forever in friendly and business
ties.
r. r. WATKINS,
President.
AS Secretary Cooper read the last
Eustis arose, and in voice every part
of the empowered space in front of the
stand, said:
EUSTIS AS A PROPHET.
"I want to make a prediction. I'm
not much of a prophet, but l will pre-
dict that when you dedicate your new
public building, that you will receive a
message from the President of Mars,
message from the governor of Jupiter
and one from the mayor of Saturn.
daughter and applause.) Why, it was
only twenty-five years before Captain
Cook landed on these Islands that Ben
Jamin Franklin was out with a kite
and a key tied TO the string trying to
fetch something from the storm clouds.
He waited and waited and finally a
shiver came down the line like the rails
ing of the hair on cats back. He
says, She is coming and she came.
remember in my life of going to the
funeral of Morse, the great inventor,
and today you have the fruits of
Mackay, the enterprising man, the
man of action. Today you see the
cars on the streets roll by with elecz
tricity propelling them; you bake your
bread with electricity; you talk thou
sands of miles on wires; you have the
X-rays and can read maR's thoughts,
and the girls can see his heart beat.
Gaughter.)
"I want to express my thanks to the
business men OF Honolulu. They are
among the best / have ever met, full
of enterprise and push. You have
stay 1 don't know where else you can
find business men so full of enterprise.
l went to your theatre the other even
ing and saw production by local tall
ent, and it was surprisingly good. And
so it is in all things here-you have to
rely upon yourselves and il develops
high type of manhood and womanhood.
The beautiful women of Honolulu, God
bless them! / believe / know them all.
Your business men and they have made
my task easy. Why. I have stood on
your street corners perhaps half of my
time, just to watch the pretty girls go
by.
cit is not the hand that lays the
cable but the hand that rocks the era
die that rules the world" daughter
and applause.)
With music from the band, the great
assemblage dispersed.
FAMOUS FLAG RAISED.
The big, handsome thirty-foot United
States flag which foated over the capt.
toll building yesterday in honor of the
celebration was the same one which
has become famous in American-Ha-
waiian history. 1t was the flag which
was raised with so much ceremony on
Flag Raising Day, August IL, 1898,
when the Hawaiian ISLANDS were Tor
maI1y taken over by the United States
by Admiral Miller, Z. S. Must after the
Hawaiian standard had been lowered
from the same staff. Last evening at
sunset a national salute was fired by
the Capitol battery in its honor when it
was lowered for the day.
THE FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
The fireworks display in the Capitol
grounds last evening attracted the1-
sands of people there who filed the
driveways and occupied all the lawn
space about the stand. The detonauon
OF the mortars. with the resulting ex-
blossoms in mid-air. were impressive,
and old and young alike gazed at the
pvrotechnics for more than an hour.
The report from the mortars AT
times was deafening. but II was
all music 10 the sight-seers. Cho-
ruses of ABS" followed each ascend
ing and exploding piece. Wrlggilng
snakes. showers Of sparks, fire balloons
and rockets formed a pleasing SKY
nicture. One bomb exploded In the
trees but no one was hurt