The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-21
MANY PEOPLE Of HONOLULU
SPEND SUNDAY At THE BEACH
Aquarium Draws Well and So Do Various Re-
sorts, But Makee Island is Not
Crowded.

The little fishes flashed their gaudy
| colors around and around in the big
glass tanks, the great restless shark
swan tirelessly before the multitude
| of spectators gathered to look down
upon his bulk, and the octopus family
| sprang like tigers upon the crabs
| dropped down to them at feeding time.
| For the Aquarium was open, al
| though it was Sunday, and the fishes
knew nothing of mems Sabbath laws
| They would have circled their tanks
even though none had been there to see,
and the voracity of the octopus family
would have lost nothing of its feroci-
Gus aspect The octopus is a hideous,
distorted epitome of all that nature
holds of the ferocity of the strong
High Sheriff Henry had allowed the
Aquarium to open as an educational
institution, and the place had the
markable thing was that most of the
visitors We're japanese, a fsh-eating
people, and it is said that this is true
upon other days besides Sunday.
The band played at Makee islanu,
and there was a gaily dressed crowd OF
gaily talking people grouped about the
pavilion wherein Herr Berger welded
his baton in the usual graceful fashion,
but the crowd at the Park was MOI
so large as it has been upon previous
Sundays. The fact that baseball was
believed to be tabu may have hau
something to do with this-and there
may have been certain timidity hav-
ing its birth in the talk of the renewed
enforcement of the Sunday law. Homo
lulu folk may have hesitated to ven
ture abroad through fear of what
1t was a groundless fear, as the
event showed. The boys could have
played baseball at the Park had they
been so minded, with nobody to say
them nay so long as they We're orderly
about it and made not too much noise
and there was not an arrest at Wal
kiki all day for violation of the Sum
day law
And at that the beach resorts We're
all open, the surf was alive with bath
ers and boating parties. autos whizzed
along the roads backward and forward,
the usual carriage parties We're our
taking the sun and the air, the chill
dren romped, the dogs barked, the
peacocks strutted and young lovers
walked sedately under the ironwood
trees in the sight of the multitude.
Nearly all the life that was in Homo
lulu at all, in fact, was at Waikiki.
The city proper was closed as tight
as a drum, with not an Indication any
where that anybody intended to defy
the law, up to shutdown. The news
boys were told that the street sales of
the Sunday Advertiser must cease at
9 a. m, and of course the boys needed
the behest of the police. The boy
always heeds the behest of the police I
man. It is to be observed that the
prey is ever mindful of the wish of IT'S
natural enemy.
The cigar and soda water STANDS,
fruit and other stores that We're usual |
ly open on Sunday, were all closed, eA-
cepting the drug stores, the BARRIERS
shut their shops at 9 a. m, and in |
Chinatown the Japs and Chinese not /
only kept their doors bolted but for |
the most part kept out of sight them
selves. The Asiatic quarter of Homo
lulu has never been SO still as it was
from sunrise to shutdown yesterday.