The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-25

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1t was picture sketched in vivid
,colors against the deep. rich green of
gathered to watch the automobile
parade began to assemble early in
Union Square. and under the trees in
the old palace grounds. The automo-
biles came later to finish the picture,
with their bits of live color.
But a Honolulu crowd is in itself
picture, changing and shifting as
the pictures in an animatiscope-an
very much more consistently pleasing
to look upon.
1t was a crowd representative of all
classes and all the races resident in
these islands, and was most good
natured. In fact, it hardly had time
to lose it's temper even if it had been
SO minded-and it was not SO minded.
The sun shone, and the wind was cool,
and the three mounted policemen who
rode up and down in the square did
little to keep the people back from the
space reserved for the cars. Indeed,
the police if anything, did too little.
The autos could have been seen bet
to the sidewalks. They We're not-and
the crowd had added to it's natural
good-humor the self graduation of
those who have their own way in the
choice of place from which to view
spectacle.
It was a spectacle. on the whole,
worth viewing. Before the crowd be-
gan to gather somebody had marked
great figures in white chalk, from 1 to
IS, down the middle of the square on
the side nearest to the sea, as guide
for the chauffeurs in taking position
prior to the start of the parade, and
at the first these spaces We're respect
ed by the spectators in holiday dress
who early began to flock into the open
roadway at all other points.
Promptly at ten o'clock Governor
Carter who was to act as one of the
Judges of the autos. drove into the
square and was joined there by his
confrere, Ex-Governor Cleghorn. Then,
in a moment, the crowd surged for
ward. there was a cheer along the line
and the frst decorated auto was seen
coming down King street from the di-
rection of Waikiki. turning and run
ming backward and forward the bet
- han.
tonneau. gold and green. with decor
ations of the yellow flowers of the
acacia and the delicate green of pep
per +ree boughs. and it wheeled into 4
line on the space marked for number
two on the square.
Then came a great ear that was &
blaze OF red and white, with a gor-
geous full-pluma ged peacock mounted !
in the front and took its place after
several turns about The square in the
space reserved for number three. The
crowd. in the meantime, was pressing
more and more closely about the z
autos already on the ground. They
came, after the arrival of the peacock
car. faster and faster. A dos-a-dos
with four young society men dressed =
as Pake vegetable vendors, poles and
cabbages and tiIrnips and beets, drew q
a cheer as it forced way for itself !
the press
The crowd pressed more and more G
closely about the cars as the number :
of the decorated vehicles increased.
The judges walked up and down be- {.
side the line. the ladies in the several I!
cars bowed and smiled at their friends, !
a dozen or more kodak amateurs dodg-
ed in and out looking for points from G
which TO snap the most elaborateIy :
designed autos and the Marshal of the :
parade found his duties somewhat ex- e
acting. /!
Presently despite the crowd and the
swallowing up of the police therein
there were eighteen cars on the spaces Q
to them. and Marshal E. M
Boyd took his seat in the tonneau of :
ear No 1 and the procession moved I.
toward Waikiki along King street.
The first car, tonneau decorated
with the silky tassels of the cane was
driven by Mr. Jargstroff, and with him 9