The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-03
THE JAPANESE CELEBRATE
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DR.. Haida stepped forward and said;
Gentlemen and all the subjects of
His Imperial Majesty of the Great ia
pan; am pleased TO stand Here before
you tonight and say that our naval
hero Admiral Togo has successfully
shown to the world what we Japanese
can do in handling the modern war
machines. When We look back to the
history of the great generals and the
admirals, we find that Lord Nelson has
been considered the greatest of all adj
mirals; but when Togo was commits
stoned by His Majesty to the command
of our navy, he went out to sea and
Immediately attacked the enemy to its
finish. In the fight in the Korean strait,
he a=tonished the whole world by COM
pletely annihilating the famous Baltic
fleet under Admiral Rojestvensky- 1
am almost certain to say that Admiral
Togos name will ever remain in the
history of the world as the greatest
of all the admirals."
At the conclusion of DR.. Haida s
was unveiled, and the crowd went wild
Standing, they threw their hats into
the air and yelled and yelled, while
the lattice curtain in front of the pic
ture was slowly raised. and while the
band played the Japanese national air
And. as they stood, the leaders pres
emily began to sing the anthem the
crowd ON the ground joining in.
OTHER ADDRESSES.
The second speaker was Vice Consul
Matsura, who spoke very briefly of
the glorious naval victory achieved by
the navy of Japan, and who was en-
Enthusiastically cheered.
Mr.. T. Haramoto, chairman of the
Japanese Hotel Union, was next intro
duced and read from japanese paper,
giving an account of the naval fight.
He touched upon the destruction of
the Russian fleet and commended the
wisdom of Admiral Togo. There
were three banzais.
Mr.. Onodera of the Hawaii Shinpo
was next introduced and spoke as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen: l am exceedingly glad
to be here tonight and express myself
since the outbreak of the war between
Russia and our country (Japan) the
world was somewhat perplexed over
the outcome; but a few days ago his
tory suddenly changed and revealed
Japan as the most wonderful fighter
that history had witnessed. Certainly
it was due to the wisdom of His I'M
perial Majesty supported by the care
more banzais followed.
At the conclusion of this talk, DR..
Haida announced that there would be
a procession of floats and lanterns
formed to go and give banzai to the
friends of Japan. Afterwards, the
marchers would return to the park
and the celebration would be contin-
ued.
The procession formed, under the
leadership of Mr.. Maxine and Mr.. Dol,
and marched like a thing of living fire
to the office of the Shin Nippon, where
an enthusiastic banzai was given. Then
it went winding on out Beretania street
to the Japanese consulate where the
salute was again given. And the en-
thusiasm grew and the procession grew
in size all the way. The procession
next marched to the office of the va
mato Shinbun to the office of the Ha-
wall Shinpo and so into King street,
giving banzai and lighting its own
way. too, like a mighty serpent of fire,
splitting flame. Maybe it was from the
lantern parade that the Japanese got
their notion of the fiery dragon-or
maybe the idea of the lantern parade
came from the dragon. There is much
resemblance, anyway-and the lantern
parade contains about as much fight
to the square inch as the dragon.
Down kiuS street the ceIebrants re-
turned to Aala Park, and there, in en-
closures prepared for the purpose,
there We're exhibitions of Japanese
wrestling and fencing. Then the gel
sha dances started on the platform
from which the orators had spoken
when, suddenly. the crowd in the back
part of the park surged forward re-
sistlessly and the women and children
in the front rank were carried almost
bodily up on the platform where the
dancers We're. A number of little chill
dren were hurt none badly. but the
dancing was stopped
Then some japanese wrestlers took
the central platform, and their exhibit
ton pleased the crowd until a drunken
American tar butted in and got a
heavy fall-after which he paraded up
and down on the platform and chal-
lenged the crowd. big policeman
presently took him away, but the
crowd had begun to break up before
that, and so the celebration was ad
journed for the night
We are well satisfied with the way
that the thing went off" said General
Manager Maxine. But we have con-
cluded to attempt nothing more to- /
night. The celebration will be con-
tinued at one O'Clock tomorrow after |
noon"