The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-05
GREAT CROWDS To
VIEW FIREWORKS
An Hour of the Marvellous in
Flame and Flight and
Color.

The fireworks in the evening were {
great success. There was not a grea
variety. but there were the old stand
Ibys, OF rockets. and bombs, and NOR
tars, and batteries, and plenty Of red
fire. Col. ]. w. Jones and his corps
of helpers, gave an immense throna
of several thousands in the Capitol
grounds, and other hundreds and thou
sands who watched the pyrotechnics
from distance, a full hour of very
great enjoyment.
| The crowd was a different one from
that which filed the Capitol grounds
in the forenoon. 1t was in many re-
spects a younger crowd; not neces-
sarily younger in years but younger
in spirit Gray-haired men and women
reveled in the unalIoyed wonderment
of children, when a bomb was shot
from its mortar with a great explosion,
displaying a Kaleidoscope shower o.
multicolored sparks in a maze OF
light; then presently far overhead, a
slighter, a more distant explosion was
heard, and a shower of stars, some
green. some golden, some pink. some
cleaning steadily, some scintillating
and coruscating, burst like a great con-
stellatfon near the zenith. To the
hundreds of children of tender years
for there were hundreds of such-it
was a glimpse of fairyland. To many
a little tot the noise of explosion, the
showers of sparks, the swish of rocket
through the air, was a trial of nerve
and self-control, so dread and threat
ening did they seem, so incomprehen~
sible too. But there was a fasclna~
ton about it that overcame fright and
childish apprehension, and go where
one might through the crowd, one
would find little children in parents
arms on fathers shoulders rapt in
absorbing wonderment. To hundreds
of children throughout the city, the
promise that they should be taken TO
see the fireworks had given the glow
of anticipation to the entire day.
All races and nationalities were rep J
scented, as well as all ages in years.
though all were of one race and one /
age in the absorbing interest, the won
derment the satisfaction of the long
ing for the marvellous, the enjoyment .
of flaming color, and of aerial flight, .
which the exhibition aroused and sat- /
isfied.
The fireworks began promptly at
haIf-past seven o'clock with a cam
of rockets that swished, and
wormed, and fretted their way aloft.
then burst into a shower of colored
globules that dropped slowly through
the sky. Then there was a great bat
terry of Roman candles that shot up,
wards in a brilliant succession of red 4
and green and blue and gorgeous ma
genta. Bombs followed that covered
the zenith with new consultations.
themselves by succeeding
explosions as though the aeon long
process of star and world building were
accelerated into an instantaN
1eous process. and was going on right ,
before the eyes of the throng
Rocket succeeded rocket, and bomb !
succeeded bomb, each presenting new
visions of light and beauty. There were
Vivid color in gracefully symmetrical ,
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with blossoms. The eruption of Vesu-
7ius was represented in miniature.
Throughout it all the band played {
stirring music, Rally Round the {
Flag Boys Tramp, Tramp, Tramp i
the Boys are Marching" which some I
thought was God Save Ireland
Marching Through Georgia. and a {
lozen more of the tunes that have I
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asst forty years. There seemed a har-
nony between the music, the bursting
bombs, the exploding rockets, and the
swift moving light and the showers of
sparks. It was a brilliant spectacle.
Nearly every sense was assailed, sight
oy the light and colors, hearing by the
noise and discOrdance of the explosions.
and smell by the fumes of the ex-
Dlosives that wrought the miracles of
the marvellous
The final pieces of the display were ,
4 number of rockets which EXPLODING ;
nigh in the air released glowing stars ,
hat fioated slowly away like pleiades ,
The band played Aloha Oe' and the ,
star Spangled Banner and the fire. +
works. the last formal portion of tho 7
planned and formal program of tbs
days celebration, was finished.
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