The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-05

Ane O1u 1dSA1oueu tIA VI July CeAo-
bration was a success.
Not for many years has there been,
what might be called, such 'congre-
gational celebration" OF the day-sueh
a eongregating of the people for the
conscious and set purpose of celebrat-
ing the day. If other evidence of this
were needed, it would be found in the
frequent comparisons of yesterday s
celebration with those of the years in
the past.
1t is many years since any occasion
has brought to the Capitol grounds as
large gathering as attended the pub
lie literary and musical exercises at 10
O'Clock yesterday. 1t has not happen
often, if at all, that the Declaration
of independence has been read in Ha-
Waii in the hearing of as many people
as listened to its reading yesterday, by
Senator John C. Lane. Lineoln's Get
tysburg address, with it's lofty senti-
ment and rolling periods had more au-
ditors, as it was read by E. B. Ne
Clanahan, than Hawaii has ever fur
nished on one occasion before.
A GREAT AUDIENCE.
The orator of the day, Judge S. B..
Kingsbury, could ask no better gather
ing, better in numbers, or in interest,
than that which almost filed with a
solid mass of patriotic Americans the
section of the Capitol grounds surround
ing the coronation bandstand.
The crowds at the Fourth of July
games at Kapiolani Park were also
large and enthusiastic. The crowds in
the evening at the capitol grounds to
see the fire works amounted almost to
jam.
It was Fourth of July when the
patriotic people did not neglect the
assembling of themselves together. 1t
was a peoples and popular celebra-
tion.
The only parts of the days exercises
which did not rally large participation
were the antiques and horribles early
in the morning and in the more digni-
fed military parade preceding the ex-
ercises at the Capitol grounds. This
parade had originally been designed to
be military and civic parade. 1t was
a parade of the First Regiment, n. q.
H., headed by the Hawaiian band, but
in that it gave the regiment an oppor-
tunity TO show a fine military appear
anee and was the occasion of the first
appearance of the new artillery com
pany.
TRADE CLOSES ITS DOORS.
There was an entire cessation of
trade and the usual avoeations, as there
should have been. Stores of all kinds
throughout the city were closed. There
was a very general display of bunting,
and from every flag staff in town
flag fioated. Some of the displays of
decorative bunting were exceedingly
effective.
AT THE CAPITOL GROUNDS.
The public celebration of the day
centered and eliminated in the exer-
cises at the Capitol grounds. Many
thousand people-people of eleven races
according to Judge Kingsbury's s ora
tion-ioined as hearers or participants
in the presentation of most of the elias
sizes of our national patriotism whether
in literary or lyric expression. 1t is not
program, not only "America - and the
Star Spangled Banner but ''Hail
Columbia the cred, White and
Blue" the "Battle Hymn of the Re
public" and ''Hail to the Flag" Yet
these were all parts of yesterday S
program rendered by an effective choir
accompanied by the band.
And in the literature of patriotism
there are no more stirring classics than
the Declaration of independence and
Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
THE MILITARY PARADE.
In the military parade the First iRegi-
ment, forming at the Drill Shed, and
marching along Hotel street to Fort,
to King, to Bethel, to Merchant, to
Fort, to King and to the Capitol
grounds, made a fine appearance in their
olive drab uniforms, themselves re-
minders of the changes wrought by the
years since blue was, in patriotic CON