Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-23
LOCAL SPORTS 11T!e1n
Kite Flying
Being Schemed
By Mr.. Osborn

II looks as though George Osborn
is to have his kite-nying festival on
Punchbowl hill. Moreover, It is like
ly to become an annual event that
will not only bring out all the Jap
anese and Chinese for one day Of the
year but both haoles and Hawaiians
as well, for II is to be a sort of homeL
international contest affair.
Osborn has interested Japanese and
Chinese in his project and is now
seeking cooperation in other direc-
lions.
At Nagasaki. in Japan, some thirty
thousand japanese go up the sacred
hill back of the city one day every
year to fly their kites. 1t is a Won
derful sight, 10000 gaudy kites in
the air and not one string crossing
the other, for the japanese pride
themselves on their skill in so ma
nipulating their kites that they never
come in contact with each other.
The Chinese put resin on their
strings and try to saw through the
cord of rival, some of them even
go so far as to attach steel blades
every few yards on their cords, so
that by saving back and forth,
whore thousands of kites are being
flown, many are set adrift.
Brother Osborn is going to have
troubles when he opens his contest
to all corners. The japanese who
lose their kites are apt to turn on the
Chinese who cut the cords, and II is
dollars to doughnuts that the Ha-
walian boys, assisted by the Portu-
guese, will commissariat any stray
kites that touch the ground within
their reach; and that will make more
pilikia.
But perhaps Brother Osborn has
thought out, rules and regulations
and will turn out rs wise manipu-
lator of kites as was the famous Mr..
Dick" who taught David Copper
field how to send up volumes OF his
tory into the realms of space.
If The Kite-Flyers' Association is, ac-
cording to Manager Osborn, to take
charge of the winding pathway up
Punchbowl hill. It is his plan to
have the japanese, aud perhaps the
Rev. Mr.. Usbourn assist in laying
out hau-tree and bougainvillea ar
bors. SO that the spectators may in
time ascend the slope beneath a
shady bower. He will ask the pu-
pills OF the Normal School to under
take to keep the pathway in order
once it is planted. The completion
OF the Nuuanu dam makes 1t possible
to carry water to the top of Punch
, bowl and let 1t come down in a gen.
tie, zigzagging stream that will wa
ter the plants and vines planted in
earth that will have to be carried up
to holes blasted In the rock.
II Mr.. Osborn's annual kite festi-
val scheme provides the incentive
that will create decorated arbor-
way up Punchbowl hill, he should be
hailed as Il public benefactor. There
is no reason why the japanese and
Chinese la Honolulu should not set
aside a day for the exercise of their
national sport, and, If Promoter Os-
Lorn can secure sufficient number
CT entries from haoles, Hawaiians,
Portuguese, Chinese and japanese by
The LIST of lima he tntands hoyip ~
the first contest for the Osborn medal
brought of on top OF Punchbowl hill
next Kamehameha Day. The idea is
certainly n pretty one and its sue
cc3sful carrying out will add one
more charming ard innocent amusc-
mcnt 70: the multitudes.
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