The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-30
MctINLEYS MEMORY HONOREDI
Fishmarket the Scene
of Big Gathering
Yesterday.

fsTfre Old Fishmarket" was hardly
recognizable yesterday afternoon, so
transformed had it been by the decor
ations of banners, flags, flowers and
palms placed there for the first open
air entertainment under the auspices
of the Kilohana Art League in honor
of the memory of the martyred Presi-
dent, William Mckinley. AS arranged,
the at present useless building proved
artistically up to the expectations of
the hundreds who visited it and re-
manned for the program of music and
addresses prepared, but so far as being
a place where~ music and addresses
could be heard the hopes of the XII
the reality.
In competition with the boots of the
steam whistles of the vessels and
dredgers in the harbor, the blasts of
tNAC Np-tOhCa VI ShO SANStAAS
light power house across Alakea street,
the droning of the street car wheels
and the changing gongs and the rattle
of passing vehicles the voices of the
speakers could not be heard with any
degree of satisfaction fifty feet away
from the stand from which they spoke.
The music of the Hawaiian band was
heard to excellent advantage, however,
and the chorus singing of the school
children could also be heard with dis
tinctness.
Among the hundreds who gathered
to do honor to the memory of MeKin-s
ley were many of the most prominent
citizens of the community. The Su-
perintendent of Public Works, Mars
ton Campbell, presided, while the guests
of the league were met at the decor
ated entrance facing the waterfront by
a committee of league members, in
cluding Secretary and Mrs. E. A. Mott
Smith, Mrs. Mott-Smith Cunningham,
Ex-Governor A. S. Cleghorn, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. F. Dillingham;, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. w. Hall, Justice and Mrs. s. M.
Ballou, DR.. and Mrs. George. Augur,
Miss Annie Parke, Mrs. L. Abrams,
Mrs. Walter Coombs, Mrs. c. Booth,
Mrs. L. G. Marshall, Mrs. A. B. Tucker,
Mrs. E. /. Spalding, Miss Aleeia Spald-
ing, Miss Charlotte Hall, Miss Code
Garden, Miss Anna Tucker, Mrs. A. G.
Halves Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. d. Howard
Hitchcock and Mrs. w. M. Graham,
who greeted the guests, pointed out the
advantages of retaining the building
for such purposes as the one yesterday
and explained the plans of the league,
as outlined on the drawings placed
where all could see near the entrance.
Within, the building was draped and
decorated with hundreds of flags, the
auditorium being fenced off from the
outer wings of the building by palm
leaves woven through wires. At the
makai end of the auditorium great |
stage had been erected, on which sat |
the members of the Hawaiian band and /
some hundreds of children, pupils from
the Kaiulani, Royal and Kaahumanu
schools. A stand, from which the
speakers made their addresses, was
erected before the stage.
In seating arrangement, decorations
and general appearance the place could
hardly have been improved upon, the
great contrast between the building as
it appeared yesterday and its usual
bare and bleak, not to mention dirty,
appearance being generally commented
upon. The credit for the decorations
belongs to large extent to Mrs l..
Abrams. who collected the flags and
designed their arrangement. She was
assisted by the other members of the
decoration committee, Miss c. Garden,
Mrs. C. Booth and Sister Gertrude.
THE ADDRESSES.
The three addresses delivered were
devoted to pointing ont the advantages
of town halls in general and, in the
final address by Judge Kingsbury, to
the advantages of the fishmarket build
ing as town hall in particular.
Rev. DR.. Seudder, spoke first on the
town halls of Greece and Rome. where
public news was discussed, affairs IT
towns settled and the amusements oe-
Cured. These public gathering places
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