The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-07
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sections Of the city and a very order
ly merrymaking in the outskirts, MAX
ing the day. rs was generally express
ed, one of the quietest Fourth of Julys
seen in Honolulu for many years.
After nightfall, however, things took
on brisker air Every car citybound
came in jammed with passengers and
at the hour when it had been adver-
tised the lights at the Capitol would
be turned on experimentally, the
grounds were crowded, there being
many times as many to see the illumin-
ations as there had been in the morn
ing to hear the orators. There was
some spontaneity evident, too, and the
small boy let loose for noise making
! in the way that small boys ought to
: do but hadn It so far.
Promptly at half past seven O'Clock,
amid chorus Of Cabs" the light
was switched on to the seven hun
bred cleaning incandescents which
outlined the Capitol, defined the pillars
and clustered on the facades of the
towers and window lodges. The sight
was beautiful one and the hundreds
who had focked in to see it were
satisfied.
The Alexander Young hotel, where
a large number of holiday makers
danced last night, was also brilliantly
illuminated. On the Bishop street face
of this building were scrung at least
five hundred incandescents, while en-
tending out from the building and
making an illuminated arbor of the
street were twenty lines of twenty
lights, red, white and blue. The roof
garden was also gay with colored
lights, the effect of the whole being
greatly admired.
GUARDSMEN PARADE.
The day was officially opened yes
terday by a parade of the National
Guard, the regiment leaving the Arm
ory at half past eight O'Clock and
marching through the principal streets
Of the city. The usual din, looked for
On the Fourth, had been absent since
(daybreak, however, and there were few
people aroused and up in time to watch
the citizen soldiery on the march.
There was a large gathering in the
; morning in the grounds of the Capitol,
where patriotic exercises, under the aus
pices of the Sons of the American Revo-
luton were held. A feature of these
exercises was a fervid appeal to the
patriotism of the audience to oppose the
attempt to secure the suspension of the
coastwise shipping laws as applied to
the Islands. This attempt, Mr.. Jones,
the orator of the day, denounced as I'M
American and unpatriotic, something
done in the interests of the Japanese as
opposed to Americans.
DIR. C. B. Cooper, the vice president
of the S. A. r., officiated at the exer-
cises yesterday as the chairman; as
sisted by George R. Carter. Following
the stirring music of the band, in
medley of national airs. the chairman
:, called upon the Rev. f. T.. Simpson, who
made the invocation. He was followed
by Miss Alice Spalding, who read the
Declaration of Independence, her man
ner being charming and her reading ex-
ceptionally good and distinct. She was
presented with large bouquet of PINK
and white roses at the conclusion of her
reading. the presentation causing sec
ond round of applause for the patriotic
maiden.
Master Aki, student of the ROYAL
School, read an essay on sThe Amen'
can Flag showing considerable
amount of historical research. The
essay, in full, was:
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
ssStand by the flag, all doubt and trea-
son scorning,
Believe with courage firm and faith
That it will float until the eternal
morning
Pales in its glories all the lights OF
time
John N Wilder.
II is the youngest of the world Is
great nations o.. or which the Oldest es
tablished flag floats. And even so, the
American Flag is growth rather than
"a creation.
Previous to the Stars and Stripes OF
the present, sixty-four designs, dating
from 1894, had their use in the Colonial
days. Probably The first seed of our
Star Spangled Banner was sown when
late in the year 1774, Captain Markoe
of the Philadelphia Light Horse Troops
introduced flag with canton of thir-
teen stripes.
A year later, DIR. Franklin, with
Messrs. Lynch and Harrison, was ap'
i pointed to consider the subject of a
national flag. The result was design
similar to the Hawaiian flag. The
b tOlOToy Ouioh
scented the sovereignty of England and
the field of stripes. alternate red and
white, represented the thirteen colonies.
This British Jack, distinctive as being
the first Colonial national fac, was
hoisted for the first time over the camp
at Cambridge, Mass, on Jan. End, 1776,
and was discarded when Independence
was determined on.
At the beginning of the revolution,
no particular flag was adopted by the
Americans Various designs designated
their different troops and still another
flag was used by their navy.
The first national flag after the De-
claration of Independence had field of
red and white stripes and blue square,
crossed with red and white. In this
flag, by the addition OF the azure hue,
we note the completion of the colors
destined to remain.
In the year of 1777, congressional
committee accompanied by Gen. Wash
ington, called upon Mrs. John Ross of
Philadelphia and engaged her to make
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