The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-22

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station on Punchbowl every sixty sec
onds, all went to make up world of
suggestive sound that swelled the i'm
pressiveness of the event.
The National and Territorial or Ha-
waiian colors half -masted, the crowds
moving with the start of the procession
in order to get to King street to see it
pass, the utter absence of vehicles not
connected with the funeral, the vast
array of men and women and children,
adorned in their best, the brave show
of naval and military forces, the SPLEEN
did dignity of all the men and women
in the line of march, people with whom
dignity is a natural and noble grace,
all these things made picture of which
Moving Picture Expert BONNIE, pho
tographers and snap shelters by the
score caught but a glimpse, and the
panaroma of the pageant will live in
perfection only in the memories of
those who observed its magnifcence.
THE PRINCESS KAWANANAKOA.
Princess Kawananakoa bore up brave
! ly throughout, as far as those whose
| eyes could not penetrate her veil could
see, though closer observers felt for her
more keenly, and, though all the cere-
mony was beautiful and grand, wished
that she might be spared the pain of
/ constant reminder of the death of the
body when she might prefer solitary
meditation upon the freedom of the
! spirit of her late husband 1t was
| hardest for her at the end of the long
/ Journey to the mausoleum, when she
had to alight from her carriage, with
! Prince Kalanianaole, and for few
moments wait before following the
! casket into the mausoleum, for at that
] time the wailing broke out afresh, the
Hawaiian band played "Hawaii Po-
moi, - and the people who had formed
the big line of march surged about the
| stone resting place of the dead, so that
the eyes of all were on the center of
| the dramatic incident, the carrying of
| the casket to its repository.
THE MIST OF RAIN.
1t has always rained upon the en-
| tombment of an ALI and yesterday was
no exception. The rain fell upon the
uncovered heads of the men who were
watching, upon the white uniform
dresses of one Hawaiian society and
upon the black silks of another, upon
the red shirts of still another and upon
the rifles of the soldiery; upon the
veil of the widow and upon the highly
polished surface of the koa shell con-
tanning the ashes of her departed.
| 1t commenced to rain as the process
sion climbed the hill leading to the
mausoleum, as if the music of the
bands and the tread of feet had dis
turbed the etheric balance or the oc-
casion had brought tears from heaven,
but at the gates of the royal cemetery
the rain ceased and the sun shone forth
again. gloriously.
THE QUEEN AT THE TOMB.
Again it rained, though not heavily,
as the widow alighted from her car
riage and approached the entrance to
the tomb and again it frightened as.
after the coffin had been deposited.
Queen Liliuokalani, emerged from the
vault and faced the great assemblage.
Hundreds who before had never seen
Her Majesty now saw her; she faced
the boys of the battleships Maine and
Alabama she faced the National
Guardsmen, the people of her own
blood in the Hawaiian societies which
had turned out in such great numbers,
and all the people, friends and stran-
gers. She was perhaps the most serene
and stately figure of all that concourse.
the seemingly most calm and yet I'M
doubtedIy one of the most apprecfative
of what it all meant: and doubtless
it meant more to her in sadness than
to anyone else there present. for did
not all this panoply and pageantry and
royal show, all this great, grand cere-
mony and procession bring to her royal