The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-23


more when the contestants drove or
rode before the stand and received
their prizes from the hand of Mrs.
Frear, who was charming in her man,
ner Of addressing each of the success
full ones in congratulation.
The work of the judges was splen.
didly done and the only comments to
be heard after the awarding of the
prizes was regret that second prizes or
more were not provided, the general
average of excellence in all the Sec
tions making it very hard to deter
mine on the best.
In the evening street carnival, once
the carnival spirit was caught, things
moved riotously and well. There was
plenty of noise of a harmless kind,
much jollity without any roughness or
boorishness and plenty of amusement
for those who grasped the idea and
went looking for it. The Elks helped
out the evening in great shape, crowd
of them parading the streets in con-
Wet uniforms, led by Charley Hall, in
A Dutch uniform. This party created
nerriment wherever they wandered,
their windings in the lockstep taking
them through some of the stores and
up ON the Young roof garden, where
the colonial ball was about to begin,
the advent of the striped suits and
theg noisy ones within them creating
ao9tir and starting things off for the
Kilohanas. Later some of the con-
victs attended to dance.
The Fifth Cavalry boys also enter
ed into the spirit of the occasion and
marched up and down the streets in
military formation, grabbing the
watchers and giving them taste Of
drill. There were probably two hun
dred in costume on the streets, some
of the ideas worked out by the mar
rymakers being very good. A fierce
Spaniard stalked in awful dignity and
swallowed all the confetti thrown at
him; hobo hoboed up and down
Bishop street; score of the biggest
women ever noticed in town tripped
in their skirts as they coquetted with
all and sundry, while there were flow
er girls, musicians, clowns and many
others.
The success of the carnival was such
as to warrant its adoption as per.
manent part of the Floral Parade pro-
gram and next year, WITH more work
in preparation and with clearer idea
among the people as to what is ex-
pected, the affair should be the big
gest kind of success.
Beautiful Prize Winners.
There were many beautiful cars in
the parade, the average of beauty IN
Design, thoroughness in working out
the artistic conceptions in the mate
rails available, lavishness In the mat-
ter Of expense and general excellence
being far and above the averages OF
the past three years. Other years
have seen some beautiful cars; yes
terday they were all beautiful and
there was happy absence of the ma
chimes decorated with one or two flags
and occupied by people in ordinary
street costume, who decorated withou,
any other idea than 10 be able tt
get into the parade with as little trou'
BILE as possible. From one end of the
gay line to the other, yesterday, eacf
machine showed careful planning ana
much artistic thoroughness in the eff
fects produced.
No criticism can be made concern
ing the selection of the touring car en-
tered by the japanese Consulate TO
the fret prize in its class. In dainti
ness of design, in the happy name
in which the international signifcanc
of the conception was carried out II
floral way and in general excellence
this car was worthy of the prize. Their
were many other beautiful designs t
choose from and the lot of the judge
was not an easy one. but there can no
be criticism. The desire of Consu
Uyeno was to express in this car tn
existing aloha between America an
Japan, this being done by Mr.. Uyen
on the part of the japanese of Ha
wall. Flowers have a greater use /
conveying ideas. among the Japanes
than the less poetlcal Westerners, bu
the meaning of yesterdays combina
ton of American Beauty roses and tn
cherry blossoms of Japan was plaiI
even to the least observant, while be
meath the plumy blossoms sat a
American man and women, side b
side with two charming Japanese We
men, dressed in pink kimonos. Stand
ing on the hood of the machine WEI