The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-06
STARS GLORY
WAS DIMMED
Fireworks Display, Although
Early, Was Gorgeous and
Satisfying.

| Half an hour before the scheduled
time last night the shooting of the fire
works in the Gore began, and conse
quently it was that just as the las
rocket sped skyward, as the Roman
candle wobbled it's streaked way into
i the air, and as the last cannon cracker
doomed out it's warning, there were
hundreds of people just arriving on the
scene While the fireworks were
splendid, and there were many people
on hand to watch them, certain it is thai
| there was conflict in dates somewhere
| by which the great show-by-night
started at seven-thirty instead of at
eight clock, the time previously an
| nounced
WASH t long, however, before Palace
Square, the streets running in its di-
rection, and the grounds of the Execu.
tive building were literally packed
with a pushing, jostling, laughing,
shouting, and good-natured crowd that
was cosmopolitan to the extreme. And
everyone had his head up in the air
so as not to miss one bit, one smallest
detail, of the. great display of $3.50
worth of fireworks.
Showers of fire and imitation flashes
of lightning streaked the clear sky
overhead, while firecrackers of every
size description popped and sputtered
and banged and doomed underfoot This
latter was anything but pleasant fea-
ture to numbers of the contingent of
Hawaii S particular brand of Young
America present, as they were shoeless
and stoekingless and consequently their
bare feet and legs fell easy prey to
those Of malicious-or mischievous-
disposition.
One bare-legged youngster stepped on
the smoulding remains of what had
caused terrific explosion. The result
was that he jumped sideways without
looking where, and collided rather
severely with stately gentleman in a
dress-suit, evidently on his way to the
Moana dance.
What S = the matter9 Step on a
ireeracker?'' inquired Mr. Dress Suit,
asking as if he wanted to know.
Nav. Cake O ice. What did yuh
tinkl'' shifted he of the bare-legs con-
temptuously.
Kapellmeister Berger and his band
of Hawaiian musicians held forth in
the Capitol grounds, occupying the
bandstand there Inside the Executive
grounds a great throng of people had
congregated by the time the fireworks
were about over, but they found they
were unable to see but very small
part of. the show on account of the
thick tree-branches overhead. Many
more people could have witnessed the
display had it been given at Waikiki
beach, and with much more comfort at
that
Along King street in front of the
Hawaiian Electric Company's Offices
and up into Palace Square the crowd
was the thickest, and at times the
street cars had considerable difficulty
in changing their way clear. But the
crowd appeared to be entirely good
humored, and though there was much
iostling and stepping on-the other
man 's-toes. there was little or no
troubie
Special details of police were on
hand, and the best of order was kept
throughout. Now and then g hack
horse awol<e to the fact that something
out of the ordinary was happening and
attempted to show some of the friski-
ness of longrgene youth, but there were
no runaways and no accidents re-
ported. :,
Haoles and Hawaiians. Chinese and
japanese, Portuguese and Porto Rleans,
citizens and noncitizens, kamaainas
and malihinis, all were on hand to
witness the illumination of the heavens.
It was the usual Honolulu public con-
gregation, cosmopolitan to such de-
gree as could hardly be equaled any
place else in the world. And those who
were lucky enough to arrive IN time
were given treat There were others,
however, who. counting on the cor
rectness of the time published for the
setting off of the fireworks, arrived
lust in tinle-to be too late.