The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-11-25
HAWAII TO BE
WELL PRESENTED
Several Strong Committees to
Plan Island Exhibit at Bos-
ton Mission Gathering.

warded from Honolulu on February l
and March /, 1911, to form part Of
the great exhibition in Boston to be
known as "The World in Boston,"
America IS first great missionary expo.
sition, home and foreign, to be held
in Mechanics Building April "a to May
1S. A meeting of the Hawaiian Islands
committee was held yesterday afternoon
in the Office of w. A. Bowen to for.
mulate plans for exhibits and to ap.
point chairmen of the subcommittee.
The rough draft of the plan indicates
wide scope of activity for the general
committee. Above all the entire plan
is undenominational as is evidenced
by the fact that not only the evangeli-
cal missionary work of the Islands is to
be portrayed but the Catholic and Epis.
copalian missionary work will also be
unfolded, representatives of these de-
nominations being numbered in the list
of committees.
The work of missions offers the best
imaginable field for gathering the ma.
terials out of which an interesting and
instructive exposition can be built.
These materials are we'll nigh limitless
and lend themselves to striking and
dramatic effects. The strange customs
of foreign lands, the religious and social
life of primitive peoples, contrasts be-
tween conditions before and after Chris
tianity entered, methods of missionary
work, including hospitals, orphanages,
industrial schools and other institutions,
experience of emigrants, means of so.
cial betterment, curios, photographs lit
erature-all these have been suggested
as heads under which exhibits could be
gathered in Hawaii and sent on to Bos-
ton. In Mechanics Building there will
be hall of religions; curio and litera.
ture departments; schools of method;
moving picture and tableaux for depict.
ing famous scenes in missionary history,
life and work on the mission field.
Last March Rev. w. B. 0leson, sec
rotary of the Hawaiian Board of Mis-
sions, received letter from the gen
eral secretary of the movement in
which he stated the exposition people
would like to have a court containing
a quantity of articles from Hawaii rep.
resenting the life of the people, their
history and the history of foreign mis-
sions among them, and the progress of
Christianity in the Islands. He called
attention to the Bishop Museum con.
tanning an almost invaluable collection
of curios of historic and general in
terest and hoped they could be loaned,
Another department they hoped to have
devoted to representation of Hawai-.
ian life and missionary work. He adds
that in connection with the pageant
"Orient in London, - in June and July
1908, pageant of Light and Dark
| ness' was presented in which one of
the scenes was a dramatic representa-
| tion of Kapiolani's defiance of Pele. He
says this was the most'impressive scene
in the whole exposition and the name
| Kapiolani was made a household word
among thousands in London. He ex.
presses the hope that this scene might
be reproduced in Boston.
|. Loan of an Exhibit.
The Hawaiian board Immediately set
to work to secure an exhibit, and wrot2
| first to the administrative assistant of
the Smithsonian Institution Mt Wash,
ington, asking FOR the temporary loau
of the Hawaiian exhibit collected by
| Rev. Mr.. Oleson for the Smithsonian
exhibit at Seattle. The Smithso nia1
Institution will willingly loan the col
lection and will ship it direct to Boston
The matter was then placed in the
hands of President Perley l.. Horne OF
Kamehameha Schools for reply to thu
request for a Hawaiian exhibit at the
exposition.
At yesterdays meeting there wer,
present Chairman Perley L. Horne, w
A. Bowen, general secretary, II. P
Wood of the promotion committee anC
others. The general committee com
prises the following names in addition
to those mentioned: Rev. William Brew
ster Oleson, Judge Henry T.. Cooper
| Rev Doremums Scudder, +. j. Lowrey
Bishop Restarick and Canon Ault, Frank
C. Athcrton, Richard II. Trent, william
r. Castle, Paul Super, Montague Cooke
Howard Hitchcock, Edgar Wood, Vic
tor S. Clark, Willis Il. Pope, Rev. W
d. Westervelt, A. f. Judd, Thee. Rich
ards. l.. A. Thurston and James d
Dole have been asked to serve on the
committee, out are out of town and no
answers have been received from them
There were several questions brought
to the character of the exhibit-whetheI
|
or of the new alone-the decision being
reached to have il mixed.
The next question was as TO pictorial
scenes and representations, with the
query as TO whether this shall not be
referred 10 the Boston general commit
tee for final study and execution, The
matter viii be left TO this committee
with the recommendation that Frank A.
Homer, formerly president Of Oahu Col
! lege and now member of the Massa'
ehusetts Legislature from Amherstj Prof
Hiram Bingham Of Yale and Prof. Will
liam II. Castle, JT,, Of Harvard be added
| for the Hawaiian section.
The selection Of delegate will be
left 10 the executive committee. Stu
dents from Hawaii attending schools IN
New England, h0sh young men and
young women, viii be asked 10 help in
tho matter IA ii0st0ni aud residents OF
the Islands viii be asked 10 lend hearty
cooperation while Ia the Fast
ln view NJ the great distance between
Honolulu Rnd .ofton, h Was decided
that mo malD tulk ~ llaNnii's exhibit
he ready FOR shipment on February d
90 ~ hy tho Tehnanippee rouis, and
ether material io he hrinhifd of a.
pressed overland ~ March
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