The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-28
WILL GELEBRATE.
EALL OF PEE!NG
Local Chinese Societies Prepare
TOT Action When News
Finally Comes.

iron Mondays Advertiuer.)
SO certain arc the leading Chinese Of
Honolulu that ahe. revolution in China
is to be crowned With the fullest sue
cess that plans are.now under way for
gorgeous celebration Of the fall Of
Peking,, When the cable brings the
word that the conqdering revolutionists
have forced their way to the very cen.
ter Of Manehu power and have given
the topping throne the last final shove,
Honolulu's Chinatown will be prepared
to herald the glad tidings to seventeen
other nationalities of this city by one
of the greatest pa1ades in Honolulu's
history. ~
Everything will be ready, the illumin-
ations win be- on hand, the bands will
be. engaged and rehearsed, the torches
and flags and banners win be immed-
lately available, the orationH will be
practised, the order Of march will have
been mapped out. whether the news
comes this week or not for two or three
weeks, the Honolulu Chinese win be
Johnnies- on-the-spot waiting for it.
This was decided upon at meeting
Of the members of the Wo On, Ket On
Fui Kon Associations and 30 Leong So
ciety held yesterday afternoon, att hich
some sixty or seventy delegates ap-
peared. The meeting selected the uf-
ficers for a committees TO have fun
charge Of the parade and the prelinlin-
aries and requested each society to
name delegates at once to the COM
mittee.
II was at FIRST suggested thatsthe par
ade should be held this week, but it
was afterwards decided to simply make
all preparations and hold the parade
the evening of the day when the news
of the fall of Peking arrives, which
news is expected very shortly.
A Varied Meeting.
Yesterdays meeting typi6ed in many
ways the NEW China, - the emerging
of the people of past age into the
present OF the seventy delegates who
sat in the hall of the Wo On Society,
on Kukni street, fewer than half a
dozen wore queues and the majority
were as we'll dressed and as modishly
as the average white business man. The
hall was as that of score of other
Chinese society halls in the city, the
walls covered with scroll pictures and
notices, the supporting pillars swathed
with red and gold paper, the chairs
upon the dais carved with writhing
dragons. the table in the corner having
its teapot basket and its usual collec-
ton Of little handleless cups. Conspic-
n9us among the Confucian texts upon
the wall, however, were two erayon en-
largements of society officers, in mod
ern gilt frames, while across the han,
facing the portraits, was a large framed
chronic representing a scene in lie petit
Trianon. ga
: Suspended from the ceiling were cleo
trio lights, kerosene lamps and Chinese
lanterns.
The majority of the delegates were
sharp-eyed young men, clerks in the
various haole business houses or indie
pendent business men. The old men
were the exceptions, but it was notice
able that what the patriarehs had to
say was listened to with the greatest
attention. Young China has not yet,
apparently, developed to the know-it-
all stage.
Typical Meeting.
The procedure of the meeting was
very familiar to anyone who has ever
attended many meetings of other ma
tionalities. The man was there who
wanted to talk long on unimportant
points; the I.second-t he-motion individ-
ual reaped his share of glory; there was
the insister and the go-it-slow. The
Chinese speeches were interlarded with
English words, among which Hpoint Of
order'', committee" chairman
and mister" were frequent.
But, despite varieties Of costumes,
intermixture Of language and mingling
of chrome and text, the meeting was
pervaded with the one idea of repub-
lican success in China. There was no
,exultation noticeable in the various
references to the tide Of republican
success in the home land, but an as.
snrance throughout that any prepare.
tion to celebrate the browning achieve
mont of the revolution, the capture OF
Paking, would not be wasted.
Honoluiu's Chinatown expects to
march very shortly In honor Of that
event and towards she expense of the
great celebration all the Chinese OF the
Territory are TO be asked within the
next day OF two to contribute. When
the event comes of it win be hum