The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-02-25

JOHN WISE,
Whose hard work made the Waikiki
pageant success.
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handle the canoes did not put in an
appearance. John Wise and Eli Craw-
ford, who handled the affair, were at
their wits ends, until the Hui Nalu
club boys, who are all expert rOwers,
offered their services and manned
seventeen canoes. They stripped and
donned malos and made presentable
warriors of the king The warriors for
the most part We're contributed from
the ranks of the Kamehameha School
. Cadet battalion, all Hawaiians.
Forty Canoes IN Fleet.
Forty canoes were finally marsballod
upon the public baths beach. Then
there came wait, for a message has
been received by the promotion cont
mittee from the steamship Mongolia
stating that there were one hundred
and forty passengers aboard for Homo
lulu who were anxious to witness the
pageant, while more than that number
Xious to see it. The landing was de-
layed, but as the Mongolia was q1ite
late in coming up to the port the sig
nal had to be given to the rowers to
dip paddles, and as result the Mon.
goia people arrived in autos at the
beach just as Kamehameha dispersed
his followers. 1t was found necessary
TO start the pageant at the delayed
h., 4 l.
patient and many had been on the
beach since eight O'Clock. The sun
was getting hot and there were hun
dreds of sun.burned faces in the crowd
of ten thousand people when it was all
over.
Big Crowd.
The Moana Hotel bathhouse frontage
and the pier We're jammed with people.
The Moana had provided special
stand under the pergola along the beach
for its own guests as well as for those
OF the Young and Hawaiian hotels and
every foot of space was filed. Although
they had long wait, they were kept
amused by group composed of Kane.
hameha S wives and their attendants.
Mrs. Blaisdell, who played the role of
haahumanu, was attlred in brown
tights, with red malo and wore "A hei-
met and carried a spear. Mrs. Bias.
dell was regal'ooking according to the
Hawaiian standard, for she was a very
large woman and the brown tights.
worn 20 simulate brown skin, DISPLAYED
her figure 10 advantage. She was the
exposure of all eyes and faced scores
of cameras without blinking. In fact,
she aided the tourists in getting pic
lures of herself and companions. She
was commanding figure and was the
center of admiring groups wherever she
moved.
The canoes, short of the number ex.
pected, were crowded 10 the limit
with warriors and even the double
canoe of Kamehamehn was filled with
chiefs, with the tabu sticks prominent
The tabu sticks preceded Kamahame
la as be landed, aud death was due the
one who passed within the area made
sacred by their position. Kahilis were
also carried aud made an interesting
feature.
Taking Advantage OF Mistakes.
John VIE, Win aA ryo 10 the future
watched the shortcomings of tho drsi
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ends ~ plans for ihe neat pageant u,
hnoWs moss hos io stage the npretael,
pnd how a. handle ihr crowds fape
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