Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-21
WAIKIKI Scene
OF BIG PAGEANT
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the personal deity which guided the
great Kamehameha in all his pugna-
ciols undertakings, assuring him safe
journeys across long wastes of ocean
waters in his frail crafts and made
his landing against Oanu's hostile
forces so successful more than a CEN
fury ago, had come. back TO hover
Eroodingly over the Creates celebra-
ton in honor of his memory. In
short, cutting out" the persifiage,
the day was perfect.
The crowd filled every available
foot of seaside standing room from
the long wooden pier extending out
from the Moana Hotel, to the home
of the Outrigger Club. If it is possible
to pack men, women and children In
that space to the number OF 10000,
then that number was there.
Great Masses of White
The predominant shade was white.
Had King Kamehameha been con-
fronted, at the time of his invasion, by
a spectacle of that character 1t is
odds that great great warriors pre-
siding deity would have taken flight
in confusion and that the old savage
himself would have turned toll and
fled out to sea as fast as his paddlers
could WELD their oars. The simmer
of white and the receptive attitude
of the .throng would have so astonish-
ed him that he undoubtedly would
have concluded he'd invaded new
country. Whether he would have
taken a chance" is extremely doubt
full.
Kamehameha's modern double,
being a modern man, accustomed to
abe wierd rites of our so-called
civilization, did not display the least
confusion in fulfilling his part of the
program. In the crowd of onlookers
were hundreds of tourists. Rarely
one of these was unarmed with a
kodak. The others ran here and there.
perched on all high points, rushed
out dauntlessly into the water to meet
the oncoming force of spear-armed
natives and it is safe to say our mod
ern hero was shot fully 1000 times.
But, as remarked before. he is a
sturdy man, accustomed to this sort
of indignity.
Risks Much for Picture
Kamehameha I. knew the danger OF
guns when in the hands of enemies.
He knew the world moved, as well as
some others day realize the fact. He
was quick to pick up new methods
of warfare and to lear novel methods
until he understood them thoroughly.
How he would have felt, had he
seen that frail little white man wad-
ing out fearlessly into water to his
neck, holding high above his head a
little black, misunderstanding box, can
be only conjectured Thinking it an
other form of cannon and that the
bearer intended harm, he probably
would have had the intrepid bather
speared or shot at once. But the
man shot out Kamehameha with per
feet safety.
Immediately after the ceremony OF
landing most of the crowd returned
to town, though large number gath
cred on the beach around the army
of natives and were awarded by wit
Messing the hula dance.
Other sports had been planned, but
the chush of people was so great, the
policing facilities SO inadequate, that
these were declared off. The cere-
mony therefore ended at II o'clock.
At Work in the Dark.
1t was long before sun-up that John
Wise and his assistants reached the
grounds of the Outrigger club and set
to work putting the final touches to
the pageant which they had been
working upon for weeks. Then for
the first time they realized the diff
Guilty of their task. The men and boys
who had promised to be there for the
affair failed to show up, and Wise
started his lieutenants out on still
hunt for others to take their places.
The Hui Nalu jumped into the breach
and filled seventeen canoes with stall
warts and the lads of the Outrigger
club proved their willingness to aid,
for with coating of grease paint, a
malo and flashing paddle, they made
the finest kind of Hawaiians SO far as
outward appearance went. The Out
riggers sent twelve canoes to join the
flotilla
Under the command of Kamehameha
the Great, who in private life is Off
Ger Palenapa, of the Honolulu police
force, the canoes padded forth into
the very eve of the morning, back Of
gloomy old Diamond Head, to await
for the signal to return in triumph.
Hardly had the last of the canoes left
the land when the ladies who were to
play the part of wives and favorites
of the King, arrived, headed by Mrs.
Blaisdell, costumed to the full as an
ancient Hawaiian princess. r. - I'll.
Forty in FlOtilla. -.~ 49,. H.
In all there were in the flotilla
about forty canoes, big and little, and
as they padded away in the gloom of
the early morning each canoe was
loaded to the guards. Not phase of
the old conflict had been forgotten and
as many of the features that made the
flotilla of Kamehameha the Great
unique had been placed aboard the
canoes as could be got together in the
short time allowed the managers of
the pageant. There were the tabu
sticks, carried by the Puloulou, or Gus
todian of the sacred things, there were
the feathered tufts or the kahilis, sign
of ROYALTY there wnrn the nalIaS or