Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-16


elry has taken the city by storm an
the surrender has been complete. Dull
Care has been executed and his des,
Iotie rule Is ended. Honolulu is free
No one who Witnessed the demon.
stration III tha Capitol grounds on
Saturday night can doubt that TIE
Eeoplc CT Honolulu have entered
sthole souled into the spirit Of the
carnival season. and IL the tremendous
crowd did not abandon i;se,f to rex
CRY to the extent that had been ey-
pected. 1t was because 4 was so dense
II couldn't. The willingness was there
all right. as was very evident late IN
the evening when the dense mass OF
humanity had in measure dispersed
thus making room for individual
merry -makers to move
IL is quite certain that never 3csore
has Honolulu seen such a thrcng as
that. il seems quite certain that the
great throng numbered close TO
10000. while many persons estimate
Il to have murdered $4,000 to 10000,
and even more. BY o'clock the
grounds in frcnt Of the Capitol were
enc sclId mass CT humanity extending
out into King street in front. and
spJ eading at either side to the limits
of the grounds The crowd was so
Gene that 1t was practically impos-
sible to get through 10 in any part
For an hour more the side entrance
gates on Richards street were blocked
by the crowd so that 1t was irapos-
s.ble TO enter. People poured in from
the rear or the building and helped to
make the congestion at either side.
The police were helpless. 1T has
been the Intention to have the crowd
held back from the driveway In front
Of the Capitol except these in masks
who wished to dance, but without
ropes or barriers the task was ike
that Of turning back the It'd. of the
ocean. The bleacher seats which
were to have been charged for, We're
damned with people In almost an in
stant. and the attendants and ushers
being completely swamped and COM
PEELED to abandon their task. These
bieachers are. intended TO seat 5000,
yet with fully this number occupying
them, the crowd below seemed as
dense as ever epiTst ~
The AZ Club Piratcsull
Shortly before s o'clock the fear.
some hooking buccaneers of the Ad
Club came marching out King street
headed BY the Royal Hawaiian Band,
and turned into the Capitol grounds,
and with some difficulty made their
way to the 'stage erected at the foot
OF the Capitol steps They we're a
picturesque-leolxing bunch Of ruffians,
and they kept things lively by firing
of theifeTiflaH sas they passed. They
tfaiIea d, smallgbFass field gan with
them. and dragged in their midst a
disreputable figure in shackles, who
was understood TO be Dull Care.
Mounting their cannon upon the plat
form, their prisoner was given very
summary hearing To the great enter,
tainment of the crowd, after which
he was tied across the cannon,s mouth
and blown into fragments in most APP
proved classic style.
Previous to this the chief pirate,
President Harrington of the AID Club,
had told the crowd that Carnival Sea-
son was on and Dull Care doomed.
The Royal Hawaiian band was sta.
toned Immediately in front OF the
Capitol, while the I'd infantry band
occupied a stand erected above the
King street entrance to the grounds,
and these two organizations alternat
cd until midnight rendering music for
the dancers. The Pirate Grey re1ae.-
CO good service in opening a passage
through the crowd. and after strenu-
cps efforts assisted by the police,
space few rods square was finally
roped off in front of either bandstana
60 that small number of maskers.
were able to dance.
Interspersed between the band Sc.
lections were introduced number OF
exhibition dances which held the
crowd intact for over two hours. All
Of these dances were good and reeeiy-
ed much applause.
Danced.
II was not until the special dances
after 10 o'clock, that the
dense throng on the drives began to
anu IL
was possible for the Pirates and police
10 clear an area of some size for the
dancers. And then everybody danced.
There was a good variety 81 fancy
costumes, but at this hour great
many couples of every walk of life,
End of many nationalities, joirfed in
the general frolc and danced them
selves tired. There was some good
dancing, loo, and of course some not
so good. The smooth asphalt of the
driveway, with q light sprinkling of
beach sand, made a very excellent
surface for dancing, and everybody
70 derive huge amount of
from the exercise.
Uncle Sans soldier boys were much
in evidence They danced with girls,
they danced alone, they danced by
threes and even by fours; and they
danced so vigorously that the backs
of most of the neat khaki uniforms
We're sweat through. iii.
A FroIic Without Unpleasantness II.
But though the crowd was an un-
tel lr-