The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-16

Dignided and orderly.
To anyone who attended these spec.
tacles and events expecting to see out.
Ilandish posturings or behavior, and
listen to the weird, the barbaric or the
|uncanny, the Kamehamcha Day cele-
bfafion was undoubtedly disappoint-
ment. COurteay, good breeding and tho
highest forms Of hospitality prevailed.
The crowds were orderly and wen be.
haved. Tho eleventh OF June, 1914,
twas probably the only public holiday
there has been for q generation whore
ldrhnkhnness and disorder among the
| thousands of celebrants were absolutely
lacking. IL was THE Hawaiian Holt
day, and Hawaiian citizens were on
their best behavior. They certainly
made name and record for them
selves and for this fair city
The public press has said little Of the
grand ball with which the celebration
Of Kamohameha Day was brought to
a close. Here again the Hawaiians
showed that rare capacity for get-to-
gethefness-h racial ability to accept
the new and untried, or, at least, the
Iunrehearsed, which no othcr people ex-
hibit.
The dance music was supplied by a
great orehestra Of players and singers
who met for that night for the first
time as one organization. From the
standpoint Of musical training these
united orrhestras performed in perfect
unison. The musicians were got to-
gethef by David Kalama and Ernest
X. Kaai and comprised all Of the Kaai
and l}ikolehua Glee Clubs and num-
Der OF individual members Of many
other clubs Under the leadership Of
Mr.. Kaai they played the classic Ha-
waiian melodies, the rhythm aud
movement Of which are associated
with perfect enjoyment by all lovers
Of the dance.
The ball endod at hRlf-past eleven
o'clock. The united Hawaiian speie-
ties Of honolulu have made a great
name for Themselves.
Grafton Was Mastetful.
8 OF the orators who took part IN the
morning exercises stephen i, Desha
needs no Introduction. BY reputation
he is the most eloquent and mastdrly
Of those who speak the ancient Hawa.
| Han tongue His speech was IN the
old Hawaiian, language replete with
delicate shades of meaning and idiom
which are lost to the younger genera
ton who know only the colloquial and
book Hawaiian. His Grafton was pro
nounced, by those who understood the
old Hawaiian as gem, a masterpiece
| The younger speaker, the Rev
Akaika Akana ID less well known. He
was born in Honolulu in December
1884, graduated from the Kamehameha
schools in 1903, from Honolulu Norma
in 1904 and then took a fnll rourse IN
the Hartford Religious Normal Col
lege and the Hartford Theological
Seminary, graduating from both
schools In 1911.
The Rev. Mr. Akana passed some
months after graduation in charge o.
the mission religious work ia Frank
lin county, Massachusetts,. Returning
TO Honolulu he was assigned to mis-
sion work among the young English
speaking Hawaiians. A separate non
sectarian christian organization among
these young folks was formed Into !
society or congregation few months
ago under tho title Of The Young
Peoples League, 2 with the Rev. Mr.
Akana as their pastor, or leader,
Akana carried his audience with hin
| Thutsday morning when he told hi
hearers: rsWe have the hammer, w
have the chIsel. There Is work 10 do