The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-02-23
Wet Pavement Reflects
Gay Lantern Parade
Miles Of Dancing Lights Entrance Thousands
Of Spectators Along the Route :.

N-VcuoN them pass. mere tneir lBnt
was reelected on the gay array of deco
rations and filled the streets with
colors. Sis Zf.
There was mile Of boys. There
were boys from the Japanese High
School from the japanese Y. M. O. A.,
even from Koolau, marshalled behind
strange bannerets Of torches, carrying
torches, a living torch In themselves
There was an lima lei q block long,
which looked like snake, but couldn't
have been, because there are no snakes
in Hawaii, and IL was Lit with 1--WE hun
dred glowing lights. F,.t
There were floats Of new designs,
whose clouds Of lanterns were never
stilied, which had tops which turned
in ceaseless revolution or paddle wheels
OF light. ~. ..s ta.
x There were lanterns beyond count
ing. They were piled In heaps, ordered
and graceful heaps, or scattered In
tu:nuituous profuhon. ".HEa
There was Japanese George Wash
ington, who bowed to the Queen on
the Capitol steps and sucked in his
breath and there were Japanese Uncle
sairs at every turn. ....
~ I'VE celebrate Washington Birth
day. announced the floats, ana II they
were In likeness Of boats they smoked
furionsly, or II they were cherry trees
they showered down their blossoms, or
again II they were laid out In an cleo
trio garden they twinkled rnerrily In
this celebration. ~ naE. III, af
And this profusion Of light, this riot
Of color, moved, In a stream that TOOK
an hour TO pass, In lava dow Of
flowers, rudy, pleasing, Intoxicating,
through the streets.
TIE NATIONS ToGETHER
In the Ad Club parade. which fol-
lowed, there were Chinese, Filiph.os
and Koreans also, and Americans, ana
two hula dancers on Japanese host,
and others who belong in the PARADISE
Of the Pacific. . s.. t sg..
+ The Koreans were out in force.
Their marching corps, TO the blare Of
trlmpets, tramped behind them. fA
Following the Koreans came tho
Glooms. as8Eg5E 49,
& Chasing the Glooms there were joys.
. The AID Clubbers--not many yellow
sashes dared brave the rain herded
these. The great, the only, the orig.
inal Jam johnson led the AID Clubbers.
And after them came the Queens Of
carnivali gF u "A
~ THREE QUEENS
The Carnival Queens riding In their
own triumphal car, manned by doughty
guards and attended by pretty page5
entered the capitol grounds to q fan.
fare Of music from q military bfnd, ap-
preached the steps and there descended
Mss Ruth McChesney, Queen OF the
occident, and Sonora Vicenta Cornell,
Queen Of the Orient, bent respectful
knee to Liliuokalani, Queen Of Hawaii.
Hawaii has one, the Carnival has three
queens. mig Fgf
Queen Linuokaiani had watched the
procession with Governor Pinkham from
the steps Of her old palace, and never
was q brighter array presented TO her
As the transient queens OF pagsantry
approached her. she rose deliJh eddy an
Amounted them In a shower OF con-
fetti Carnival paused moment, an
when they seated themselyes again, s.
proceeded. A. 1-
g.. FANTAsTIQUEs
In the circus comigue there were 49,
rious things that never came out of a
book And there were animals that
never went into ZOO. There was
camel, there was a giraffe, there was
Uncle Sam and the Birth Lion who
danced rag in front Of The Adver iser
building to prove the entente cordiale.
There we're troops Of cavalry from the
ns-sl ho'il'' rni they were everything
that a marine cavalry should be and
moro. t,lt 81 4. ~
soma rsr7Hn some Tenius had gath
,rcd no number Of wharf rats. There
hc h7d endowed With potential immor.
tsnty, Fatbsd them In frock coats that
'"F' 'hoir hsttcrs exposed below, and
crowned them with snug, gigantic
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