The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-01
SPLENDID PARADE
BEFORE ceremony
Memorial Day Featured With
the Pomp and Circumstance
of Imposing Ceremony

u LEVEN men In blue, all that were
able to testify by their presehc
on Memorial Day 60 the spirit OF
sixty one, were held up by Rear ,Ad,
niirai Charles b. T. Moore, In the ora.
ton of the day, as the types and ex-
emplafs of temper that never must be
softened If the nation would not be-
come a passive and pusillanimous PEG.
pie, willing to sacrifice at any time its
rights, its principles, and perhaps ita
existence, for hespurchase Of peace.
There was no installing tbelfaet that
Admiral Moore had in mind the crisis
that now confronts the Nation. Al,
though the general truths that he
enounced might, in other times, have
feen decorOusly heard as nothing mora
than a repetition of time-honored prin.
eiples, he made them applicable by
guarded but specific illusions to tho
problems President Wilson Is weighing
OF this moment in the White House.
War Sometimes Preferable
There come times, . he said, Hwhen
to rise in arms and assert the right is
lesser calamity than submission to
wrong" '}
And again, it was impossible not 10
see reference to the destruction of
the Lusitania, with the loss Of so many
American lives, in these senteneesi
The man who is willing, merely for
the sake nf peace, to see his country
put in peril. or hor citizens deprived
OF their right to 60 freely out upon
their lawful occasions is too mean Of
spirit even to be despised. T.l.,..
cit is our duty to show the world
that while we desire to live in peace
within our borders, respecting every
right of every other nation, we shall
eNDect and demand and enforce every
right of every American the world
over" = - "
In numbers, excellence of parade and
efficiency Of organization the procession
to Nuuanu cemetery exeelled anything
that Honolulu ever has seen on
Memorial Day. rfa a..
Formation Of Parade 49,.
In order Of march were-a platoon of
mOunted police; the First Battalion of
the Second Infantry, u s. "a, led by
Maj. Michael }. Lenihan, grand marshal,
and his staff, mounted, and the regi.
mental band; squad of sailors from
the y. 8. 8. Maryland and the ship 8
band; the Hawaii National Guard aud
its new band; the United Spanish War
Veterans, both those in civil life and
those still In the service; the Honolulu
kamehameha School cadets, in their
gray dress uniform; the Honolulu
School for Boys in white, with their
new rifles and side arms; the Improved
Order of Red Men; eleven OF. the seven.
teen surviving members of the George
w. de Long Post, G., "A. R.; and Gov.
ernor Pinkham and his party, plso in
n motor car.
Thousands of persons lined the
streets from the Capitol grounds, where
the parade formed, down King TO Fort,
and along upper Fort street. Hundreds
carried flowers, and the floral display
at the G.. A. r. plot in Nuuanu cemetery
was one of the most beautiful ever
seen.
Men Of F-4 Remembered
Nor were the men of the F.4 for
gotten. Flowers contributed by the
q. A. r. were carried out in launch
from the Maryland and scattered on
the waters over the spot where the
submarine went down, after which a
buPler sounded taps.
Government and business offices were
closed for the day, and thousands
hocked to the beach at Waikiki and
into the country for picnics. The street
ears did double duty carrying the
throngs.
At the territorial prison there were
athletic games in the morning and
musical services in the evening