The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-26
SCHOOL FESTIVAL
DURING CARNIVAL
Superintendent Kenney Announ-
ces His Committee and Fete
f. a..+ q win Be Friday
1r 49, f..
SETTING IN CAPITOL GROUNDS
Exercises To Be CoIorful As Well
As Animated and Broad 3
In Scope nn
SETTING IN CAPITOL GROUNDS

Superintendent Henry w. Kinney Of.
the department of public instruction,
chairman Of the children 3 festival for
the 1916 Carnival. made public yestcr
dav the names of those Who will serve
with him on the committee in charge.
They are Miss Margaret NJ. Cooke, sn.
perintendent Of music; Miss Nina j..
Adams, instructor in physical trainings
and George s. Raymond, Inspector gen
eral of the department.
"'Tha committee has not organized
vel, :" said Superintendent Kinney,
"but we shall get down TO business i'm
mefiately and we have the advantage
of knowing in advance some Of the
reefs and shadows we must steer clear
Of
on am grateful to the Carnival di-
rectOrs for assigning Friday afternoon
for my event, that puts one difficulty
out Of the way immediately. The de
partment win declare that afternoon
half holiday. The children will all re-
port for their CLASSES Friday morning,
as usual. Thus there will be mini.
mum of trouble 10 assembling them and
sheepharding them to the Capitol
grounds. Saturday is a regular school
holiday. ANYWAY so that the Carnival
intermission will work a minimum dis
Arrangement of the school week.
Capitol Grounds Best For Pete
al say the Capitol grounds: that
seems TO be the hest spot IN which to
hold the exercises. 1t Is central, it is
accessible and II is one of the few
spaces big enough TO hold twelve hun
dred or more children and the crowd
that win want TO see them.
"But we must he more careful this
year of our acoustics. Last year the
children fled down in a long queue
between double avenues of bleachers,
with the result that the shrilling Of
the trebles and the grow1 or the BASES
were not mingled and there was no
harmony in TIL part singing.
"Th+re was trouble, too, with the
glare of the afternoon sun. 1t threw
a dazzling blaze in many eyes. Those
are details that, with plenty OF time
this year ahead Of us, we can fortunate
" work out to Letter advantage.
CAS- soon after luncheon as possible,
| should say would be the best time
for the exercises, somewhere around "a
Quarter or half after one o'clock, and
program of mrsie and drill Of be.
tween an hour aud an hour and a half
should be ample duration,
Boy Scouts May Follow
~ understand the-Boy Scouts want
an hour and a half somewhere in the
week. They could At in admirably i'm
mediately after our general exercises.
The other children, having done their
part, can then become spectators and
share in the general enjoyment.
at is little early yet to discuss
our plans in detail, but we may say
that we shall do all we can to make
| the exercises cOlOrful, as we'll as anI'
| mated. People talk about the wealth
of local color and costume here, but
| it ism At so easy to bring out as one
might imagine. We shall do the best
we can, but anything we attempt ls
| bound to be sharply conditioned.
| 1.-THE Russians for instance have
wonderful costunPs-at home in Russia
| Here, most of tl.r Russians live in the
country and are hard to get to town,
even for a Carnival festiN al, and those
within reach either have no costumes
or lack the tire and the money to
make thdm
Folk Costuming Is Passing
"The fiIiplnos are in much the same
position. There aren't many Korean
children. The Chinese are rapidly be
coming Amrrlcanized and it is increas'
ingly difficult to get. them to bring ou'
their gorgeous silks and qunint iewelry
The Portuguese are almost wholly Am
eriraniz,'d: they retain very little OF
the old world. Al for all. the Japa
nese have the most to contribute, the
Japanese and the Chinese.
"Spraking OF children from thu
country, the plantation youngsters from
the Eva school, sturdy and bare legged
made one of tn" hits Of the festiva
last year. They had a sp"rial rate,
believe, from the o. r. 4 l.. and
should like to see them again Thu
, year,