Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-06
N|PPUJIJIHOST
T0FUui 1900
PBOHEATFETE
Celebration of 5000th Issue OF
Japanese Daily Furnishes
Unique Entertainment

All yesterday afternoon a steady
stream of people poured up Nuuanu
street towards the big festival cele-
brating the 5000th issue of the Nippu
Iii. the I5cal Jananese afternoon
daily newspaper. The festival took
place In the grounds Of the Tokiwa
tea house and spacious as these are,
the crowd soon oiled them from side
to side There was just enough room
fer movement, and there were plenty
Of objects TO keep the curious walking
all afternoon.
The schedule called for the first
speech at 1870, but the guests were
so busy crowding about the side shows
that II was not until that a sufti-
Gent number gathered in front of the
platform to induce DR.. T. Katsunuma.
the grand oflciary CT the day, to COM
mence the exercises
The speeches were entertaining and
all complimentary 10 the Nippu Jill,
which has expanded from a circula-
ton of 300 twenty -ears ago to 5000
today. In response u these congra-
tulatory speeches, y. Sega, the editor
OF the paper, made The last talk Of the
afternoon, e. .,-
But the speeches were minor part
OF the entertainment. Who could lis
ten to a speech after seeing the gal
lery OF famous memeItoes which dec
Grated a Ions. table In the main house?
There lay ragged, b;ackened broom
which must have once been the pos.
session Of Hooligan's wife, yet q largo
sign informed the spectator that this
was the broom with which certain
famous hero OF Japan had swept out
his cave when he was once in hiding
from oppressors All afternoon men
and women thronged about this table.
But after the museum, after the
speeches, when the second part of the
program began with the famous cherry
dance of the Geisha girls, then the.
crowd began % se6xstruiy enthusiastic.
Al comedy called 'Tsurigane," brought
roars OF laughter from the crowd.
Then followed a fantastic japanese
war dance, wild comedy termed Ina
rinAtsn, y another aGeisha dance, a
strange sword dance: and all the
while the buzz and chatter of the
crowd humming away IN unintelligible
Nipp0nese, and overhead slanterls vel
low, red and white that swung and
danced along the strings, and an air
loaded with fRhs thousand strange
odors; and last of all and most beau
tifui OF ali the costumes of the little
Japanese children, ffail gay colored
silks thar waveredf behind them rs
tliey< ran ilisthe1 loolsed f0fs alig Tie
world like great butterflies, And here
they would pause round eyed TO watch
two armored warriors shifting each
other nightly With enormous BAN.
boo swords. And there were the great
wrestlers upon N HON the crowd pour.
ed rs undi4ided attention while hero
after hero was oyertiirown struggling |
until at last the hero Of
heroes, the victor of yictors, the king |
OF the day. stood forth as conduerer |
and was greeted with such banzai |
as must still be ringing in his heart
Ii seemed like great fair given long
ago in some far away place where |
the east and the west meet and min
gle s. -. H., I
II was the greatest garden fete that |
ever delighted Honolulu, the weirdest
and the most beautiful, and best Of
all there were no fewer than fifteen
thousand to witness It. ~ ''~-.