Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-19

MAGNIFICENTL1 pictur-
] ] esque was the procession
that bore to her final resting
place Liliuokalani. last ruler Of
q race. Past and present COM
bined in it, people of all races
united in it, little children and
feeble men and women to pay
final tribute to that woman who
through life had known both
Hawaii of yesterday and today.
It was a cavalcade Of history,
that colorful procession that
preceded or followed the body
Of Hawaii s last queen from the
gray, crepe-draped building
that had been her palace in the
bright days of LIES golden
summer up leafy Nuuanu val
ley to the royal mausoleum
within whose heavy walls rest
the rulers Of the Kalakaua
dynasty.
over the scene the same kindly
Hawaiian sun that has seen king
doms rise and wane, thrones come
into being and crumble, historic eras
follow one. another-the same sun
that has glinted on the feather robes
and standards of many a royal
funeral-filtered through feathery
cloud racks in the blue above.
Old men and women who had
known Queen Liliuokalani in the
carefree days of childhood, tottered
on feeble limbs up the steep, not
slope, keeping their places in the
procession through sheer determine
ton and will power. Pride they
took in this last visible tribute to
their last ruler.
Children, too, marched in the long
column-children who in a future
time will hold their children's chill
dren on their knees and tell them OF
that long distant Sunday when Lii
uokalani was borne on her bier to
her final resting place
Tribute Of Race
II was the tribute of whole race
deeply significant in the walls OF
the watchers at the tomb as the
Changing gates shut the interior OF
the vault from mortal vieW.'
One felt the significance of it all
in the throngs of Hawaiian people
that turned out with robes and ka-
hills. observing all the old customs
for such occasions that had come
down to them from their fathers and
grandfathers. .:--.
World Remembers Liiiuokaiani .
Yet ii was not alone Hawaii thai
Maid honor to the royal dead, for
the official representatives of world
movers united in the ceremony. The
salute of 81 guns fired in the palace
ward as the procession moved off is
fhe highest honor that can be paid
to. any person.
II was shortly before II o'clock
that the procession started; an i'm
nosing scene as group after group
found its way into line, headed by
Capt, Robert Parker, Waipa, recog-
.nized leader of many a parade.
Military Orders Resound
Military orders sounded out, drums
throbbed forth as the long line be-
= can to move out on King street, the
separate groups turning in at the ap.
pointed time as if by magic from the
side streets where they had congre-
gated in waiting.
Then down the steps of the old
palace. that passageway from which
Oueen Liliuokalani had gaZed so oft
upon a city that knew her as ruler,
came the. pall.bearers with their
heavy burden-the koa casket that
contained her mortal remains. =
Straight at attention stood the
troops that thronged the capitol yard,
soldiers and sailors and guardsmen.
PooIas Ready for Task
The long, long line of poolas, two
|. abreast, too long to extend straight
out into King street, had turned and
returned in the broad roadway that
leads out from the palace yard.
Suddenly from the lanai of the
palace building singers of the Young
PEOPLES League struck up Liliuoka-
lani's own song-"Aloha De-" "
Never had it held such signifi-
canoe to those who heard it, never
with deeper feeling, it seemed, had
it been sung. Tears sprung to the
eyes of strong men who stood in
waiting. II.
National Anthem Played r..
Deeply impressive, too, were the
notes Of the Star Spangled Ban
her," played just previously by the
End Infantry band, and little later
Hawaii Ponoi," the anthem of Ha-
wall. 49,.
AS the last of that section of the
procession preceding the catafalque
PASSED by the King street gate, the
poolas at thes catafalque ropes, head
ed by little boy, marched in stately
column through the gate.
Salute of Fl Guns "
AS the black and white draped
catafaluue moved off behind these 204
staIwart men, the salute of q guns,
fired by a battery of the LIST Field
Artillery from the roadway between
the palace and the library, began. .
This was Battery d, commanded by
Cant. B. Frankenberger, with Lieuts.
F. j. Cory and Walter Malone. The
four guns fired in succession at In.
tervals of one minute each, making a
total of 81 minutes for the entire
salute.
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