The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-09
wars ANNIVERSARY
DULY OBSERVED
Ceremonies Contain Much of
Solemnity and Rouse Pa
triotlsm Of All
lFrom sahday Advertiser.l


All Honolulu observed the first an.
niversary Of the entry Of the United
States in the world war by a great
gathering at Bishop Park, where, at ten
o clock, all heads were barred, and
every man, woman ana child stood and
remained silent as the national anthem
was played by the Hawaiian Band,
while all trafic paused and business
was suspended in stores and Offices, in
banks and warehouses, in the streets
and the fields, ashore and afloat. Troll
icy cars came TO a dead stop at the
troke of ten, and the crews 0lighted
nd stood at attention, passengers fol
owing their lead; autos ceased their
vhir Of machinery; ships remained
moored at piers; the engineers and
'oremcn upon the railroads and in
,owerhouses stood apart from their en-.
yines; military bands everywhere up
on the island played and serried lines
T khaki-clad troops stood ,stiffly at
attention. The housewife laid aside
lcr knitting or the cares Of the house
rold and the servant omitted his tasks
for q moment; officials and civilians,
Americans and British, Hawaiian born
Americans, the Filipino, the Japanese,
the Chinaman, the Korean, those who
| came from the shores of the Mediter-
ranean and from the eight seas-all
paid the tribute of silence to the sym
bolized word of Liberty-the Stars and
Stripes.
Bishop Park was the center of inter.
est throughout yesterday morning. The
flag draped platform in the park cen.
ter was the rendezvous for the com.
mittccs in charge Of both the anniver.
sary Observance and the launching of
the Third Liberty Bond campaign.
| The police arrived early and cleared
the street of vehicular traffic and the
| street and square filed with people,
races streaming in as variegated as
the blossoms of the hibiscus. The Ha-
waiian Band, under the leadership of
Captain Baker, took its position about
nine o'clock directly in front of the
platform. The parapets of the Roof
Garden were lined with eager specta-
tors.
Big Tank Appears
Came then the rumbling and creak
of caterpillar tractor as the Liberty
Bond tank of the Army Ordnance De-
partment, black sheathed and bristling
with rapid fire guns and rifles trundled
over the pavement and came to a
noisy halt opposite the stand, the type
Of ear that drove terror into the first
line trench Germans.
Came next the merry blare of bugle
and the rat-a-tat of drums, as the Boy
Scouts of Honolulu swung into view,
troop after troop, all uniformed and
'arrying stats, stepping briskly to the
3adeneed notes of the musicians corps,
swinging around the stand, and estab.
fishing Gordon of guards.
From the front of the hotel, flag held
high aloft, came a body of civilians,
the AID Club men, who took stations
near the stand
Down through the massed throngs
anne another body, the American flag
in the lead, held by Mayor Joseph J.
carrying the flag of a nation allied
with America in the war
Crowds Gather Early
Long before ten O'Clock the streets
we're filed from curb to curb Upon
The platform was Brig. Gen. John
p. Wiser, I. =. A., commanding the
Hawaiian Department, and an officer
Of the Navy representing Captain Clark
Of the Naval Station, both represent
ing the departments toward which the
people were asked a few moments later
to buy Liberty Bonds. There were the
Governor Mayor Fern, l.. Tenney
Peck. head of the Liberty Bond com.
mittee; Guy Buttolph, the secretary;
Mrs. G. p Wilder. one of the execu-
tives Of the Red Cross units working
daily to supply handages for the
MANNED at the front; Mrs. Agee, Mrs
Warren, Mrs. Waterhouse, Private
Philip Hall, of the Reserve Officers
Training Camp, and Signor WanreIl,
present to sing the Star Spangled Ban
ner and La MorseilIaise; a corps of
clerks at long tables ready to receive
applications for bonds; X. c. Brown,
secretary of the chamber Of commerce;
Major Henry c. Merriam. chief Of staff
If the army department; Lieutenant
Tuohy, aide to the general; Lieutenant
Thompson, aide to the Governor.
Signal Is Sounded
Just q minute before ten o clock, the
iereing blast of the Hawaiian Elec-
-ric Company whistle rent the air,
and Immediately heads were uncov-
sred, traffic eased down, and. Just at
ten, the whistle stopped, the Star
Spangled Banner was PLAYED and all
down town stood silent till the close
of the anthem.
Even then, none moved The cere-
mony was not yet complete, but then
the first of twenty.one gunS was heard,
shivering windows and shifting the