1204                     HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
native friends made a great holiday all by themselves on the 17th of January,
and 
hardly missed the diplomatic absentee, or stopped to grumbleat the long lines

of half-dry undershirts and pantaloons with which the Navy salted the Republican

anniversary. They were having too good a time for anything of that sort and
were 
content to leave the extraordinary envoy to himself and to the pleasure which
he 
might derive from hearing the song of the dinkey bird in the damafula tree.

The local public need not be surprised to hear at any time that the lower
branch 
of Congress has indorsed the President's Hawaiian policy. So much may be
pre- 
dicated of its partisanship and its desire to let the Executive down easily.
The mean- 
ing of such action, if it has been or should be taken, would fall very short
of doing 
any harm to the Provisional Government. So far as it has developed, the Cleve-

land policy is of the pleading and admonitory type towards Hawaii and to
indorse 
that would be, so far as the government of these islands is concerned, a
harmless 
proceeding, "intended," as a former Congressman would have put
it, "for Buncombe 
County only." 
WAS A DAY OF DAYS-COM -LETE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST CELEBRATION-LEAGUE 
FLAG RAISING-MILITARY PARADE-RECEPTION-MEETING-DECORATIONS-FIRE- 
WORKS. 
The celebration programme was carried through with a dash, There was no vari-

ations from the proceedings as announced in advance. The weather was absolutely

perfect. The feeling was enthusiastic. So far as could be observed, none
held 
aloof from the occasion. It seemed that nearly everybody in the city was
heart and 
soul in the observance of the first regular "Fourth of July" for
Hawaii. A little 
coterie, which-wandered about in holiday attire, attempted to wet-blanket
the 
affair, but found its mission the saddest sort of a failure and was actually
compelled 
to become an indistinguishable part of the gala gathering. During the evening
of 
the 16th and on the morning of the 17th this worthy contingent circulated
rumors 
designed-to frighten people. The scare scheme miscarried completely. Even
the 
roundabout threat of a dynamite explosion at the speaker's stand had not
the least 
effect. There was no brooking the tide of patriotism; it was universal and
resist- 
less. The sentiments of freedom and independence pervaded and governed every-

where. Vent was given to the spirit of the day by actions indorsing fully
the Pro- 
visional Government and reaffirming the principles which actuated the overthrow

of monarchy. 
The events of the day were the flag-raising by the American League, the battalion

drill and review of troops, the reception by President Dole and Mrs. Dole,
the great 
mass meeting, and the display of fireworks. 
THE FLAG-RAISING. 
At 8 o'clock an immense crowd had gathered at the corner of Nuuanu and King
to 
witness the hoisting of a 60 by 30 American flag on a 120-foot pole. The
band was in 
attendance, and rendered such patriotic airs as "Star-Spangled Banner,"
"March- 
ing through Georgia," "Rally Round the Flag." A great cheer
went up from 
the throng that congested two streets as the flag was hauled aloft. R. H.
Sampson, 
who served in the civil war as first lieutenant of Company G, First Massachusetts,

Cavalry, cracked a bottle of champagne and christened the flag "General
Dix." 
Three cheers were then proposed and given with a will. Twenty-one giant bombs,

furnished by John Egan, were set off as a salute. Each explosion brought
cheers. 
Gen. Dix, of New York, is the man who said, "1 If any man hauls down
the American 
flag, shoot him on the spot." This was the feeling throughout the concourse
of 
liberty-loving people. As the flag gracefully swung to the breeze, winding
itself 
like a thing of life, and as the band sent into the air the glorious music
so dear to 
Americans the, world over, eyes moistened, and men with the G. A. R. button,
and 
men and women who are with them, said:  It would not go well with the one
who 
molested that flag." It was a pretty, impressive scene, really inspiring,
conjuring 
to the sujrface all that is best in the man. For some time a crowd lingered
about, 
and all day the flag was a center of attraction. 
REVIEW AND PARADE. 
The review of the troops attracted about the entire population to Union Square.

The band, of which Prof. Berger lately said, "They will either fight
or play," led 
the column of seven companies fully accoutered. Col. Soper delivered a few
com- 
mands, and then Lieut. Col. Fisher put the battalion through a series of
intricate 
maneuvers, concluding with the manual ef arms, Every moveament was executed