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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, March 25, 1895, page 3.
Rescue of a Young Lady by an American Officer.

A young lady of the city came near losing her life in the surf beyond Peacock's, Waikiki, Sunday afternoon, quite a number of young people were out surf-riding.
The lady in question left the boat and started to swim to shore.
Unfortunately she became helpless in the surf and screamed for aid.
An officer of the Philadelphia, walking along the beach, plunged in and brought the young woman to shore, just in time too, for it is said she had
fainted.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, March 25, 1895, Image 3
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, April 18, 1895, page 3.

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

...
Natives had a luau at Makee Island Wednesday afternoon.
Surf riding on boards was a feature of the sports.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, April 18, 1895, Image 3
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The Independent.
Honolulu, May 6, 1895, page 3.

There were quite a number of canoes off Waikiki yesterday, and their owners and friends had some fine surf riding and an occasional capsize.
Many were watching the sport from the beach.

Chronicling America
The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1895, May 06, 1895, Image 3
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Honolulu, June 10, 1895, page 3.

Canoe surf-riding was indulged in near Haniwai baths by some two dozen ladies and gentlemen yesterday.
The dexterity with which the canoes were managed was a matter of favorable comment.
Several snap shots of the riders were taken by amateur photographers.

Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, June 10, 1895, Image 3
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The Herald
Los Angeles, June 25, 1895, page 7.

RAILWAY NOTES

...
Ten of the finest Hawaiian surf riders, high divers and swimmers have been engaged as features to appear at Redondo on next Sunday.
A contract has been entered into by which a dive from a height of 150 feet will be made.
Surf riding—riding a twelve inch board through the surf and out to sea—will be a great attraction.

Chronicling America
The herald [microform]. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, June 25, 1895, Image 7
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The Riverside Daily Enterprise.
Riverside, California, June 30, 1895, page 3.

Royal Hawaiian Band of forty musicians at Redondo Beach, Sunday June 30th; also a company of native Hawaiian surf riders and swimmers.
One of them will make a great 150 foot dive.

Noted by Joe Tabler, The Surf Blurb, 9 July 2013, and later adjusted, with many thanks.

The Riverside Daily Express.
Riverside, California, July 2, 1895, page 3.

The Royal Hawaiian Band has been engaged at Redondo Beach for July 4.
Go and hear them.
Go and see the great 150 foot dive.

Noted by Joe Tabler, The Surf Blurb, 9 July 2013, and later adjusted, with many thanks.

The Herald.
Los Angeles, July 3, 1895, page 12.

RAILROAD NOTES

The attractions at Redondo tomorrow will be many and of a varied character.
The Hawaiian band, the Rebaglitati quintette and Jules Levy, the cornetist, will furnish music.
The Hawaiian divers, jumpers and swimmers will be on hand, to entertain the crowd.
A jump of 150 feet into the water will be made, and providing that there is a surf at all, plenty of surf-riding will be seen.

Chronicling America
The herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, July 03, 1895, Image 12
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The Riverside Daily Express.
Riverside, California, July 5, 1895, page 3.

Sunday is to be a great day at Redondo Beach, when the Hawaiian Band and a great company of native Hawaiian surf riders and swimmers are to give an exhibition.
This is the last chance to hear Levy, the great cornetist.
The usual reductions are made.

Noted by Joe Tabler, The Surf Blurb, 9 July 2013, and later adjusted, with many thanks.

(The) Press and Horticulturalist.
Riverside, California, July 6, 1895, page 3.

Sunday is to be a great day at Renondo Beach, when the Hawaiian Band and a great company of native Hawaiian surf riders and swimmers are to give an exhibition.
This is the last chance to hear Levy, the great cornetist.
The usual reductions are made.

Noted by Joe Tabler, The Surf Blurb, 9 July 2013, and later adjusted, with many thanks.

The Herald.
Los Angeles, July 7, 1895, page 4.

SEASIDERS AT LONG BEACH

The Attractions Offered by This Favorite Resort
BATHING AND CHAUTAUQUA
Flaking, Boating and Bathing Liberally Patronized the Preparations for the Assembly—
Some of the People Who Are Enjoying Life at This Beach.

LONG BEACH, July 6.-This week was marked by more activity than has characterized any of the preceding weeks of the season.
Every day there were fresh arrivals of visitors, who have come to spend a few days, weeks or months at what is unquestionably one of the finest beach resorts in the world, so far as natural advantages are concerned.
The number of people who indulge in the health-giving exercise of surf bathing is steadily increasing, the daily plungers including not only men, but women and even very small children.
At the present rate of increase the season is likely to be one the liveliest ever known here, so far as beach enjoyments go.

THE HAWAIIAN AMUSEMENTS
Plenty of Prominent People Among Recent Arrivals
Many Features to Please Sunday Visitors.
Pleasing Music - Notable Visitors

REDONDO, July 0.-
Hotel Redondo has been the scene of more then usual activity during the past week.
Beginning with last Sunday when the Santa Fe railway deposited over 4000 visitors to this favorite beach, the capacity of this great caravansary was tested to its utmost.
Levy, the great cornist. and the royal Hawaiian band were the special features on this occasion.
Again on the Fourth both railways carried crowds to the sea. and once more was the hotel full to the brim.
Another crowd is expected tomorrow and preparations have been made to accommodate all.
The Santa Fe will run. trains every hour commencing at 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. from the city, and the Redondo railway will have a similar schedule.
All told there will be about twenty-five trains to Redondo.
Last Sunday's musical programme will be duplicated.
The Hawaiian band will make their last appearance in California prior to their departure for Manhattan Beach.
They will be stationed on the piazza of the Hotel Redondo, on which seats will be placed sufficient to accommodate a thousand or more people, while throughout the spacious grounds benches and settees will be arranged.
The programme will begin at 11a.m. and continue until noon, during which time various native songs will be rendered by the islanders.
During the dinner hour the hotel orchestra, the famous Ribagllati quintette, will discourse their choicest Spanish and Guatemalan airs.
At _ o'clock on the hotel veranda Levy, the world renowned, will render his favorite melodies that have made him famous.
In addition to this charming musical entertainment there will be high diving, surf riding by the Hawaiians and later in the ony "a balloon ascension.
Altogether Redondo proposes being right in it.

Chronicling America
The herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, July 07, 1895, Image 4
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu July 9, 1895, page 2.

The latest tourist book of the Oceanic Steamship Company is an art pamphlet with the gold embossed title, "Picturesque Hawaii."
The publishers do the islands a great favor by making a feature of the work a concise and reliable treatise on the material resources of the country.
There is a splendid article on coffee and fruit culture, with carefully prepared data of the most practical nature.
Pineapple and bauana culture are exploited, and there is an article on land tenures.
The climate comes in for its full share of mention.
The illustrations are superb, prominent among the pictures are: Colored plate of Kilauea, surf riding at Waikiki, date palm avenue at Queen's hospital, residence of V. C. Wilder, library of President Dole's mansion, Nuuanu avenue, Waimanalo plantation, lane on Judge H. A. Widematin's premises, St. Louis College, Honolulu, Hilo, Hanapeepc falls, Mariposa, Australia, Volcano House, Hawaiian Hotel.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, July 09, 1895, Image 2
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, July 10, 1895, page 3.

MAY GO TO NEW YORK
NATIONAL BAND IS STILL ON A SUCCESSFUL TOUR
Their Travels - In Various California Towns - Crowds - Diving - Had No Surf.

In a private letter to his wife here, a member of the Hawaiian National band, writing from Los Angeles says that the band was to leave that place for New York on July 1st.
They expected an order to reach them on that date.
In case they did not start they were to join the Fourth of July procession at Los Angles.
...
Concerts were given in Los Angles.
On June 10 a concert was given at Redondo, the attendance being in the neighborhood of six thousand people.

John Inea and Sam Kaaua gave an exhibition of diving.
The boys jumped a distance of eighty feet, the leap being applauded.
The bandsmen were only sorry they could not do some surf-riding there being no surf.
Should the nationals go to New York they will go under engagement for four months.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, July 10, 1895, Image 3
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, August 19, 1895, page 5.

Some splendid exhibitions of surf riding in canoes were given at Waikiki yesterday.
Now and then there were upsets.

Chronicling America
Evening bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, August 19, 1895, Image 5
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, December 26, 1895, page 3.

Waikiki had its share of the Christmas.
There was lots ot bathing and surf riding.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, December 26, 1895, Image 3
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The Royal Hawaiian Military Band: Promotional Booklet.
The Continental Printing and Publishing Co. [December] 1895.

The Royal Hawaiian Military Band.

Forty Musicians.
All Native Hawaiians.
Under the Leadership of Prof. J.S. Libornio. American Tour under the Direction of H.B. Thearle, Chicago.
Accompanied for a Limited Time only by Signor A. Liberati, The Greatest Living Cornet Soloist.
And the Famous Hawaiian Glee Club Traveling in their own Car, en Route on a Tour of the World

Unpaginated, four page booklet , 27x20 cm (10¾x8").
Includes black and white photographs of the Royal Hawaiian Military Bandand and the Hawaiian Glee Club.

Offered by auction by PBA Galleries, 04/11/2013, viewed 9 July 2013.
http://old.pbagalleries.com/search/item.ph/

The seller noted:
"A rare item, promoting the Royal Hawaiian Band's American tour in 1895, listing on page 4, various press clippings from newspapers around the Continental United States, all dated 1895, praising the Band's performances at their respective cities.
Cities performed at including Kansas City, San Francisco, Boston, and Los Angeles.
Includes a history of the Band and the Glee Club, plus the program of entertainment by them both.
The booklet ends with the notice that they are performing at Wagner's Opera House, Loraine, Ohio, Monday Evening, Dec. 16, [1895].
No copies of this item located by OCLC / Worldcat."

The popularity of Hawai'ian music was furthered in 1895 with the publication of Charles E. King's collection of indigenous hula melodies, King's Book Of Hawaiian Melodies.

The Hawaiian Glee Club, 1895.

The Royal Hawaiian Military Band
[Promotional Booklet]
The Continental Printing and Publishing Co.
[December] 1895, [page 3].

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26 December1895 :

Lady Rescued - Waikiki.
Canoe Surfing - Waikiki.
Hawaiian Surfriders and Divers - Redondo Beach.
Summer Crowds and The Royal Hawaiians - Long and Redondo Beach.
Picturesque Hawaii - Honolulu.
No Surf For the Royal Hawaiians - Redondo Beach.
Surf For Christmas - Waikiki.

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