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Newspapers
The
Age
Melbourne, 1 January 1908, page 4.
VANCOUVER MAIL.
BRISBANE.— The R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver,
arrived on Tuesday.
Passengers:—
... C.W. Hustace,
Trove
1908 'VANCOUVER MAIL.', The Age (Melbourne, Vic. :
1854 - 1954), 1 January, p. 4. , viewed 05 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196110942
The
Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, January 7, 1908, page 6.
SPORT
...
Round the
island trips with luncheon at Haleiwa seem to be getting quite
the thing, and on Sunday several well known motorists made the
trip among them being J. P. Cooke, Paul Isenberg, N. S.
Riley, George Cooke, Harry Baldwin and Judge Kingsbury.
All report the
roads in very good condition.
N. S. Riley
who is down here with a Studebaker touring car had quite a
party of friends with him, and his surf riding experience at
Hauula beach was one that perhaps will come quite popular
although in the future parties had better that (sic)
everything is O. K. before try surf riding in that particular
spot.
Chronicling
America
The Hawaiian
star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, January 07, 1908, SECOND
EDITION, Image 6
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Note.
Hauula is on the
windward (east) coast of Oahu.
He may have just
bogged his car in the surf ?
See:
Chronicling
America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu])
1893-1912, May 11, 1908, SECOND EDITION, Image 6
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Los Angeles Herald.
Los Angeles, January 9, 1908, page 7.
NEW ATHLETIC CLUB TO BE FORMED AT REDONDO
Special to The
Herald.
REDONDO, Jan.
8.—Plans for the formation of the city's first athletic body
are being discussed by the young men of this section, they
will meet shortly to decide on club charters and to select a
temporary board of officers.
George Freeth,
the Hawaiian lifeguard who last summer delighted and amazed
audiences at Venice by his antics in the surf, will be an
instructor of athletics in the proposed organization.
A canvass as
to the probable Charter membership of the organization is
being taken by M. M. Hodge and F. A. Callaway.
Chronicling
America
Los Angeles herald. (Los
Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, January 09, 1908, Image 7
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Los
Angeles Herald.
Los Angeles, January 10, 1908, page 7.
JACK LONDON AND PARTY LONG OVERDUE AT PORT
By
Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO,
Jan. 9.-
Friends of
Jack London, author, are beginning to feel uneasy over his
failure to arrive at the Marquesas islands, which he was
expected to reach early in December.
London left
Hawaii October 7 in his boat, the Snark, for Marquesas and is
about a month overdue.
It is feared
that the Snark, which was equipped with a gasoline engine is
drifting about as the result of an accident to her machinery.
Besides
London, Mrs. London, a couple of friends and a small crew are
on board the vessel.
The steamer
Mariposa is due here January 25 from Tahiti and it is hoped
that she will bring news of the party.
Chronicling
America
Los Angeles
herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, January 10, 1908,
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Note:
The Londons
arrived back in San Francisco 25th January 1908 aboard the Mariposa,
the Snark remaining at Papeete, Tahiti, suffering
engine problems.
- The San
Francisco Call, January 26, 1908, page 40.
The
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday 15 January, 1908 page 10.
MANLY SURF CARNIVAL.
Arrangements
are in hand for the approaching carnival of the Manly Surf
Club, to be held on 21th inst.
A fancy dress
procession will parade through the Corso and along the ocean
beach.
One of the
chief attractions of the afternoon will be a display of rescue
and resuscitation drill by the metropolitan police in full
uniform, sanction having been given for this event by the
Inspector General.
The landing of
Captain Cook will be carried out the boat approaching through
the surf from the flagship and will be opposed by a number of
blacks in full aboriginal "uniform."
An interesting
event that is causing keen interest among surf bathers will be
an interclub life-saving competition, for which Bondi,
Maroubra, Newcastle, North Steyne, and other clubs are
entering teams.
There will be
a swimming race out through the surf under the auspices of the
Swimming Association, open to members of all affiliated
swimming clubs.
A diving
exhibition will he given from a springboard on the rocks by C.
N. Purcell and other members of the club.
An exhibition
will also be given by the Sly Brothers in their surf boat.
The
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday 16 January 1908, page 8.
MANLY SURF BOAT AT NEWCASTLE
Arrangements
have been made for the Sly brothers to proceed to Newcastle on
Saturday with the North Steyne (Manly) Lifesaving Club, taking
the surf boat to help in the exhibition on the Newcastle Beach
on Sunday 19th inst.
An attractive
programme has been prepared by the North Steyne Club, and,
given anything like reasonable weather, it is expected that a
good object lesson will be afforded to Newcastle people.
A special
concert is being arranged for Friday evening next in the band
pavilion to defray the cost of sending the surf boat and crew.
A number of
members of the council, including Alderman Quirk, Pasaau, and
Duggan, will accompany the bathers.
Coffs
Harbour
Advocate
22 January 1908??
Board Riding Noted on Town Beach.
"Riders
were observed using 10 feet lumps of wood to ride the waves
and in this there appeared an element of danger."
- Conrick: Northern
Lifesaver (1989) page 95.
Initially noted
by Dave Kelly contributing to realsurf.com.au forum, January
2008.
Notes.
Unfotunately a
search of newspapers held by the State Library of NSW indicates
the Coffs Harbour Advocate was only published
once a week and there is no actual edition for 22 January 1908.
Without further
information, the Coffs Harbour report is unusual in not
identifying the riders, as may be expected if they were local
residents.
If they were
short-term visitors to the area and were accompanied by their
surfboards, then they almost certainly arrived and departed in a
coastal steamer.
They may be have
been Australian boardriders (possibly with a life saving club
connection) whose steamer had briefly berthed at Coffs on the
way up or down the coast.
Far less likely,
but possible, they were international seamen travelling with
their surfboards, the obvious candidates, no doubt, of Hawaiian
descent.
The
Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, February 7, 1908, page 4.
Alexander Hume
Ford is one of Hawaii's enthusiastic and useful friends, a
promoter who charges nothing for his work and reaches more
people than some who do.
As may be seen
on another page he has written from the South Seas in an
effort to arouse more interest here in copra.
Chronicling
America
The Hawaiian
gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, February 07,
1908, Image 4
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South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
8 February 1908, page 9.
That the surf-shooting
of the Manly Clubmen was a splendid exhibition of man's
mastery of the waves.
That it is to be hoped our unpractised youth will not be
incited there by, to emulate the feats of these aquatic
athletes.
Trove
1908 'ON DIT.',
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954),
8 February, p. 9. , viewed 05 Nov 2016,
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The Sydney Morning Herald
28 February 1908, page 5.
JACK LONDON'S ISLAND CRUISE.
VISIT TO BE
PAID TO SYDNEY.
The news was
brought to Sydney yesterday by the steamer Navua from the
islands that the cutter yacht Snark arrived at Papeete
(Tahiti) on December 26 from San Franclsco having called at
Honolulu, Hilo and Anna en route.
The Snark has
been chartered by Mr. Jack London, the well known Amerlcan
author, who, with his wife, is taking a cruise around the
world in the little vessel.
The yacht Is
fitted with a 70 h p oil engine and carries a crew of five
including the master.
Upon arrival
at Papeete Mr London was recalled to San Francisco on urgent
private business and the Snark remains at Papeete until the
return of the Mariposa.
When Mr London
gets back to Tahiti the yacht will leave for the Cook Islands,
Samoa, Tonga and lill and will then visit Sydney, Melbourne,
and Tasmania, afterwards proceeding to New Zealand.
Trove
1908 'JACK
LONDON'S ISLAND CRUISE.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842
- 1954), 28 February, p. 5, viewed 16 October, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14932940
Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, March 3, 1908, page 1.
FORD PLANS GREAT THINGS FOR HAWAII.
Has
Promotion Scheme That Promises Well For Territory
Alexander Hume
Ford, who has for months been proving himself one of Hawaii's
good friends, and who has been praising the country up in so
many magazine articles, returned from Australia this morning
on the Moana.
When seen by a
Bulletin reporter this afternoon he had the following to say:
"I have come
back to Hawaii because I am homesick.
..."
Chronicling
America
Evening
bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, March 03, 1908,
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, March 5, 1908, page 8.
Alexander Hume
Ford, the writer and surf-board expert, is trying to form some
sort of a canoeing club, with headquarters at a club-house on
the beach.
He maintains
that surfing with both canoe and board is the greatest sport a
man can find, and he would like to see some organized effort
made here to develop it.
With him when
he came here this time on the Moana he brought a New
Hebberdine native outrigger canoe, which he is taking out to
the beach today.
He intends to
spend a great deal of his time in the water while he is here.
Chronicling
America
Evening bulletin. (Honolulu
[Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, March 05, 1908, 3:30 O'CLOCK
EDITION, Image 8
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, March 6, 1908, pages 1 and 4.
Princess Kaiulani's Memory Honored By School
"May your
pilikias be pau
And your
pleasures wela ka hao."
The above was
a parting toast by Mrs. Wilcox at the Kululani School this
forenoon.
She was
assisted by Mr. Atkinson as an.authorlty on Hawaiian words.
Lovingly and
pleasantly Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was greeted by the
children of the Kalulani School at their exercises held this
morning.
The occasion
was in memory of the death of the late Princess Kaiulani.
...
Seated on the
platform wore Mrs. Ella W. Wilcox, Mr. Wilcox, Governor and
Mrs Frear, A. L. C. Atkinson, Alex. H. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Rhodes, Burton Holmes, Mr. Bonine, Mrs. Willis, Mr. and
Mrs, DeWeese, Mr. and Mrs. Dayton, W. H. Hoops of Chicago,
III., Mrs. Robt. Jocelyn of Chicago, and a few others.
Page 4
Continued from
Page 1.
...
A. L. C.
Atkinson was next introduced and his catchy speech brought
loud applause from the children, who evidently understood what
Atkinson had said.
During his
speech Atkinson told the boys to play hard when it came to
play time.
This remark
made a great hit among the youngsters.
Alex. H. Ford
when introduced said that it was a great pleasure to him to
see such a fine collection of cosmopolitan races, studying in
one school and serving under one flag.
He told the
boy that the Manchuria, which arrives tomorrow, would bring
about fifty pupils from Australia and he invited the Kalulani
school children to come down and sing "Aloha Oe," "Hawaii
Ponoi" and "America," to those pupils.
When asked to
address the school Mrs. Wilcox begged to be excused.
Previous to
and during the exercises Burton Holmes, the lecturer and Mr.
Bonine, the moving picture man, took a number of photographs
of the children and the guest.
Outside of the
school house, in front of the building, the picture of the
school faculty and pupils were taken as they recited and
saluted the American flag, which was proudly waving at the
flagstaff.
Many
descriptive views were taken and from what Mr. Holmes
and Mr. Bonine said, they will be interesting pictures when
completed.
While Governor
Frear was reading the poem of Mrs. Wilcox in the assembly
room, he was photographed by Mr. Holmes and Mr. Bonine.
The exercises
closed with appropriate exchange of compliments and
congratulation.
..........................
Alexander Hume
Ford is handing high-life dope in the way of promotion ideas
that will at least set people thinking though they may, not
act.
Chronicling
America
Evening
bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, March 06, 1908,
3:30 O'CLOCK EDITION, Image 1
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Notes.
1. Richard
A.
Edwards: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Home Page, viewed 1 July
2012.
Ella W. Wilcox: The
New Hawaiian girl; a play.
Illus. by John
Prendergast.
London, Gay &
Hancock, 1910
16 p. col.
illus., front. 22 cm.
Illustration 2,
John Prendergast: [Surfboard Riders], 1910.
http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/books/nhg/i2.htm
2. A. L.
C. Atkinson was Territorial Secretary of Hawaii, essentially the
top government official, and president of the Healani Boat Club.
The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, March 7, 1908, page 6.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK
The Seaside
every afternoon is a great place for the youngers to gather.
Surf riding
and swimming parties are the go just at present.
One of the
best swimmers among the fair sex is Miss Dora Saunders, the
charming daughter or Captain J. W. Saunders of
the Manchuria.
Besides being
a fine swimmer, Miss Saunders is an accomplished sailor in
small boats, and handles the big surf canoes as a veteran.
Chronicling
America
The Hawaiian
star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, March 07, 1908, SECOND
EDITION, Image 6
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, March 9, 1908, page 9.
The big tripod at the Seaside is being rigged up on the
reef to allow R. K. Bonine to mount his moving picture
machine and obtain some close at hand shots at surf-riders
and surf canoers.
...
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has made a conquest ot Honolulu
during her few weeks in the city.
She sailed for her home on Saturday taking with her
pleasant memories of Hawaii and leaving behind a large
host of new made
but true friends.
During her stay she was extensively entertained, the
largest affair arranged in her honor being the reception
given on Thursday evening in the rooms of the Kilohana Art
League.
Here a program of her poetical works was rendered by
members of the league, concluding with a beautiful
poetical play, "Love versus Cupid," in which Mrs. Humphris
assumed the leading role.
The gifted words of the poetess took on added beauty as
read by Mrs. Humphris, who never appear ed to better
advantage than on the tiny stage of the Kilohanas.
Her acting was exquisite, inspired to some extent possibly
by the appreciative audience that packed the auditorium
and showed their sense of her talent by the applause that
punctuated the rendering of the play.
Before the program a reception was held in the library, at
which the hundreds present were presented to the guest of
honor.
Here, afterwards, refreshments were served, those
presiding over the tables being Mrs. B. F. Dillingham,
Mrs. George R. Carter, Mrs. E. A. Mott-Smith and Mrs. A.
F. Judd.
Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands) 1885-1921, March 09, 1908, Image 9
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu,
March 13, 1908, page 6.
PEOPLE WE
KNOW ON THE MOVING PICTURE CANVAS
BONINE'S MOVING PICTURES MRS. ELLA WHEELEER WILCOX AT THE
WHARF.
(Princess Kalulani...)
Mrs.Ella Wheeler
Wilcox and Governor Frear will come arm In arm down the stage
of the Opera House on Thursday and Friday evenings.
Later, Mrs. Wilcox will make her appearance in company with a
dozen of the scantily garbed Hawaiian diving boys.
"Jack" Atkinson will be there In all his plumpness and glory,
and Burton Holmes himself will explain to his friends In the
audience how It all happened.
...
Burton Holmes had been taken out to learn the art of surf
boating by the princess the first day he arrived in these
islands ten years ago.
Alexander Hume
Ford attended her funeral services when he passed through
Honolulu nine years ago.
BONINE'S
MOVING PICTURES - MRS. ELLA WHEELEER AND THE DIVING BOYS
Chronicling America
The Hawaiian
gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, March 13, 1908,
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The Pacific
Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, March 13, 1908, page 4.
FLORAL PARADE
MOTION - PICTURE
(Continued from Page One.)
The program of moving- pictures was broken up into a number of
selections, interspersed with orchestral numbers.
The first selection of pictures was as follows:
The inauguration of President
Roosevelt: the President escorted from the White House to the
Capitol, to take oath of office.
...
A large part of the remainder of the pictures were Hawaiian.
The pictures of surf-riding, Mr. Holmes said, were the finest
taken of that subject up to date, but that it was his hope and
Mr. Bonine's to take some better ones before they left, better
because they would be taken under conditions that would enable
the machines to reproduce this wonderful sport in representation
with more lifelike reality.
A series of pictures taken on thr Island of Hawaii were followed
by a series presenting many of the features of the Pasadena
Floral Parade on New Year's Day, including the chariot races a
la Ben Hur, which' were driven, there.
...
The closing pictures were a number taken at the Kaiulani School
when Governor Frear and Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox were there;
some taken last Saturday at the sailing of the Manchuria, in
which also Mrs. Wilcox was the central figure, and a number
taken on Sunday at KaWaiahao church, bringing the pictures not
only up to date, but, as Mr. Holmes said, almost up to day after
tomorrow7.
The remainder of the program of pictures was as follows:
A panorama down King street, Honolulu, as seen from the front of
an Lelectric car.
The scene starts at Palace Square and continues down King
street, terminating at the Oahu Rail way station.
A panorama scene along the Oahu Railway past Pearl City, as seen
from the pilot of a rapidly-moving locomotive.
Company F, N. G. H., in silent bayonet drill.
A circular panorama of the bathing beach at Waikiki. .
Standing surf-board riders at Waikiki beach.
On the float at Waikiki beach.
...
Hawaiian snapshots.
A series of short miscellaneous subjects from various sections
of the islands:
Unloading a vessel at Pepeekeo, near Hilo; pa-u riders, a scene
in Kapiolani Park, Honolulu; feeding turkeys at Humuula Ranch,
Hawaii; pounding poi, a scene at Lahainaluna, Maui; native
Hawaiian canoes in Hilo Bay, Hawaii; Japanese wrestling match, a
scene at Hilo, Hawaii.
Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial
advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, March 13,
1908, Image 4
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, March 14, 1908, page 12.
OUTRIGGER CLUB
Splendid Scheme For Making Use Of Honolulu's
Magnificent Beach For The Greatest Sport On Earth.
Honolulu is to
have a clubhouse at Waikiki for surf-boarders, and those
interested in canoe surfing.
Mr. Stout,
manager of the Seaside Hotel, and Proprietor Leishman (sic),
have at the request of Alexander Hume Ford given the site and
"Jack" Atkinson has promised to promote and organise the club.
Burton Holmes
and R.K. Bonine are registered as the first and most
enthusiastic non-resident members.
Yesterday
Holmes and Ford were studying and photographing the lanai
along the beach with a view of suggesting designs for the
clubhouse, which will be almost entirely lanai.
The land for
the club lies along the bank of the stream separating the
Seaside and Moana Hotel grounds.
The club will
see to it that their property is not toyed with by every tide
A channel will
be kept open just wide enough to admit the passage and exit of
a large outrigger canoe.
The lagoon
will be used for anchorage for some of the larger canoes and
cantamorans (sic), but the present plan is to build a
lanai frame work parrallel with the beach and plant hau trees,
that will in time afford umbrageous protectlon for the
outrigger canoes of the club members that will be drawn up on
the stand.
The clubhouse
proper will probably consist of a polished koa wood floor
beneath a spreading hau tree lanai, with, of course, the
impromptu canvas sides, to be lowered and used only when the
"Kona" becomes strong and ostreperous.
The promoters
of the club believe in large membership and small dues; ten
dollars annual membership fee for adults and five dollars a
year for boys owning surfboards is the plan suggested.
For the native
canoe and native surf-board boys it is proposed to elect a
Hawaiian grass house facing the beach, the wide grass lanai of
which will be dressed with lei-covered Hawaiian women who will
sell curios under direction of the holder of this privledge
from the hotel.
An
effort will also be made to have the canoemen conform to
floral decorations a la Hawaii, the idea of the esthetic club
promoters being to make the Outrigger Club surroundings at
Waikiki something to be talked about by tourists and long
remembered by visitors who come to see something suggestive of
old Hawaii.
What Holmes Says
Burton Holmes
was bubbling over yesterday afternoon when interviewed by the
Bulletin man, while over looking the ground upon which he
hopes the lanai clubhouse will grow during his absence from
Hawaii.
"The only
marvel to me," he said to the Bulletin man "is that it
has never been done before.
When I first
came to Hawaii, ten years ago, it was really Mr. Brown's lanai
that was the home of the outrigger canoe club, as it is today.
Here the
Princess Kaliulani ordered her crew to launch her canoe, and,
seated in the prow, she gave directions as we came sailing in
upon the billows, and I was initiated into the grandest bid
(sic) of sport the world over.
I believe that
the building of a lanai for those who wish to own canoes but
have no place to keep them, is a splendid idea.
I understand
that the expenses of maintaining the club will be small; no
rent to pay, plant your own trees and as for filling in that
part of the ground on the creek side that sometimes washes
away, it's a safe gamble that my friend Ford will have every
small boy within a mile of Waikiki contesting with each other
as to which can sink the most sand-bags in a given time.
He will find a
Tom Sawyer among them, and they will do the rest.
As no drinks
will be sold in the clubhouse, one man to look after the
surf-boards and canoes will be the only force needed, so that
surplus from dues not needed in adding more hau trees can be
devoted to cups and prizes and the expenses of conducting
annual outrigger races and carnivals, while an annual
surf-board series of races would not only tend to keep alive
this king of sports, as Jack Londonon named it, but should
attract visitors from all parts of America."
Ford Is Enthusiastic
If there is
anything more beautiful in the world than an artistically
grown hau tree lanai," said A. H. Ford, "I do not know where
it is to be found.
I hope in two
years' time to be back In Honolulu.
I look forward
to it longingly already, and I hope and trust that by then the
Outrigger Clubhouse will have grown to spacious and beautiful
dimensions.
I think the
thanks of not only the community but of the lover of the sport
in every part of the world is due Manager Stout for the
generous enthusiasm he has displayed in securing a site for
the clubhouse so necessary to Hawaii, and the splendid
encouragement he is giving.
With Mr.
Atkinson at the head of the promotion work, I presume every
good Hawaiian will join hands with him and give Hawaii a place
that the globe-trotter will mark in his mental diary forever
after as the mile-stone to which he would like to return for a
long, long rest."
Mr. Atkinson
has assured his fellow promoters of the Outrigger Club that he
will keep at least three full-sized Hawaiian canoes drawn upon
the beach under the hau tree lanai just as soon as it is
erected.
Alexander Hume
Ford states that Master Harold Hustace will keep there the New
Hebrides outrigger canoe he brought with him for the small
boys of Waikiki; he intends also sending his friends to Fiji,
Samoa, the Solomonand Friendly Islands for other types of
South Sea Island canoes, so that in time Waikiki will have the
most perfect collection of typical outrigger canoes-in
commission in the world.
"It broke my
heart," he said, "to see at Apia a magnificent Samoan war
canoe capable of holding 300 warriors- the last of its kind-
rotting on the beach because the German Emperor, after
accepting the gift, refused permission asked by a native crew
to sail it to Germany.
It was such a
canoe that 800 years ago brought the first Samoans from the
Island of Savali to the Island of Hawaii.
I would like
to see our club secure that canoe and repair it before it is
too late.
Then let a
crew of of Hawaiians and Suvailans put her in commission for
the long trip- and why not?
I was told in
Samoa that once there was it regular catamarran canoe line
between Samoa and Hawaii, and the canoe at Apia is larger than
any of the vessels of Christoper Columbus.
In the New
Hebrides I was offered one of the last of the war canoes there
for twenty-two dollars.
I want that
canoe now and hope to get it.
The site for
the club at Waikiki is ideal.
The trolley
passes its back entrance, the ocean beats up into its front
yard; on one side is the liquid lagoon; on the other side the
Seaside Hotel with its liquid refreshments, and a circular hau
tree lanai that can be reserved as a dining and wining room
for the members of the club and their guests.
True, our
president pro tem, Brother Atkinson, is on the water wagon-
and I am more than half-way up- take beer when I can't get an
ice-cream soda- but then perhaps the Seaside will put in a
soda fountain, which, by the way, if located under a hau tree
near the beach, should be well patronized by the casual
strollers.
The strand
lying between the Moana and the Seaside should become the play
ground of tired America and Happy Hawaii.
With Mrs;
Wilcox. Jack London, Burton Holmes, and Mr. Bonine all
pointing America toward Waikiki as the wonder-spot in the
Pacific, I don't see how an outrigger snd surf-board club can
be avoided, and I trust one of the first things the club does
will be to invite Mr. Twain to come and try his luck once more
on the surf-board, or, if he is not to be persuaded, that he
will always feel that there is a special chair and corner of
the Outrigger Club's lanai set aside in hope that it will some
day be honored by the presence of he who loved Hawaii more
than any lnnjl in all the world- a most fitting place for the
grand old man of America to pass in peace his declining years
upon soil that is Hawaii's best friend Samuel L. Clemens."
SEASIDE
BEACH OUTRIGGER CLUB HEADQUARTERS
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in the newspapers of the period.
The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, March 20, 1908, page 5.
A JAPANESE PROMOTION COMMITTEE NAMED.
The rwcMhtr
weekly meeting of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee was
held yesterday afternoon at their rooms in the Young Building.
The following
letter from Alexander Hume Ford was read-
Honolulu,
Hawaii. March 19, 1908.
Mr. H. P.
Wood, Secretary, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Honolulu.
Dear Sir: I
find that I shall not be able to be present at the meeting
this afternoon, as the surf is good and the Australian
children will be there, so l think it important that the
public does not miss this moving picture.
Will you
explain to Mr. Shoba the cause of my absence and introduce him
to the committee, he and his Japanese following have done
splendid work in preparing for a Japanese-Hawaiian Promotion
Committee.
Can't you
authorize him to act as a sort of chairman of this Japanese
committee and go ahead and get them interested?
They can do so
much.
I have seen
the property owners, representing more than three-fourths of
the park site of the Nuuanu stream.
They are all
willing to help the matter along, and I am sure Mr. Shoba, and
his Japanese friends can do the rest.
He will have
all my hearty cooperation and that of many of the leading
citizens of Honolulu.
Thanking you
for your many courtesies, I remain, sincerely yours,
A. H. FORD.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, March 21, 1908, page 3.
Alexander Hume
Ford's Honolulu day is eventful.
On arising he
mentally reviews a plan for leveling the Waianae mountain
range so as to cut out wireless interference, and as he
glances over the morning paper he makes marginal notes of
improvements in parks, promenades, political policies and the
police patrol.
of his mututlnal egg shell suggests putting a crystal cover
over Punchbowl and flooring the crater for Mardi Gras balls
and Art League Exhibitions.
His nicely
buttered toast, of course, puts in mind a proposition of
baking bricks by the simple process of burning flame from the
volcano, and when he takes a swallow of coffee he gets an idea
of how to clarify Nuuanu stream by the simple process of
covering it over with Japanese tea houses so the rain can't
wash the mud down from the banks.
Ford is full
or ideas and by the way, Honolulu does not recognize an idea
until a malihini springs it.
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The Pacific Commercial
Advertiser
Honolulu, April 7 1908, page 3.
AUSTRALIANS WERE
SIZED
Waikiki Boys Create a Surfing Sensation at
Manly Beach.
Two Waikiki boys have just returned from a three months' stay in
Australia.
It is summer there while it is winter in Hawaii, so that on
Christmas and New Year's days the water was just right and the
Waikikl boys dashed in to surprise the boys at Manly Beach and
they did.
There are two things that the Sydney lad prides himself upon,
the crawl stroke and body surfing.
Master Cherry of the Lilliputians beat nlneteen-year-old Peanuts
in a swimming match at the Hotel Baths the other day, and he
used the Australian crawl stroke.
On Christmas Day when the two Waikiki boys went into the surf at
Manly Beach people stopped swimming to take notice.
Nobody talks much of body surfing in Hawaii.
Young boys and men merely swim out a quarter of a mile to the
big waves, give a stroke or two at the right fraction of a
second and leap forward down the green hill, the rushing water
catches them, and bent back ward like a bow, they come skimming
in for a hundred yards or so, and some times right up to the
beach, their heads out from the base of the wave, their feet
curved backward somewhere in the crested foam above.
At Manly Beach, the most venturesome wade out for twenty-five
yards, and in mortal terror of sharks that await swimmers just
beyond the last row of breakers, catch a frothing wavelet by
springing forward they stand upon hard sand and are carried
forward a few yards, or, if they have a small board in their
hands, sometimes surf up to the beach.
On Christmas Day the two Waikiki boys watched the fun at Manly,
then disrobed in the free bathing shed, put on the government
four-cents bathing suits and plunging in swam out to a chorus of
"Sharks, sharks, sharks," left the farthest breaker behind them,
caught an oncoming roller long before it broke and came in right
up to the beach line.
People stopped surfing to look at them.
They tried it again with equal success, then their teeth began
to chatter, for, although the thermometer may be and often is
110 in the shade at Manly, the water is never so warm that a
bath may be prolonged.
New Year's Day there was a test match but the Australians were
not in it with the Waikiki boys, who learned to surf on waves
the like of which happen in Australia only after a violent
storm.
However, the Sydney test got even.
One Waikiki youth was arrested last New Year's Day for sitting
upon the sand at Manly in his bathing costume, "sun bathing"
being an offense in many parts of Australia that is punishable
'by a fine of ' twenty-five dollars and certain ordinances
eomnel the bather conceive of a Waikiki beach where there is
never a policeman and never the need of one.
The two youths from Waikiki are glad to be back on their native
strand once more, and in the only surf in the world that is
mastered by men who stand upon tiny boards on the crests of the
largest waves.
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1908.
See below: The Pacific
Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu, July 21, 1908,
page 16.
Contrast
with another of his accounts in 1908 Alexander Hume
Ford : Beach Culture in
Sydney, Australia.
The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, April 14, 1908, page 4.
"Having risked his neck at surf-board riding and forced his
way into the forbidden district on Molokai," is the way, the
last number of the Woman's Home Companion introduces an
article on Jack London.
All of which
may advertise Jack London but which is pretty poor promotion
stuff for Hawaii.
London did not
force himself into the settlement, as everyone here well
knows, but went under official escort, and as for the risk he
took with his neck at Waikiki, it is the same risk that every
ten-year-old boy in the Islands takes and enjoys.
.........................
Mr. Alexander
Hume Ford's article on the $5 per day cruises among the South
Sea Islands is keenly interesting and ought to be suggestive
to people here.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, April 16, 1908, page 8.
OUTRIGGER CLUB AND FISH COMBINE
Mr. Herbert Suggests and Ford Does Business
H. L. Herbert
and Alexander Hume Ford met this morning at the office of R.
H. Trent to consider plans for uniting the anglers with the
proposed "Outrigger" Club.
Mr. Herbert
stated that he and his Isaak Walton devotees were in the habit
of using outrigger canoes for fishlng parties within the reefs
near Waikiki, but that there was some time a difficulty in
finding a place to keep the canoes when not in actual use.
The
proposition was that the anglers unite with the Outrigger Club
and that certain canoes be set aside for fishing purposes, and
the Club be not only a surfing, but also a fishing club.
Mr. Herbert
and his friends will attend the first general meeting of the
Outrigger Club and the two organizations will probably combine
and unite their efforts to revive old Hawaiian surfing sports.
Often a boat
load of the anglers make a catch of seventy-five or a hundred
fish within a few hours, and certainly the stranger within our
gates will most gladly welcome an opportunity to indulge in a
day's sport of this sort.
Mr. Herbert is
an enthusiast on reef fishing from an outrigger canoe and
thinks it would be quite an advertisement to the Islands to
have tourists out with the native fishermen and see how our
fish are speared, after being discovered tlnough the glass
box.
As a
sportsman, however. Mr. Herbert prefers the line.
He would have
native fishermen employed by the club, who could act as guides
to all the good holes in the reefs and show the haole how to
catch shrimps, without which bult reef fishing loses much of
its zest.
As stated in
the Bulletin some time ago the Outrigger Club proposed to
build a lanai on the grounds of the Seaside Hotel, where it
would keep a number of canoes and about one hundred surf
boards, the idea being to revive and keep alive surfing sports
of every kind, as one of the great attractions of Hawaii.
The dues for
those who wish to invite friends from the Coast, to enjoy the
privileges of the club including use of canoes and surf
boards, it is proposed to post at ten dollars a year, while
actual surfers and school boys will pay five dollars per
annum.
A call,
setting forth the objects of the Club, is being sent out and
is signed by J. F. Morgan, A. H. Ford, James A. Wilder, Wm. R.
Castle, J. A, Gilman, Richard H. Trent, J. Waterhouse, J. A.
McCandless, H. P. Wood, A. M. Brown and A. L. C. Atkinson.
About one
hundred members have been secured and those wishing to become
members of the club are requested by the promoters to send
their names to C. R. Frazer, 122 King street, Phone 371.
WITH OAR AND SAIL
"Jack"
Atkinson, the president of the Healani Boat Club, stated
yesterday that it was his intention to call a meeting of the
club during this week.
Jack could not
tell the day, although there were but three days of the week
left, nor could he tell what the subject for consideration
would be.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, April 22, 1908, page 3.
OUTRIGGER CLUB FRIDAY
A meeting of
persons interested in organizing the Outrigger club will be
held next Friday afternoon in the rooms of the Promotion
Committee for the purpose of completing the organization of
the club.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, April 22, 1908, page 6.
A meeting for the purpose of organising an outrigger club will
be held on Friday morning in the Promotion Committee rooms.
outrigger
club has come from Alexander Hume Ford, who has become an
euthusiastic surfer, and who is very
mi lima
to have club here which will euMftl eoiiie of the
other club In the South Seas.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, April 23, 1908, page 8.
FUTURE SPORTS
...
April 24-
Meeting Outrigger and Fishing Club, Promotion Committee rooms,
p.m.
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Honolulu, April 23, 1908, page 6.
Sporting events scheduled for the near future:
...
April 24-
Meeting Outrigger and Fishing Club, Promotion Committee rooms,
p. m.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, April 24, 1908, page 8.
THE OUTRIGGERS.
Quite a large
number of surfing enthusiasts were present at the first
meeting of the Outrigger Club, held this afternoon at the
Promotion Committee's rooms.
The following
were elected temporary officers: Alexander Hume Ford,
president; A. L. C. Atkinson, vice president; H. P. Wood,
secretary and Richard Trent, treasurer.
A committee
consisting of the following members were appointed to look
after organization, membership and plans: Messrs. Ford,
Atkinson, Dr. Hand, Harry Macfarlane and O.Sorenson.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, April 24, 1908, page 6.
OUTRIGGER CLUB ORGANISES
The newly formed Outrigger Club met at 1 o'clock this
afternoon at the rooms of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee,
elected officers and appointed a committee on organization,
which is to report at another meeting to be held at the same
place a week hence.
Acting
Governor E. A. Mott-Smith called the meeting to order.
A rather small
number was present.
A. H. Ford was
elected temporary chairman.
R. H. Trent
was elected treasurer, and H. P. Wood secretary, all the
officers temporary.
It was then
moved that a committee be appointed, to take charge of
membership, rules, and organization,
A subsequent
amendment was passed that the committee, appointed by the
Chair, consist of five members,
The committee
was appointed as follows:
A. H. Ford,
chairman; Dr. E. Hand, L. E. Pinkham, H. Macfarlane, and A. L.
C. Atkinson.
This committee
will meet on Monday at Atkinson's office.
The meeting
adjourned until next Friday, at the same time and place.
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The
Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, May 1, 1908, page 5.
OUTRIGGER CANOE CLUB OFFICERS
At the meeting
ot those interested in the Outrigger Canoe Club held this
afternoon in the Promotion Committee room, the following
officers were elected: President, A. H. Ford: Vice President,
L. H. Herbert; Secretary, H. P. O'Sullivan; Treasurer, R. H.
Trent; Auditor, C. R. Frazier; Trustees, J. P. Cooke, Harry
Macfarlane and J. R. Gait.
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Honolulu, May 1, 1908, page 8.
SPORTS CALENDAR.
May 1 Meeting,
Outrigger Club.
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, May 5, 1908, page 7.
Small Talks
A. H. FORD-
When we get through with the Outrigger and Fishing Clubs,
there'll be something to do along the line of reviving the
ancient sports of Hawaii.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 12, 1908, page 6.
MORE BONINE PICTURES
Mr. Bonine is
preparing for another series of moving-picture shows at the
Opera House.
He will throw
upon the screen only pictures made in Hawaii since his last
entertainment, when he was assisted by Burton Holmes.
Mr. Holmes
will again appear in the moving pictures and many new and
startling innovations are contemplated.
It will be a
Hawaiian evening, pure and simple, surf riding, outrigger
canoeing, mountain sliding on ti-leaves, boys' sports in
Hawaii, gliding over waterfalls, Hawaiian dances, comedy
scenes from life in Honolulu and the new moving pictures Mr.
Bonine has made on his present expedition to the other
islands.
Only the new
films made by Mr. Bonine himself will be shown and no foreign
moving pictures that may or may not get into the nickelodeon
houses.
Mr. Bonine can
now make records of events in the morning and show them the
same evening, if he has to, for his workshop in Honolulu is
one of the most complete anywhere.
Honolulu will
soon have an oppoitunlty of seeing some of Mr. Bonine's color
work, which will be placed on exhibition.
Some ot his
color schemes of Hawaiian scenery will also be shown with his
moving picture shows, the dates of which will be announced
within a few days on his return to Honolulu with new films
from the other islands.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, May 15, 1908, page 6.
A special
meeting ot the Outrigger Club will be held shortly to try and
get the members to take some interest in the club.
Since its
organization a few weeks ago nothing has been done by the
members to revive the sport of surf board riding and canoeing.
The only one
that seems to take any interest at all in the sports is the
one who started the club.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 19, 1908, page 8.
OUTRIGGER CLUB GETS TWENTY YEAR LEASE
Queen Emma Estate Is Secured
Will Meet Tomorrow
The Outrigger
Canoe Club secured its leases from the Queen Emma Estate this
morning and paid one years rent on same.
The property
which is now the home of the club for twenty years lies
between the Moana and Seaside premises, having a sea frontage
of about 100 feet and a depth of 400, back to the Waikiki
road.
The club
starts out with a membership of 200.
A meeting of
the officers will be held tomorrow, when the matter of
securing canoes for the club, erecting a lanai on the property
and purchasing a number of surfboards will be brought up, as
well as the stand the club will take as to its part in the
entertainment of the fleet.
A vote of
thanks will also be extended to Messrs. Kinney and Marx, E. M.
Watson, Mr. Bruce Cartwright, Ollie Sorenson and others who
have donated their services that the club may start its
existence without a debt to be paid for organization or legal
fees.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, May 20, 1908, page 6.
The Outrigger
Club will meet this afternoon at four o'clock in R. H. Trent's
office.
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Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 21, 1908, page 8.
Outrigger Club To Buy Boards and Canoes At Once.
A meeting of
the directors of the Outrigger Canoe Club was held yesterday
afternoon in R. H. Trent's office, for the purpose of getting
things in motion, now that the lease for the Queen Emma Estate
has been secured, giving the canoemen a site for their lanai,
on the beach between the Monana and Seaside properties.
The immediate
purchase of canoes and surf-boards was authorized, committees
appointed on membership, surfboards, canoes, building, and
other lines, and the president of the society was instructed
to offer the cooperation of the club to the Fleet Committee,
in an endeavor to amuse the men and officers of the Fleet
during its stay here.
The
surf-boards are to he placed at the disposal only of those
members who are now paying their dues.
All committees
are expected to hustle, and be ready with good reports when a
meeting will be called, at an early date, when plans being
prepared by Mr. Pinkham for a lanai at Waikiki may be
considered.
It was rather
expected that at this meeting a committee would be appointed
for the purpose of arranging some sort of a program to be held
during the time the Fleet is here, but this was not done, as
it was decided that more amusement could be given the Jackie's
and their officers by placing the boards and canoes
unrestrictedly at their service at all times on the day.
Allan Herbert
asked to become a life-member, upon payment of $50, and was
named as chairman of the building fund committee, to which the
dues of a life-member will be turned over, their action to be
approved by the club as a whole.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, May 21, 1908, page 6.
At the meeting
of the directors of the Outrigger Club held yesterday
afternoon, it was decided to purchase boards and canoes for
the members who have paid their dues.
It was also
decided to have open house for the sailors when they arrive
with the fleet.
Allan Herbert
was made a life member, also appointed chairman of the
building committee.
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Zoo's Hawaiian
Village Being Moved to Waikiki for the Surf Riders.
The Outrigger Canoe club will move into its clubhouse next week.
Yesterday a purehase was made of the two Hawaiian grass houses
at the old zoo and they are now being moved in sections down to
the Outrigger grounds at Waikiki.
These two native grass houses are probably the best remaining
samples of ancient Hawaiian housebuilding to be found in the
islands.
They were built by old time natives brought from Maui, Kauai and
Hawaii, each bring ing the real hut grass with him from his
native valley for the thatching.
Real kou wood timbers bound with cinet, or cocoanut fiber, was
used, and skilled Hawaiian thatchers did their best to make the
houses a credit to their art.
It was not until yesterday at noon that the president of the
Outrigger Canoe Club learned from C. G. Ballentyne of the street
railways that these grass houses were still in perfect
condition, but about to be pulled down.
He found the owner, Charles A. Biddinger, an ardent outrigger
enthusiast, and secured the houses for the club; got the
unanimous endorsement of the directors, hurried a contractor out
to the zoo grounds, ordered workers sent up and this morning,
with Vice President L. II. Herbert, was on hand to aid in the
careful removal of these really valuable relics of the Hawaii
that has all but passed away.
Tourists now will ask no longer in vain to be directed to a real
Hawaiian grass house, for one of these will be put facing the
ocean, about midway between the Seaside and Moana hotels.
This will be used for the present as a bath house by the members
of the club.
The other will face the stream and here will be stored the club
surfboards.
The spacious thatched lanais about these grass houses will
afford ample protection from the glare of the sun, and while
ample space will be left on the grounds for the carrying out of
L. E. Tinkham's design of a hau tree lanai, doubtless his plans
will now be
modified and the Outrigger Canoe club will become the home of
Hawaiian sports with only such buildings on the grounds as
suggest the Hawaii that the tourist comes to see and the old
Hawaii still beloved by the kamaaina.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 23, 1908, page 12.
OUTRIGGER CLUB GETS HUTS FROM ZOO
Things were expedited in the plans of the Outrigger Club
yesterday when the president of the club learned that the two
grass houses at the Zoo were about to be pulled down and
forestalled this by securing them from the owner, Charles A. lltldlngcr,
who is an Outrigger man, too.
The houses
will be at once put up in sections at the site which the club
has secured on the beach between the Moana and the Seaside
properties, one of them to face the ocean and to be used as a
bath-house for the members, and the other to face the stream,
and to be used for the storing of the surf-boards, canoes and
other paraphernalia.
Spacious
Ianais will be put up about the thated houses; the
club will have a home next week, it all goes well.
The securing
of the structures is particularly lucky, as they are fine
examples of the Hawaiian grass house, built by old-time
natives brought from Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii.
It will be a
nice thing to be able to point out these picturesque buildings
when visitors here ask where they can see a real grass house,
such as the natives lived in before the coming of the whites.
And for this
purpose, the location between the two hotels is particularly
happy.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 25, 1908, page 2.
Page 2
The Outrigger
Club will agitate the matter of having alll men at the
steersman post in the surfing canoes pass a test before they
can take out passengers.
Page 5
The grass
houses at the defunct Kaimuki Zoo, recently purchased by the
Outrigger Club, have been dismantled in readiness for removal
to the club's headquarters.
Page 8
OUTRIGGERS DISPORT
A number of
the officers and members of the Outrigger Club were out
surfing yesterday, and an evidence of the increase of interest
in the sport, due to the activity of this organization, was to
be seen in the great number of canoes and boards which were in
the water.
The places
usually Hn..An,M.l urn-.. nmu-ilnH nml r(ilrrH.4Bl 11
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good and bad,
were al (sic) enthusiastic.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, May 28, 1908, page 8.
The grass
houses for the Outrigger Club are on the ground at Waikiki and
will be put up at once.
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Barrier
Miner
Broken Hill, NSW, 6 June 1908,
page 5.
Mr. "Jack"
London, the famous American author, and Mrs. London arrived at
Apia (Samoa) on May 7, from Pago Pago, in the ketch Snark.
Mr. London is
(records the "Daily Telegraph") on a trip round the world in
the little craft, which is of 10 tons net and 80 tons gross,
and he has already visited many of the picturesque and
romantic islands of the South Pacific.
The Snark left
San Francisco about a year ago, and visited Honolulu, Hilo,
Marquesas, Tabit, Manua, and Tutulia.
Mr. London is
writing his experiences of the trip for "Harper's Monthly" and
"The Woman's Companion."
The Snark is
fitted with a 70 h.p. engine
She carries a
crew of 8 all told, including Mr. and Mrs. London, who, it is
stated, also takes a "trick" at the wheel.
The Snark is
in charge of Captain J. Langhorn Warren.
Mr. Johnson is
the chief engineer.
After leaving
Somoa the Snark will make for Fiji.
Trove
1908 'PEOPLE.',
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, June 10, 1908, page 3.
MASCOTS OF 'RIGGER CLUB
Doings of Junior Members of the Sporting Seaside
Organization.
The Seaside Hotel,
but was once protege of Queen Emma and used to
stand on the surf board with her in the good old
days, is taking a deep interest in the club that
now owns the land once possess ed by the Queen.
Mrs. Arnold and little Marie discuss quite
seriously sometimes a great luau that is to take
place on the grounds of the Outrigger Club, when
it is expected that the club mascot will be
permitted to remain up long enough to assist the
friend of Queen Emma, who is to prepare the
feast.
There are happy days at the seaside just now, and
more new boards were tried Sunday than ever
before.
KAMEHAMEHA
DAY RACES
The Outrigger Club has adopted a mascot a pair of
them, in fact.
Every day tiny Marie Brooke, of the Seaside Hotel,
trots over to help superintend the erection of the
grass houses that the Outrigger Club is putting
up. |
MARIE
BROOKE, THE MASCOT OF THE OUTRIGGER CLUB, AND
HER PARTICULAR FRIEND, BURTON HOLMES.
|
Some times she
takes with her her tame sparrow, and the two, the sparrow
perched contentedly on Marie's shoulder, watch the
progress of the work.
Tame sparrows, by the way, have become quite a
specialty of the Seaside Hotel.
Daily these intrusive little birds perch on the
chairs of the guests at dinner, and noisily demand crumbs
of bread.
One young sparrow has taken a violent fancy to
five-year-old Marie Brooke, and follows her everywhere,
perching on the foot of her bed at
night and on the back of her chair at table during
meal hours.
Master Arthur Brown, the young son of the
Commissioner of Immigration, who occupies one of the hotel
cottages, also has a pet sparrow, a pert young bird that
followed him home one day and almost pecked out the eye of
a member of the family.
When Burton Holmes first visited the Seaside and
suggested the formation of the Outrigger Club, he became a
slave to little Marie, and declared that she should become
its mascot, and so she has and Marie, by the way, has just
written a very cute letter to her moving picture admirer.
The Outrigger Club grounds in their present state of
building operations are, of course, the frequent lounging
place of all the urchins of Waikiki.
Prince David's little son and daughter, who are the
guests of Major Purdy, are daily visitors, and spend much
of their time playing under the grass roofs of the native
Hawaiian houses.
Master Arthur Oilman is also a frequent triitAr nnil tiaa
tlio linnrvr nf i
Placing in commission the first of the ya have already gone
into train-
fleet of outrigger canoes belonging to club members.
the boys of Waikiki-a diploma so he Mugs. The Advertiser
team will
suggested that' the Doctor sit further
forward, selected a big wave, and down shot the
canoe until she touched coral.
Then there was a half-mile swim in to shore.
Tom Sawyer couldn't have managed the thing better
himself, and the only fly in the ointment to Master Arthur
was the fact that meanwhile his chum, Harold Hustace, was
doing the "Joe Harper" act, much to the delight of Ruth
Soper, who under his tutelage is learning to ride
the surfboard like a professional.
Ruth is the leader of a little group of Punahou
schoolgirls who have taken up surfing since the Outrigger
Club was formed, and Insist that they will have a club and
clubhouse of their own if the boys' club
dues do not admit girl members.
Ruth's ambition is to stand on the.board and Harold is
sure that she will in two more lessons.
Little Margaret Center, the charming fancy dancer,
is another dainty youngster who comes to the beach
frequently to take surfing lessons from the club members.
In fact, it will not be long before quite a number of
young girls will be able to stand on the board, something
that has not been seen at Waikiki for
several years.
Crews are beginning to form for canoe practise, and
the expert surf boarders are also beginning to practise up
the old stroke.
Master Harold Hustace won the cup at the last surfing
contest, but his brother Curtis,
Atherton Gilman, Lane Webster and
several newcomers in the field are among those
named as possible winners of the first club
contest.
Balis, dances, smokers and concerts are
already being discussed under the open grass roofs
of the Outrigger Club, and Mrs. Arnold, who now
presides over the destinies of the Seaside
be called either the Gobblers or the Slit Mouths.
J. W. W.
Brewster will act as manager of the Star pie artists
and Sport
ing Editor Moore of the Bulletin will
coach the Vealies in the art of get
ting away with the pastry.
"Beans" Singer has kindly offered
to provide all the pies needed at cost. |
SOME OUTRIGGER CLUB
SURFRIDERS
LINING
UP FOR A TRIAL.
|
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, June 16, 1908, page 3.
VARIED OUTPUT OF HAWAII'S FORESTS
HILO, June 11.
...
Operations at
the koa mill were suspended only temporarily to enable the
installation of a band mill with a dally capacity of 20,000
feet.
This was
necessary owing to the size of the logs in the forest, as it
is not unusual to have logs that are six feet in diameter, and
eighteen to twenty feet in length.
The use of a
band mill Is preferred owing to the large saving it effects in
saw kerf which, owing to the high grade of the lumber, should
be as fine as possible, not exceeding one-eighth of an inch.
The market
calls for high grade manufactures from this lumber, and this
decided the company to erect a band mill.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
19 June 1908, page 8.
VOYAGE OF THE SNARK RESUMED.
Mr. and Mrs.
Jack London left Suva in their schooner-yacht Snark on
Saturday morning (says the "Fiji Times" of June 10) with much
regret that their Fiji' stay could not be extended.
Mr. London
said that a month would be all too short to do the things
offering in this place.
But "it is a
white man's country, and I am out for other game this trip."
Mrs. London
regretted that she had not been able to enjoy all the kindness
offered socially.
Mrs. London
typewrites all her husband's "copy," and was very busy while
in Suva finishing "Chum Au Chung," a story of Honolulu.
Mr. London
intends being his own captain for the rest of this voyage, and
with the assistance of an engineer, Fred Johnson, of Kansas,
two Tahitian sailors, a Japanese cook and a cabin boy, took
the Snark out of harbour in continuation of her search for
out-ot-the way adventures.
Trove
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Los Angeles Herald
June 22,
1908, page 7.
VENICE SPORT EVENTS
Fully
25,000 Persons Witness* Boxing and Aquatic Contests at
Opening of Season by the Seaside
Special to The
Herald.
VENICE,
June 21.—Street car people estimate that 25,000 persons came
to Venice today to enjoy the summer opening.
The
new bath house was packed, the big galleries seldom having a
vacant seat in them from early afternoon until late in the
evening.
The
aquatic events held there were the cause of continuous
excitement and merriment.
In
mid-afternoon fully 25,000 persons crowded around the square
platform "ring" at the edge of the midway to see Freddy Welsh
train for his Fourth -of-July fight.
...
The swimming
events in the great bath house were an unfailing source of
amusement.
The obstacle race
between Marcoux, the most graceful swimmer, and D. Gray was one
of the best events.
The distance was
200 feet and the men had to go twice through a barrel and a life
' buoy.
There was great
scrapping when they both got to one of the obstacles together,
Marcoux . won.
In the fifty-yard
dash between Frank Holborrow and George Freeth, Holborrow won in
30 2-5 seconds.
s',s5 ',s The
fifty-yard , free-for-all - dash* was
won by Allen
Mower, with Harry Allen
; second.. *
There i was * high 'f, and fancy
i diving, men* 1
from Venice and;Blmlnl
hot springs
competing. V;;,.',:: s^Wf
Mi In his fire
dive from the under cord
lof I the | arch,
a I distance lof | forty-one
I feet, Prof.''
Ross struck Ia? broken elec-
I trie r light |
lamp |at the \ bottom |of | the
?' plunge and one
of his arms was severe
ly though not
dangerously • cut. * >V:
*i^" The f water
i polo i game | between I the
'.Venice I and (
Blmlnl hot I spring i teams.
? was • well -;
contested. i Venice : was the
£ winner,'*
scoring two goals, the i one iin
the flrst 'half
by Wlldl and the one in
the second half
by Barton. V, The teams
J playing were as
follows,: seven minute
.V.. Goal
.r.Y'TVr.'.'p Freeth
?'!'The (display
"i of ' fireworks, l; all i aerial,
1 with which the
celebration closed, was
very fine. :; .?*
;'•?• " • ' ?*; ' .", '?
-,;*: ' ?*" » ...
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, June 29, 1908, page 1.
MOTOR BOAT RUNS
AMUCK AMONG BATHERS AT SEASIDE
Surf-Rider Coming Across the Bow of the
Swift-Moving Craft Has a Narrow Espape With His Life.
Reckless motoring is becoming rampant not only in the streets
of Honolulu, but in the waters at Waikiki.
An accident that might have been fatal was precipitated
Saturday afternoon by two young men In a' motor launch who most
foolishly and recklessly dashed their craft at full speed among
about fifty bathers in front of the Seaside Hotel.
The launch came within a hundred yards of the beach,
narrowly missing with sharp prow and whirling propeller a number
of swimmers among whom were several small children and then the
accident took place.
A. C. Foster of the Young Hotel, than whom there is no
greater surfboard enthusiast at Waikiki, was surfing in from the
big waves and bid fair to land his board on the beach.
He was standing majestically his gaze fastened to the prow
of his board to see that he ran into no bather or other
surfboarder, not dreaming that within a hundred yards of the
beach any one would be so foolish as to race a motor boat in
among the throng of bathers.
Those on the lawn of the Seaside saw that a collision was
inevitable.
The motor boat occupants gave no warning sound, but raced
full tilt, Foster came down on his wave, with the speed of an
express train, headed straight across the bow of the "Midge."
No power on earth could have stopped the board then, and,
fair and square, the sharp prow of the launch struck it amidship
and Foster went flying in the air, his board being carried on
for a hundred yards before the launch, one of the occupants
climbing out on the bow to disentangle it, and neither occupant
troubling to turn about to see if the whirring propeller had
injured the surfboarder or any of the swimmers.
Foster states that 'he did not see the launch until it was
within ten feet of him, as the crest of a wave was between him
and the little white craft, that itself looked like the froth of
a wave.
Just as the shock came he threw himself forward, or would
have been struck by the bow of the launch.
It is needless to say that Foster and the other bathers at
Waikiki are firm in the belief that they should have the right
of way over motor craft within the limits of the bathing grounds
adjacent to the beach.
The fact that Foster's board was carried a hundred yards on
the bow of the motor launch indicates how narrow was his escape
from injuries that might have proved fatal.
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, June 30, 1908, page 6.
Secretary of
the Interior, James R. Garfield, has been entertained at a
number of functions during the time he has been in the
islands, the University, Pacific and Commercial clubs being
the scene of most of the dinners and luncheons at which he was
the guest of honor.
At other times
he has been the guest of Governor Frear and of Secretary and
Mrs.
About the only
relaxation the ful Secretary has allowed himself during his
strenuous trip, has been his surfing at Walkikl.
At the end of
nearly every busy day, and all his days have been busy.
170 has
before dinner to visit the Moana and sport among the breakers.
He has grown
enthusiastic over canoe surf riding, declaring it to be the
finest sport he has ever indulged in.
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The
Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, July 3, 1908, page 5.
LADIES MASTER SURFBOARD RIDING
Bishop
Restarick's little daughter Margaret is the
first the girl of the Outrigger Club to come in on a
surfboard standing, all the way from the cornucopia surf to
the beach in front of the Seaside Hotel.
Little
Margaret accomplished this feat yesterday afternoon after her
lesson on the surfboard.
A week ago
Ruth Soper stood on her board, but not in the big surf.
Ruth has mastered
the art of starting her own board but the captain of the
Outrigger Club, Kenny Winter, is still starter for little
Margaret, who leaps to her feet the moment the wave is
caught, and demonstrates that standing on the tips of the
waves as a feat anyone can learn.
The Outrigger
Club enthusiasts are also jubilant over the agility of their
newest member, Mr. A. B. Leckenby, of government experimental
station fame, who in spite of his seventy years has learned in
three lessons to stand upon the surfboard.
With two such
Illustrations of the ease with which this sport of kings can
be mastered, there is no reason why at the coming Waikiki
carnival there should not be surfboard contests for boys,
girls, men, women, and even babes and octogenarians.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, July 6, 1908, page 10.
OPEN AIR SPORTS ALL THE YEAR ROUND
...
The greatest -
distinctively Hawaiian sports are - surf-riding,
bathing,fishing and yachting.
The first
named is peculiar to Pacific Islands and specially Hawaii.
The easiest
way to enjoy it is in a Hawaiian outrigger canoe.
The canoe is
rowed out to where ocean rollers begin to form and so
maneuvered as to get the force of an incoming wave astern.
The wave
carries the boat in at great speed.
In fact the
speed at which an ocean wave travels is a great surprise to
those who ride one for the first time.
This canoe
surf-riding was described by Miss Alice Roosevelt, on her
first visit to Honolulu, as the finest sport she had ever
known, and much of the time of her later honeymoon
sojourn in Honolulu was given to it.
The other
surf-riding is by swimmers, it requires considerable practice.
There are many
Hawaiians who can swim with a small board out to where the
waves form and ride in on the board, just as others are
carried in by a canoe.
Frequently
they ride standing erect on the crest of a wave, on their
little board.
Many whites
also have mastered the art, and it is as thrilling and
exhilarating a sport as could be enjoyed.
Recently the
"Outrigger Club" was formed in Honolulu as an organization
devoted to these sports.
It started
with a large membership of leading citizens, and has acquired
a club house on the beach, where it will maintain canoes,
boards, etc., and it will have the effect of reviving and
encouraging the surf-riding sport.
There are few
days on which the waves are not satisfactory for surf-riding,
the water is always warm, and parties of ladies and gentlemen
frequently spend hours in riding back and forth.
The rowing out
to sea and the skill required for so manipulating the canoe as
best to catch a wave, furnish exercise, and interest aside
from the thrilling shoot inshore after a wave has been
"caught."
Sea bathing is
enjoyed in Hawaii the year round.
The water is
never uncomfortably cold and there are many splendid beaches,
the most famous one being at Waikiki, between Diamond Head and
Honolulu.
On Sundays
especially there are usually large crowds at this beach, and
swimming, diving, water polo and other sports are enjoyed.
A public
bathing place is a recent addition to the beach facilities.
It is a part
of the big Kaplolani park, just under Diamond Head.
The beach when
acquired for the public was somewhat rocky, but the sharp
coral was blasted out, and now there is a fine sandy bathing
place.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, July 15, 1908, page 6.
Regatta Looks Good
The Hawaiian
canoe races at Wakiki next Sunday afternoon will
probably bo the biggest event of the sport ever pulled off in
these islands, since the days of Kamehameha I.
At the
committee meeting last night It was decided to call off the
proposed oy ugo of the canoes to deep water Thursday afternoon
to meet the Fleet and concentrate every effort on practice for
the events of Sunday.
Although there
have been about a hundred entries of alll sorts, more are
coming in alll the time.
"Dude" Miller has
entered his Kanll.auwcn for 1 n .t 1 Q llnlinrt.1 con
the Hawaii, as the eighth entry in the four-paddle race, this in
nildl-, tomed Canoes.
Flist prize, iio;
2nd
tion to the
following entries up to 2nd prize, $G. Knnal Aupunl, K. A.
8 o'clock Iast
night: c-l Diamond Star, Mrs. A. Smith:
Name of boat is
given first, followed by that of the club from which it is
entered and the captain and owner:
Wohlno Uul, Mrs.
Levi; Knnal Au-
First Race Ilojs1
Canoe Race,
Four Paddle. Cup.
LII0.1, Outrigger,
Arthur Gilman, A.
Gilman: Ooodshlp
Dird, Outrigger,
Arthur Brown; Mn
lolo, Outrigger,
Harold Hustace.
Second Race
Six Paddle Canoes.
First prize,
$40; second prize, $20; third prize, $10.
Liola,
Outrigger, Curtis Hustace, A. H. Ford.
Alabama,
Myrtle, Major A. M. Brown.
Hanakeoki,
Outrigger, Kenneth Winter, Dr. A. Wall.
(B) (sic,
B,) Outrigger, Dr. A. Wall.
Queen Emma,
Outrigger, Dr. A. Wall.
Kamaapake,
Outrigger, A. Stout, Seaside Hotel.
Keomoku,
Outrigger, Atherton Gilman, A. Gilman.
Leialima,
Lellon, A. Afong.
Waikiki,
Edward Miller, Edward Miller.
A, Kamehameha
Aquatic Club, Prince J. K. Kalanianaole.
Keawamalie,
Kamehameha Aquatic Club.
Aloha,
Outrigger, Seaside Hotel.
Kamehameha,
Outrigger, H. Lubeck.
Lei Ilima, Lei
Aloha Opeka.
Third Race
Women's Uacp,
Four Paddle, Old
Style. A, J. K. Kalanlanaole; Keawamalle, K. A. C.
Fourth Hacc Four
Paddlp Canoes
First prize, $20
second prize, $10; third prize, $4.
Knmchameha IV,
Outrigger, Kenneth Winter, W. J. Cooper.
Mnlolo,
Outrigger, Lano Webster, Walter Dillingham. Iloopen, Outrigger,
Atherton Oilman, A. Oilman.
Lanaklln, Harry
Harris.
Alabama, Marjor
Keawcamahl, A.
Ilrow n.
A, J. K.
Kalanlanaole.
Keawamalle, K. A.
C.
Halekulanl, Dr.
A. Wall.
Hanakcokl, Dr. A.
Wall.
I.el Ilima, Lcl
Aloha Opcku.
Fifth Ilaco Ono
Paddlo Cunoer.
First prize, $7.
HO; Bccond prize, $5;
third prize,
$2.50.
Nalunul,
Outrigger, Kenneth Win
ter, Dr.
Humphrls.
Kofa. Outrigger,
Henry Ilustaco.
Knlelhoku,
Outrigger, Den Geno-
vas.
Pnki.
Lclplkake,
Pllkai.
Kcawamallc, K. A.
C.
Hannmlklol II.,
i. K. Aplo. Knlta
Olrl, St. Louis,
Swcop I.ilo, "I mil Huio
for You."
Sixth Race:
Surfboard Contest In Big Surf.
Sam Wight,
Curtis Hustace, Arthur Oilman, Atherton Oilman, Lane Webster,
Harold Hustace, Harry Steiner, David Center, T. J. Carter, Ted
Carter, all of the Outrigger Club; Jimmy Keolanui, Major
Keaweamahi, Herman Mahi.
PRIZE???
Soenth Race Four
Paddlo, Flat
Kottom Canoes.
First prize, $20;
second prize,
$12; third prize, $8.
Diamond Star, K.
A. C.
Kulahlklola, John
LI.
Mahiklnalao, Mrs.
Kama.
Hallemami, T,
Kcolanul.
Wnhlno Ul, Mrs.
Levi.
Knnnl Aupunl,
Mrs. Klpl.
Deachroad, J.
Kalml; (no name),
H C. Vlda;
Hiklpaluko, A. S. Robert
son. Eighth
Ruce-Threo Paddlo, Flat
Uottom Canoes,
for Women. First
prize, $1S;
second prize, $10, Kauai
Aupunl, K. A. C;
Diamond Star, Kn
hakaaulana;
Mahiklnalao, Mrs, Ka
llu: Kalnhlklola,
J. LI; Wallamanu, T.
Keolanul.
Ninth Race
Canoe. Sailing, Old Style.
First prize,
$25; second prize, $15.
Hoopea,
Outrigger, Atherton Gilman, A. Gilman; Liola, Outrigger, A. H.
Ford; Lanakila, Harry Harris;
A, J. K.
Kalanlanaole: Keawamalle, 'io hit Motonnan Frlel, a former
K. A. C.i
HnnnkeoM, Outilgger. Dr.
A. Wall
U. Wnl I.
Liola,
Outrigger, Curtis Hustace, A. H. Ford.
Alabama,
Myrtle, Major A. M. Brown.
Hanakeoki,
Outrigger, Kenneth Winter, Dr. A. Wall.
(B)
Outrigger, Dr. A. Wall.
Queen Emma,
Outrigger, Dr. A. Wall.
Kamaapake,
Outrigger, A. Stout, Seaside Hotel.
Keomoku,
Outrigger, Atherton Gilman, A. Gilman.
Leialima,
Lellon, A. Afong.
Waikiki,
Edward Miller, Edward Miller.
A,
Kamehameha Aquatic Club, Prince J. K. Kalanianaole.
Keawamalie,
Kamehameha Aquatic Club.
Aloha,
Outrigger, Seaside Hotel.
Kamehameha,
Outrigger, H. Lubeck.
Lei Ilima,
Lei Aloha Opeka.
Tenth
llalelviihiil,
Outilgger, Dr.
Hnco Two Paddlo
Cnuous.
K
k-litWJtwH, , ..
- .
National
Tlrst prize, $10;
second prize, ffi;
third prlzo, $3,
Tnlofa,
Outrigger, Sam Wight, Sam
Wight.
Nalunul,
Outrigger, Lane Webster,
Curtis Hustncc.
Mnlolo,
Outrigger, Harry Knpulc,
W. Dillingham.
Kofa, Outrigger,
Henry Hustncc.
Lclplkukc,
l.lld.t, W. Wllllumton.
Kqiiwamnllc, K.
A. C.
Hnnnmlkiol, J. K.
Aplo; Hnleku
lanl, Dr. Wall;
Filing Fish, D. I'llkol.
Eleventh Hnco
Sailors ot Fleet
Agnlnst Kach
Other In Six Paddlo
Canoes. First
prize. 15j second
IiHzp. 110.
Twelfth Race Two
Paddlo.Flat Dot-
punl, Mrs. Klpl;
Knlnhlkloln, I.i Hulo-
.amanu, t.
Keoinnut; iicacnroan, j.
Knltnl;
Hlkipalukc, A. s. Koocrtson
Thirteenth Race
Canoo Sailing,
cm Style.
Flret prize, $20;
second
Diamond Stnr, K.
A. C;
prize, $10.
Modern Stylo.
First prize. $20; see
ond prize, $10.
Diamond Star, K. A.
C; Kalahiklela,
J. LI: Halllmanu, T.
Kcolanul;
Huloamanu, T. Kcolanul;
Halomnumau, II.
C. Vlda; Mahiklna
lao: Kallula;
Kamehameha, II. Iaea;
Makalll. II.
Hclcla; I'allkca. J. K.
Aplo; Kiokatlnn,
M. 1). Piinohu; Ul
lllun. '
Fourteenth Race
Hojb" Race In
Dig Surf, Smnll
Cnnocs. Cup. Nnlu
nul, Arthur
aitm.'ui; Tnlofn, Hurry
Stcluor; Mnlolo,
Ouy Rothwcll; KoTa,
Harold Hustnce.
Fifteenth Race
Surf Riding Canoes.
Prize, $10.
Alabama, Hanakcokl, Ko
omoku, Walklkl,
A, Keawamalle, Alo
ha, Kamehamehn,
Lei Ilima, Haloku
lanl, "B".
Sixteenth Race
Beginners' Surf board Race in Small Surf.
Cup.
Finale
Surfboard and Surfboat Contest in Canoe Surf.
Procession of
canoes, swimmers and surfboard riders to parade by judges'
boat.
The members of
the Outrigger Club have decided to ask for cups in place of
money prizes.
These cups the
committee will present fully and completely engraved.
A committee
from the Junior members of the Outrigger Club, than whom there
are no better surfers in the world, have submitted the
following rules for board surfing:
Judges: Edward
Miller, Fred. W. Macfarlane, Kanakanui.
No wave caught
after it has broken shall count.
Running a man
off: (a) The man knocked off gets credit; (b) the man that
fouls another is discredited.
Hints: (a) Big
waves are harder to start on than a small one; (b) surfing in
the middle is harder than on the sides; (c) distance covered
after the wave has stopped breaking shows no skill.
Distance
depends on the size of the board.
Others
intending to enter for any of the events are requested to
communicate with O. Sorenson, S. A. Walker, or George Angus
down town or A. H. Ford at the Outrigger Club, Waikiki beach.
All canoes
starting from the Moana Pier shall be lined up on the beach in
front of the WaikikiSeaside Hotel and the Moana Hotel at 1:30
p m. on the day of the Regatta.
The races will
start promptly at i p. m.
The
contestants must be ready at the starting point within five
minutes of the finish of the previous race.
Canoes
starting from the Stake opposite Brown's shall be on the beach
opposite Brown's at 1:30 p m.
Entries close
Thursday at C o'clock at the Outrigger Clubhouse, Waikiki
beach.
They are open
to all.
Regatta
Committee: Sam A. Walker, O. L Sorenson, Geo. H. Angus,
Alexander Hume Ford, Secretary of Committee.
Judges: A. A.
Wilder, S. M. Kanakanui, Robt. Atkinson.
Clerks of
Course: A. S. Robertson, Ell Crawford.
Starters from
Moana pier: A. L. C. Atkinson; flag opposite Brown's
residence: Harry Rycroft.
Timekeepers:
Frank Kruger, Morlo M. Johnson, Richard E. Wright.
Judges of
Surfriding: A. A. Wilder, S. M. Kanakanui, Robt.
Atkinson.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, July 16, 1908, Fleet Edition, Section
III, page 17.
SPORT FOR SPORT'S SAKE
BY
CHAS. C. ALBRIGHT
Again, the old
Hawaiian sports were not altogether competitions.
They
were more in the nntiito ot ox
orclsea
for the better development of their physical bodies.
Take
that most exillerating amongst their characteristic sports;
surf riding.
The
keen, wild dash shot ow aril on
llio
crest of a breaking wave; the
swliUh
of the air and the ting ot tho
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RIDING AT WAIKIKI
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silt,
the unrutiiu t hold on the shooting. illii I t
strain
on the mue!i -, ti i
betiding
(inil iteaiMu.. m t h.
that
is imperative t -1
these
are the hardships j i I p'. amir
of
the unique sport n Is I v
course
been one of the main 1
exercises
of the Ilnv illin. for a
time;
and today It 1ml J m , i
upon
the jounccr Rcnmtlnn of Iln
wnllon,
na well and the white mil
lifts
become no Imbued with love of those special clubs hie
been found of late with headquarters on the
beach,
for its promotion and maintainance.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
16 July 1908, page 8.
JACK LONDON AT NEW HEBRIDES.
Captain Wooley
Is in receipt of a card from Captain Jack London stating that
the Snark had a pleasant voyage mid safe arrival at the New
Hebrides, and was ready for departure to the Solomon Islands.
Trove
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AT NEW HEBRIDES.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -
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Evening
Bulletin.
Honolulu, July 17, 1908, page 7.
Riding Breakers
Sport of Waikiki
By ALEXANDER
HUME FORD.
President of
the Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Club.
As a boy I
used to sit in school idling away my time building air castles
over the picture in my geography book of Hawaiian men and
women (in impossible attitudes) who, standing on the tiniest
of boards, stood poised upon the crest of monster rollers.
I longed for
Hawaii and sighed to read the brief statement that only native
Hawaiians of all the people in the world ever accomplished the
art of standing on the waves.
Thirty years
later I stood on the beach at Waikiki and saw that my boyhood
dreams might be realized.
White men of
all ages were racing in upon the foam, and I, too, in time
became one of their number, while young girls not in their
teens seemed to learn the art of standing on their tiny boards
after a couple of trials, while old men found no difficulty in
mastering the art.
My geography
had merely lied about Hawaii, as many an otherwise good book
has done since.
Surfboard
riding is an art easy of accomplishment to the few and
difficult to the many.
It is at its
best when the rollers are long in forming, slow to break, and
after they do, run for a great distance over a flat level
bottom such as the coral reefs at Waikiki, which is perhaps
the all-year-round ideal surfboarding bit of water in the
whole world.
There are
three surfs at Wakiki the "big surf" toward Diamond Head in
front of Queen Liliuokalani's summer residence, where the most
expert surf-board riders and native boys disport themselves.,
The "canoe"
surf, nearly in front of the Moana Hotel, where the majority
of those who stand on the board dispute rights with the
outrigger canoes that come sliding in from a mile out to sea
before monster rollers.
The beginners,
or cornucopia, surf is the series of gentle rollers before the
Outrigger Canoe Club grounds and the Seaside Hotel.
Here, us a
rule, beginners learn the art of balancing on the board.
The water for
several hundred yards out is waist deep so that the "malihini"
can stand beside his board, wait for a wave , give his
board a forward push, jump on, and race in towards the beach
before the foaming crest.
He quickly
learns, lying down, to guide the board by moving his legs,
like a rudder, from one side to the other.
There is
nothing difficult in mastering this portion of the art of
surfing, but out in the deep water it is quite a different
proposition.
There you have
no foothold from which to gain a start, which now must be
given the board by the power of the hands.
It is half a
mile out to the big waves, or "nalu nui," and a long "hoe" as
the overhand wind-mill stroke that takes you out is termed.
The intending
surfer launches his board by grasping it in both hands by the
edges, so that it balances, rushes down the slightly sloping
beach, and throws himself upon the board as he casts it upon
the waters with a forward movement that gives it a good start
and sends it beyond the first row of little breakers, then
begins that constant, steady, wind mill movement of the arms,
the hands acting as paddles, and the six- or seven-foot plank
of light wood swiftly glides out to sea.
To the
beginner the exercise soon ties to exhaustion, the neck and
back ache, and the points of the ribs that touch the board
seem to cut through the flesh.
Perseverance,
however, over comes all obstacles, and after a few days new
muscle is developed and the stiffness is forgotten.
Out in the
deep surf, the board goes outward under the waves, a diving
tip being given the board just as it bucks each onrushlng
breaker.
Once out where
the waves foam, the surfer either sits on his board, which, of
course, sinks until only an inch or so of the tip is above
water, and waits for THE wave; several may pass; then afar off
he notices the one he wants; it is coming onward a great green
roller with a ridge of almost imperceptible spray along its
entire length; this is the wave that will curl and break to
perfection, then rush on for hundreds of yards a Niagara of
foam.
The line of
surfers prepare, as the base of the mountain of water reaches
them, there is rigorous and deft paddling with all the
strength that skill can put into trained arms and the strait (sic)
is made, some rise rapidly to the crest of the billow and
sink behind it, they have lost the wave, others keep down in
the hollow just before the wall of green.
It breaks, and
the fortunates are lost in the foam, rlse through it, standing
on their board, are lifted to the top of the white crest, and
by skillful balancing, and guiding their boards with their
feet, send them down in the bias until once more they are in
front of the on-rushlng mass of water.
Some of the
boards of course are divorced from their owners and go sailing
in the air while the surfer dives, involuntarily towards
coral.
Few, however,
are the accidents of surfing, it is doubtful if anyone has
been seriously Injured at this sport which has come
down to the "haole," from the old Hawaiian Kings of Hawaii.
For several
years past the sport of surfing has been on the decline, as
the vacant lots facing the beach at Waikiki were taken up by
private ownership the small boy of Honolulu was forced to give
up his favorite sport.
It was on
account of this injustice to the small boy that the Outrigger
Club was formed in April, 1908.
Within a month
of its first moving, there was a membership of 200, and an
acre and a half of property facing the surf at Waikiki had
been secured.
Native grass
houses, the finest specimens on the islands were purchased and
moved to the property to be used as lounging places, their
great broad couch hikee's and open Ianais forming ideal
retreats for bathers after a long contest with the waves.
Bath rooms
were added for the free use of members.
A place for
stowing surfboards, both for members and club property.
Sheds for the
canoes and lockers for the paddles.
New members
were, taught to ride standing upon the surf-board, and so
popular became the revival of the old Hawaiian sport that even
the women began to take a deep interest.
A number of
young girls have learned to stand upon their board riding the
waves, and together, with their mothers and older sisters are
now organising an auxilary club, which will have its own
club-house on a separate piece of property, already donated by
the Seaside hotel management.
So much for
surfboarding which has returned to Waikiki to stay, at least
for another twenty years which is the life of the lease the
Outrigger Club has on its seaside property.
Probably the
only sport in the outrigger canoe habitually rides the surf
for the delectation of the tourist and the native at Waikiki
beach.
Here the waves
roll in, long rollers from the deep blue sea.
The native
helmsmen take their great long Koa-wood canoes a mile out to
sea, wait for a great roller, paddle Iike fury as it
approaches, get up a speed that sends the long slim craft
shooting down the advancing hill of water, and there at a
seeming angle of forty-five degrees, the canoe ever rushing
downhill but never reaching the hollow just a few feet before
the rushing prow.
It is a
thrilling and safe ride, although of course some times the
paddle of a helmsman stops short and the the canoe comes as
broadside to the wave and there is a swamped party of
merry-makers clinging to the canoe (which never sinks), until
it is bailed out again.
Of course,
there are many canoes at the Outrigger Club now; more than
were ever before drawn up on Waikiki strand, for the back
yards and barns of Honolulu have been ransacked since the
organisation of the Outrigger Club, and so long forgotten
native canoes, and these the club carpenters are over putting
in commission again, while new Koa-wood boats are being built
by the natives of the big island Hawaii, where alone the real
article maybe secured nowdays.
Neither
surfboarding, or driving the big native-canoe safely before
the roughest waves are accomplished beyond the requirement of
the "haole" or white man.
There are
white boys fully as expert as any Hawaiian youths, both in the
canoe and on the surfboard.
A white lad
was the first to win a cup at a carnival of surf riders, and a
"hapa-haole" (or half white) is today the most graceful
surfboard rider, and by long odds the best helmsmen of a
Hawaiian outrigger-canoe.
The Outrigger
Canoe Club has been organized solely to revive and popularize
the Hawaiian water sports that have made these islands famous
the world over.
The dues are
but five dollars a year which entitles members to all
privileges including the use of canoes, surfboards and the
bath rooms.
It's hoped by
the officers of the club that neither the boys or girls of
Hawaii, will ever permit the club to languish or the art of
surfing to become a lost art.
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The Pacific
Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, July 18, 1908, page 3.
FINE
AQUATIC PROGRAM FOR WAIKIKI REGATTA
The carnival of Hawaiian water sports at Waikiki tomorrow
afternoon will be the event of the day.
Half a hundred Hawaiian outrigger canoes will be lined up
on the beach for entry in the various events, the first of which
is scheduled for two p. m., and the last somewhere between five
and six in the afternoon.
The canoe races will nearly all start and end at the Moana
pier, giving everyone along the beach at Waikiki a splendid
opportunity of seeing both start and finish.
The officers of the fleet, their ladies and the members of
the Outrigger Club, with their ladies, will find rows of benches
on the club grounds for their exclusive use.
The contest in the small surf will be held directly in
front of the grass houses of the Outrigger Club and the Seaside
Hotel.
The big surfboard and surfing-canoe contest will be pulled
off in front of the Moana Hotel in the canoe
surf.
All canoes starting from the Moana pier are to line up on
the beach of the Outrigger Club and Seaside Hotel at 1:30 p. m.,
the first race being that of the boys in the four-paddle canoes,
and the second event the six-paddle contest for men, in which
more than a dozen of the fleetest canoes in Hawaii have been
entered.
The races will start promptly at 2 p.m.
The contestants must be at the starting point
within five minutes of the finish of the previous
race.
Canoes starting from the stake opposite A. M. Brown's
residence must be on the beach opposite Brown's at 1:30 p.m.
The officials follow:
Regatta Committee- Sam A. Walker, O. L. Sorenson, Geo. H.
Angus, Alexander Hume Ford (secretary of committee).
Judges- A. A. Wilder, S. M. Kanakanui, Robt. Atkinson.
Clerks of Course A. S. Robertson, Eli
Crawford.
Starters From Moana pier: A. C. Atkinson.
From flag opposite A. M. Brown's residence:
Harry . Roycroft.
Timekeepers Frank Kruger, Merle M. Johnson,
Richard E. Wright.
The entries for the events are as follows:
FIRST RACE.
First prize, cup.
Boys' Four Paddle Canoe
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Hoopla; Atherton Gilman; H. Hustace
Malolo; W. Dillingham; A. Gilman
Liloa; A. H. Ford; Richard Herbert
Leialima; Afong; Pikini, Jr.
Kamehameha IV; W. J. Cooper.
Course From flags opposite A. Brown's and Moana pier.
SECOND RACE.
First prize, $40; 2nd prize, $20:
Kikg and
1 One of the sailing canoes entered for Waikiki races.
3 Out for a trial spin before the race.
SURF SPORTS AT
i 1$ n$ 1$
prize, $10
Six Paddle Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Alabama; A- M. Brown; Major.
Hanakeoki; Dr. A. Wall; Pekini.
Leoelele; Dr. A. Wall; Kenneth Winter
Mamapoiopu; Hokelekahakal;
Akemomona.
Keomoku; A. M. Brown; A. Gilman.
Leialima: A. Afong; Leiloha,
"A"; Prince Kalanianaole; Crawford.
Keawamalie; K. A. C; Crawford.
Kamehameha; F. Lubeck;
Lei Ilima; Leiloha; Opeka.
Course From Moana Hotel pier to
flags opposite Arthur Brown's and re
turn to pier.
THIRD RACE.
Women's Four Paddle Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
"A"; J. K. "Kalanianaole;
Keawamalie; K. A. T.
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to Moana pier. .
FOURTH RACE.
First prize, $20; 2nd prize, $10; 3rd
prize, $4.
Four Paddle Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Liloa; A. H. Ford; Kenneth Winter.
Kamehameha IV; W. J. Cooper.
Malolo; W. Dillingham; A. Gilman.
Lanaklla; Harry Harris; Harry Harris.
Alabama; A. M. Brown; Major.
"A"; J. K. Kalanianaole; Crawford.
Keawamalie; K. A. C: Crawford.
Halekulani; Dr. A. Wall.
Hanakeoki; Dr. A.. Wall.
Hawaii; A. S. Robertson.
Lei Ilima; Leiloha; Opeka.
Course Moana pier to flags opposite
Brown's and return.
FIFTH RACE.
First prize, $7.50; 2nd prize, $5; 3rd
prize, $2.50.
One Paddle Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Nalunui; Dr. Humphris; K. Winter.
Kopa; Henry Hustace; V. Genovas.
Leipikake; Piikai; Leiloha.
Keawamalie; K .A. C; Crawford.
Hanamikioi II; I. K. Apio.
Lawehaaheo; ; I. K. Kaawa.
Leahi; A. S. Robertson.
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to Moana pier.
SIXTH RACE.
Prize Cup.
Surfboarding in Big Surf
Sam "Wight, Kenneth Winter, Curtis
Hustace, Arthur Gilman, Atherton Gil
man, Arthur Myhre, Lane Webster,
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Center, T. J. Carter, Wm. Dole, Mano
ha, Major Kaweamahi, Jimmy Bar
racks, H. Carter, Duke P. Kahanamo
ku, Columbus SImms, Geiffrey Pod
more. Further entries up to time of race.
SEVENTH RACE.
First prize, $20; 2nd prize, $12; 3rd
prize, $8.
Four Paddle Flat-bottom Canoes
Diamond Star K. A. C.
Kalahikiola John Li.
Mahikinaiao Gus Kama.
Halemanu T. Keolanul.
Wahine Ui Mrs. Levi.
Kanai Aupunl Mrs. KIpl.
Beachroad J. Kaimi.
Halemaumau H. C. Vida.
Hikipaluke A. S. Robertson.
Sweet Violet Sam Wood.
Course From Moana pier to flags
opposite Brown's and return.
EIGHTH RACE.
First prize, $15; 2nd prize, $10.
Flat Bottom Canoes for Women
Qanoe. Owner.
Kauaiaupunt; K. A. C. .
Diamond Star; Kahakaaulana.
Mahikinaiao; Mrs. Kaliu.
Kalahikiola; J. LI.
Waliamanu: T. Keolanui.
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to Moana pier.
NINTH RACE.
First prize, $25; 2nd prize, $15.
Canoe Sailing
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Hoopla: A. Gilman; Atherton Gilman.
Liloa; A. H. Ford; Kenneth Winter.
Lanakila: Harry Harris; Harry Harris.
"A"; Kalanianaole; Crawford.
Keawamalie: K. A. C.
Hanakeoki; Dr. A. Wall; Pekini.
Halekulani; Dr. A. Wall: Piikoi.
Kamehameha IV; W. J. Cooper;
Curtis Hustace
Leipikake; Leiloha, Piikai.
Lei Ilima: Afong; Leiloha.
Course From Moana pier to flag op
posite J. B. Castle's residence and re
turn to Moana pier.
TENTH RACE.
First prize, $10; 2nd prize, $3; 3rd
prize, $3.
Two Paddle Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Kaleihoku; Sam Wight; V. Genovas.
Kopa: Henry Hustace; Harry Steiner.
Nalunui; Dr. Humphris; L. Webster.
Malolo; W. Dillingham; Harry Kapule.
Leipikake; .W. Williamson; Leiloha.
Keawamalie; K. A. C.
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Halekulani; Dr. A. Wall.
Leahi; A .S. Robertson; A. S. Robertson
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to finish at "Moana pier.
ELEVENTH RACE.
First prize, $15; 2nd prize, $10.
Six Paddle Canoes Manned by Sailors
From Fleet
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to Moana pier.
TWELFTH RACE.
First prize, $10; 2nd prize, $5.
Two Paddle Flat Bottom Canoes
Diamond Star; Mrs. A. Smith.
Wahine Uul; Mrs Levi.
Kauai Aupuni; Mrs. Kipl.
Kalahikiola; T. Keolanui.
Li Huloamamu.
Beachroad; J. Kaimi.
Hikipaluke; A. S. Robertson. .
Course From flags opposite Brown's
to Moana pier,
THIRTEENTH RACE.
First prize, $20; 2nd prize, $10.
Canoe Sailing Modern Style
Canoe. Owner.
Diamond Star; K. A. C.
Kalahikiela; J. Li.
Hailimanu; T. Keolanui.
Huloamanu; T. Keolanui.
Halemaumau; H. C. Vlda.
Mahikinaiao; Kaliula.
Kamehameha: H. Iaea.
Makalii: H. Helela.
Pilikea; J. K. Apio.
Kiokalina: M. B. Puuohu.
Lei Ilima.
Waliamanu; Alexander Smith.
Course From Moana pier to flag op
posite J. B. Castle's residence and re
turn to pier.
FOURTEENTH RACE.
Prize Cup.
Boys' Canoes in Big Surf
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Nalunui; Dr. Humphris; A. Gilman.
Malolo; W. Dillingham; G. Rothwell.
Kofa; Henry Hustace; Henry Steiner.
Kaleihoke; Sam Wight; H. Hustace.
FIFTEENTH RACE.
Prize $10.
Surfriding Canoes
Canoe. Owner. Captain.
Alabama; A. Brown; Major.
Hanakeoki; Dr. A. Wall; Pekini.
Keomoku; A. Gilman; Atherton Gilman
Kamehameha; F. Lubeck; F. Lubeck.
Lei Ilima: A. Afong: Leiloha.
Halekulani: Dr. A. Wall; Piikoi.
Standby; Harry Harris; Harry Harris
Liloa: Curtis Hustace; Curtis Hustace
in the small surf.
graceful stand.
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Noname; Richard Miller.
SIXTEENTH RACE.
Beginners surfboard contest cup,
open up to time of race .
Finale surfboat and surfboard con
test in canoe surf.
Procession of canoes and surfboard
riders by judges boat.
The committee spent yesterday af
tejnoon at Waikiki beach making final ,
preparations for the big event and as
suring themselves that the flags and
buoys were all in place.
The public is invited to the beach
and the grounds of the Seaside and
Moana hotels. The seats on the Out
rigger Club grounds will be reserved
for. the visiting officers and their
friends.
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Honolulu, July 18, 1908, page 3.
SURF
SPORTS AT WAIKIKI BEACH.
1. One of the sailing canoes entered for Waikiki
races.
3. Out for a trial spin
before the race.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, July 20, 1908, page 10.
GREAT DAY AT WAIKIKI
Water Sports Draw Thousands To The Famous
Beach
Thousands of
people in fact, the largest crowd that has ever been at any
event on the beach at Waikiki, thronged and lined the sands in
front of the Seaside and Moana yesterday afternoon, when the
great regatta and water carnival was pulled off.
The races
started promptly at ?? o'clock, when the youngsters had the
first race in outrigger canoes.
"Major," a
little Hawaiian, and his crew captured this race and the cup.
The big race
of the day was next, and the cnlrlca canoe is as follows:
Prince Cupid's
"A," entered by the
Knmclinmclins,
came in first; Hnnnkeokl, second; Lcolcle, third; and Alabama,
fourth.
At the Mulsh
the big outriggerr canoes were not apart the length of a
yardstick, and the race was the prettiest of any ever seen in
local waters.
Three small
canoes were manned by buxom Hawaiian women and formed the
ensemble that made up the next race, which was decidedly
interesting to the men on shore.
The
four-paddle canoe race was the most exciting of the day and
was won by
nil even
leif.ll liv llin nrnu ..nfnri.rl
!fr0n, the
Outrigger Club, after a keen
light. A. S.
Holiel Ifoii'h Lcnhl won
the
sluglc-paddle race, which was
next on the
program.
The surf-board
contest furnished one of the most unique and thrilling
features of the day.
Kenneth Winter
and Sam Wight, on their long, heavy boards, won easily.
The six-paddle
race between men from the battleships now in port was so
interesting that it had to be repeated, and every crew entered
from
the fleet won
a prize.
The boys'
surfing contest was won by Lane Webster and Harry Steiner.
The run of the
big canoes was exciting, I)r.
Wall's canoe,
tho A, and the Alabama fighting it out for honors until the
latter finally won.
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Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, July 21, 1908, page 6
HAWAIIAN WATER SPORTS DELIGHT GREAT CROWD
(From Monday's Avertizer)
Old Waikiki
presented the gayest scene yesterday that its sands have shown
for years, the Hawaiian regatta pulled off before the Seaside
and Moana attracting what is probably the largest crowd that
has ever gathered at the swimming beach.
There were
hundreds of sailors taking in the sport, more hundreds of
haoles from this and other islands and tourists and malahinis
in crowds, but the majority of those who lined the sands and
engaged in the sports were Hawaiians.
It was the
Hawaiians turn to entertain the visitors ashore, just as it
was the Hawaiian day for fruit distribution among the sailors
afloat, and right royally did the sons and daughters of the
soil turn out and grow enthusiastic over the revival of their
old sports of the surf.
On the beach
and moving about amid the throngs of bathers during the
afternoon were at least half a hundred Hawaiian outrigger
canoes, the greatest fleet of these picturesque craft that
Honolulu has seen together at any one time since the days when
the canoes were depended upon to do the waterway
transportation of the people.
The number of
surfboard riders in the water, at one time as many as sixty
within the four hundred yards of surf, with the members of the
Outrigger Club, big and little, riding the to-seldom rollers
or coasting in on the smaller waves, standing, balancing,
diving and performing, was a spectacle that delighted the
strangers and induced enthusiasm among those who watched.
Altogether
there were between four and five thousand interested
spectators of the best Hawaiian regatta given on the beach,
...
The
headquarters for the regatta appeared to be the grass house of
the Outrigger club, which had been taken possession of by the
Hawaiian women who paddled in some of the races.
It was in
front of the club houses that the canoes were pulled up on the
sands and it was from the lanais of the thatched quarters that
the "wela ka haos" rang loudest when a favorite crew paddled
for a lead and the "auwes" were the deepest when an outrigger
swung into pilikia or a surf board rider lost his balance.
With so many
along the beach and in the water it was to he expected that
there would be accidents, but fortunately these were very few.
...
SURFBOARD
CONTEST.
The surfboard
contest was the sixth and most thrilling event.
At a signal
from the judges' stand, about twenty contestants sprang upon
their surfboards and launched them in the breakers.
A long swim
out to great blue billows, and the excitement began.
Surfers were
hurled backward over waves and their boards sent high in air;
others caught the wave and came rushing on, now lost in foam,
now leaping to their feet, two red-costumed Iads always to the
front.
True, they had
the longest and thickest boards known to Waikiki.
Harold
Hustace, the champion surfer of last year, turned in vain on
his diminutive board to ride backward and did his usual fancy
stunts, but the great, long boards of Kenneth Winter and Sam
Wight kept the waves long, long after the smaller boards
disappeared behind the rollers.
The effect
from the beach of these two youths, coming over forward on the
waves was thrilling in the extreme, and it is safe to say that
the fashion in boards, which has followed that of the Hustace
boys for a year past, will now turn to something long, thick
and narrow.
Harold Hustace
will allude to them in vain as canoes and demonstrate that he
can stand and paddle upon his rivals boards, but the long type
of surfboard will come to stay, and their exponents of
yesterday will receive medals from the fleet in lieu of a
divided cup.
...
The boys'
surfing contest was won by Lane Webster and Harry Steiner and
the modern Hawaiian canoe sailing race by the Kiokalina and
the Kamehameha.
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Honolulu, July 21, 1908, page 16.
MEDALS FOR
HONOLULU'S DARING YOUNG LIFESAVER
The directors of
the Outrigger club will present Curtis Ward Hustace
with a suitably engraved medal in recognition of his
heroism in saving the life of the sailor lad from
the Kentucky on regatta day, this being the third
human life young Hustace has saved at Waikiki
although he is not yet eighteen years of age.
Application will also be made by the club for the
Carnegie medal. Curtis Hustace is one of a familyof
life-saving boys, each of his four brothers having
saved one or more lives, and his mother, Mrs. Frank
Hustace, taught her stalwart sons how to be of use
to bathers in trouble.
It is some years ago that Will Hustace, Curtis s
eldest brother, began the family record of life
saving.
He was playing in the yard "when his mother
called to him, to go out into the deep surf and
rescue a man who was in trouble.
Will laughingly insisted that the man was only
skylarking, but the Waikiki mother ordered her
son out to the place of danger and would listen
to no excuses.
Will
swam out and brought the man in, but he was far
gone and died, on the beach.
That was a lesson and the mother of the Hustace
boys
called her sons together and told them how they
must act in future. |
CURTIS
WARD HUSTACE.
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The surf boards were to be kept always at
hand, and at the first cry for help the nearest boy to a
board must seize it and make all speed to the party in
trouble, the point of the board was to be placed before the
drowning man and the information given him that if he would
take hold of it he would be towed safely to shore, but the
boys were cautioned fhey must not let the drowning man
clutch them.
The first to observe the new ruling was
little Henry Hustace, then a boy of ten or twelve; he saw a
man drowning in front of the Hustace mansion, jumped on his
board, swam out; then shoving the frail plank to the
struggling, gasping swimmer, told him to take the end of it.
The man tried to clutch little Henry, but the lad insisted
that if he didn't do as mother said he would go in and let
him drown.
This scared the man into his right senses and a rescue was
made.
The next year Will Hustace saved another life, while Frank
and Curtis each went to the rescue of a drowning man and
brought his
charge safely to the beach.
Even little Harold Hustace has assisted in the saving of
human lives in the Waikiki surf, but if you, can get him to
admit it, even when caught in the act, but would surprise
his young companions more than the rescue itself.
Mrs. Hustace is an example to every mother of boys who live
near the sea shore.
The surfboard saves lives more often than anyone imagines,
and a full knowledge of its use should be in the possession
of every island boy.
Mrs. Hustace first heard the cry for help last Sunday and
called to her husband to send one of the boys out with a
board to see if assistance was needed.
Curtis had just come in from one of the race contests, but
at once seized his board and glided over the waves to the
man whose head bonoetl up once or twice then disappeared.
Reaching the spot where the man had gone down Curtis slid
from his board and swam under water until he found the limp
body of the sailor and placed it on his board which he then
shoved before him to the beach where Dr. Wm. Rogers, who had
witnessed the accident, stood ready to begin work of
resuscitation.
An hour later the man was breathing, but still unable, when
taken away by sympathetic sailors to the fleet, to give his
name, although he did make it understood that he was an
electrician on the Kentucky.
Several times visiting war vessels have announced that they
intended presenting Curtis Hustace or one of his brothers
with a medal for some heroic life saving, butso far these
junior members of the Outrigger club have received no
tangible recognition of their services.
So the directors of the club have taken the matter in hand
and a suitable medal will be engraved and presentedto life
saver Curtis Ward Hustace.
The photograph appearing in this issue of the Advertiser is
one taken by a Sydney photographer of Curtis when, last New
Year's day he astounded the natives of Manly beach,
Australia, by his graceful and prolonged body surfing, which
far outdid anything the Sydneyites were accustomed to
witnessing In their surf.
It is a graceful act on the part of the directors of the
Outrigger club to give tangible recognition of the heroism
of a junior member of the organization who has so honorably
maintained the credit of his family and Honolulu; and
certainly a surfboard should play a prominent part on the
reverse of the medal that is to be presented to Curtis
Hustace.
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Angeles
Herald.
Los Angeles, July 27, 1908, page 6
VENICE PREPARING FOR COMING WATER
CARNIVAL
Grand Swimming Festival Will Be Held During
August and Varied Program of Sport Is Promised.
Special to
the Herald.
VENICE, July
26.— chamber of commerce has started the ball rolling for a
grand festival and water carnival, to be held here in August.
Expert
swimmers, water polo teams, high and fancy divers and surf
board riders from all over Southern California will be invited
to take part, and many unique features will be introduced.
Races and
sports of all kinds will be held both in the plunge of the new
bath house and in the ocean.
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Register
Adelaide, 6 August 1908, page 7.
Mr. Jack
London has arrived at the Solomon Group, and news was brought
to Brisbane on Saturday by the island steamer Moresby to the
effect that Mr. London, with hiswife, was cruising among the
islands in the yacht Snark.
He stated
(says The Sydney Daily Telegraph) that he intended to remain
in the Solomon Group till December next, when he hoped to
visit Sydney and spend four or five months.
The Snark,
however, would be left in the .Solomons.
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August
7, 1908, page 8.
VENICE PREPARED TO
RECEIVE
HUGE CROWD
ELABORATE
PROGRAM FOR LOSANGELES DAY
Local
Places of Amusement and Attractions to Be
Open All Day and Admission to
All Buildings Free
Special to The Herald.
VENICE.
Aug. 6.— Saturday, August 8, will be "Los
Angeles Day at Venice."
The day has been declared a whole holiday here
and a half holiday in Los Angeles.
All
indications point to a record breaking
attendance, and the following elaborate program
has been prepared:
...
2:30
p. m.— Aquatic sports in the plunge and surf board riding
by George Freeth, the Hawaiian boy and life
saver, now of Venice.
First
event—Fifty-yard handicap swimming race.
Frank Holborrow vs. Fred Allen.
Second
event—Obstacle race.
H. Cram, A. Mower, Louie
Hamrael and B. N. Townsend.
Third
event—Trapeze and fancy diving and high diving by
George Freeth, Jake Cox, A. Scholz. Clifford
Howes, Charlie Coult and
others.
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, August 11, 1908,page 4.
HAWAII FOR SPORTS.
Alexander Hume
Ford has an interesting article in the current (August) number
of St. Nicholas, "A Boys' Paradise in the Pacific."
The article is
prolifically illustrated with the best surfing pictures that
have appeared in print, as well as a number of other cuts
illustrating the old Hawaiian sports that have come down to
the haole boy of today.
Many
youngsters of our leading old families may here be recognized
sliding upon the leaves down the steep slopes of Manoa Valley,
others flumlng in cane chutes, and still others standing on
the tops of the waves at Waikiki or paddling outrigger canoes
before the onrushing surf.
St.. Nicholas
is a magazine that is read by both children and their parents,
and an article of this sort so well illustrated should do much
to call attention to Hawaii as a land of both summer and
winter sports, more health-giving and exhilarating than any
usually indulged in on the mainland.
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Angeles
Herald.
Los Angeles, August 13, 1908, page 8.
VENICE, Aug.
12.— Venice chamber of commerce is making elaborate
preparations for the grand spectacular water carnival planned
for August 27, 28 and 29.
The main
features will take place in the afternoon and evening of those
days, and it will be one of the most comprehensive affairs
ever held in Southern California.
The committee
that has the matter in charge is arranging for all kinds of
water sports, such as fancy swimming and diving, gondola,
canoe, catamaran and surf board races.
There will be
several parades, both afternoon and evening, with gaily
decorated floats which, In the evening, will be illuminated
with lanterns and colored fires.
Water polo
matches will be played between the best teams on the coast and
on the last night a Greek play will be presented, the actors
all being clad in bathing suits and swimming in the water
instead of treading a stage.
The committee
is composed of F. K.McCarver. chairman; F. G. French, W. A.
Rennie and Lee Blackmore.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, August 19, 1908, page 2.
The steamship
Manuka of the Canadian-Australian line, came in a day ahead of
scheduled time, arriving yesterday afternoon from Australia.
Among her
passengers is Judy Thurn, wife of the Governor General of
Fiji.
She is
accompanied by her niece, Miss Charmer.
They are on
their way to England, to be followed by Lord Thurn.
The ladies
were met at the wharf by A. Hume Ford and R. H. Trent and
arrived at Waikiki, where they enjoyed surf-riding.
The Manuka
will leave this afternoon for Vancouver, sailing at
o'clock.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, August 20, 1908, page 7.
COMPILES LUMBER INDUSTRY FIGURES
Carrying on
the work of the Territorial Conservation Commission, recently
appointed by Governor Frear, Territorial Forester Ralph S.
Hosmer is at present compiling statistics with regard to the
lumber industry in these Islands.
Not only is Mr
Hosmer preparing statistics that will show the amount of
timber, koa almost exclusively, that is being made into lumber
here, but he is also making a list of the amount of lumber
that is annually shipped into the Territory.
It is the
intention of the Conservation Commission to make experiments
with lumber-trees from the Coast, such as spruce, fir, and
hemlock, planting them at an altitude here that would give
them about the same temperature as they recieve on the
mainland, and if these successful, it is probable that Hawaii
will, in the course of a few years, have transplanted forcsts
growing on her mountain-sides.
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Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, September 2, 1908, page 3.
ABOUT HAWAII.
Richard C.
Sprott, son of W. A. Sprott, division freight agent of the
Wabash and the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroads, since he
enlisted in Uncle Sam's navy two years ago, has written some
clever letters to his father and other relatives in Toledo.
"All car
service is free for enlisted men.
I took in the
Punchbowl, an active volcano crater, and walked back to
Waikiki for a swim.
There is the
place you see the surf riding, for which the natives here are
renowned the world over.
Some ride the
surf on boards about four feet long, and others use what is
called the out-rlgger, which is a canoe-like boat, with boom
rigged out one side.
The swell
starts to break about 400 feet from the beach and the water
from the beach out about 50 feet is churned to a sea of froth.
These boats
the men use seem to ride from the crest of one breaker to the
next and the constant wash of the breakers shoves the boat
along at a tremendous speed, so that when nearly to the beach
they are traveling at the rate of about forty knots an hour.
It is great
sport to watch them."
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Commercial Advertiser.
Honolulu, September 9, 1908, page 11.
Honolulu, September 5, 1908.
Editor Advertiser.
To the leisure class and to those that are upon the lookout for
some new experience, excitement or pleasure, the surf-boating
and surf-boarding at the Waikiki beach offers all, if not more
than all, anyone could desire in the way of sport.
It certainly is a wonderful experience to go out in one of those
canoes, and to be picked up by the surf and projected forward at
the speed of a cannon ball, as someone has said, though I would
not vouch for quite that speed, while the wave is almost
toppling over you, threatening to submerge and engulf you in an
ocean of foam.
This certainly is an exciting and fascinating sport;. but it's
tame alongside of the more energetic and excitong sport of
surf-board riding.
This, indeed, is called the king of sports, and to me it sems
nothing less, and what it is to those that are expert in this
thrilling and exciting pastime is more than I can say.
To some of the spectators, when they see the great breakers
coming in and the surf-boards tossed high ia the air, while the
riders are pitched headlong into the sea, this is a most
dangerous sport; but in reality there is no danger at all, or,
if any, it is lost sight
of in the excitement and fun of the moment.
In fact, as there are no rules to this game, some starting in
front and some behind you, there is sure to be a mixup once in a
while, but no one cares for this, and as a general thing no one
gets badly hurt.
The usual cause, however, of the surf-board flying in the air is
because the rider did not get properly balanced on the top of
the board, and in consequence, instead of riding the wave it
takes a header for the bottom of the sea, comes suddenly to a
stop and
sends the rider forward into the sand; while the board, free of
its burden, shoots up into the air and does a" little stunt upon
its own account.
Some idea of the fascination that this sport has may be learned
from the fact that no amount of labor or discouragement can
deter or keep, the devotees away from it when once they have
started.
And though some of them can not catch one wave in a dozen, nor
stand on the board at all, that one seems to recompense them
for all their unsuccessful efforts. In deed, one of the
strongest devotees of this sport says it took him four hours a
day for three months before he could stand on a surf -board, and
he thinks himself well repaid for his trouble.
Some of the boys, however, are so expert that they can catch
nearly every wave and stand on most of them.
And this to them, I have no doubt, seems a greater achievement
than anything they have ever done; while at the same time it's
the greatest sport they have ever known.
And not only is this a fine exercise; it is also a most healthy
one.
For example, witness those that participate in it, and who are
as brown as berries, tough as knots, hard as nails in fact, the
very pictures of health and strength.
Indeed, some of them are so brown as to make it difficult to
distinguish the natives from the whites.
Very few people, I think, have any idea of the wonderful
curative properties of the sun and the sea water, or the
wonderful cures that have been effected by them alone.
For instance, in France they have a sea salt water cure that is
doing wonders, while in Germany they have a sun-bath cure that
is doing almost as much.
Those who find the surf-board a too strenuous exercise could
take up swimming, which is a most healthy, enjoyable and ideal
exercise, and can notfail to do one good.
Very truly,
GEORGE OSBOR
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Melbourne, 9 September 1908, page 7.
JACK LONDON'S ADVENTURE.
STRANDED
ON PACIFIC REEF. SURROUNDED BY CANNIBALS.
SYDNEY,
Wednesday -
When Jack London
writes his new book, dealing with his cruise in the Southern
Pacific he will have some stilling adventures to relate and the
Avili lose nothing in the telling 'the famous novelist is
tomine; the South Sens, iiccoin punted b) ins wife, in ins
juclit, the Snaik 'Hie j acht bec-une disabled, and as pieces ot
the maclunei) had to be bl ought fiom S)d ncj, the Snaik was
laid up ot the "lind of Gindaluinm Mi and Mis London staved
theie tinco weeks as the guests of Ali Duibeshnc, and
subsequently joined the le ciiutin__: vessel Mmotti which Avas
cut lied by cutt cuts one night on to Alalina Reef, just oil the
dteiided island of Al .Inila
Ueoiduig to
nifoimntion biought to Svd nev bv the ofiiceis of II M S
Ciaibiiaii, Ali
mci Alis london
weie on the leef foi two dus mid Ino nights and dilling the
whole time the) weie sim oundell bv cannibal« in Illili (allocs
Man citing tubes fiom the m teuoi of Mahnt i also issenibled in
huge mmibcis along the foi eslióles Ali und Alis London bud it
most anxious time mid wee lontintiouslv on the vintch div and
nihill Ililli ni [lied a« weie also the new ol the
Minotu
Winn niic_lit
huve happened but loi the closi Avitih 1 cpt is m tiin-t a
nitittei of coincctuic, liul the natives of Malaita have the
munt of hunt. Hie wildest of ali) ot Hie savages m the Solomons,
and ne alvvnvs leidv foi the oppoittiiutv to mile ti lust) dish
ol the white mau Ali Ciulliclil one of the iiii«sionaiíes ot the
Queensland I van c,chtiil Ahssion foitiinutd) exeils it wot el
Hld influence ovci the native» ol Ala uiti
and he took the
pici iiition to enlist all the mission bov« into a bod)gun d toi
the p o lection ot Ali and Mis london and the new of the Minot i
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, September 14, 1908, page 6.
LADY OUTRIGGERS
The following
is being received by ladies:
Dear Madam:
The Outrigger Canoe Club plans to have a ladies' auxiliary.
This is at the
request of many of the leading ladies of Honolulu.
The dues will
be the same as in the men's club, five dollars a year for the
privileges of bathing facilities, showers, private bathroms,
and the use of surf boards and canoes.
It is proposed
to build for the ladies' auxillary an entirely new and
separate building on ground offered by the Seaside Hotel.
This will
contain at least twenty bathrooms for the free use of the lady
members, and a roof lanai for the exclusive use of the members
and their friends of the gentler sex.
So soon as one
hundred members are enrolled in the ladies auxiliary, it is
expected that work will be begun on the ladies' bathrooms and
club house.
Will you aid
by acting on the committee to secure the hundred members, and
send us the names of any of your girl or women friends who may
be interested,
Thanking you
for any interest you may take, we are,
P. H.
HUMPHRIE,
SYDNEY. M.
BALLOU,
JAMES A.
WILDER,
GUY ROTHWELL,
Membership
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Honolulu, October 10, 1908, page 1.
NEW PLAN TO AID IN
TOURIST WORK
A meeting of tho Territorial Transportation Committee
was held at noon today and plans
discussed for the entertainment of tho
Australasian delegate, Percy Hunter,
who arrives on the Korea Monday
and will take up with the committee
the formation of a working plan for
a Joint Australa and HawalIan
Tourist Bureau in New York city with
branches in other large American centers.
In
his report to the committee Secretary Alexander
Hume Ford said:
On
April 4th, 1908, the following letter was
dispatched by your-Hon. chairman,'
Governor. 'Freer, to.. e&ch of,,
tile PMmlCrtvot
Anatriillantateiand, to the South Sea Island governors:
Dear Sir: I
have authorized the Territorial
Transportation Committee to take tip with
your Tourist Bureau, correspondence in
regard to Joint effort on tho part of
Hawaii and Australasia In placing
before the American tourist and
immigrant the advantages of tropical
and southern Pacific lands.
We stand here at the cross roads, so that your
cause Is our cause, and if a united
Pacific Tourist Bureau is to be
established in our American cities, Hawaii
would take pleasure in
Contined
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 12, 1908, page 8.
THREE STRONGEST- MEN OF HONOLULU DEPART
The three
strongest men who have been in Honolulu for a long time left
the city yesterday afternoon on the Siberia when alio went out
to the Coast.
They were Dr.
Holler, the big wrestler; Doctor Daron, the veteran trainer
and strong man; and Dr. Chandler, the veterinary, who is one
of the best developed of the amateur athletes of this place.
An immense
crowd of friends collected on the wharf to see Dr. Holler and
Daron, with their wives, sail away.
Three rousing
cheers for the old trainer from a group of Diamond Head boys
brought the tears to his eyes as he leaned over the rail
waving good-bye, and Dr. Roller smiled a good broad grin as
this was followed by three cheers for himself.
The other
doctor had a good crowd of friends to see him off.
He is a
gymnast of exceptional ability, and has shown since he came
here as an expert on the surf-board.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 16, 1908, page 10.
Regatta Program At Eleven Events
Waikiki On Sunday
A Hawaiian
Regatta of eleven events is iiniiounied for next Sunday at
Walkikl.
The card
includes a great variety of events, canoeing, surfing,
sailing, and several cup events.
The full
program is officially announced us follows:
1. Boy's'
canoe race; cup.
2. Six
paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $30. second, $20, third
$10.
3. Women's
four paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $10, second $4.
4. Four
paddle modern canoe; first prize $20, second $8, third $4.
5. Surf
board contest in big surf; cup.
6. Four
paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $20, second $8, third $4.
7. Canoe
sailing, Hawaiian canoe; first prize $25, second $15.
8. Six
paddle Hawaiian canoe for sailors; prizes $18, $12, and $8.
9. Canoe
Sailing, modern; prizes $20, $10, $5.
10. Surf
riding canoe; prizes $12, $6.
11. Surf
riding canoe for sailors; prizes $12 and $6.
Entries are
to be made with the Outrigger Club or with S. A. Walker.
Races will
start promptly at 2 p. m.
It is
required that surf boards to be used in contests shall not
exceed eight feet in length.
The officers
in charge of this big event are:
Regatta
Committee: S. A. Walker, O. R. Angus, O. I. Sorenson.
Judges: A.
A. Wilder, S. M. Kanakanui, Robt. Atkinson.
Clerks of
Course: A. S. Robertson. E. H. Crawford.
Starters:
From Moana pier, C. H. Wilson; from opposite Brown's
residence, Geo. S. Harris.
Timekeepers:
M. M. Johnson. H. E. Murray.
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Los Angeles Herald
October 16, 1908, page 6.
VENICE SWIMMERS TO FIGHT
ASSOCIATION
Special
to The Herald
VENICE, Oct. 18.-'-The action of the Pacific Amateur
Athletic association of the Amateur Athletic
Union of the United States Wednesday evening in
disqualifying
George Freeth and Louis Hammel from
participation in amateur events will be fought
to a finish by the swimmers involved.
Freeth, when seen today, stated to a Herald correspondent that he would
take the matter before the national association and
compel the same
action In regard to all athletes who are in the employ of
any bath house on
this coast
Fred K. McCarver,
one of the managers of the Abbot Klnney company,
characterized the
action of last night as ridiculous and
pledged the support of the company to the disqualified
swimmers.
He said, "If our men are professionals so are
all the bath house employes on this coast.
This thing of making fish of one and flesh of another
is not going to
end here, if our water polo team was a weak
team there would be nothing said and I think
that the
committee went out of their way considerably to
show their animosity."
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Honolulu, October 16, 1908, page 6.
WAIKIKI.
Notwithstanding
that
the aquatic sportsmen were left up in the air by Jack
Atkinson's going to Hawaii without leaving any memoranda
relative to a Fleet regatta, they have got together and
arranged a fine program to come off on Sunday afternoon.
Below will
be found the list of officers and the program of events:
Regatta
Committee: S. A. Walker, O. R. Angus, O. I. Sorenson.
Judges: A.
A. Wilder, S. M. Kanakanui, Robt. Atkinson.
Clerks of
Course: A. S. Robertson. E. H. Crawford.
Starters:
From Moana pier, C. H. Wilson; from opposite Brown's
residence, Geo. S. Harris.
Timekeepers:
M. M. Johnson. H. E. Murray.
1. Boy's'
canoe race; cup.
2. Six
paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $30. second, $20, third
$10.
3. Women's
four paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $10, second $4.
4. Four
paddle modern canoe; first prize $20, second $8, third $4.
5. Surf
board contest in big surf; cup.
6. Four
paddle Hawaiian canoe; first prize $20, second $8, third $4.
7. Canoe
sailing, Hawaiian canoe; first prize $25, second $15.
8. Six
paddle Hawaiian canoe for sailors; prizes $18, $12, and $8.
9. Canoe
Sailing, modern; prizes $20, $10, $5.
10. Surf
riding canoe; prizes $12, $6.
11. Surf
riding canoe for sailors; prizes $12 and $6.
Entries to
be made with Outrigger Club or S. A. Walker.
Races to
start promptly at 2 p. m.
Surf Board
Contest Boards not to be over 8 ft. long.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 19, 1908, page 7.
Hawaiian Sports Shown For Nation's Defenders
Aquatic sports of ancient Hawaii
Sports that
are famous throughout the world for the nerve and skill
which they require of their devotees were revived yesterday
in all their glory for the entertainment of the officers and
seamen of the cruiser squadron.
There were
sailing canoe races, six-paddle canoe races, four-paddle and
women's canoe races, surf-boating contests, surf-boarding
contests,and other events of equal interest.
The events
took place off Waikiki beach and were witnessed by thousands
of spectators.
It would be
impossible to imagine a better day than that which graced
the occasion.
There was
sufficient beeze to make the sailing races interesting, and
enough surf for the riders of the board too.
Serious
Accidents
Though
there was a large entry list, and though the events were all
well filled, there was not an untoward accident to mar the
day's enjoyment.
To be sure,
a canoe or two capsized and plunged the crews into the
water, but no one paid any attention to such occurrences
boond submitting the unfortunate crews loVcje fraught with
more danger of merciless chaffing. laccldent than .the
foregoing events.
The closest
contest of the day was in the second race, for six-paddle
native canoes.
There were
six entries and, as the pistol of the starter rang out the
final to begin, the noses or mo erau poxeu oui uoonu
the shadow
of the Moana pier utmost simultaneously.
Once well
under way and there was a decided change in the order.
First one
canoe broke from the bunch, then another, until the crafts
were headed for the flags in parade formation.
Clever Work
Saves Boat
In coming
about, several of the canoes narrowly missed coming to
grief, but clever navigation brought them all safely through
and they started on the home-stretch in fairly good order.
The danger
was not over, however.
A great
roller, which, in the excitement of rounding the flags had
been overlooked, came rushing down on the racing craft.
There was a
cry from the shore, but either the contestants did not hear
or had their hands full, right into the oncoming sea the
frail crafts poked their heads.
The leading
canoe rose on the wave, remained poised in a hazardous
situation for a couple of seconds, and then passed safely
out of the whirlpool.
The second
and third canoes also passed in safety, though their
outriggers were lifted high out of the water.
Wave Brings
Grief
The fourth
canoe, the crew of which was making Herculean efforts to
make up the distance between it and the leaders; was less
fortunate, however.
Just as the
inundating wave, gathering power as it neared the shore,
struck the craft, the steersman endeavored to change the
course a little shoreward.
The result
was that the canoe took the breaker broadside.
There was a
sudden stillness as the craft rose on the crest of the wave,
the crowd on the shore yelled, and Bang! the canoe, turned
turtle, up in the air went the outrigger, six, dusky
forms dove under the hull, and boat No, 4 was out of the
race.
Once the
canoe was over it ceased to be a matter of interest to
anyone but the occupants; everybody else
- - i
Iub busy .
waimuig iiiu progress ok
the other
craft.
X When within
100 yards from the finish, the
Liokeokeo canoe, which had been banging on
about the middle of the procession, began to gain
ground.
A word from the steersman and the backs of
the paddlers bent double like
Jacknlves.
Paddles Oft tho waer and the narrow craft shot
double like
Jacknlves, Paddles Oft
the water and
the narrow craft shot through the surf
like a great marine rocket.
The men had been saving themselves and,
when the pistol crack announced
that the victor had crossed the
finishing line, it was the Liokeokeo that was
in the lead.
A very heady
race was also, pad dled by the boys of
the Outrigger Club, the winners
of tho first event.
They showed
much generalship In laying out their
work, allowing their opponents to
exhaust themselves and then finishing with
a burst of speed which was a
revelation to those unacquainted with the
possibilities of the Hawaiian
outrigger canoe.
The race
between the four-paddle canoes, for women
contestants, was fi aught with muck
Interest.
Only half the course was gone over, the
canoes going
to the Hags which were placed off the
leach below the Seaside Hotel and
racing to the end of the Moana wharf.
The women
"oarsmen" handled their craft In a
masterly way and sent them through
the waves in a manner which evoked
remarks of admiratlon from the spectators.
As the treacherous breaker line was
reached, those
on board held their breath, but they
need not have worried; the women
knew what they were about and
passed through the danger zone safely.
An event of
more than ordinary interest was the
contest between crews of sailors.
Though unused to canoes, tho seamen
knew all about boats and their
muscles were like steel.
To avoid
accldent, a Hawaiian steersman was
placed In each canoe.
He couched the
bluejackets as best he could and his
advice, together with the powerful
muscles which sea life produces,
itifflcod to send the canoes through the
water in a manner which compared very
favorably with the performances of
the more experienced cnnolsn
Tho races
between the sailing en-
i ops. thnuch
less eirlllnc to wntch.
Several oTf th
craft" swnraped nnd
finishing
against the' wind was far
from easy.
The first
oniie sailing events was for modern
outrigger canoes, manned with a crew.of
not more than two.
The start was spectacular but, owing to contrary
winds, the finish was rather
monotonous.
In trying to
pass between the flags which marked the
channel for the finish of the race,
two of the Hawaiian sailing canoes
came to grief.
A heavy sea swept in just as they started to eomVabOut and
the rasultwao
Hint they
filled with water andfwcr'e
put out of
business as far as the race was concerned.
After considerable tacking the others
managed to finish in the proper
manner.
The surf-boat
riding was very spectacular.
Great breakers
were being tossed up by the wind and, as cue of the boats
was caught on the crest of a wave.
It was sent flying, through a mist of
spray, shoreward.
There were
narrow escapes galore, but no mishaps,
though several of the crews took
desperate chances.
The
surf-boating in particular seemed to take the
fancy of the sailers.
With a Hawaiian steersman in the stern each
craft, to keep the boat from falling a
victim to the hunger of the waves, the
bluejackets were carried through the
breakers In style, cheering madly as a
particularly heavy roller caught
them and literally threw them at
the shore.
The surf-board
riding also called forth some exciting competition and as the
winner of the contest finally hit the sands of the beach, he
was greeted with a round of cheers.
One of ,the
features of the day's sport was the
remarkable good nature of the
contestants.
Though the victory in several events hung upon
a technical
point, there was no dissatisfaction with
the decisions manifested and every
announcement of the Judges was
received with a smile.
The list of
victors in the different events Is as
follows;
First race
Boys' canoe. Outrigger Club, first;
l.elca, second,
Second race
81x paeldlo Hawaiian canoe. Uokeokoo,
first; Hanakookl, second; Kalel,
third. Time C minutes
C4 seconds.
Third raco
Four-paddlo modern canoe for women.
Manukeokco, first; I.anaklla, second.
Distance, one length of course. Time, 3
St.
Fourth race
Four-paddle Hawaiian canoe. I.Iokeokeo,
first; Hanakookl, second; Alabama,
third. Time, C:30.
Fifth raco
Kourpaddlo modern canoo. I.anaklla,
first; Manukcokeo, sec
ond; Malkal
Vine, third. Time, 6:18.
Sixth race
Surf board contest. Vincent Genoves, first; Rothwell, second.
Seventh raco
Sailor's canoo. Colo
rado, first;
South Dakota, second;
Pennsylvania,
third. Time, 2:55.
Eighth raco
Modorn sailing canoe,
Kcokllani,
first; Holuamanu, second;
Makalol,
third. Time Sl:K.
Ninth raco
Hawaiian sailing canoe.
Lei Illma,
first; Hanlkawao, second;
Hanakookl,
third. Tlnio, 21 minutes.
Tenth raco
Surf riding Hawaiian
canoo.
Outrigger Club, first; Kalel,
second.
Eloventh race.
Surf riding canoo
for sailors.
South Dakota, fl rst;Pcnu
syhanla,
becond.
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Honolulu, October 19, 1908, page 6.
REGATTA
RESULT
Fleet Regatta
results were ns fol
lows. Men from
the warships took
part and tho
boys of the Navy had as
good a time as
tho hundreds of others
nt Wniklkl.
Sunday, to view tho excit
ing aquatic
events:
First race Hoys
canoe. Outrigger
Club, first;
Lclea, second.
Second race
Slx-paddlo Hawaiian
canoe.
Llokeokco, first; Hanakeoki
second; Kalol,
third. Time C minutes
CI seconds.
Third race
Four-paddle modern ca
noe for women.
Manukeokeo, first; La
nakila, second.
Distance, one length
of course. Time
3:51.
Fourth race
Four-paddlo Hawaiian
canoe.
Llokeokco, first; Hanakeoki,
second;
Alabama, third. Time, 6:30.
Fifth race
Four-paddle modern ca
noe. Lanaklla,
first; Manukeokeo, sec
ond; Malkal
Fine, third. Time, 6:18.
Sixth race Surf
board contest. Vin
cent Genov'es,
first; Rothwell, second.
Seventh race
Sailor's canoe. Colo
rado, first;
South Dakota, second;
Pennsylvania,
third. Time, 2:55.
Eighth race
Modern sailing canoe,
Keokilanl,
first; Holuaraanu, second;
Makalel, third.
Time 21:45.
Ninth race
Hawaiian sailing canoe
Lei Iillma,
first; Hanakaweo, second;
Hanakeoki,
third. Time, 21 minutes.
Tenth race Surf
riding Hawaiian ca
noe. Outrigger
Club, first; Kalel, sec
ond. Eleventh
race Surf riding canoe for
sailors. South
Dakota, first; Pennsyl
vania, second.
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Honolulu, October 26, 1908, page 8.
Burton
Holmes, in a letter to R. K. Bonine, apologizes for the
sensational leprosy story in his Ladies' Home Journal
article, intimating that he related the "incident" under the
inlluence of Alexander Hume Ford.
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Note.
Holmes wrote an
number of travelogue articles for the magazine.
Evening
Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 28, 1908, page 6.
WATER
CARNIVAL
GRAND EYENT IS PLANNED BY CLUB
DAY AND SIGHT SPORTS ON THE LAGOON
Italian
Fete Will Enliven Things Early Next Month - Spectacular
Feature Will Rival
Those of
Famous Carnivals of Old World - Electricity
A most
original and unique fete will be held at Waikiki on November
7, when the Outrigger Canoe Club will give a canoeing and
surf-boarding carnival.
The sports
will take place in the lagoon between the Seaside and Moana
Hotels, and will be of exceptional interest.
The
function will in reality be an old-world carnival
transplanted to the South Seas and given with new world
trlmmlngs.
With the
gorgeous Honolulu night to work in, the arrangements
committee will be able to provide an entertainment which,
for beauty and originality, will far surpass the first part
of the program, which will be held during the afternoon.
Among the
most spectacular events will be the races, during the
evening hours, of canoes outlined with electric lights.
A storage
battery will be placed in the bow of each craft and the
water will have the appearance of a magic stream washing the
shores ot a fairy island.
Surfboards
will also be equipped with storage batteries and will be
sent flying through the dashing breakers like streaks of
liquid fire.
During the
evening a catamaran will be anchored off the beach and
fireworks will be sent up for the benefit of the watchers on
the shore.
In many
particulars the event will resemble the famous Italian fete,
held annually at Lucerne, but features will be introduced
here which would be out it the question at the Swiss spa.
In addition
to the surf-boarding and canoe racing contests, some of them
for the men and some for the boys, there will be a luau,
dances, and other amusements.
There will
be leis in plenty a kahuna will tell the fortunes of those
who are reckless enough to peer into the future, and there
will be canoe rides on the lake for those who may not care
to take part in the races.
Admission
to the grounds at the club will be free, but a charge of 50
cents wll be made for tickets to the dances at the Seaside
and Moana Hotels.
Tickets are
on sale at the Bergstrom Music Company's store and at Wall,
Nichols Co.
The list of
patronesses for the event will be announced later.
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Local and
National
Bathed In Light
Surf
Boards Breast
Waves
i Teats by
Outrigger Club Show that Storage 3atteries Can Be Carried
wiiue oiioouiiR
uieaKeis naiis for ureat Water Carnival Arc Ncaring
Completion
Event Promises to Surpass Anything Ivcr Seen Here
The Riii'HtM or
tin- Seaside Hotel
weie tip.iti.il
last night to tile Hint
view (if 11 man
mining In upon the
,-.i:wk robed
In hit. own light, ami In
eidentall)
Hcti'ml stmt 1 1 Hawaiian
buis lied In In
ml from tho beaeh iw
thu Miangel)
illtiiiituiMl iippaillinn
made Its
appeaiance far out al sen,
ami
uiftjustliallv llonteil In toward
Wiiihlkl.
It was Kenneth
Atkinson, the new
captain of the
Outrigger Club, trying
tlie latest
Cluli Invention the elec
li If
Riirfbiiaiil. wlilr-h will bo one of
the featuies of
the ccnluc cvontH at
Waiklkl on the
Till.
Atkinson niul
l'onl woikeil jetilcr
day afteinoun
until Into com-nctlng
u storane
Iritteiy of tiny illmenslona
that would
throw n.stur.iK light, to-i.-ard
d.uk thev
Bueceeiled, and tho
little machine
was attaeheil tu the
bow of the bis
eight-foot Kuifboaid
or the
Outrigger Club, which the
Itr.lnr
meiubers have lovingly chrU-len.-l
"The (iood Shin
.Mongolia."
The electric
battery was fastened
i.iiuicly to
the bow and the lellcctor
'Ircw n strong
light upwaid. Atkln
in nml Turd
I'liiuidieil the electric
bo.inl and
AtlliiKun paddled out to
the MiiT.
turned li Is board m tint tho
i.lle.iuj-
Hluine thwmd the horizon,
ii nil
llnappe.il ed entliel).
Suddenly, a few
moments later, a
l)lte Kpertrnl
flsure leaped up In tho
l irkinvH f.i-
Tit at aoa am! stood
eie't Silently
It glided on and on
lownid the
b.'aeli. Two sinal! bos
g.no a howl of
fear and vacated the
tram! while
onio of the nuels of
. Iliu Seatldc
Btopped eating to obseive
the htrangi!
night
Kobcd In his
own light, as It were,
the surf-rider
came glldilig through
the Burroundlng
diiraneiis tin t It sud
denly something
happened; the
board dove and
tin ghostly figure de
fccilbcd a
parabola that took Atkinson
out ly the
eli-'e of light, but from
the roaming
at.isume a cry of ex
ultation, "The
Mongolia and tho
Mloraga battery
for mine on the night
of tlio Tt li ;
h1ic"r shining under water
ns bright as
oei!"
Other boaids
will now be equipped
with reflecting
electric lights, and an
ovont made of
electilc surfboardlng
by night. Some
of tho Outrlggcrltes
will experiment
furlher this week
with toichcs of
bamboo, filled with
oakum and
benzine. These will bo
! stuck In
hole.i In the bows of tho
munis ami tun
ninn carrying Iuj
llGht tho
longest distance before a
wave, wins.
Honlno will
make mining plctuics
or tho
oflernooi. events on thn sev
eiitli,
including the glrl3' snrflioard
Ing contest and
the vailous bins and
gills' canoe
races, lie will nlso chow
moving pictures
that evening on the
outrigger
ground".
! Admission in
the Water Carnival
and Kalr on the
nfloinoon and even
ing of the 7th
will bo free to all. but
an admlnlon of
30 cents will be charg
pd at tho danco
for the Juniors at thu,
Seaside Hotel,
mid for 'the adults at
the Moana,
TlcUts aie now on snle
nt Wall,
Nichols C'n and at tho Ilcrg
strom JIualc
Co.
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Evening
Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 31, 1908, page 12.
OUTRIGGER CLUB CARNIVAL, PLANS ARE MATURING
PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED FOR WATER FESTIVAL
Events Are Arranged for Afternoon and Evening
and Juniors will Have Opportunity to Exhibit Skill
Moonlight Practise Draws Crowds
Plans for
the Outrigger Club's carnival at Waikiki on Saturday next
are rapidly maturing.
A tentative
program has been arranged and though it is not unlikely that
some minor changes will be made during the week, in
substance, the program at present outlined will probably be
presented.
It is the
intention to give the Junior members of the Club ample
opportunity to exhibit their skill in handling surfboard and
canoe, and, as many of the youngsters are making great
progress, it is likely that the contest for them will be
among the most interesting on the program.
As the
matter now stands, it is the intention to give up most of
the afternoon to the boys, the senior members of the club
doing their "stunts" after nightfall.
Further
experiments with electric torches have demonstrated that
their use on surfboards and canoes is entirely practicable
and the illuminated events will be the spectacular feature
of the entire carnival.
The Seaside
Hotel is being visited nightly by a host of people, anxious
to watch the practice demonstrations which the club members
are making.
It is
planned to have the surf events over by 9 o'clock, so that
the participants may enjoy the balls at the Moana and
Seaside.
It was
suggested that the contests might be continued on into the
evening, that the dancers could drop out and watch them from
time to time.
The
proposition was met with a roar of protests from the men,
however, for they objected to furnishing amusement while
their less strenuous fellows were taking things easy.
The
program, as at present outlined, is as follows;
From 2 to 5
p. m.:
First event-
Surfboardlng in the surf.
(a) Long
dlstance contest; (b) relay surfing; (c) fancy surfing.
Second
event- Canoe sailing race for beginners.
Third event-
Single paddle canoes for big boys.
Fourth
event- Three-paddle canoe race for beginners.
Fifth event-
Two-padldle canoe race, paddlers in each canoe to be
brothers.
Sixth event-
Three-paddle canoe race for girls.
Seventh
event- Three-paddle canoe race for women.
Eighth
event- Spear-tilting on surfboards.
Ninth event-
Surfboard contest for girls.
Tenth event-
Six-paddle canoe race for boy beginners.
EIeventh
event- Surf boating race.
Twelfth
event- Swimming and body-surflng.
From 7 to 9
p. m.:
First event-
Electric surfboarding in small surf,
Second
event- Torch-lit surfboard races.
Third
event- One-paddle races with torches.
Fourth
event- Six-paddle torch-lit canoe races, with colored
lights.
Fifth event-
Three-paddle canoe race by electric searchlight.
Sixth event-
Swimming with torches.
Seventh
event- Surfboard race.
The ladies
are now taking an interest in the Outrigger sports tor next
Saturday afternoon.
Canoe crews
from each of the women's boat clubs will enter.
Ruth Soper,
who is one of the leading young girl surfboard riders, will
have a crew, besides entering teh (sic) the surfboard
contest with several others of her own age and younger.
Little 5
year-old Kinau Wilder declares she intends to win a surflng
prize, and as little Kinau stands as gracefully on a board
as any grown person at Waikiki, it is more than likely that
this winsome little miss will win a prize next Saturday.
Others
wishing to enter the girls surboard contest are requested to
notify Miss Soper.
If that
carnival of the Outrigger Club does not create something in
the way of a mild sensation here there will be several
people very much surprised.
Certainly, a
large amount of originality has been expended in the
arrangements and there is every reason why the occasion
should prove an epoch-marking event.
The
Outrigger Club was organized with the laudable purpose of
keeping' alive the picturesque water sports ot ancient
Hawaii.
The members
are going their original plans one better now, and are
embellishing the entertainment which used to be presented
before Kamehameha the Great with the inventive genius of Mr.
Edison.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, October 31, 1908, page 7.
Society to Help Outrigger
The
Outrigger club is now preparing a grand fete on an
elaborate scale showing what an advantage this club is to
Honolulu.
We have all
watched with great interest the growing of this little club,
the nucleus of which was planned and carried out by Mr.
Alexander Hume Ford, Dr. F. H. Humphries, Judge Ballou, Mr.
James Wilder and Mr. Guy Rothwell.
On arriving
in Honolulu Mr. Alexander Hume Ford was much struck by the
non appreciation of one of Hawaii's greatest charms, the
surf.
He realized
the old sport of riding the surf was dying out, and if
indulged at all, it was only the passing amusement of a few
tourists.
So this
little club was formed to teach the children of Hawaii as
well as the adults the art of swimming, surf riding and
canoeing and make it possible by having the club to revive
this sport which was fast dying out.
The
Cluli has only
been In existence a few
months and
already-tho character of
the beach has
changed and one sees
numbers of
pcoplo every day cnjovlng
the
exhlllratlng sports of the sea. Tho
coming water
carnival, which will oc
cur on tho
afternoon and evening of
Novomber 7th,
between the Moana and
Seaside hotels
will be ono of the
grandest
Hpcctacular events of tho seat-on.
Already
amusements arc being
planned on a
most elaborate Bcale In
which
electrical effects will play 'an
Important part,
making the progress
of the siiff
boats and canoes seem like
Hmprlsonod
lightning plolwng through
waters of fire.
Dancing at the Seaside
arid Moana
hotels will continue
throughout tho
evening, tho Juvenile
element being
specially asked to the
Seaside and tho
grown-ups at the Mo
ana. A
piomenade will join tho two
hotels and
seats are to bo plcaed along
the beach for
the comfort of the
guests. A
kahuna gypsy will be one
cf the features
of the evening, and for
a slight sum
will read your palm.
There will also
be Mima lei sellers, -n
Hawaii booth,
where one can cat both
pig and poi;
peanut and rose fortunes
can be had, and
daintily dressed gon
dolier girls,
who will paddle you for
a small sum, up
and and down the
lagoon.
Fancy
dancing by the peerless Center girls and others can be seen,
and lemonade and coffee booths wiII be an important feature.
The
patronesses for the Outrigger Club Sports asked and to be
asked are: Mrs. Frear, Mrs. Ilcos, Mrs, Moses, Mrs. ..
A list many
names follows, mostly married women.
...,
Princess Kalanianaole, ...
................................................
We are all
glad to know that Mr. James Wilder has kindly consented to be
the head of the men's committee for the Outrigger Club, like
the public spirited man he is, and in his able hands all is
sure to go well.
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, November 2, 1908, page 8.
REGATTA POSTPONED UNTIL LATER DATE
But the Outrigger Club Will Hold Carnival
Change in
Arrangements Is Made at Request of Those Who Wish to
Participate but Have Other Engagements for Saturday.
This afternoon
at the Young Hotel
after n meeting
of tho Ladles' Com
mittee ot the
OutrlKKor Club cntei
talntncnt. It
wnti decided, on the re
quest of those
In cliarcc of tho Castla
Home fair, to
postpono the afternoon
rfxrntfn
nFrndCOfl fnr VnVpmhpr fl lltld
concentrate on
tho moonlight carnl-1
al (in tnc in
Boon ami me uances ni
the Seaside and
Moann Hotels.
There Is also n
protest from thoso
entered for the
ecnliiR regatta that
thoy cannot
dance In tholr wet bath
lug suite, and
n request that tho re
gatta and luau
be postponed until tho
next moonlight
night and ghen as
UnUS. inriJUKU
Ilia lliuiiuhi:, u
the completing
of tho new SO x 100
foot lanat of
tho Outrigger Club.
As the ladles
Interested In tho Cas
tle Home
entertainment, the Country
Club members,
nnd thoso jnchtlng en
thuslasts bound
on a moonlight
crulno Saturday
nil make the request,
tho regatta nnd
luau part ot the pro
gram will be
postponed and every en
ergy put Into
the success of the mucin
light carnival
and tho dances.
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Honolulu, November 2, 1908, page 8.
At the
request of the ladles interested in the Saturday the
Outrigger Club entertainment committee decided at a meeting
held this morning at the Young Hotel, to postpone the
afternoon regatta features and confine its energies to the
moonlight carnival in the lagoon and the two dances at the
hotels next Saturday evening.
A score of
canoes will be placed on the lagoon for the free use of
those holding dance tickets.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, November 3, 1908, page 8.
THE SAD SEA WAVES
NEVER AGAIN-ON THE BOUNDING MAIN VENTURE WE
THREE IN A BOWL, NO NEVER AGAIN
A Storm-Tossed
Wave and a Flowing
Sea May Be All
Right tor Some But
on the Beach
We'll Pass Our Days. I
From Now Till
Kingdom Come
You may talk
about dominoes, euclno
or colt;
You may sing
nbout whist or cio
quct; Hut it
)ou want grief In a large. Ha
grant bunch,
JuHt try a
canoo on the bay.
. Well, the
Snorting Editor cot lit.
nil right.
lie's meek and gcntlo now,
ond If anono
has any kicks coming,
now Is the
time to come 'round nnd
register them;
he wouldn't fight
back with a
2-year-old.
Tho tragedy
which changed a
promising
jouth, In nil tho glory of
early manhood,
to a broken-BpIrltud
near-human,
took place an the la
goon at
Walklkl jestcrday morning.
The tale Is
most too sad to rctatui
but told It
shall be, for the bolii.1t
nnd warning of
other rash ouths.
While tho
Sporting Editor could
hardly be
described as conceited, ha
alwnjs
considered himself more or
less of a led.
On sundry occaidoiii
he has
demonstrated his ability to
stay fast on
tho hurricane deck of a
bucking steed
and ho might havn
ronic near
winning a sail-boat race
on the Lake of
Geneva once only
that he tried
to Jibe In a heavy wind
nnd came to
grief.
Hut jcstenlay
morning came that
which knocked
nil of tho supcr-solla;
flrd ego out
of his mnkeuy and.
placed him on
a par ulth the chap
that says
"Thank Sou" when you biff
him In the
eye. And It was one of
those
doclle-looklng outrigger canoea
that did It,
too. lie oucht to have
had more
sense, for the meckesi-
looking hronc,
Is always the wpirt,
but well,
thereby hangs the tale.
Yesterday
morning an acquaint
ance of the
Sporting Editor pushed
out from shore
in an outrigger ca
noe jou know,
one of those spindle
shanked things
that looks like afln4
Etnff hollowed
out with a fishing polo
lashed
alongside. Well, he bad nuv
cr been In one
befotrt and made rattl
er sorry work
of It. But the Sport
ing Editor
once wrote a story of n
canoe race and
he has also sat on the
lanal at the
Outrigger Club, so he
felt quite
competent to give advice.
It was like,
tho old story of tho
English lad
who took a job as a pas
try cook and.
when It was demon
strated that
ho could not boll water
without
burning It, ruefully admit
ted that he
was a horse Jockey by
trade but had
alwnjs supposed that
any man who
could bring his skate
under the wire
in tlmo to carry off
the mone)
could do anything else In
tho world. ,
Well, blissful
In his Ignorance, the
Siortlng
Editor climbed on boar I
and grubbed up
one of those silly
little wooden
spoons that they use to
push tlio
craft through the water. It
was all so
ridiculously simple that ho
wanted more
than his audience nf
one to admlro
him. He cast his off
ojc along
shore and discovered an
other joung
man, also a novice nt
tho canoeing
game, and Invited him
to join.
It was wicked
folly to do the last
stunt, for the
man has a wife nrd
child and
maybe he has not paid bis
lfc Insurance
premium regularly
The three
seated themselves ns
firmly as they
could In the floating
eggshell, and
started for the lagoon.
It was so easy
that they determined
to change
their course so as to gut
a little more
sea. They did both.
The breakers
kopt coming with
great
rcgulurlty. Tho Sporting Edi
tor was bow
paddle arid he got tl'e
full benefit
of everything that came
along
including tho remarks of the
rest of tho
crew.
Things kept
going from Bad to
worse, the
canoe-kept getting wob-1
tiller and
wobblier and harder and
harder to
paddle. The Sporting Ldl-J,oj-
felt that his
knees were getting
'wet? he
looked down: lo and lit
hold I the
canoo was six Inches undor
wator, "Oco
whl blubble-blubb:-blubble!"
gasped tho
Sporting Edllur
lis hft went
down 625 fathoms to tho
bottom of tho
lagoon. "IHublilu
blubble!" went
tho rest of the crek
and they also
went down.
Well, "thej
finally came to thn mr.
face and they
swam the canoe ashoio'
to do their
flailing on board the AU
meda next
time.
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Honolulu, November 5, 1908, page 8.
The
moonlight carnival and dances of the Outrigger Club at
Waikiki have not been postponed, only the afternoon regatta.
The
Outrlgger Club are still experimenting with colored lights
for night canoe events, and electric lights and
torches on their surfboards,
W.
A. Cottrell is the latest club member to divorce himself
from the dance program and take to an illuminated canoe for
the night of the 7th.
Thft
canoes in th lAEfnnn will nlu.
considered
and non-members who desire thcr wg drawn together and pull
the illuminated with lanterns and Are
iu
.uhkc inc irip win e wcicomcu it them down ta a terrestrial
founda- effects. The tickets to the-danccs at
they
communicate beforehand with ton the Seaside and Moana Hotels
are
Itay
nictow, room 207 Judd building. 0n Sunday week, the first
game of Rood also on the canoes on the la-
There
Is every Indication that the I the Kalanlanaolo LcagiTo
"will be soon,
first
cruise of the season will be ablg p.nycd at Aala Park. The
game) Arrangements are now being made
success.
Great Interest Is being . W mark the ononnB of tt baseball
to turn over the Halepele, which Al-
manifested
by the members, and tho .eason which will undoubtedly prove
Ian Herbert has b'oen building on tho
yachting
year will doubtless be ush-'of more tnan ,m8Sng interest to
the Outrigger grounds, to 'tho ladles as
ercd
In under the most favorable and promising
conditions.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, November 7, 1908, page 3.
Terpsichorean
tantalizatlons
and moonshine is the prescription for the witching region
bounded on the kona side by the Moana Hotel, on the city
side by the Seaside Hotel, on the wetside by the sea and on
the high side by the mountain, this evening.
The dances
and moonbeam stunts of the Outrigger Club will draw the
pleasure-loving to the sandy slope and the waxed floor.
At 8 p. m.
begins the Junior dance and the senior at 9.
Kenneth
Atkinson and others will take out canoe parties to come
rushing back over the surf to the tune of vari-colored
fire.
Illuminated
surf boards will astonish and charm.
Mrs. W. M.
Graham will be queen of the camp fire on the beach.
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The West Australian
Perth, 12 November 1908, page 5.
Our
Brisbane correspondent telegraphed last night:-
Jack London,
the novelist, and his wife are passengers for Sydney by the
steamer Makambo.
Mr. London
said that his cruise in the Snark was simply to satisfy his
personal gratification, because he loved the sea.
He had
visited in 18 months the Hawaiian Islands, Formosa, Tahiti,
Samoa, Fiji, the New Hebrides, and the Solomons.
Trove
1908
'PERSONAL.', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 12
November, p. 5, viewed 16 October, 2012,
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The
Queenslander
Brisbane, Saturday 14 November 1908, page 8.
THE JOYS OF THE SURF-RIDER
That is
what it is (writes Jack London, in the "Pall Mall
Magazine"), a royal sport for the natural kinds of earth.
The grass
grows right down to the water at Waikiki beach, and, within
fifty feet of the everlast ing sea.
The trees
also grow down to the salty edge of things, and one ...
[Excerpts
from Jack London’s A Royal Sport article as
published in "Pall Mall Magazine" (UK?)]
Trove
1908 'THE JOYS
OF THE SURF-RIDER.', The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 -
1939), 14 November, p. 8, viewed 16 October, 2012.
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, November 17, 1908, page 6.
Small Talks
...
ALEXANDER HUME
FORD- We have decided to use acetylene now for illuminating
our surf boards at the Outrigger Club.
All other
illuminating processes seem failures.
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Wales Advertiser
Wednesday 18 November 1908, page 1352.
SURF BATHING.
Mr Jack London, the celebrated
American author, who arrived in Sydney on Saturday morning, was
the same afternoon elected an honorary member of the the.Bondi
Surf Life saving Club.
Mr. London is an enthusiastic
surf-bather and was one of the most skilled shooters at Waikiki
Beach, Honolulu.
Trove
1908 'SURF BATHING.', The Sydney Mail and New South Wales
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Los Angeles Herald
November 22, 1908, page 10.
FALLS THROUGH PIER ANDNARROWLY ESCAPES
DEATH
Captain of Volunteer Life Saving Crew Breaks His
Leg While Endeavoring to
Repair Damaged Pipe
VENICE, Nov. 21.—While attempting to secure the
end of the city sewer at the Center
street, pier last evening Captain George
Freeth of the United States Volunteer
Life Saving crew fell through the
pier and broke his leg
The
extremely high seas, resulting from a severe
storm, which, it Is reported, is raging
out at sea. carried away the piles of
the first bent of the pier and broke the
sewer pipe early this evening.
It
was while Captain Freeth, in company with
members of his crew and City
Electrician Eichbaum, was trying to repair
the damage that the
accident
happened.
Freeth's fellow workers caught. him
in time to prevent his falling
into the water.
Fear
is felt that the pier will go out before morning,
and the city pumps have been
shut down.
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Evening
Bulletin.
Honolulu, November 28, 1908, page 14.
WATER CARNIVAL PROGRAM AND PRIZE LIST
COMPLETED
The
following program has been arranged for the water carnival
which will be held under the auspices of the Outrigger Club
on the afternoon mid evening of Saturday next:
Flrst Event-
Surfboarding.
Committee:
Ben Genoves, Harold Hustace, Kenneth Atkinson.
a.. 2 p. m.-
Long distance endurance (Outrigger beach to canoe surf and
back).
b. 2: 15 p.
m. Relay.
From Judges'
stand to point opposite upper lanai of Seaside Hotel and
return.
c. 2:30 p.
m.- Fancy stunts in canoe surf.
Prizes: a.
surfboard; b. surfboard; c. membership for 1909.
Second
Event- Sailing race.
Committee:
Manston Campbell, Arthur Gilman, Gay Rothwell.
To be sailed
in small canoes with big sails.
2:45 p. m.-
Sail from Outrigger beach back to beach.
Each
contestant to stand with his canoe bow on beach, and at shot
fired, launch canoe, turn her and sail to buoy beyond canoe
surf and return, first canoe to touch shore wins.
Two boys
only in each canoe.
Prize: Koa
steering paddle.
Third Event-
Women's canoe race.
Committee:
Mrs. V. M. Graham, Miss Deas, Miss Douglas.
3 p. m.-
Committee secure entries, decide on canoes whether in lagoon
or Waikiki bay.
Prize:
Jewelry.
Fourth Event
-Boys' race (brother teams).
Committee:
Sam Carter, chairman; Fred. Carter, Elbert Tuttle, Malcolm
Tuttle.
3:15 p. m.-
Course to from Judges' stand In front ot Outrigger grounds
to buoys opposite further Seaside lanai and return.
Prizes:
Paddles.
Fifth Event-
Girls' three paddle race in lagoon.
Committee:
Ruth Soper, Pauline Schaefer, Margaret Restarick.
3:30 p. m.-
In lagoon course from makai end or Outrigger lanai to
Waikiki road bridge and return.
Prize: Three
paddles.
Sixth Event-
3:45 p. m,: Spear throwing from surfboards.
Committee;
Harold Hustace, Marston Campbell, Arthur Gilman.
A stout toy
balloon will be anchored in canoe surf.
Each
contestant will be supplied with a light wand, a pin may be
inserted in end.
Spear must
be thrown while contestant is standing on board.
The first to
puncture the balloon wins.
Committee
please report as to preference in wands.
Prize:
Surfboard.
Seventh
Event- Girls' surfboard contest.
Ruth Soper,
chairman.
4 p. m.-
This event will be in small surf in front of Seaside Hotel.
Each
contestant will be permitted a starter.
The girl
standing best and longest on her board (three trials) wins
first prize.
The one
coming in farthest without paddling, second prize.
Two prizes:
Jewelry.
Eighth
Event- Boys' six paddle race.
Committee:
Sam Carter, Oswald Lightfoot, Marston Campbell.
4:15 p. m.-
Each of committee please report to President for assignment
of crew and canoe.
Course:
Outrigger Judges' stand to buoys beyond Seaside Hotel and
return.
Prize: Cup.
Ninth Event-
Large boys' one paddle race.
Committee:
Henry Steiner, Curtis Hustace, Ben Genoves.
4:30 p. m.-
Course: From Outrigger Judges' stand to buoys opposite
Seaside Hotel and return.
Tenth Event-
Boys' three paddle canoe race.
Committee:
Kenneth Atkinson, Kenneth Drown, Kenneth Reldford.
4:45 p. m.-
Course: from Outrigger Judges' stand to buoys hoyond Seaside
Hotel lanai and return.
Prizes:
First, three koa paddles; second, three paddles.
Eleventh
Event- Surfboarding in canoe surf.
Commlttee:
Arthur Gilman, James McCandless, Chas. Brenham.
5 p. m.-
Course: from buoys to beyond canoe surf to beach.
Prize: Koa
steering paddle.
Twelth
Event- swimming contest: J. W. Ballentyne, Ben Genoves, Guy
Rothwell.
5:15 p. m.-
Chairman please report desire of committee as to rules to be
followed.
Prize:
Membership 1909,
From 5:30 to
7 p m. supper will be served on the Outrigger grounds.
A dance for
the Junior members will be held on the floor of the new club
lanai from 5:30 to 8:30 p. m., after which hour the Seniors
will have the floor.
Committees
in charge or the various food booths will be announced
later.
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Evening
Bulletin.
Honolulu, December 2, 1908, page 10.
PROGRESSIVE OUTRIGGER CLUB IS ADVERTISING
COMING REGATTA IS BEING TOLD OF BY PLACARDS
Program for Saturday's Events Is All But
Completed and Will Be Announced within Day or Two
Club Members Are Busily Practicing
Active
steps are belng taken by the Outrigger Club to advertise the
regatta and carnival which will be held on Saturday
afternoon and evening next.
Handsome
placards, depicting members of the club indulging in aquatic
sports, are being posted about town and every effort is
being made to impress the date of the festivities on
everybody's mind.
Arrangements
for the fete are progressing most satisfactorily and those
who are to take part in the events are devoting all of their
spare time to practicing.
All of the
canoes and surf-boards of the club are in daily demand and
the surf in front of the Outrigger Club headquarters
presents a lively appearance every afternoon.
The Junior
members of the club have made up their minds to distinguish
themselves in the coming regatta.
Every minute
that they can spare is being devoted to practice and home of
the youngsters are sending their canoes and surf-boards
through the wnter at a rate which would do credit to older
and stronger men.
The club
grounds are already beginning to show the effects of the
work that has been put on them and the guests, on Saturday
will be surprised at the radical change which has been made
in the appearance of the place during the past two weeks.
A
care-taker is now in charge of the grounds, some of the
grass houses have been repaired, new ones have been built,
and the general appearance of the establishment has been
greatly improved.
A good
roadway has been built down to the beach, so that visitors
can gain access to the club grounds wthout wandering along
the sandy beach and through the hotel grounds.
The program
for the regatta and carnival Is now being completed and will
be announced in its entirety within a day or two.
Kenneth
Brown, chairman of the canoe illumination committee,
announces that so far a dozen entries have been made.
Each will
contest for the koa surfboard offered as a prize to the most
strikingly illuminated canoe.
The canoes
will enter the races after the procession that opens the
evening program.
The
carpenter at the Outrigger Club grounds is busy making
frames for the Club canoes that are to be decorated, and
fitting torches and acetylene lamps to the surfboards
designed tor the night events.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, December 3, 1908, pages 1 and 6.
Page 1
MAY
ESTABLISH
BANANA
FACTORY
...
In full the
report reads as follows:
By the last
steamer, we received a letter from Mr. W. G. Neimyer,
general agent at Chicago for the Southern Pacific lines,
stating that he and his office force were doing their utmost
to interest the traveling public in Hawaii, being stimulated
to renewed effort recently by Burton Holmes, who gave four
lectures on Hawaii in Chicago during the week ending
November 21st.
Dr. L. B.
Sperry writes from Waterloo, Iowa.
November
19th, in part as follows: "I have given my Hawaii Iecture
five times this season and am to put it on in two or three
titles in this state during the coming month.
The colored
fish plates and night blooming cereus views attract a great
deal of attention and comment.
In Boston,
where I recently gave 'Hawaii,' the papers spoke highly of
my views and lecture."
The
District Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company in Boston, writes under date of November 16th, "I
have just given my map "The Cross Roads of the Pacific" to a
lecturer in this city.
I would
therefore appreciate it if you could send me another one for
my office."
Clippings to
hand this mail speak of ...
(Continued
on Page 6)
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Continued
from Page 1.
... lectures
on Hawaii being given in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Troy, New
York; Peoria, Illinois, and Camden, New Jersey.
OUTRIGGER CANOES FOR SEATTLE FAIR
Would Be Attractive and Suggestive Of Old
Hawaii
Shooting
over the breeze-swept waters of Lake Washington, along the
shores of which the Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc Exposition will be
held in 1909, ancient and modern Hawaiian outrigger
surfing-canoes will probably be seen in all their native
glory next summer.
On those
same waters, in the olden days, the Siwash, Chinook, and
Quinault Indians, paddled their birch-bark or dug-out canoes
on the still hunt for the wary deer, search ed along the
brushy banks for signs of the lumbering bearor skimmed
easily and peacefully over the waters of the lake.
This is a
sight of which every Westerner and almost every person in
the States has a mind-picture.
But an
outrigger canoe is practically unknown in the Northwest.
Remarkable
for the speed that these little craft can attain when helped
by a sail, the outrigger canoes would undoubtedly be greatly
admired and prove an excellent advertisement for the
islands,
If taken to
Seattle, and Special Agent Lloyd Chllds, who only this
morning received a letter from an outrigger enthusiast who
makes the suggestion, is giving the matter considerable
sound thought.
There is no
doubt but that the outrigger canoes would be a great
attraction, placed on a lake where there are thousands of
the ordinary kind of canoe.
Chllds may
take it up with the Outrigger Club, to see what arrangements
can be made to secure a number of excellent canoes.
Several of
the most famous racers here, among them being the
"Delaware," have been mentioned as being suitable to take to
Seattle.
Hawaii's
big exhibit is coming along in good shape.
The plans of
the building have been received, and Mr. Childs was in
consultation with Superintendent of Public Instruction
Babbitt this morning to settle the space for the different
classes of exhibits.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu,
December 5, 1908, page 8.
Do not forget
tho Oiitrlgser Club
sports this
afternoon nnd evening ut
tho club
rioiiKo. Captain Horner's
band will bo on
hand this afternoon
anil tTwlll so
served ,ns well us a
chowder at C.
The sports begin nt 2
o'clock, Tho
ladles In charge of tho
booths a to:
tMrs. F; H. Richardson,
general
chairman; Mrs, John McCniul
Icss,
lopionnde; Mrs. Fred Carter,
flowers; .Mis.
Charles F. Chilling
wot Hi, i
lllma; Mrs. A, Fuller and
Aijun lfoibert,
chowder; Mrs. J. M.
McChesnoy and
Mrs. While, candy;
Mrs. C. I,.
English and Mra. (Iruhtim,
tea and coffee;
Mrs, J, Oilman and
Mrs tlarlley,
leo civiini; Mrs 0. V
Uithh, r.iliuu;
Mih. J. II. Kothuoll,
sandwiches, und
Mrs, Maruton Camp
bell,,
decornlions. There will bo n
meeting of'
this committee on the
Outrigger
grounds this afternoon nt
2:30. '
Mr. A. llunio
Vara 5ms worked ard
ently for tho
success of tho Club and
Ii Is to bo
hoped thai the licacltwlll
bo uttractUo
enough to vii crowd. It
(h unfortunate
that tho Myitles h.ivo
an affair nt
tho Mtmnn, III tlio evening
but tho two
functions will not clnsh
nnd all' will
go on famously,
...
Mrs. T.
Michael, Mr. T. II. Mor.tn,
nnd Mr. I lei t
Slioro were among tho
passengers
dcp.u ting on the Korea
this morning.
They wore attended
by it huge
number of fi lends, who
covered them
with lets. They were
guests nt the
Young Hotel during
their very
pleasant stay in the city,
si'iemflng much
of their time ut tho
Moana. Mrs.
Michaels becamo an
expert ut
surf-riding.
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The
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, December 6, 1908, page 7.
Honolulu
Youth Who Has Saved Many Lives
GEO. FEEETH, FORMERLY OF
HONOLULU.
VENICE, October 15.
A review of the work of the Venice
Volunteer Life Savers shows that more than a hundred persons owe
their lives to the members of the corps, the rescues dating
since the organization was formed three years ago.
The corps has become a part of the United
States Life Saving Service, and it is the only volunteer corps
on the Pacific Coast.
Forty-eight of the rescues fell to the
credit of George Freeth,and every method, from swimming, to the
use of a six-oar lifeboat, was employed in the operations.
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, December 7, 1908, page 5
Outrigger
Canoes on Lake '
Special Agent
Chllds has taken
up tho matter
ot having Hawaiian
outrigger
canoes at the Alaska-Yukon
Exposition with
tho Fair man
agement,
letters concerning this go
ing north on
the Makuro, Guy Roth
wcll made tho
suggestion to tho Com
mission and It
may bo that bo will
take a
concession to operate canoes
on Lake
Washington during tho Fair.
It'ls stated
that Or. Wall's fine koa
wood canoo
could bo secured.
Hawaii Venus
Alaska
Alaska secured
nn appropriation of
$100,000 for
her exhibit at the Sent
tie Falr.vhllo
Hawaii was given but
tho approximate
sum of $25,000 to
Bhow off tho
best that Is In tho Para-
diso of tho
Pacific. To counteract
this. It is
planned to mako tho
Island
exhlbit'ono that will bo strik
ing In every
particular, ono that will
stand out In
the memory of every ono
of tho millions
ot visitors, and one.
that will
always bring to their mlndi
vision ot
perpetual sunshine, con
tradlsilnctlvo
to Alaska, tho Land pt
Snow.
Tho catch-word,
"Aloha nul oe,"
which will be
on everyone's lips, will
bo the password
for all mallhlnis up
well as
knniaulnas at Seattle during
tho Fair.
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Evening Bulletin.
Honolulu, December 8, 1908, page 8.
OUTRIGGER FOUNDER WILL TOUR THE WORLD
ALEXANDER
HUME FORD LEAVES TONIGHT FOR MAINLAND
Has Been
Active in Organizing Club for Perpetuation of Aquatic
Sport and Will Visit South Seas to Study the Art More
Fully
When the
Canadian-Australian liner Makura sails at 6 o'clock this
afternoon for British Columbia, she will carry, among other
passengers, Alexander Hume Ford, ''the father of the
Outrigger Club,"
Ford is
headed on a tour of the World, and, before he returns here,
will probably visit the South Sea Islands, where he will
have particular opportunity to study aquatic sports.
When Ford
started in to organize the Outrigger Club, it was with the
intention of perpetuating the historic aquatic sports of the
"Hawaiian Islands", which seemed in danger of falling into
oblivion through disuse.
An expert
oarsman and trained athlete himself, he was able to set an
example which his enthusiastic colleagues quickly followed
and soon the Outrigger Club was an actual fact.
Membership
in the organisation increased rapidly until there are now
nearly 300 names on the rolls.
Realizing
that if the club were to be a permanent affair, it was
necessary to provide a home for the organization, Ford
leased a piece of land on Waikiki Beach, between the Moana
and Seaside Hotels.
A twenty
year lease was secured on the property, a very reasonable
rental being paid.
The next
problem to be faced was that of a building.
The new club
had an empty treasury, so anything expensive was out of the
question, without tho incurring of a large indebtedness.
The problem
was solved by the purchase of a grass house on a neighboring
island.
The house
was brought here and erected on the site of the club's new
home.
With one
house for a starter, things, moved along rapidly and soon a
minitature Hawaiian village had sprung up where but a few
weeks before was a bare patch of sand.
Then the
work of expanding the place was undertaken.
New
buildings were erected.
A locker
house and bath houses went up, a ladies bath house was next
erected, and Saturday night last a dancing lanai over the
lagoon was completed.
Membership
in the Outrigger Club is open to men, women, and children,
and the plant has been designed with the view to furnishing
ample accommodations for all members.
A caretaker
has been placed in charge of the grounds, arrangements have
been made for serving meats on the grounds, and everything
is now running in shipshape order.
Nearly a
month ago Ford arranged to start at once on his world tour.
Realizing
that the Outrigger Club had hardly reached a point in its
growth where it could safely be left to run itself, he
postponed his departure, however, until the completion ot
the new buildings.
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, December 9, 1908, page 12.
It Is to be
hoped that the Outrigger Club will keep up the good work
inaugurated by Alexander Hume Ford and hold regattas at
frequent intervals.
There is no
doubt but that the regattas help to foster interest in the
aquatic sports for which the Hawaiian Islands have been
noted since the first Caucasians came to these shores, and
each regatta should have a pretty definite monetary value as
an attraction to tourists.
So far the
Outrigger Club has been distinctly a live wire in this
community.
Let us hope
thati it will never take a less important place in public
activities, but rather increase the scope of the good work
which it had undertaken.
There is no
place on the mainland where surf boarding and boating can be
carried on as it can here.
It is easily
within the bounds of reason that, in time, sportsmen may
flock here in large numbers to enjoy the aquatic
possibilities, just as they do to other parts of the world
for hunting and fishing.
About the
next "stunt" on the calendar for the Outrigger Club might be
a water gymkhana.
There would
seem to be endless possibilities along that line, and if the
general public did not appreciate the efforts of the
Outriggers it would be a great surprise to the S. E. (Sports
Editor)
One can
hardly imagine a more delightful afternoon or evenlng in
this favored part of the world than one spent on Waikiki
beach watching aquatic sports; and if a few halr-raisers
were incorporated into the program, so much the better for
the spectator.
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awAke an
'interest In tho sport and
give" It an
established place 'again.
Vllhini a very
few weeks local
horse-lovers
will have a chanco to
see, some very
good sport nt llllo. Tho
program
'thatjnas been arranged for
January 1 and 2
Is one Hint should
appeal to every
lover of the 'Sport
of Klngs",and
there should be a largo
attendance. May
success attend the
efforts of (he,
promoters of tho llil-
meet.
The news of
'the revival of yie an
cient sport ot
surf-boarding on a
lnrge scalo In
these Islands has drift- jually being strengthened by tho nc-
wlde. Already
keen
ed far and
sportsmen nre
beginning to turn
their attention
hereward and among
the tourlBts
who visit these shores
this winter
will doubtleuH be many
athlete1
attracted here by the pros
pect of some
interesting aquatic
Bports. The
Outrigger Club Is doing
its full share
toward boosting the
thing along;
let lis hope that the oth
er boat clubs
'may- see their way to
give the good
work' a bit of a lift. '
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America
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Los Angeles herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.])
1900-1911, December 17, 1908, Image 1
LOS ANGELES
HERALD
PERFORMS
WONDROUS
LIFE-SAVING
FEAT
m * flilpP \ M
GEORGE FREETH
DEATH OF ANNIS
TOLD IN DETAIL
EYEWITNESS
DESCRIBES THE
SLAYING BY
HAINS
SINGLE HANDED
RESCUES SEVEN
FROM DROWNING
PLUNGES FROM
WHARF INTO
BOILING SURF
GEORGE FREETH
SHOWS HEROIC
DARING AND
SKILL
Chief of United
States Volunteer Life
Saving Crew and
Assistants
Save Eleven
Lives
in All
?
[Special to The
Herald. 1
VENICE), Dec.
IC—This city was the;
scene today of
a series of extraor
dinarily heroic
rescues effected by
('apt. George
Freeth, in charge of the
United States
volunteer lifesavlng crew,
assisted by the
crew itself, eleven men
in all being
rescued.
The sudden
appearance of a heavy
northwester
caught a number of fisher
men in small
boats unAwfrres and sent
them scurrying
for the shore, too late,
however, to
make a safe landing.
The power house
siren summoned the
United States
volunteer llfesaving crew
to the scene,
and Capt. George Freeth
made a
spectacular dive from the
wharf. Swimming
to the first of the
boa is, which
was In imminent, danger
of being dashed
upon the rocks of I he
breakwater, he
successfully piloted the
craft, which
contained two Japanese
fishermen,
around the pier to a safe
landing.
The work of
thlß intrepid lifesaver
was marvelous,
and too much cannot
be said in
praise of the manner in
which he went
into the water time and
again to rescue
the endangered fisher
men.
Scarcely had a
safe landing been ef
fected by the
first boat when another
boat containing
two Russians, Nick
Agelzoff and
William DesoMW.was
driven rapidly
toward the Center street
pier and
swamped.
Freeth
immediately plunged into the
breakers from
the Windward break
water and
attempted to swim to the
aid of the
imperiled men, a distance of
a tfUarter of
a' mile. When he had cov
ered about half
of the distance he was
overtaken
i>y a third boat containing
two more
Japanese fishermen. He suc
ceeded iri
getting on board, and, by a
trick known
only to himself, piloted the
craft through
the surf at railroad spec 1
and made a safe
landing on the beach.
Meanwhile the
current had carried
thh two
Italians within reach of ropes
held by the
llfesaverf on the Center
sireet pier and
they were pulled to
safety, one
being .somewhat injured by
coming in
contact. With wreckage.
Freeth was
taken to his quarters and
members of the
ornv had begun to rub
him down after
his -strenuous work in
the water when
the siren tisjaiw gave
(Continued on
Pace Two)\
CAPTAIN fREETH
RESCUES SEVEN
MEN
? .' —— '
(Continued from
Page One)
the ahinn and
two more small craft
were seen
approaching.
Dives for Third
Time
One of these,
containing three Jap
anese, was
swamped as It neared the
breakwater and
its occupants wore
thrown into the
sea. Efforts to throw
life buoys
within their reach were fruit
less, and once
again Ca.pt. Freeth dived
off the pjer
and swhd to the aid.
Picking up the
life belt as he went he
succeeded in
placing one about each of
the men, so
that they were kept afloat
till the
lifeboat, ' which 1... Hammel,
George Fair and
Cupt. Grant had
launched into
the boiling sea direct
from the falls
on the wharf, picked the
whole party up,
made its way back to
the landing and
was picked up at the
same falls by
the willing hands of more
than a hundred
volunteers.
This in itself
would seem to make a
pretty full
half hour, but the other
boat, which had
? been standing out
away from the
pier, attempted to make
its way to
shore and in its turn was
swamped.
Life buoys were
thrown to the strug
gling men and
they were hauled to the
pier, while
their boat was dashed on
the beach.
The llfesaving
crew returned to their
quarters with
the rescue of eleven men
to their
credit, without any casualties
to its members.
The rapidity
with which the storm
broke was a
surprise to the professional
watermen. The
waves dashed twenty
feet or more
over the piers along the
beach, and
considerable anxiety is felt
for their
safety if the storm continues
during the
night.
Struggle for
Life
Meanwhile three
more crews of Jap
anese fishermen
were having a struggle
for their lives
in the breakers betweeu
Port Los
Angeles and Bristol pier.
T. O. Shiro and
T. Caneshira were
capsized.at
about a pier's length from
the shore,
midway between the Bristol
and Horseshoe
piers, and succeeded in
swimming to
shore in safety. Another
boat, continlng
I. Igi and T. Yamauchi,
had the same
experience at the same
place.
A boat
containing Y. Kato and T.
Tokushima' was
swamped opposite the
Santa Monica
canyon, but its occupants
swam ashore
after a long struggle
against the
long rollers.
Several
launches moored opposite
North Beach
were carried away from
their moorings
and dashed upon the
beach,
suffering, more or less serious in
jury.
The beach this
evening ie strewn with
wreckage.
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, December 18, 1908, page 7.
THE OUTRIGGER CLUB SHOULD BE SUPPORTED
Honolulu,
Dec. 18, 1908.
EDITOR STAR.
It begins to
look, now that Mr. Ford has gone away, that the Outrigger
Club will come to an untimely end unless all the old
members, and not a few new ones, rally to its support.
And this is
a great pity, for no more picturesque, or more daring or
exciting and interesting sport can be found than this
surf-canoe and surf board riding.
Already it
has been shown what can be done in this line for without any
outside aid this club has given some of the finest
exhibitions of skill in this line ever witnessed here.
And it's
doubtful if anything was done here, during the time the
fleet was here, that could equal the regatta that was given
upon a Sunday afternoon and which was enjoyed immensely not
only by the sailors, but by the residents as well.
That was a
gala day indeed and it will live in the memories of those
who saw it to the end of their lives.
The
illuminated canoe and surf board exhibition was also a grand
display, showing what can be done in that direction, and
should be encouraged and supported by all those that care
for the growth and advancement or these islands.
For it's my
opinion that no more effective advertising of Hawaii was
ever done than has been done by the Outrigger Club, nor have
any of the sports that have been given here surpassed in
exciting interest those given by this club.
It's true
this club is not everything one could wish but it must be
remembered that it is only in an incomplete state or in the
formation, and there is no telling what it may grow into if
we can only keep up an Interest in it.
But to do
this we must have men at the head of it who will take a live
interest in it, and see that everything about the place is
done in a careful, skillful and business-like manner.
It is not
supposed that anyone can take the place of Mr. Ford, whose
whole heart and soul was in this thing, but much can still
be done.
In regard
to the construction of the grass house, etc., many think a
clubhouse would in many ways be perferable, and probably it
would.
But we must
remember that Mr. Ford's idea was to make this club
represent, as far as possible, a purely Hawaiian
institution, that would in a measure preserve the old
Hawaiian homes, traditions and sports, and therefore to make
it more acceptable to the tourist and more interesting to
them.
Some of
those grass houses, too, can also be turned to good account
and used as dressing rooms, with add on alterations, and
this should be done at once as the rooms now used for these
purposes are entirely inadequate to accommodate so many
members.
Something
will also need to be done about putting in lawns and shade
trees, and seats and tables, and many other things, which
will wonderfully improve the place and make it an ideal
place of resort.
Some new
rules will also be necessary in regard to the use of the
canoes and paddles, etc.
But I
regret to say, just now everything is at a standstill for
the want of funds, and this is a great pity because the
floor of the dancing hall will soon be spoiled if a roof is
not soon put over it.
I will say
that Mr. Ford deserves all the praise for what has been done
for promoting this club; and great credit is also due to the
junior members who have so ably supported him in his
untiring efforts, and it's to be hoped that the same members
will show a like disposition to work for so good a cause.
GEORGE
OSBORNE.
Chronicling
America
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Sydney
Morning Herald
Monday 21 December 1908, page 7.
THE MANLY OF HAWAII.
CANOEING AND SURF-RIDING.
SHOOTING BREAKERS AT WAIKIKI.
The
vice-president of the Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Club, Mr. H.
L. Herbert, is at present on a visit to Sydney from his home
at Honolulu, and from what he states of the surf-bathing, as
indulged in by both whites and natives in the Hawaiian
group, breaker shooting at Manly, Bondi, Freshwater, and
other seaside resorts around Sydney is tame and lifeless.
und
lifoleBS.
A few miles
from Honolulu, and accessible by electric car, stands
Waikiki, the Manly of Hawaii.
Here the
huge rollers of the Pacific tumble towards the shore from
the coral reef half a mile out at sea, and here the Hawaiian
foregather with their surf-boards and frail-looking
outrigger canoes.
The
surf-board consists ot a piece of redwood, 7ft long, and 2
1/2 ft across, and 1 1/2 in. thick.
This is
planed down, and made perfectly smooth, and the Hawaiian
pushes it out in front of him as he strikes out towards the
coral reef.
When between
a quarter and half a mile out to sea, he selects a
satisfactory roller to bear him in one flying sweep up on to
the beach.
The
Hawaiian, although he does not claim a monopoly of
surf-riding, is proud of the fact that his countrymen are
the only surf-riders who stand erect on their board as it
rides shoreward on the crést of a breaker.
The
outrigger canoe offers a chance of surf riding to those who
are insufficiently adapt with the surf-board.
This canoe,
which has tho appearance of a museum curio more than a
seaworthy vessel, is built in different sizes.
A
stoutly-built Hawaiian is often seen in charge of one of
these canoes, paddling a party of Europeans out towards the
reef.
When he has
reached the point desired he swings his little vessel round
until the bow points shoreward.
As the
breaker approaches the stern of the canoe, he starts
paddling frantically, and gets considerable way on before
his craft is caught up and tossed head-long towards the
shore.
During the
canoe's flight towards the sandy beach he uses his paddle
from the stern of the vessel, like a rudder, and guides the
canoe up on to the beach.
The
Outrigger Canoe Club has recently been holding some unique
carnivals and sports at Waikiki, where surf-riding and canoe
races were vigorously contested.
Perhaps the
most imposing sight ot the carnival was the illuminated
surf-riding.
At night a
crowd of surfers swam out for a considerable distance with
their surf-boards, and waited in one long line for a
breaker. At a given signal they mounted, their surf-boards,
simultaneously pressing the button of a small electric
battery attached to the board.
Each man was
robed in white from head to foot, and lights from the fronts
of numerous surf-boards illuminated the breaker, and the
strange figures riding on its crest.
Then a
number of outrigger canoes paddled out, and, on gaining the
top of a roller, switched on numerous varicoloured electric
lights, which scintillated in the water round their prows as
the little vessels came flying up to the crowded beach.
Waikiki
boasts two large hotels, and in close proximity to these
firework displays are given on carnival nights.
On the
Outrlgger Club's grounds a number of Hawaiian native grass
houses have been erected, which are used during carnival as
feast-houses, poi, pigs, and fish being served in ti-leaves
after being first prepared in Hawaiian style.
About the
grounds are scattered flower-houses and "houses where
fortunes are sold", while on the Iagoon canoe rides with
canoe girls, music and songs, add to the attractions of
Waikiki's carnival.
Trove
1908 'THE MANLY
OF HAWAII.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 21
December, p. 7, viewed 4 June, 2012, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15004818
Reprinted in
Clarence and
Richmond Examiner, Grafton, NSW, Saturday 26 December
1908, page 12.
Trove
1908 'Canoeing
and Surf-Riding.', Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton,
NSW : 1889 - 1915), 26 December, p. 12, viewed 7 September,
2012,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61560066
The San Francisco Call.
December 27, 1908, page 33
THE CALL'S SPORTS
NEWS
Jack London Describes
the Fight and Jack Johnson's Golden Smile
...
But one thing remains, Jeffries must
emerge from his alfalfa farm and remove that smile from
Johnson's face.
Jeff, it's up to you.
[The White Man must be rescued."?]
Chronicling America
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(San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, December 27, 1908, page 33.
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, December 29, 1908, page 2.
The Outrigger
Club grounds were yesterday leased by the Queen Emma Estate to
three members of the club for fifty years at a rental of five
dollars per year.
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Evening Bulletin
Honolulu, December 29, 1908, page 6.
GRATEFUL
GIVE GIFTS TO THEIR SAVIORS
JAPANESE FISHERMEN THANK LIFE-SAVING CREW
Orientals, Rescued from the Surf at
Venice, Make Sure Their Gratitude Is Understood Fully
Freeth of Honolulu Gets $50 and Gold Watch
VENICE, Calif., Dec. 17.
The Japanese fishermen from the Port Los Angeles colony, who
were saved yesterday from drowning, through the efforts of the
local life-saving corps, returned to Venice this afternoon for the purpose of showing their appreciation.
They brought with them gifts for the heroes of the crew.
George Freeth they presented with a purse of $50 and a gold
watch, and
they made a donation of $37 to the sick benefit fund of the
crew.
The occasion of the presentation proved a pleasant affair.
The Japanese were profuse in their thanks for the service
rendered their helpless country men In their hour of distress.
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The
Daily Telegraph
29 December 1908, page 3.
TORPEDO SURF BOAT
On Boxing
day, at Bronte Beach, experiments with the new unswampable
twin torpedo surf boat, were successfully carried out.
As the novel
craft leapt though and over the big white breakers, it
resembled two huge fish, with several men riding on them,
presenting a most diverting spectacle to the
onlookers, and suggesting how successfully such a
craft could be manouvred by experienced men, even in a heavy
surf.
The vessel
is to have a third compartment built between the cylinders
at the stern end, also proper seats, giving the crew greater
propelling power.
-
- noted in Young:
Cronulla SLSC
(2000) page 24. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
The Sydney Morning
Herald
Wednesday 30 December 1908 page
4.
Letters to the
Editor
Sir, — If Burns had won there
would have been none of this outcry from Mr. E. P. Simpson and
the many simple-minded citizens who for months past have been
filled with American flapdoodle.
They listened readily to
every bit of idle tittle-tattle about Johnson, and they were
putty in the hand of the clever party who stage-managed for
Burns.
They speak of Mister
Johnson "spitting venom" when they know well the insults he
himself had to submit to.
Did Burns not taunt the
despised black man?
Ask Jack London who sat
close to the ring.
Read Burns's book, and
you will find the advice there to "make your opponent wild."
What has Mr Simpson to
say about the gross insult by Burns that Johnson was a cur
with a yellow streak?
That sounds to me
somewhat venomous, but I am old-fashioned.
Have we ever tolerated
anything like that in Sydney, before we became Americanised?
I was at the fight
prepared to cheer the best man irrespective of colour or
creed, and when observed the masterful
demeanour of that magnificent black man, dominating
the whole of that hostile one-eyed crowd, I was lost in
admiration, and, mind you, I have seen Peter Jackson and
others of the real champions, all in a class by themselves.
When Black Peter, from
here, was at the top of the tree there were no hypocritical
tremors for white Australia.
What will become of our
reputation for British fair play.
It has been boasted that
with us every competitor in athletic contests gets evenhanded
justice, no matter what his colour, but what do we find.
As soon as the doomed
American gets a diubbing, fairly and squarely, then the cry is
raised that Australia is in danger from the aggressive
coloured races.
Not a word of this
before the fight.
Is it not the very limit
of hypocrisy?
All this now and well
simulated abhorrence of prize-flghtlng is entirely due to the
fact that the Burnsites are smarting over the defeat of the
courageous man whom they were gulled to believe was
supernatural.
I am etc., H. P. C.
Trove
1908 'TO THE
EDITOR OF THE HERALD.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW
: 1842 - 1954), 30 December, p. 6, viewed 27 Dec, 2014,
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The
Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday 31 December 1908, page 10.
SURF BATHING.
CARNIVAL AT MANLY.
The Manly
Surf Club held a meeting at the Hotel Steyne last night, Mr
Alderman Adam Ogilvy
occupying
the chair.
It was
reported that the Government would place the Captain Cook at
the disposal of the club on carnival day to act as flagship,
and would also arrange for a display with the Government
life boat and a rocket display.
The
programme of the carnival was settled, it being decided to
again have tthe "Birth of Venus" on the harbour beach, and
"The Landing of Captain Cook" on the ocean beach; also a
fancy dress procession through Manly, in which a
representation of Lady Godiva's ride will be given.
All the
lifesaving clubs around Sydney will be invited to send
representative teams to walk in the procession in club
costume carrying their life-saving reels and gear.
There will
be a number of competitive events on the ocean beach, land
drill, surf swimming and shooting and alarm reel races but
the chief event of the day will be a rescue competition with
lifelines and reels in which twelve teams will probably take
part.
This event
last year caused considerable rivalry, and the Bondi
Surf-Bathers' Life-saving Club and the Manly Surf Club
proved a very close match.
The Sly
Brothers will give an exhibition of shooting the breakers in
the surf boat.
Every effort
will be made to provide the thousands of spectators with a
good view of the proceedings, and the council will close the
dressing sheds in order that only competitors may be in the
water during the progress of the carnival.
The Manly
Band will perform during the afternoon.
At the
conclusion of last night's meeting of the Manly Surf Club,
Mr A W Relph, who has held the position of hon. secretary
for eighteen months since the club's formation, handed in
his resignation, owing to pleasure of private work.
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