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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, January 5, 1897, page 8.
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Frank Davey, photographer, arrived by the Australia this morning and will introduce W. Q. Peacock's raised photographs in the islands.

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, January 05, 1897, Image 8
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, February 5, 1897, page 5. SOCIETY OF THE WEEK. ...
From all accounts the merry little house parties that have been given in honor of Mr. Harry Gillig and his party from San Francisco since their arrival here have had the effect of prolonging the visit of the gentlemen to Honolulu.
The party had originally intended to return by the Australia, but the gentlemen have found the temptation of remaining over too strong for them.
As a result the ladies will return to San Francisco on Wednesday.
Mr. Gillig and Mr. Frank Unger are great wheel enthusiasts.
Any afternoon or evening they may be seen pedaling out Waikiki way or along Manoa Valley.
Mr. Graham and Mr. Hamilton are very fond of surf riding and devote much of their time to this sport.

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, February 05, 1897, Image 5
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, March 17, 1897, page 8.

A large party of cyclists wheeled out to Waikiki, last evening and spent a couple hours in the water, surf riding and swimming.
...
Mrs. E. D. Tenney will entertain the Hoffmans of San Francisco, at the beach this afternoon.
Canoeing and surf riding will be the program.
Tea will be served for the party at the home of .Mrs. C. W. Macfarlaiie afterward .

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, March 17, 1897, Image 8
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The Independent.
Honolulu, May 10, 1897, page 2. Hui Pukaka Nalu
A number of Hawilians living near the beach at Waikiki and owning canoes have forged a hui for the purpose of giving tourists and others a chance to enjoy a surf ride.
The men who will paddle the canoe are expert surf riders and any one who can swim and is not afraid of a dipping in the briny deep can lately risk the experience of the peculiar sensation which a surf ride causes.

Mr W. W. Dimond, who is one of our most celebrated canoe steerers has kindly agreed to act as manager of the Hui Pakaka Nalu.
Canoes can be obtained at all the bathing resorts at Waikiki manned by "professionals."
All the timid little girls and the bold mashers want to do is dig $1.00 an hour for the pleasure of riding on the surf and it is safe to predict that even the elderly "new woman" and the scientific "profession", will take a chance of riding on the foam crested waves of the Pacific ocean under the guidance of the expert boat steerers.

And what tales will be unfolded when our tourists after their experience on the surf meet at the fireside in New England.

We wish the Hui Pakaka Nalu all possible success and many bright dollar.

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, May 10, 1897, Image 2
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The Independent.
Honolulu, May 11, 1897, page 3.

Read the Hui Pakaka Nalu's advertisement for information in regard to surf riding.

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, May 11, 1897, Image 3
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, May 11, 1897, page 5. SURF RIDING.
Hui Pakakamalu Organized at Waikiki.

The pleasures of canoe surf riding have been confined almost exclusively to the occupants of beach residents, and their friends; tourists have had an opportunity to enjoy the excitement only when invited to join parties of local canoe owners.
But this has been changed; the native canoe owners have formed themselves into an organization known as the "Hui Pakakamalu," and W. W. Dimond is acting as their manager.

The hui has a sufficient number of canoes and experts to handle them, so that almost at a moment's notice parties may be accommodated, the starting point being from any of the popular bathing resorts or private residences.
This arrangement makes it possible for any one to have a canoe ride, and more exhilarating sport cannot be had in Honolulu.

Mr. Dimond, while having no financial interest in the affair, is anxious to see the natives make a success of it.
He has cautioned the men to have in their hui only capable men to handle the paddles.
The organization will be governed by the following rules:

Tickets for surf riding at a cost of $1 per hour may be had of W. W. Dimond or at any of the popular beach resorts.
Arrangements for parties must be made with those from whom tickets are bought.
These will be issued on authority of the agent.
Direct engagements may be made through W. W. Dimond, by telephoning 56 during the week or 924 on Sunday.
Tickets are void, if transferred, and must be used within the time named on the ticket.
Canoes are provided with expert canoeists, but no responsibility is assumed against accident.

Mr. Dimond stated yesterday that the natives feel encouraged over the prospects.

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, May 11, 1897, Image 5
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The Hawaiian Star.
Honolulu, May 19, 1897, page 1.

CANOE RIDING AT WAIKIKI

TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS CAN ENJOY SPORT.

Experienced Native Men Can Be Secured at Any Time - A Company Formed for the Benefit of Tourists.

When W. W. Dimond made it possible for tourists and resident of the city to enjoy the pleasures of surf riding by organizing a company which obtained a number of first class canoes and employed experienced native canoeists, he did a thing lor which he should receive the thanks as well as the support of the entire community.

It is the ambition of every enterprising city in the United States to make a faavorable impression on all visitors.
The public spirit is beginning to dominate in Honolulu.
That the sea surrounding the city affords the finest bathing in the whole Pacific, all tourists who come here frankly admit.
The surf riding that can be had here has enraptured many people who have lived along the Pacific Coast all their lives.
They have never enjoyed such a treat in any other land.

While people have been surf riding in Honolulu for years, the sport has been confined to favored ones.
Tourists were taken out to ride the waves only when they were invited by someone who owned a canoe.
Even many townspeople have never, enjoyed the sport because they nor their friends did not own canoes.

Mr. Dimond had been urged by.many, people to take the step he did.
He has arranged everything for the convenience of patrons.
The telephone can be used to engage canoes which can be had on a few. moments' notice.
The canoes are sent to any place on the beach.

It is surprising the patronage that has been accorded to him since its formation, a week or so ago.
During the afternoons on week days a half a dozen canoes may be seen out in the surf, and on Sundays there is twice that number out.
Some of these are private canoes.
The best surf is opposite Haniwai or Wright's Villa.
Mr. Dimond, who, is an expert canoeist and without doubt, one of the best steersman among the haole men, says that the most timid ladies need have no fear for their safety.
It is very rarely that a canoe is capsized, and then the natives can rescue every occupant with ease.
In fact, many of them are strong enough to place the canoe lit position again while in the water.

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, May 19, 1897, Image 1
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The Independent.
Honolulu, May 20, 1897, page 3.

If you want to enjoy a good safe canoe surf ride Col James Sherwood can accommodate you at any hour at Long Branch Baths.
Step on to the cars and step off at his entrance for an hours delight.

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, May 20, 1897, Image 3
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, May 25, 1897, page 5.
The surf at the beach is fit for surf riding.
Sunday the Hui Pakaka Nalu had eight canoes going until after dark.

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, May 25, 1897, Image 5
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, June 11, 1897, page 8.

During Sunday and Monday 24 people enjoyed canoe surf-riding in the canoes of the Pakaka Nalu.
The unusually high surf at this season makes canoeing particularly pleasant.
As the moon gets brighter the number of night parties increases.
Since the Nalu was organized not a canoe in their hui has been swamped.

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, June 11, 1897, Image 8
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The Sun.
New York June 11, 1897, page 7. WAVE SLIDING
The Successor of the Aquatic Sort of Surf Riding in Hawaii.
From the Washington Evening Star. Honolulu, May 22.
An added attraction has been created for visitors at our lovely Waikiki Beach.
A number of expert native canoe men have been organized into a company for the purpose of treating the visitors to the sport of wave sliding, which is midway between surf riding and snow-hill coasting.
A light canoe and an expert paddler are furnished, who will take his passenger out through a passage to the outer surf, where the incoming billows begin to comb over.
Selecting a high wave just on the point of breaking, he lets it rise under the stern of the canoe, at the same moment paddling vigorously, so as to keep from being dropped behind the wave, but balancing the canoe on the exact point on the front of the combing wave where it will be Impelled forward at highest speed.
A swift rush of a fourth of a mile to the beach may thus be made in a few moments, with the tossing comb of the wave overhanging the stern.
The charge for this sport is $1 an hour, time enough for several repetitions of the ride.
Very rarely might one get upset by a careless stroke on the paddle.
But the Kanakas are like fish in the water, and never let any one drown.
The canoes are hollowed from single logs, beautifully modelled and smoothed, with a light outrigger.
This sport Is very popular.
The practice of surf riding has become nearly obsolete in these islands.
The natives came to prefer horses to surf boards, and now are taking to bicycles.
Up to fifty years ago, before horse became cheap, one could find no beach with outer surf near a village where at any time many might not be seen at this play, of both sexes and all ages.
With the long, thin board of rounded ends under the arm, they breasted the waves to the outer surf, diving momently under each great breaker as it smote down upon them, and so evading its crushing blow.
When outside, watching for a wave at the first moment of its combing, the rider mounts his board, lying face downward on the front of the billow, and with a few sharp thrusts of hands and feet gets in motion on the mighty comber, which shoots him forward to the shore.
It was a very lively, and to a stranger an exciting, spectacle to see the riders thus come flying in on the high green fronts of the great combers, with the water spurting aside from the fronts of their boards as from the stern of a swift ship.

After the first start, which had to be made in a recumbent posture, so as to ply hand and foot in the water. it was usual for all practised operators to rise into at least a crouching posture on hands and knees on the boards.
The more skilled would rise to an erect posture, standing on the board as they shot forward, guiding it unerringly by automatic muscular action, like a practised cyclist, with his arms locked.
This ''hui nalu," or wave sliding, was the favorite sport of royal princes as well as of the common people.
In the entrance of the Bishop Museum are two immense planks, carefully shaped to thin edges, which were the favorite surf boards of the royal chiefs at Lahaina fifty years ago.
They are made of the cork-Iike willwili (weely weely) wood, very rarely found of such a size.
Their royal riders were men and women of great stature. like all the chiefs, and averaged 300 pounds apiece.

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The sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, June 11, 1897, Image 7
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The Independent.
Honolulu, July 16, 1897, page 4.

SURF RIDING

First-class Canoes With Experienced
Native Canoeists

May be obtained on five minutes notice
at any hour of the day from the

"HUI PAKAKA NALU"
Of Waikiki.

Tickets, $1 per hour for each person, to be obtained from the

"Hale Oiwi"

(W. W. Dimond's store, von Holt Block) or at any of the popular
beach resorts or by telephone "56" on week days or "921" on Sundays.

Canoes sent anywhere on the Beach

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, July 16, 1897, Image 4
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The Independent.
Honolulu, August 2, 1897, page 3.

It was a glorious day for Waikiki yesterday.
The band concert, Sans Souci and Long Branch attracted a very large number of visitors, bathing was delightful, and surf riding on boards or in canoes was participated in by very many.

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, August 02, 1897, Image 3
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The Independent.
Honolulu, August 18, 1897, page 1. KAPIOLANI'S ODD CRAFT

...SKILLED IN AQUATICS.

Mr. Palmer, of Liliuokalani's suite, said that Kipiolani was noted among her people for the sweetness and amiability of her disposition.
"Since the death of her husband, King Kalakaua," said Mr, Palmer, "the Queen Dowager has gone into retirement and as she is in the sixty-fourth year of her age she scarcely spends her time now in canoeing,
It is nothing odd for a Hawaiian woman to be a canoeist; from their earliest age they are taught aquatic sports and are as much at home on the water as on the land.

"Queen Liliuokalani, herself, is very proficient in aquatic sports, and as her home is on the sea-shore she takes her morning dip just as our own Amorican ladies do at Cape May or Long Branch.

"Some of the dancing pavilions also are built near the water, and the dancers take a plunge in the waves between the dances.
It is the most natural thing in the world for them to do so.
What could be more pleasing when one is warm from dancing than to take a plunge in the cool waters?

"There is practically no limit to the endurance of a Hawaiian while in the water, and one never hears of a native being drowned.
Often have I stood on the deck of a steamer in the bay and dropped coin for the urchins in the water.
The water is not at all clear, but they always come up with coin in their mouths.

BATTLE WITH THE SHARKS.

"Surf riding is one of the principle sports.
The rider swims out with a log, diving under the rollers until he reaches the line beyond the breakers,
Then he mouns his log and rides in at a breakneck speed on the crest of some towering roller.
It requires the greatest of skill, and few foreigners have over acquired the knack.
"The waters are full of sharks, but the native Hawaiian is scarcely afraid of them.
On the contrary, one of his greatest sports is hunting the big fish.
He goes forth into the water armed only with a knife, and meets his foe on its own footing.
A sudden dive, and the hunter plunges his knife into the side of his victim.
The shark floats up to the surface of the water, dyeing it all around with his life's blood.
The hunter calmly waits for the death struggles of his game to cease, then floats it to the shore.

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The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, August 18, 1897, Image 1
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, August 31, 1897, page 5.
Davey Photograph Co. Open for Business Today.

The doors of the Davey Photographic Company will be thrown open to the public this morning.
Frank Davey, the President of the company, is one of the best-known photographers on the Pacific Coast, having been chief operator for Tabor for the past 10 years.

(Etching)
FRANK DAVEY,
President Davey Photograph Co.

Before that he was with Wallery of Paris and of London.
Besides being a photographer, Mr. Davey is a cartoonist of note in London, and his scrap-book contains many interesting newspaper reproductions of his pencil work.
In selecting the Mott-Smith building for his new base of operations Mr. Davey secured one of the best in the city for light effects.
The rooms were arranged according to his directions, and the detail is perfect
The reception room is on the first floor, near Fort street.
Here a clerk will take the orders and arrange for the sittings of the customers.
This room contains some sample portraits by Mr. Davey and albums of Island views.
Admission to the operating rooms is by stair or electric elevator to the third floor.
Like the reception room, the hall and rooms are exquisitely furnished and carpeted and the walls hung with paintings by some of America's celebrated artists.
One room, fitted with stationary wash-stand, dressing case, etc., is provided for ladies, and a smaller one for gentlemen.
A wardrobe contains various costumes for ladies and children, who desire something out of the usual order, and who do not wish to go to the expense of having clothing made for the purpose.
Among the cameras in the establishment is one for making life-size photographs direct.
Besides the ordinary photographs, Mr. Davey will make bas-relief, mezzotint and iridium effects, which are superior to any others made.
These are exclusive with Mr. Davey, and are made in San Francisco only by Tabor.
During his experience as a photographer he has made pictures of Lady Randolph Churchill, Stanley, Sir Edwin Arnold, Sir Georpe Trevelyan, Whitelaw Reid, Prince Joseph of xxx, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Depew, Gen. Lew Wallace, Thomas Nast, Bill Nye, Rajah of Rampur, W. Q. Judge and hundreds of others.
He has copies of each in an album in the gallery with the autograph of the sitter on each.
Mr. Davey has made photographs of a number of local people and in each case the likeness is excellent

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, August 31, 1897, Image 5
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, September 30, 1897, page 5.

OFF TO PHILADELPHIA.

Charlie Freeth will leave by the Warrimoo for Philadelphia where he has received an appointment In the Charles Hillman Ship Building Company.
This is a fine opening for a lad to study practical marine engineering and ship building.
Mr. Monty Eagle, formerly draughtsman at the foundry here, is connected with the Hillman Building Company and wrote for young Freeth to join him.

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, September 30, 1897, Image 5
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, October 2, 1897, page 7.

Mr. George Freeth was one of the passengers on the Miowera last night.
He is on his way to Philadelphia to learn the workings of a ship-building establishment

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, October 02, 1897, Image 7
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The Daily News
Perth, WA,Tuesday 9 November 1897, page 3.

HAWAIIAN SHARK KILLERS

The natives of Honolulu have small fear of these wolves and tigers of the sea, being more than a match for them if on their guard.
When bitten, it was attributed to having given offence to the shark god.
The oath most feared was that sworn by the Mana shark, who never forgave the violator, but slew him the next time he entered the sea.
Not long before the discovery of the islands a gay young Prince of Maui had his hand bitten off while surf-riding and died of the wound.
He was said to have broken his oath.

Trove
The Daily News, Perth, WA,Tuesday 9 November 1897, page 3.

The Hawaiian Gazette
Honolulu, November 30, 1897, page 5.

Had Pilikia.

Chas. Freeth who went up to Vancouver on the MIowera, got his passport stopped in Seattle.
He stated there that he was going to enter certain shops as an apprentice at the very promising wages of $3 a week.
The wires flashed between Seattle and through the intervention of friends, he was finally allowed to proceed on his way.

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, November 30, 1897, Image 5
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