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The Age
Melbourne, 1 January 1908, page 4.

VANCOUVER MAIL.
ARRIVAL AT BRISBANE.

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.

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Los Angeles herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, January 10, 1908, Image 7
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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,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142020325


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, 3:30 O'CLOCK EDITION, Image 1
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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, Image 6
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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

Chronicling America
Evening bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, March 14, 1908, 3:30 O'CLOCK EDITION, Image 12
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Note.
There is no other mention of the name Leishman 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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Note: Likely written by Alexander Hume Ford, who visited Sydney in 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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The Hawaiian Star.
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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Evening Bulletin.
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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Evening 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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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1908 'PEOPLE.', Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), 6 June, p. 5, viewed 16 October, 2012,
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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.

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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. :; .?* ;'•?• " • ' ?*; ' .", '?
-,;*: ' ?*" » ... ',?? ;.'Y. V

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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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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.

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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:
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1 One of the sailing canoes entered for Waikiki races.
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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
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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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WAIKIKI BEACH.
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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.
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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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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
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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2. Beginners practising with boards.


4. In the small surf at Waikiki; a graceful stand.

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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The 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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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
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.
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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Los 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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The 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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Los Angeles Herald
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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Los 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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The 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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The Pacific 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
NE.

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The Argus
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

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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 Committee.

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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, October 10, 1908, page 1.


NEW PLAN TO AID IN TOURIST WORK

A meeting of tho Territorial Trans
portation 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 on page 2.

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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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The Hawaiian Star.
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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The Hawaiian Star
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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The Hawaiian Star.
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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The Hawaiian Star
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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Evening Bulletin
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.

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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?)]

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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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The Sydney Mail and New South 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.

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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 attempt
ing 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)

Page 6

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.

Chronicling America
Evening bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, December 09, 1908, 3:30 EDITION, Image 12
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Evening bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, December 12, 1908, 3:30 EDITION, Image 10

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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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.

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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,
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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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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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