Show MISSIONARiES AI tAKE I I Ij j T Reunion of Those Wo Have Served in Pacific Isles I I c SEVERAL UNIQUE FEATURES I President George Q Cannon One of the Pioneer Missionaries Helates Some of His Experiences Striking Tableaux Illustrating the Lives of Missionaries Native Songs and Stereopticon Pictures Illustrating Many Phases of the Lives of tho t CopperColored People I The fifth annual reunion l of the Pacific Pa-cific Islands missionaries held at Salt air yesterday was probably the most notable of them all Tn addition to the many who went from this city and towns in Tooele county seven carloads of excursionists came down from We her and Davis counties Agoodalzed delegation also came up from south ern points American Fork bein being especially es-pecially well represented All the excursionists f I ex-cursionists went hom on specials I connecting with the train leaving the Cl at 1015 Manager Paternal said I last evening that there were not lesH than 4010 visitors at the beach during the day But there wai 1 no rowdiness nor any conduct that one could take i objection to A noticeable feature wao I the number of children and ladles j j CHURCH LEADERS PRESENT I President Snow went out during the day and returned carhy but President George Q Cannon remained until tho I 101 train being desirous of seeing thb close or the days festlviuS j Among the prominent oificials of the I church who were seen among the throng were President Angus M Can I non Apostle Lund Harvey H duff 1 Nathan Tanner and Benjainin F John hon who came from Mesa county Arizona and who was amongrthe first missionaries to the Pacific isles = 0 The regular programme for thc day did not open until 3 p m Until that I hour the people amused themselves as 1 they pleased I First came the singing of America by the entire assembly and It was es i timated that at least three thousand voices were raised in the grand old 1 anthem U BF Johnson offered the opening 1 prayer after whiph the Beezley brothers LI broth-ers Matthew Noall and Elihu Barrell rendered the Missionarys Farewell I All of these have at one time or another an-other served as missionaries in the Pacific IT Pa-cific isles Lss MISSION WORK IN HAWAII I The appearance of President George rr Q Cannon on the platform was the I iE signal for a burst of applause His subject was the Introduction of the Gospel to the Pacific Islanders He gave a brief but at times a very interesting in-teresting talk on the Introduction of Mormonism Into the isles of the Pacific Pa-cific and said that he was proud that i ho had been one of the pioneers In the work which really had but just commenced I com-menced He had spent four years of his life on the Hawaiian islands going I Jherq In December 1S50 In company I with Hiram Clark Thomas Whittle Henry W Blglor Thomas Morris John I Dixon VIIIII Farrer James Hawkins I Haw-kins Hiram H Blackwell and James Keelcr These were the first missionaries mission-aries to the Hawaiian J Inlands President Presi-dent Cannon also translated Book of Mormon into the Hawaiian language Ho told of the early struggles with the c i I r T 1f I I j I I 1 w 1 r Master of Ceremonies Caine AnT An-T nounccs America natives and gave a t meed of praise to 11 the brethren who had since IfoO followed fol-lowed the way blazed by these first missionaries NATIVES ON PROGRAMME The Hawaiian glee by live native Hawnllana Nalhe Kololll PlUanl Bench and Davlka was One of the 0 features of the afternoon Vervicefl and though the music sounded somewhat tl crude to cars unaccustomed to the language it was thoroughly enjoyed 0 WC all the SllsslonDTlofl nroBont an < l 1 especially by each as had not heard Hnwallans sing for many years Miss Emma Pcrccll also sanff very sweetly and to the delight of tho audience au-dience while tho native ancient chant by Poahao a Hawaiian tho accompaniment accom-paniment to which was by three native girls in costume wasnovel in tho extreme ex-treme to most of those present I Fifteen small children then followed I with a Samoan song and so cleverly I j I 1 I L I Q L V w I J I r jrcj I President Cannon Tells of His Hawaiian Ha-waiian Experiences was the work Gone and so well was their makeup that many debated the point whether or not they were veritable verita-ble Samoans They were all children of missionaries most of whom had been born on the islands A typical Mormon religious service In Samoa came next and was given by returned re-turned missionaries a Samoan hut havIng been built onthe platform for the purpose The Arrival of the Mall In Tuamotu I Society Islands was Interpreted by returned re-turned missionaries and proved to be very Interesting and the series of tableaux showing events in the life of missionaries in Maorldom filled out the afternoon programme and ended a very pleasing entertainment SCENES IN ISLANDS The dancing floor was well filled soon after and was kept in a rather congested con-gested condition until oclock when the visitors were called to see illustrations illustra-tions of the beauties of the foliage of the tropics and take a glimpse of the life habits customs and general peculiarities pecu-liarities of the natives of the Pacific isles which were thrown on a screen by a stereopticon The triangle on the lower floor to the east was crowded as was also the dancing floor and had the third floor been thrown open to the public risit should have J c nhic as many would have been able to see the splendid Iows which were handled by Del BeCiley assisted by Bert Asper Among the pictures shoyn was one of President Cannon which was taken in Hawaii in 1853 rescued from a shipwreck ship-wreck and afterward copied and preserved pre-served Another of interest was that showing the rescue of Elder Jam s S Brown who hop been condemned to be burned but who was saved by Tahitian I women While the sixtyfive scenes shOwn were largely in connection with the propagation and grQvth Mormonlsm I Ii J i I y d I d i1je3 e i r 1J I ut v r J j 9 0 t t > i ti tr hi i I I fA Ijl l B j fj f fA i III If t 7 r fr J 1 1 zLc7 f7 r f 1 Keokt Pefero TheUuta Hula ftL j Scene at the Reunion Pacific Island Missionaries in the islands there were many showing show-ing also the general progress of the natives since the advent of Capt Cook The affair was In the hands of John T Caine Ben Goddard Matthew Noall William O Lee Jainos S BrownE E J Wood Heher S Cutler and Frank Cutler as a general committee with Mr Caine as master ceremonies < J while efliclent subcommittees looked after the other details MORMONS IN ISLANDS It was said last evening by an authority au-thority that there are now In what is called the Polynesian mission members I of the Mormon church as follows I Samoa and Tonga 1600 Hawaii COOO Society Islands 1200 Australia and I Tasmania 1000 New Zealand 4000 There were about twenty RaWaIiins at the resort during the day |