Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-01-31
Honolulu. January 20, 1884.
/. Oar Honolulu LETTER."


Your true Californian is never so enthusi
astic as when holding forth upon tina, topic Of
topics, The Glorious Climate of California.
think it is time we all did little shouting
for our own side Of the worlds play yard. 1t
is true that Mr. Sam Allen has enough
eloquent enthusiasm. ready to be turned on at
will, to infect the whole Kingdom. We advise
every man on whose hip the blue devils are
perched, and whose brow OF care is too heavy
for any earthly use Except, perhaps, TO be
fred from cannon to Brighten away spooks)
to 90 and talk an hour with Sam Allen.
What does it matter il sugar is down land
lumber is consequently slow so long as we
are here? When the Almighty wanted to
OF Paradise and dropped EN- down here in the
Pacific where they'd do the most good.
Now Mr.. Allen is one Of our busiest men.
lie is "ruster", driver, wide
awake Of the mos, approved New England
pattern. Yet he has time TO open his eyes to
the beauties of our landscape and to drink in
the (tempera;elyl Intoxicating deliciousness Of
our climate.
have been induced to write this because Of
a conversation had last Monday with Mr.. ].
II. Jennings Of San Francisco. That gentle
man had known as little about Honolulu as the
usual San Franciscan. He made the run down
| for rest, but had not the faintest conception
of the beauty and the balmness he was to
| NI has hag ,.l
conditionally. Now Mr.. Jennings is no, one
of those San Franciscans who know only the
unspeakably vicious climate OF the Californian
metropolis. He has travelled north, south
and east in the golden state, and finds he9 a
winter climate tina, California cannot better
and can scarcely rival. am confident that
Mr.. Jennings will spread abroad his i'm
pressions OF Honolulu in way to do US bene.
tit. The same good report confidently may be
expected from those distinguished visitors,
Professor Maryland and Professor Agassiz, and,
doubtless, from many other recent arrivals.
have mentioned Mr., Jennings merely because
have had the pleasure of somewhat eS
tended conversation with him and he, like
Mr.. J. Douglas Smith, Of whose opinion men
ton was made last week, has taken as kindly
10 our temperate uopic life as ducks 10 water
or Hawaiian baby to poi
The new management, Of the Hawaiian
Hotel is doing grea, deal to give our city al
I enviable reputation. | heard visitor say III,
other day that he had been hotel boarder il
many cities and during many years, but haC
! never been in any city where better entertain
, men, was furnished at equal prices Poo
Fassei,s ice house has, doubtless, much to d,
with the excellence OF the usual hotel fare
{ Mr., Tiden's scienced catering probably mucl
: mole. The Hawaiian Hotel deserves tn
supper, Of large patronage. l canno, he'll
, thinking that more OF our citizens ought l.
! give it support than at present do. II we ha
no Hawaiian Hotel, the city would be far les
e attractive 10 strangers than i, now Is.
E Mr.. L. {. Macfarlane's "happy thought
S in having Tavernier illustrate kilauea in actio
b for the Nmas number Of The Wasp was one
i those inspirations Of enterprise that desery
c public recognition. That is the sort OF ire
: advertisement that most wildly tells its stor,
Il and all TO our advantage. II is true that Wis
4 tors sometimes find the volcano disappoin
J inglY quiescent At times, Pele sulks in h
q tent and neither the taunls Of scohes nor II
: ,ears Of her votaries may awaken into actio
!, her somnolent energy. But kiauea is rare
), disappointing and is often grand, gloomy an
d peculiar beyond the most sanguine expectation
&c No globe trotler who values his peace u mir
can aitord idly to pass ii by. Blu, it was N
81 the volcano meant to write about--it vi
IS the Volcano House. quote the language
!, a recent visitor The Volcano House
n kilauea is disgrace and an outrage. |,
At absolutely the worst conducted hotel, for
pleasure resort, Of which have any knowled,