The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-10-29
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 90, 1886.
DISAPPOINTMENT.

The wanderer over this globe is
doomed t, many disappointments,
when he sets foot in this so-caled
tropical paradise of the Pacific" And
the disappointments are in proportion
to what he has read or heard of these
islands and their life before seeing and
having experience of them. Informed
that the streets are lined with fruit
trees, he comes hoping to recuperate
health on cheap diet Of fruit, in per
feet condition at that. He meets In
stead oranges as dear as in the most
northern city of America, and bananas
IN a large measure as insipid as
gnawed corn cob. AS to social condi-
tions the Hawaiians are held forth as
bright and shining examples to the fair
races abroad. They are found on close
observation to be pretty near as bad as
"they make 'em" anywhere. AT dis
tance of two or three thousand miles
no locks are seen on doors at night, nor
in fact doors closed at all during the
whole twenty-four hours. Viewed
from the inside the peaceful city. rs
found domestic arsenal, householders
sitting up nights with guns to protect
their duck ponds, and spending valu
able waking hours training bulldogs to
guard their paddocks against horse and
milk thieves. Doors unlocked at
night, eh! With doors locked by day,
one has occasionally to be stripped of
his wardrobe and valuables while absent
at his regular avocations. Yes, one
who believes a fair percentage, say
thiity-three and one.third, of what he
reads and hears will be somewhat dis
appointed with Honolulu, although it
is no worse, probably, than other towns
of its size. The list of disappointments
lurking for the coming guest might be
increased to great length, but all must
be skipped for the present to refer to
one of the latest, one that has fallen
with crushing effect on the HERALD
Ever since landing on the beach, the
writer has not ceased, at longer inter
walls thar month at most, to have in
stilled into his mind the conviction
that within few hours drive from
Honolulu there existed a "baautiful
and spacious sheet of deep water" called
Pearl Harbor. Must he now be bid
den to shed pearly tears at the revela
tion that there is no sheet but only
sham Of such thing? 1t would seem
that the case is just that. But the be.
hest will not be obeyed. Those who
should weep on this occasion are the
other journalists of Honolulu, who
have for years in their sheets been
vaunting the beautiful and almost bot
tomless sheet of water in question.
There should also be some manifesto
ton of grief on the part of the Ha-
waiian legislators, who have spent
hours worth about $I7.6o each, on
numberless days, pouring forth venge-
ance on the head of any recreant Ha-
waiian statesman who would dare for
one moment entertain proposition for
selling, leasing, conveyancing (Mr
Kaae can tell you what that last word
means), or otherwise transferring to the
United States of America the privilege
of sheltering her navy inIthat "beau-
tiful and spacious sheet of deep water"
1--WE donot careifMr. Neumann is unpa-
triotic enough as an American to inter
pose the objection that the sheet need
not be very spacious or very deep to
shelter that feet.
Still, banter aside, we are uncon-
vinced that our evening contempo-
rary's impression is correct. "that com
paratiyely little of that spacious sheet