Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-26
HOME FROM HAWAII.
DELIGHTFUL TRIP TO THE SAND.
WlCH ISLANDS.
Sailing Over the Placid Bosom of the
Pacific in 3OOOTon Ocean Steam
ship-Sights and Scenes.
Rocky Mountain News.

| DR.. w. II. Belts of this city, who with
| his wife has just returned from a pleasant
five weeks trip, the principal objective
| points of which were San Francisco and
| Honolulu, was seen by a News reporter
| yesterday at the doctors Office, g29 Seven
| teenth street, and asked to give brief out
| line of the more important features of his
| visit TO the land of kalakaua-the Haw-
| allan paradise.
| well, I've seen a good deal during the
past five weeks, and have thoroughly en-
! ioyed all | have SEEM" replied the doctor,
in answer to the reporters first inquiry.
| But the most gratifying portion Of the
| trip is the marked improvement in my
wife's health, as it was mainly for her ben
eft that the journey was undertaken. She
| comes b elk FULLY recovered from long and
| severe illness, and though we visited many
places of beauty and interest there is no
| place like home and we are both decidedly
| glad to get back TO dear old Denver once
| more
What do you consider the most enjoy
able portion of your trip, doctor2' was
| asked.
THAT would indeed be difficult to say
replied the DOCTOR s'San Francisco is not
| new to me by any means, as was in bust
| ness there five years ago, since which time
| there have been comparatively few changes.
| But San Francisco is beautiful city,
| whether one visits it for the first or the
| hundredth time, aud 4 stay of any length
| there is always pleasant, always interest
ing. l was engaged in practice there nearly
two years. and as have decided tOestablish
branch offices in all the principal cities in
the United States, | shall certainly find it
to nv interest, | think, to include San
Francisco in my earliest selections for 4
new Office, which, shall place in charge of
one of my best trained and most skillful as
siStant physicians.
l. BACKWARD SAN FRANCISCO.
"And you say San Francisco has not i'm
proved much of late years."
comparatively little. Five large bust
ness blocks, now in course of erection.
were about the only important improve
ments | noticed, though in the newer sub
urban districts few private residences
and other buildings are going up. l no.
ticed hundreds of vacant houses, orna-
mented with for rent cards, the rents for
ordinary residences ranging from $40 to
$3.50 per month. If San Francisco is grow
ing it is growing slowly, but it is a pretty
fair-sized city now, having population of
about $50, 600
Some extensions are being made in the
cable lines, and the first electric line in the
city is now being built from Market street
to Sunnyside, a new addition to the city.
Gambling at the stock exchange, however,
is as lively as ever, with clearinghouse
proprietresses, servant girls and kindred
classes of suckers playing the role of vie
tins manly. All were looking for the CON-
ing of Mackay to bring them their long
looked-for fortunes from the Comstock
Mines
ANY real estate activity there?"
mighty little. There is Il moderate
movement visible in Alameda, Oakland and
Berkeley properties, but nothing to speak
of when compared with the activity in real
estate in Denver
But what of Honolulu?''
SsNtp11 NOW Won We uOt Honolulu iS
all right, suppose, for those who like that
sort of country, but it wouldn't suit me-
It's pretty, of consequently as a picture,
and the Hawaiian Islands are very prettily
spoken of in the guide books as the paradise
of the Pacific But they don't know
anything about push and enterprise down
there. Foroimy part [ prefer business
TO beauty of landscape, and the hustle and
roar of traffic to leafy bowers and shady
glens, and all that sort of romantic nom
sense. Do you know l actually contem-
plated opening branch Office in Honolulu,
provided the conditions were favorable,
but hadn't been at the wharf half an hour
until | saw that there was no show for a
profitable business in that locality, and l
accordingly devoted my entire time heart,
soul and pocketbook to the pursuit of pleas
ure. ANY reasonable man can have whole
lot of fun in Honolulu and not run any risk
of over-eXertion either in his search for
harmless amusement
How much time is required to go from
San Francisco"
about six days. We went on the Mari
posa, one of the SpreckelS famous 3000-ton
steamers, and shortened the time by several
hours. Travel on the Pacific Is q luxury
compared with the stormy passage of the
tempestuous Atlantic"
What is the population OF Honolulu"
"About %, 900. composed of Americans, |
English, Germans, Italians. many Chinese, |
and natives. 1t is the capital of the Hawa
ian Islands, and besides being of consider |
foundries, machine shops, planning mills, |
lumber yards and every requisite |
for carrying on an extensive manufacture |
ing, building and shipping trade. They |
have some good business houses there and |
a number of very creditable public build |
ings, frst-rate hotels, good restaurants, fine |
drives, an excellent climate, and the city is !
well supplied with good water, while the |
streets are well lighted. The palace is |
handsome building with delightful sur
roundipgs and well kept grounds"
THE QUEEN WAS SICK.
ssDid you see the Queen2'
mo, the queen was sick--yery i'll, in
deed-although the report Of her illness
was contradicted here. She was not only |
i'll, but dangerously So"
Ibid you visit any other portions of the
island except Honolulu9''
mo. AS L SAID OelOfe, Mrs. Belts
health had improved so much that l was
forced to yield to the pressing demands of
my business here at home, as well as in
several other cities where have branch
offices, and l was forced to shorten my
visit considerably less than had originally |
intended. And besides there was an un-
comfortable amount of rather sapguinary
revolutionary talk there, and wasn't
at all anxious to see any red-handed |
carnage Just then. The English and Ameri-
can men-of-war were holding themselves in
readiness to act promptly upon the first
symptoms of any serious outbreak
Il suppose they have some fine residences
there2"
''Oh. not particularly fine. Several of
the English and American merchants have
built rather pretty, large frame houses,
painted white mostly and surrounded with
groves Of palm, fig and cocoanut trees, CIV
ing them quite a striking and picturesque
EXPENSES NOT HIGH.
Chow about living eXpense5?n
Quite reasonable, indeed. During our
stay there my wife and l stopped at the