Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-07
LIFE IN HONOLULU.
A RESIDENT OF Taa HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
TALKS INfERTAINISGLY.
Kr. O. ". hickey, Of Haiku Maui is in iowa
as the Guest CT Mr.. S. Hugh Breckadisr--
Hcw tina Lfpsrs Of Molakai Look and Act

hcw ina Lfpsrs q Molakal LOOK anu sc'
II is not often that we have resident
OF the Sandwich Islands in our midst.
Although not generally known there
has been in the city for the past few
days resident of Haiku Maui OF the
Hawaiian group of Islands in the North
Pacific ocean. The resident is Mr.. c.
w. Dickey, who has been attending
school at the Institute OF Technology in
Boston, and who camo to Wheeling as
the guest of Mr.. S. Hugh Brockunier,
also a student at the same school.
Mr.. Dickey is not a native OF the
Hawaiian Islands. but has lived there
many years, most of the time since ne
was two years old, but still, strange TO
saw. bears no distinctive characteristics
of the PARKWAY cline. lie looks as
though be had alwa.s trod American
soil, and is bright. genial and entertain
ing. He lives on a sugar plantation OF
;, 900 acres at Haiku Maui, Known as
Hamakuapoko, in plain Honolulu YER
nacular.
Eyes, I'm some ways from home,
said Mr.. Dickey "stiil it's only aoout
1000 miles from San Francisco, and
get there in about week from the gold
en- strand. The great industry there IS
the sugar cane industry, and these
plantations are
OF GREAT SIZE,
as the one on which live they employ
fn,lv 1000 hands. The largest sugar
plantation in the world is on t1ese
Islands, that of the renowned Claus
Spreckles, who turns out not less THAN
100 tons Of sugar Gay, and practically
controls line of steamers between San
Francisco and Australia. The planta-
tions are all run by companies, and have
been paying 60 per cent. on the invest
ment, until the Mckinley bill sprang
into being, since which time the buSl-
ness has fallen off amazingly, and II Is
doubtful if many Of the plantations are
doing much business at present. The
next great competing point for the
Hawaiian Islands is Cuba, where labor
is considerably cheaper than In our
country"
GLOW about the climate in that
country?" asked the reporter.
The climate is delightful; it is
thought by many to be almost perfec-
ton. At no season of the year does the
mercury rise higher than 90 degrees or
lower than 60 degrees. The winters
are very comfortable, and great many
invalds go to Honolulu and adjoining
islands by advice of physicians. There
are two seasons during the year that
are pretty rainy, but not to very dis
agreeable extent. The natives OF the
island are OF the Malay race, good
workers when they work, but inclined
to be lazy, preferriDg TO get together
i'm groups in the woods and live on kalo
root and salt fish. This they regard
as the SiCnnnunl bOnlm of existence.
They cook this root into d pasty mass
called pou, then eat it with salt fish or
bread fruit. The Malay race is fast
dwindling down, however. When the
islands were discovered some 200 years
ago there were 200, 900 of these Malays,
now there are scarcely more than So
600. The island on which l live is
variousIy inhabitated, there being
many Chinese, Japanese and negroes
from the Fiji Islands. There are also
many Germans and Spanlards.
Nearly all the large en-
terpriSes on the island are
CONTROLLED BY AMERICANS,
and they very largely inhabit the
Islands at present. and constantly in
Producing metropolitan improvements.
The Island where live is about As
miles long, and is the second in size OF
the group. In the geography these Is
lands are put down as the Sandwich Is
lands, but they are only known over
there as Hawaiian Islands"
but speaking of craterS," said Mr..
Dickey, u suppose we can boast the
largest extinct crater in the world 1t
is nine miles long, and $500 feet
deep, almost large enough to engulf the
whole of New York city. We also have
the largest active volcano, 10000 feet
high constantly operating, although
seldom throwing lava out over the
banks. The crater is six miles in diam
eter, and is composed of numerous lakes
of molten lava. For fully a week before
an eruption a most dlstracting can
nonading is heard under ground, at
times greatly terrifying the people.
The eruptions, however, have never
been very disastrous. There have been
heaps of mighty narrow escapes of ven
turesome tourists who persist in climb
ing down into the crater"
And, would you believe it, the great
game over tber@ as in America, is
base ball. They get up mines
ailbH6ver the Islands, and pride
themselves on their skill. Why,
even the loathsome lepers of MOIokai,
an adjoining island, fine comfort and
solace in the irresistible game Of base
ball. They also play polo, football and
tennis, but the two great diversions OF
the country are sea-bathing and horse
back riding.
LEPERs OF MoLOKAI.
care the lepers as repulsive as pic
tured in the various newspaper ar
ticles?" asked the scribe.
Fully So" said Mr.. Dckey- "Why,
have seen one of these leproSy victims
walking along with nose, an ear and
four or FIVE fingers eaten nearly off.
Sometime cheek will be gone,
then the chin, an eye or part
of the arm. 1t takes the
form of a running sore, and it is
hard to imagine more repu.sive sight.
1t a most peculiar disease and incur
ohio and tho cause of il has baffled the