Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-03-27
SUNNY ISLES OF HAWAII.
HOW LIFE GOES IN THE PACIFIC
PARADISE.

-AtnusementS OF the C1ty-Homt
Lille OF the Natives.
N the silent waste of the broad Pa
cifc Ocean, 1000 miles or more
/ from San Francisco, lie the sunny
isles of Hawaii, which some day
may be part of the United States oi
America.
When you steam into the harbor OF
Honolulu you begin to catch the flavor
of the island. At one side tower the
gigantic mountain peaks of Molokai,
where the leper lives.
A line of foam fringed reefs and
stretch of cleaning sand, where a
single group of sentinel palms rear their
heads in tropic beauty, make up the first
glimpse of tue island. Still beyond
these palms can be seen the steeples and
fagstaffs and gray embossed green roofs
of Honolulu, while, frowning down upon
it in the far background, is the dead
magnifcence of crushed volcano.
The docks at Honolulu. which is the
capital city of the Island Kingdom, pre-
sent curious spectacle. To greet the
big iron Pacific Mail steamer, says the
New York Journal, there flock brown,
coppery colored natives, in their simple,
aower.decked garbs, almond-eyed
Chinamen, little subjects of the Mikado,
Portuguese, Germans, Britons, Ameri-
cans, all coolly clad in white duck.
Honolulu has population of 25, 900
souls. 1t has fifteen miles of street rail-
way, 1900 telephones, 300 public hacks,
macadamized streets, lighted by electric
ity, and in its business part is well
built of brick and stone. Its resident
portion is almost entirely of wood.
In Honolulu, as everywhere else in
the islands, one is struck by the charac-
ter of the population. Americans, En-,
glish and Germans number only 4500
in all the islands. Portugal has fur
pished 5000 people, while China fur
nishes 10000, the laboring classes in the
island being nearly all Cinnamon.
OF the pure native that once upon q
time ate up Captain Cook, there are less
than IS, 900, and they are dying at the
rate of two per cent. year. But the
native had married with the alien races
before dying, and the result is the half
caste race, which numbers about 5000
and is very influential socially aud polit-
ically.
AS you drive through the streets in the
hush of the early morning, you soon
learn what is meant by the luxuriant re.
pose of the tropic. The bloom of un.
wonted flowers, the FURNISHED sheen ol
the leaves, the lance-like foliage of the
palms, all tell you that you are far away
from battling New York.
The Hawaiian home is in itself a type.
1t is but one story in height, with 9
broad lanai or wide verandah in front,
into which open wide doors from parlor,
dining room, billiard, and, in fact, from
all the rooms on the first floor, the lama
being a sort of common meeting ground
for everybody.
Swinging in hammock, one car
watch the white .fringed reefs where the
long Pacific breaks. Below you lies the
town In indolent repose, and you drink
in the mellow air and become lotus
eater.
The lower rooms of the house are al
planned for GOODNESS, for we are in the
tropics, mind you. The windows are
shaded by blinds and curtains, the floors
are matted, with easy, light and grace
full furniture. The sleeping rooms above
are planned for comfort, too, for ice il
a manufactured luxury in Honolulu
and "keep cool" is the motto Of its citi
zen.
Still, there are many mole pretentious
homes than the one described In Hon
olulu, built after the American and Eng
lish styles. Claus Spreckels, the "Suga
King of Hawaii, owns splendid brick
palace, while tue Government House, o
the palace of the recently dethroned
Queen, and the Queens Hospital ar
modern brick houses OF elegance. Ii
fact, Honolulu is town where civiliza
ton is at high tide.
In no city in the world is there s
much business done by telephone as Il
Honolulu. Nearly every house in tn
city can be communicated with. On
fairly lives in network of wires. TIL
shop, the market, the doctor, the dent
ist, the undertaken, all respond to thi
long distance talk, and no small amour
of gossip wings its way over the sensitiv
wires. 1t is so easy to laze away the da
on your lanai, with telephone at you
elbow, through which you cau chat wit
your friends.
"In the lanai we take no note of time,
is favorite Hawaiian saying.
When early evening comes 1t is the fa
for every one in Honolulu to hurry t
Thomas square, the biggest open spac
in the city, to hear the concerts given b
band of musicians. Their efforts or
aided by the singing of. bands of natives
whose music contains q patheticall.
weird strain, full Of pathos. All th
Honolulu world strolls about in the mel
low moonlight, during these concerts
while stately palms make fantastic sill
houettes against the sky.
Saturday afternoons, both in what W
call winter as we'll as in summer, th
Hawaiian devotes to pleasure. In Homo
lulu baseball is the fad. All the islam
IN tha