The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-04-12
SUNNY ISLES OF HAWAII.
now LIFE GOES IN THE PACIFIC
PARADISE.
Honolulu and Its Varied Population
Anus ements of the City--Home
Life of the Natives.

Life of the Natives.
In the silent waste of the broad Pacll c
ocean. 2OOO miles or more from San
Francisco, lie the sunny isles of Hawaii,
which some day may be a part of the
United States of America.
When you steam into the harbor OF
Honolulu you began to catch the flavor
of the island. At one side tower the
gigantic mountain peaks of Moloaai,
where the leper lives.
A line of foam-fringed reefs and
stretch Of cleaning sand, where single
group of sentine. palms rear their heads
in tropic beauty, make up the first
glimpse of the 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 a curious spectacle. To greet the
bio iron Pacific Mail steamer says the
New York journal, there flock brown,
,coppery co ored natives, in their simple,
hower-deck,d CARDS, almond-eyed Chi
ram n, little subjects of the Mikado
Portuguese, Germans, Britons, Ameri-
cans. all coolly clad in white duck.
Honolulu has a population OF $4,000
souls. 1t has fifteen miles of street rail
way, 1900 telephones, 800 public hacks
mac adamized streets, lighted by electric
itv. and in its business part is we'll built
oflbrick andlstone. Its resident portion
is almost entirely of wood.
In Honolulu, as everywhere else in the
islands, one is struck by the character of
the population. Americans, English and
Germans number only $500 N all the
islands. Portugal has furnished 5000
people, while China furnishes 10000, the
Iaboring classes in the island being near
ly all Cinnamon.
OF the pure native that once upon a
time ate up Captain Cook, there are less
than 50 ,OOO and they are dying at the
rate of two per cent a year. But the
native had married with the alien races
before dying, ana the result is the half
caste race, which numbers about 5000
"a I'd is very Influential socially and politi-
cally.
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 tropics The bloom Of I'M
xRontod nOwors, the FURNISHED sheen of
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 type.
j 1t is but one story in height, with a
broad lanai or wide veranda in front,
into which open wide doors from parlor,
dining room, billiard, and, in fact, from
all the rooms on the first floor, the lanai
being a sort of common meeting ground
for everybody.
Swinging in a hammock, one can
watch e..white-fringed reefs where the
long Pacific breaks. Below you lies the
town in incident repose, and you drink
in the mellow air and become a lotus
eater.
The lower rooms Of the house are all
plam ed Tor 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 graceful
furniture The sleeping rooms above are
planned for comfort, too, for ice is a
manufactured luxury in Honolulu, and
keep cool' is the motto of its citizens.
Still, there are many more pretentious
homes than the one described in Homo
lulu, built after the American and Eng
lish styles Claus Spreclzles, the Sugar
King of Hawaii, owns sp endid br elk
palace, while the Government House, or
tie palace of the recently dethroned
Queen, and the Queens Hospital, ale
modern bNek houses of elegance. In
fact, 4onoluiu is town where civiliza-
zion is at high tide
In no city in the world is there so much
business done by telephone as in Homo
lula. Nearly every house in the city can
BE- communicated with. One fairly lives
5n a network of wires. The shop, the
market, the doctor, the dentist, the un-
.dertaker all respond to this long distance
talk and no small a Mount of gossip
wings its way over the sensitive wires.
1t is nc easy to laze away the day on
Yn.r lanai with 4 telenhone at Yonr