The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-03-30
SUNNY ISLES OF HAWAII.
HOW LIFE GOES IN THE PACIFIC
PARADISE.

Honolulu and Its Varied Population
-Amusements of the City-Home
Life OF the Natives.
TN the silent waste of the broad Pa
cific Ocean, 1000 miles or more
from San Francisco, lie the sunny
isles of Hawaii, which some day
may be part OF the United States OF
America.
When you steam into the harbor of
Honolulu you begin to catch the favor
of the island. At one side tower the
gigantic mountain peaks of Molokai,
where the lepcr lives.
A line of foam fringed reefs and
stretch of cleaning sand, where
single group of sentinel palms rear their
heads in tropic beauty, make up the first
glimpse of the island. Still beyond
these palms can BE- seen the steeales and
fagstatfs 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
big iron Pacific Mail steamer, says the
New York Journal, there focS brown,
coppery colored natives, in their simple.
fower-decked garbs, Acknowledged
Cinnamon, little subject, of the Mikado,
Portuguese, Germans, Britons. Ameri-
cans, all coollv clad in white duck.
Honolulu has a population of 5000
souls. 1t has fifteen miles of street rail
way, 1900 telephones, 800 public hacks,
macadamized streets, lighted by electric
ity, and in its business part is well
built OF brick aud 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 45O0
IN all the islands. Portugal has fur
pished 5000 people, while China fur
nisnes 20, 900, the Iaboring classes in the
island being nearly all Cinnamon.
OF the pure native that once upon a
time ate up Captain Cook, there are less
than 81, 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 60JO
and is very influential socially and polit-
ically.
AS you drive through the streets,dn 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 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.
1t is but one story in height, with
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 lanai
being a sort OF common meeting ground
for everybody.
Swinging in hammock, one can
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 all
planned for GOODNESS, for we are in the
tropics, mind you. The windows are
shaded by blinds aud curtains, the floors
are matted, with easy, light and grace
ful furniture. The sleeping rooms above
are planned for comfort, too, for ice IS
manufactured luxury in Honolulu,
and ''keep cool" is the motto OF its citi-
zen.
Still, there are many more pretentlons
homes than the one described IN Hon
olulu, built after the American and Eng
lish styles. Claus Spreckels, the "Sugar
King of Hawaii, owns splendid brick
palace, while tue Government House, or
the palace OF the recently dethroned
Queen, and the Queens Hospital are
modern brick houses OF elegance. In
fact, Honolulu is town where civlliza.
tion is at high tide.
In no city in the world is there so
much business donesby telephone as IN
Honolulu. Nearly every house In the
city can be communicated with. One
fairly lives iD network of wires. The
shop, the market, the doctor, the dent
lst, the undertaken, all respond to this
long distance talk, and no small amount
of gossip wings It's way over the sensitive
wires. it is SO easy to .azs away the day
on your lanai, with telephone at your
elbow, through which you can chat with
your friends.
SIN the lanai we take no note of time,
is favorite Hawaiian saying.
When early evening comes it is the fad
for every one in Honolulu to hurry to
Thomas square, the biggest open space
N the city, 20 hear the concerts given by
4 band OF musicians. Their efforts are
aided by the singing of bands OF natives,
whose muse contains "A patheticaly
y eird strain. full of patnos. All the
Honolulu world strolls ABOUT in the mel
ow moonlight, during these concerts,
while stately palms make fantastic sill
against the sky.
Saturday afternoons. both in what we
,sll winter as well as in summer, the