The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-17
THE POETRY OF A TRIP.
AN INKY CHEER FOR SUGAR, RICE
AND COFFEE.
A Batch of Energetic Men where Poi
is Made-McCandlcss' Mins-The
Ewa Plantation.


ing Honolulu aboard one of the neat
trains of the Oahu Railway the eyes
instnctively turn to the shore line. The
novelty of the shipping and harbor
equipment is renewed. Fresh charm
seems added to the surf line. There is
always interest in the craft riding the
offing or moving beyond.
1t is difficult to decide if Leah
Diamond Head, is part of the land or
part of the sea. What an object for
reverie or incident for imagery is that
mark. 1t can be coniured into any
form or connection. 1t is very fit for a
riotous inauguration. How shall it be
sexed? Shall it be the bride of the
sea or the father of the land? Perhaps
Diamond Head is best pictured or rather
best described as marvellous embell-
ishment of nature. There is nothing
like it elsewhere. When the capricious
dame who is accredited with the
architecture of the universe completed
Oahu, she, in spell of good humor,
completed work with inspired pride,
she might have remarked: II have
excelled myself this time" And the
gnomes and sprites and spirits that had
come to witness this labor smothered
envy and jealousy and applauded.
Something seems to fit across the
vision. 1t is a color force or effect. This
sends thought into the rice fields on
either side OF the railway. The delicate
spears, in lines like tiny soldiers; the
bright, solid sheet OF green, for miles, is
like some prairie in Colorado made to
order and groomed daily. But there is
no inch or more Of water standing on
the broad plains OF Colorado-the plains
that seem to whirl away from you as
the train thunders along.
In the menagerie of a big circus in the
States they have a mouse-colored steer
with long, black, crescent horns. Its
shoulders are high, its body deep, its
legs short, its eyes expressive, not to say
a trihe wicked. They call it a sacred
bullock And they lie long lies about it.
The same animal occurs in the rice
fields, where it is a dispised beast OF
burden, almost amphibious. 1t is pa
tient, useful and almost constant as the
bare-legged Chinese who cultivate the
rich fields.
Sandwich Islands rice was 4 cents a
a 10 X re
expectation from China and Japan is
forbidden. There are rice fields from
Honolulu to honolulu. Hopper's big
mill is one OF the industries OF the capt.
and at the head of one OF the Pear
Lochs lagoons, is substantial memory
of Achi. He was Chinese Napoleon OF
Finance who paid $1,000 for the opium
license. He is dead and no one knows
where he is, and the goods were not
delivered" The rice mill is running tc
full capacity and is well managed. There
is another mill over the Pail. Grinbaun
d Co., Hyman Bros, and Rubinstein &
Grinbaum are Sin rice" Perforce, like
the man in the coffin, they are "dead il
it." A little rice is sent from Kauai, G
bit from Maui. All grown on Hawai-
is used there. More water is being
brought to the surface or diverted to sol
all the time, and more water mean'
more rice. Hurrah for the triumveratt
sugar, rice and coffee-all clean anc
indispensable and used everywhere.
You see something besides the har
Dor and Leahi and rice fields in travelling
on the wondrous little railway witt
its United States equipment and mostl,
American in harness, from Genera
Manager Dillingham; down. Dilling
ham, p. C. Jones, Lowrie of Eva, Mr.
Anterior, l.. A. Thurston and Jack
McCandless and few other loca
hustlers fit the description put upol
Tom Potter when he was at the head o
the Union Pacific. They called hin
IA regular steam engine of energy"
The fertilizing plant which the saga
cious Hackfelds are building in Kalih
is nearing completion. They are put
ting in money without stint. 1t is al
enterprise of the first magnitude. Sew
eral ship cargoes of the raw material
brought from Laysan Island, are entere
at 800 ton. Through the Algerob
trees, beyond one of many banan
Academy. The large new seminary
which will make the institution "co ed
is being rooted. Except for some bread
fruit and papia trees there is clea
view of Luther Wilcox's "poi foundry.
Here taro is made into pai-ai. 1t
quite a business, though the Chimes
have the Molokai contract, the be-
thing in that line on the Islands. TheI
are mango groves along the railwa,
kiawe trees, cocoanut trees; and plent
of color, artistic if lavish is furnishe
by innumerable Towering shrubs. 1t
strange that there are SO very few son
birds on the Islands. All the time Il
ocean looms up in the distance.
At the top of one of the light grad
of the railway, at the very approach
Pearl Lochs, is DIR. John S. McGrew
model farm. From this point you 81
Ford Island, the fine property of Il
Browns. Someone insists on te
ing you that unless the Unit
States soon closes finally f
the coveted Pearl Lochs that Englar
will make a great cash offer. Then "
hear quite lot about. the harbor al
possibilities. There has been gre
deal about this in the papers .tely.
From Pearl City station the ira
makes side trip down the peninsul
This is by odds the most delight