The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-15
HE LIKED THE PLACE.
President Harrison Enjoyed His
Visit to the Hawaiian Village.

journal TO THIS paper, contain
ing letter from Mr.. James
A. Brewster, whom some of our
readers may remember as a
school teacher here in the sixties
and seventies. 1t refers, among
other things to ex-President Harri-
sons visit to witness the cyclorama
of Kilauea, which ali will be in
terested in:
The political situation hobs up even
in the "Crater of Kilauea." AT one
stage of the Cycloramic Exhibition a
young Hawaiian, personating an an
cient pagan priest, stands beside the
lake of glowing lava. propitiating
with droning chants the wrath of the
goddess Pele followed, shortly, with
a charming rendition by the native
mandolin quartette of one of Liliuo-
kalanis fine musical compositions, to
illustrate, as the lecturer said, the
progress of the race, in music, during
fifty years. "Why, them" spoke up
Chicago man in the audience, Have
you dethroned so valuable promoter
of musical cultivation?n because
she had no talent in any other direc-
tion,n was the ready response OF the |
bright-witted lecturer, nephew of
Minister Thurston. / fall in with |
many distinguished visitors at the |
Hawaiian Concession no less on
stamford University Day." than ex-
President Harrison. He did not dis
dain to show his profound and hearty
interest in Little Hawaii'-took in
everything from the big, tawny plan
tation bullock and his Kanaka rider,
at the entrance, TO the hundred-year-
old sacred turtle, near the exit gate.
He examined, curiously, the famous
taro plant, tasted, cautiously, the
classic poi; gazed, intently, upon
the fine relief-map of the three prin-
cipal islands; marked the position of
Kilauea's crater on the slope OF the
snow-ciad Mauna Loa, and, with
appreciative eye realized the magnl-
ficent proportions, perfect safety and
the commercial and strategic value of
coral gated Pearl Harbor, near Homo
lulu. He gave hurried glance at
Queen Lips vacant thrOne-chair, and
other relics of the effete monarchy;
scarcely noticed the hulahula dancers;
stopped thoughtfully before the can
non and sand-bags intended to defend
from Cleveland's forcible restoration
policy, and passed on to study the
gigantic growths of sugar cane, vigor
Gus coffee shrubs, and fine displays of
rice-sheaves and cotton-balls from i
those barren shores,n as certain 6
"cuckoo" Congressman recently styl-
ed the fertile fields OF "Hawaii-nei." i
Finally, the ex-President was es- =
corted to the pretty lanai, where HIM
self, daughter and " Baby Mckee"
were offered cups of fragrant Kona :
coffee, which were slipped amidst .
everything tropical all overhead, q
golden and russell checked mangoes Il
dangling on their slender stems, and Il
branches of brown-podded tamarinds, O.
and huge punches of bananas and d
luscious dates galore; with wainscot b
of pill ed-up cocoanuts in husk, yams, II
and richly-scented pine =,
apples. a,
On the whole, the late President q,
doubtless, that he didn't Il
make a mistake in exercising. as he
lid, his treaty-making powers to &C OF
,ept year ago, the offer of the island w
.ealm. But Harrison didn't make til
INV disagreeable comparisons between be
his course and that of his official sue di
lessor, in regard to Hawaiian affairs nc
he is too wise, not to say diplomatic, oil
or that-nor did heintroduce the Ha- Q
vaiion question into his address at @,
Festival Hall, but it greatly pleased WI
ne. u.
Shortly after General Harrison, who all
hould turn up at Sunset City but an
'heophilus Davies. on his way to
to coach Mr.. Cleveland 90
q regard to the latest phase of Ha- De
raiian affairs. How well remember Ge
inn, thiIty-four years ago, as ship an
ing clerk in Honolulu-thena per- az
,ct type of Du Maurier's slender po
Dung Englishman now a burly Is
triton, who has waxed fat on Amer ELI
an reciprocity. uS
For thirteen years, from 1859, the ha:
Pin-Head Kingdom" was my home. VIII
he twigs which / as teacher then Law
emit, have now grown into trees-a 6
cry Few inclined 10 shauow anu pro- the
ct tue tnro4e, ouI nTar,y eneiy ume edy
flor Waterhouse, and a score of L. LIZ
hers, stand firm in the support of s1e'
he heroic Provisional Government. IhS
he late revolution has, of course, tel
zen of absorbing interest to me, hold :
g the relation that / do to some of def
J leading actors, and because more and
ian a quarter of century ago, right wit
the ground. / plainly saw the be wo,
inning of the irrepressible conflict mo,
hich has resulted in the present po-
icis-clearly foresaw that the Gross "a a.
Dads of the Pacific" were bound to iou
come, sooner or later, the theater OF the
table events. How keenly / OBJ Incl
rived the early evolution of the Roy der,
ist and Republican factions, whose boo
Intentions have resulted IN Prov1s- S.
nal Government, promptly anu a II
operly recognized oy minister otes The
IS: he, IN 1871, knew no ni1ie ~" er's
ore of years before, exactly when ,,o,r
e bubble of absolutism would burst, IL"
1t, that burst it must, and, despite .he
CIevelands and Gresbams, beyond fix '
q mower of RESTORATION. How
How well recall certain types of tern
tipodal social elements-Cavalier =
ID Puritan-whicb so long ago exist
in the Sandwich Islands. -
Oy, onoh dixrino ranrnin0