Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-01-23

houses in Honolulu are built just as
they are IN Hong Kong. They are
usually two stories in height, small
and quaint, with the balcony fronting
on the street.
At almost every hour you can see the
almond-eyed Celestial with his Oriental
dress even to the saucepan shaped
bamboo hat, long pole on his should
er with a weight on each end that
stagger common man, jogging along
at dog trot, pace at which he never
seems to weary. Long experience has
made him skilful in carrying large
burdens.
In the evening we wandered to a
beautiful park named Emma Square"
in honor of Queen Emma, who is known
as the good and just queen" Here
the Hawaiian band was assembled, and
discoursed some of the sweetest music
I ever listened to. The Hawaiians are
excellent musicians, and there are
many Hawaiian airs composed by the
natives, some of which are really beau
tiful. When first discovered they had
several musical instruments, one of
which was nose pipe, played by blow
ing through it with the nose.
Fort Street is the Broadway of Hon
olulu. From it branch off numerous
streets leading to the right and left.
One thing is peculiar in Honolulu. No
regard is paid to the points of the COM
pass. The terms milkai toward the
are used. Eva means on the right and
maikiki for the left. Thus the Hawaii
an Hotel is on the monka side of Hotel
Street eva of Richard Street | am
told that these terms are even used in
surveying lands. There is not street
laid out or house built with any regard
to the cardinal points of the compass.
The streets of Honolulu are not as
well paved and drained as they might
be. After a rain they present fully as
bad an appearance as do the thorough
fares of New York, Chicago, or st.
Louis. Some streets are paved with Il
sort of cement resembling asphalt, but
many are not paved at all. After a
rain the heat seems doubly intense,
for disagreeable steam arises which
makes one sigh for the good old days
in Hawaii when people did not wear
clothes. This discomfort lasts only Il
short time however. The streets dry
quickly, and gentle cooling breeze
fans the heated face.
just back of the city of Honolulu
mountain rears its head several hun
dred feet in the air. From some sup
posed resemblance TO that article the
mountain is called the Punch Bowl.
Tourists invariably scale it's lofty
heights, from which Il grand bird's-eye
view may be obtained of the city, bay,
shipping, and whole surrounding coun-
try. -. -.
Like all other tourists ! determined
to pay the Punch Bowl visit, and as
l learned that many tourists had walk
ed to its heights l set out one morning
on foot. AS left the city and entered
upon the long winding road which
leads up to the dizzy height, many of
the busy little laps and Chinese cast !
curious glances at me, and from the |
vine-cad cottages along the way ! |
caught occasional glimpses of dark
eyed maidens peeping shyly forth from
trellised vines.
As seen from the top of Punch Bowl .
Honolulu presents Il charming picture.
The little city, half hidden in the
lense foliage Of the tropics, has a shy,
,oquetish appearance.
l was willing to return by beaten
path and less precipitous route. On
,he way paused to gaze upon squad
IF conYicts at work on the road. The .
Uniform of the Hawaiian convict varies
according to the offense with which
lc is charged. II it is only INSIDE
neanor he wears suit one-half of
which is blue, the other brown. If he
$ convicted of a felony, his garb is
black and white striped, the stripes
)eing perpendicular instead of hori-
.ontal, as is the uniform of most of the
prisoners in the United States. But
me Of this squad wore striped clothes.
JoHS X. MUsICK.