The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-22

water which they promise to success
fully dive for, and so great is their skill
that hardly a coin is missed while the
great ship is being drawn TO its moor
ings. These half grown boys moving
about like frogs, their cheeks bullying
out with the coins that they have gath
cred. present picture which Will long
remain in the memory.
In the evening we were escorted by a
resident. who CHANGED TO be a fellow
passenger. to one of the city parks
where the national band discoursed a
great variety of most enjoyable music.
The vocal solos by the Hawaiian mem
bers Of the band. including the nation
al air. were a great treat, while the in
strunentaI music, both wind and
string. produced under the direction
of "a foreign leader who has been in
charge for years, compared favOrably
with the best band music we ever
heard The evening was cool but not
chilly. the thermometer always rang
ing between As deg. and 90 deg. There
is really but one season and that de-
lightfuI one.
A drive the next morning through
the principal streets and out a little
into the country gave a variety of most
delightful views. The lawns with their
tropical trees including palm trees of
every description and especially the
Royal palm, introduced from the West
Indies, the homes already referred to,
the women in their mother Hubbards,
the national costume, the market, one
of the finest / ever saw, the public
buildings, including the splendid pal
ace now used as a government building
and particularly the American spirit
which was everywhere to be noticed,
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longer than the steamer would permit.
Through the courtesy of Rev. Mr..
Peck, in charge of the Methodist mis-
sion work on the islands and the chap
lain of the Senate, upon whom we made
a most pleasant call, / was shown
through the old palace, it's throne room
now used as the hall of the House of
Representatives and its dining room as
an office for the Interior Department,
had the pleasure of an introduction to
the President of the House, a native
Hawaiian and was present at the open
ing of the Senate where / also had the
pleasure of listening to the representa-
lions of two members of the Cabinet.
There are fifteen members of each
house, only one member of the Senate
being a full blooded native. l talked
with several, both natives and Amer
leans, as to the present government
and found that it is on the whole, very
satisfactory, being no more expensive
and much more efficient than that of
the ex-queen and her party.
There is q strong desire for cable
between the islands and our own coun-
try, the laying of which may or may
not be followed by annexation. 1t
would forbid forever the interference
by any other nation with the little re-
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is the thing to be secured. An Ameri
can naval officer, fellow passenger,
who has spent many years on this sta
ton. thinks that protectorate and not
annexation will best meet all the con-
ditions and needs.
1t is great relief after coming from
Japan and China. where everything
that is foreign is English, to find Am
orleans so prominent. Everything is
American, including the schools, and
the children even will tell you that they
are Americans. A traveller told me that
he had never elsewhere seen the 4th
of July observed with so much real
spirit An official paper says concern
ing education: "Over 95 per cent. of
the native population can read and
write and most of the younger genera
ton are proficient in two languages,
the English as we'll as their own"
Pearl Harbor, 10 miles from Homo
lulu, 8 miles long and miles wide, with
a depth of 40 feet, and absolutely land
locked, when properly dredged will be
unriVaIed as a naval station and the
United States should not be slow in
developing it. But the country is of
Importance not only because it is the
strategic key to the Pacific, but COM
merciaIly as we'll. Besides the great
sugar industry already noticed in the
reference to one of many sugar planta-
tions, rice and coffee are also staple
products, the latter being cultivated
more and more by the small farmers.
In addition, nearly all kinds of garden
vegetables are raised here, their culti-
walton being chiefly carried on by Chi
namen.
The religious work is prosecuted
with more than ordinary success in Ha-
wall. 1t is the universal testimony
that the place is highly moral, and that
Christian men are respected more than
others. May the day soon come when
this shall be true everywhere! The
leaders in business and society and gov
eminent are the sons of missionaries.
The Central Union Church, splendid
stone edifice, one of the finest L
ever saw, is standing witness to the
Christian liberality of Honolulu's lead
ing citizens. The Methodist Episcopal
Church, though recently organized in
the islands. has a most prosperous
work, both among the English speak
ing people and the Japanese, and has
already demonstrated that though late
in coming she has mission here.
The present year promises to be an
important one on account of the re-
newed volcanic life which is now ap-
pearing Mokuaweoweo, on the sum
NIT of Mauna Loa, which was especial
" active in 1855, 1859 and 1880, has re-
Gently broken out again, and a recent
visitor describes a lake of liquid ire
/ 200 by 1,600 feet, with two larger
and several smaller fountains playing
in the midst. For the past few weeks
the great crater has been more active