Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-01-16

ing. We soon passed through gate
into the street Turning abruptly to
the left, she entered another building,
and assembled fight of stairs with me,
carrying my overcoat and perspiring
at every pore, bringing up the rear.
In wide corridor above, we were met
by another Japanese called Tito, who
took my valise to room Number Six
teen.
My apartment was large and sunny.
A great window opened on the porch
on the west, and l sank into "a seat,
for few moments gazing out upon a
rear court The scene was bathed in
the sunlight of June, although l was
told that this was as cold weather as
one might ever expect in Honolulu.
The houses in Honolulu, by the way,
are constructed without furnaces or
other heating apparatus. There is but
one fireplace for heating on the islands
which is at the volcano-house on
Hawaii e..
Though Honolulu is a tropical town
in every respect, it Is impossible for
one to be ashore FIVE minutes without
realizing that, after all, the energy
and propelling power in this wonder
full land are not tropical, but Anglo
Saxon. Wherever there is directing
energy or organizing power, or enter
prise, or action, there one will find the
American. Americanism predominates
in the intelligent and ruling spirits of
the Islands. This is shown in hum
dred ways. The very reprblic was de-
clared on the fourth of July in order
that the day might be doubly endear-
ed to the hearts of the people. Almost
as much interest is manifested here in
the affairs of the United States as in
the States themselves. The results of
the elections and the policy of the ad-
ministration are watched with the
keenest interest.
The American is chief in business
and politics. He is in the church, the
school, the counting-room, on the rail
road. and steamer: at the dry-dock
and the foundry: at the lumber yard,
at the mill, and the tow-boat. He is
on the wharf when you land, on the
street as you pass, at the hotel when
you register Nothing goes on sue
cessfully without him. He fills teeth,
cuts hair, mends shoes, builds houses,
shoes horses, mends coffee-pots, sells
furniture, medicines, and hardwares,
and fits clothes. In fact you rub up
against him everywhere, at least
where there is. evidence of combined
intelligence and progress.
Such is the American who has made
his home in this land of sunshine.
Though he fully retains his race char
acteristics, and walks or sits beneath
the palms and gorgeous Towering trees
as he would beneath the elms and ma
plies of his native land, seeming, in
deed, to be foreigner in the presence
of this unique vegetation, yet he is its
author, having made Honolulu what it
is by his enterprise. He has introduc
ed foreign plants, and encouraged
their growth. When the white man
came, Honolulu was treeless, sandy
plain, with fringe of cocoanuts along
the shore. The Honolulu of today is
the creation of the foreigner-the off
spring of his handiwork, You will
find English, Spanish, Germans, Portu-
guese, Japanese, Chinese, and repre-
sentatiyes of almost every nationality
in the city, but the American element
predominates.
In hospitality the people of Honolulu
have no superors. The traveller is re-
ceived with the warmth of the South,
and no pains are spared to make him
comfortd ble JOHN r. MUsIcK.