The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-13

cOcoanut trees, banana plants,
and every variety of bright
foliage and Towering shrub OF
the tropics. The air was bur
dened with the sweetest OF
perfumes, and the gentle COO
ing of ring doves floated about
me. 1t seemed more of park
than a hotel. On either side
were rows of neat little cot
tages, all belonging to the no.
tel, and all embowered in the
verdure of the tropics.
My female escort, carrying
my valise walked down the
lawn path, l following. We
soon passed through gate in
to the street. Turning abrupt
ly to the left, she entered an
other building, and assembled
a flight of stairs with me, car
rying my overcoat and perspir-
ing at every pore, bring up the
rear. In wide corridor above,
we were met by another Japan
csc called Tito, who took my
valise to room Number Sixteen.
My apartment was large
and sunny. A great window
opened on the porch on the
west, and | sank into a seat,
for a few moments gazing out
upon the rear court.
The scene was bathed in the
sunlight of June, altho | was
told that this was as cold wea-
Their as one might ever expect
in Honolulu. The houses in
Honolulu, by the way, are con-
structed without furnaces or
other heating apparatus. There
is but one fireplace for heating
on the islands, which is at the
volcano-house on Hawaii.
Though Honolulu is a tropi-
cal 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 Won
derful land are not tropical,
but Anglo-Saxon. Wherever
there is directing energy or Or
ganizing power, or enterprise,
or action, there one will find
the American. Americanism
predominades in the intelli-
gent and ruling spirits of the
Islands. This is shown in a
hundred ways. The very re-
public was declared on the
fourth of July in order that the
day might be doubly endeared
to the hearts of the people. AL
most as much interest is mani
tested in the affairs of the Uni
ted States as in the States
themselves. The results of the
elections and the policy of the
administration are watched
with the keenest interest.
The American is chef in bu-
siness and politics. He is in
the church, the school, the
counting room, on the railroad,
and steamer at the dry dock
and the foundry: at the lum-
Der 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
successfully without him. He
fills teeth, cuts hair, mends
shoes, builds houses, shoes
horses, mends coffee pots, sells
furniture, medicines, and hard
wares, and fits clothes. In fact
you rub up against him every
where, at least where there is
evidence of combined inte1li-
gence and progress.
Such is the American who
has made his home in this land
of sunshine. Though he fully
retains his rare characteristics,
and walks or sits beneath the
palms and gorgeous Towering
trees as he would beneath the
elms or naples of his native
land, seeming, indeed, to be a
foreigner in the presence of
this unique vegetation, yet he
is it's author, having made Ho-
nolulu what it is by his enter
prise. He has introduced for
eign plants and encouraged
their growth. When the white
man came, Honolulu was a
treeless, sandy plain with
a fringe of coanuts along
the shore. The Honolulu of
to-day is the creation of the
foreigner-the offspring of his
handiwork. You will find Eng
fish, Spanish, Germans, Port
uguese, Japanese, Chinese, and