The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-14
He Finds Many Pleasant Things
to Write About.
GENERAL TREATISE on CLIMATE
Impressions of Stranger Recorded I'm
Happy Vein-Unstinted Praise for
Government and People - Believes
that the Islands Should be Annexed.

ago and then went home, and die
what all Frenchmen and most Other
Europeans who have ever been tc
America do-sooner or later-wrote
book about Americans and then
country. But Mr.. O'Rell's book
differed from most of the others, In
that what he said was, as to the
greater part, true, and he prefaced
what he had to say with the state
ment that the most universal char
acteristic he had noticed on his
visit was the desire on the part of
every one he met to know what he
thought of the country.
Mr.. O'Rell was right, and it is
because my experience in Homo
lulu has been much the same as
was his in the United States that I
am tempted to write down those
things which have most impressed
me, an entire stranger, before the
impressions have grown old or be-
come dull by time and habit.
To one coming from the harsh,
changeable winter of the northern
States, Honolulu, with it's perpet-
ual summer, it's tropical foliage
and its pretty cottages, set far back
from the streets, seem so beautiful,
and life in it's semi-tropical climate
so INDECENT and restful, that hard
ly know how to describe the beauty
of the one or the charm of the other;
a beauty and charm which seem
to be the outgrowth of all things
taken together, so that it is difficult
to analyze them, and to put ones
finger on any one thing and say
that in it lies that which goes to
make life here so pleasant.
1t is all pleasant. 1t is pleasant
to sit out on the veranda in the
evening, these beautiful evenings
of January it is extremely plea
SAINT to battle at Waikiki, in jan
uary it is even pleasant to see
men and woman moving leisurely |
about, dressed all in white, with
the manner of people on perpetual
picnic, that is never to be left off. |
Then, too, to one coming, as have
come, from part of the United
States too far East, and too busy |
with its own affairs to keep inform
ed, except in the most general way,
as to what is going on here. All |
the conveniences and luxuries that |
are to be found in Honolulu in
clude paved streets, probably the
most complete telephone system in
the world, tram-cars, electric lights
all these things come as a revela-
ton. And, perhaps, the greatest
revelation of all is that municip- |
atty dying far out in the Pacifc),
thousands of whose inhabitants are
drawn from the Orient, should be
governed in a manner that is not
surpassed in Paris or Berlin, and is
not nearly equalled in Chicago or
New York and should maintain a
police department that would cause
DR.. Parkhurst and the Civic Fed
Grafton of Chicago to turn green
with envy. And the most surpris
ing part of it is that it did not take
either DR.. Parkhurst or Civic
Federation to accomplish all this.
OF the people l have met during
the short time I have been here l
do not intend to write. The char
acteristics of our race are the same
the world over-the women are as
in Honolulu as in New
York, or London or Paris and the
men are as shrewd and keen and
generous and liberal, whether they
live in the Hawaiian Republic, or
in England or America. 1 do not
know many residents here, but it
goes without saying that those do
know are not one whit the interiors
of their brothers and sisters in the
United States and England. In
fact, l should say that the average
here is perceptibly higher than in
cities of similar size In America
with which l am acquainted.
These are some of the things
which have impressed me. Every
day brings something new in the
way of a pleasant surprise, and [ can
only hope that longer residence
will confirm me in the first idea
have formed, chief among those
being the one that these enchanted
with all their beauty and
all fruitfulness, inhabited largely
by the dominant race of the world,
ought to be so united, commercially
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