The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-12
IN HILO TOWN
Progress Has Met With Some
Serious Delays.
LITTLE OF EVERYB0DY'S FAULT
But 1t is Bound to Go
Ahead.
Observations Pertinent and Other
wise-Need of More CO.
operation.

To one who has learned TO gauge
the land area OF the Hawaiian Islands
by Oahu, the big Island of Hawaii APP
pears something like a continent The
people of Hilo tell story on Senator
Rice TO the effect that when he made
a "trip around the island he made the
remark: I didn't know We had such
a big piece Of land" The newcomer,
who has been rolled across the No
loksi channel, is given an opportunity
70 catch his breath and little some
thing 10 eat while steaming along in
the kindly lee of Molokai. viewed the
beautiful sunset at Lahaina Bay, gone
TO sleep early TO miss the effects of the
Hawaii channel. and then in the early
morning anchored of Mahukona to en-
joy soft rocking in the cradle Of the
''derned blue ocean''-this joke is ex-
planned later-that rolls as if it had a
spite TO work out on the weak stom-
ached passengers; when all these pleas
ures and pastimes have been enjoyed,
and you're just preparing TO feel
wretched, generally for the rest of the
day. the magnificent scenery that
comes to view as the Kinau rounds
Upolu Point and heads down the
coast, is such as to revive tagging
spirits and make one believe that life
is again worth living. The frowning
cliffs. with the great blue rollers beat
ing into foam at their foot, and the
great stretches of cane fields reaching
back among the wooded hills and form
ing an almost continuous floor of vari-
gated green for miles along the coast,
stir the passenger who has laid a gas
tric cable across every channel, TO be-
stir himself. forgive the ocean for its
past abuse and get out on deck to drink
in the beauty of the scenery along the
route followed by the Wilder Steamship
Company's good steamer Kinau.
II seems TO be the proper thing TO
accuse the Kinau with being a high
roller. but after personal experience
and interviews with prominent citi-
zens and few of the Oldest inhabit-
ants, It has been found that the only
way TO improve the conduct of the in
ter-island steamers is TO smooth down
the ocean. The Kinau is all right, and
its officers are frst-class fellows The
only shortcoming is in the failure to
control the wind and wave. One pas
senger on recent voyage TO Hilo wax
ed poetic-or thought ne would. He
started out as follows:
Roll on. yer derned blue ocean, roll;
Ten thousand"
And there his muse left him. and all
that could be heard from his cabin was
an occasional moan. followed by the
occasional refrain. Roll on, yer dern-
ed blue ocean. roll
So much has been written upon the
scenery along the Kohala and Hama
kua coast that the common, everyday
newspaper mans best way out OF it is
TO follow the lawyers example and
cite authorities like Whitney's Tour
list Guide" Hoog's Paradise OF the
Pacific" and numerous other publica-
tions for descriptions, and recommend
every benighted individual who has
never seen that portion of the Hawaii
an Islands 10 board the Kinau at the
earliest possible opportunity.
Large and forcible stories have been
told Of the landing at Hilo and the
Hilo wharf and it is the honest con-
viction Of one Of the victims who has
been landed at Hilo that the half has
never been told The individual who
is cast up on the Hilo wharf" after
hanging between life. death and a
ducking. and doesn't Immediately &c
and Immediately sign the rolls of the
"HilO Wharf Kickers." that Individual
has no appreciation of what is right
and proper. He can be put down as
among those who prefer running a
chance of having their necks broken
10 living in peace. quiet and the bless.
ings OF modern comfort AS the steam.
er's boat bobbed about like a cookie
shell and the passengers waited for q
chance TO jump for their lives. hoping
TO land on the wharf, and only saved
from landing in the water through the
careful attention of the Kinau's Off
GERS. the women sighed: This is hor-
rible." One burly passenger voiced his
opinion that il was "detestable," while
our friend, the poet, moaned in an IN
der tone: Roll on, yer derned blue
ocean. roll" The crowd at the wharf
greeted friends, relatives and passen.
gers generally with heartfelt grasT
OF the hand and tremcr OF voice thai
seems TO say Thank goodness. you'v.
safely crossed the watery chasm' Th'
people Of Hilo have perfect right
under the common law Of modernizeC
Christendom. which is supposed 10 pro
tect life and limb, person and proper
". 10 raise their voices forcibly anC
vociferously for some kind Of land
ing that appeals less TO the venture
some spirit in mankind.
One Of the first questions asked tn
Honolulu visitor TO Hilo is: What d.
you think OF Hilo?" This question i
thrown in the face Of every visitor Il
q new and developing country. II is OF
much the same idea as the man wit