The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-10
FIRST PEEP INTO TOWN.
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takes him through the business pOr-
ton of the town, which apparently
differs little from that of the smaller
American seaports with which he is
familiar, except that the stores and
warehouses appear to be on larger
and finer scale. On his way he passes
the fine brick building of the Y. NJ. c.
A., and a handsome two-storied struct-
ure which he learns is the Masonic
Temple. On entering the spacious
grounds about the handsome hotel he
realizes that he is, indeed, within the
tropics. He is sourrounded with \
profusion of luxuriant plants and
palms, ferns and flowers, and the air
is drowsy with their perfumes What
he has hitherto beheld only IN
large greenhouses and horticultural
halls, he now finds surrounding him
on every hand in the most lavish pro-
fusion.
The hotel he is delighted to find on
a par with any good modern hotel
in any civilized country. Spacious
corridors. commodious and comfort
able rooms. electric lights and push
buttons, running water. telephone,
prompt and courteous Chinese call
boys, spacious and elegantly fur
nished ladies' parlor, writing rooms,
card rooms, billiard rooms and an eX-
ceedingly inviting lanai, or veranda,
inclosed by Venetian blinds, where one
may lounge during the heat of the af-
ternoon. In short, every convenience
and comfort which may be found in
any first class modern hotel.
A drive through the city and out to
the Sans Souci Hotel, beside the sea
beach, is fairly enhancing. The roads
are well nigh perfect-smooth, we'll
kept, free of dust. The horses move
rapidly along as ii tropical languor
were a figment of the travellers i'm
agination. A delicious, balmy breeze
gently fans his brow and thousand
captivating doors charm his senses.
He is soothed and lulled into a de-
lightful waking dream that here, in
deed, is Paradise, and trouble and care
are forever left behind.
Past the Executive building. a most
beautiful structure of handsome light
stone, situated in magnificent
square, studded with tropical palms
and towering trees, the Judiciary
building, he enters upon a beautiful
avenue skrting the shore at a short
distance, and lined with palms,
through which on either side he
catches glimpses of beautiful villas,
surrounded by spacious grounds with
well kept lawns beieweled and be-
deeked with opulent blooms of tropi-
cal splendor He energies at last into
the open country and there passes 6e-
tween rich fields of rice ready for the
harvest, "orchards" Of banana trees
heavy with the luscious fruit: cocoa
nut palms, date palms, and countless
other tropical growths, until he is
conscious only with a lazy sense OF
the thousand and one enhancing
odors which intcN;cate the breeze
and observation drowses away into q
delicious, dreamy Nirvana.
He scarcely awakes at Sans Souci
Here Robert Louis Stevenson lived
several years ago, for some months
and from him it received its name
how appropriate it is needless to say
when its sponsor is known. The
grounds run down to the beach, the
lanai fairly overhargs the lazy tide
and here one may dream the afternoon
away until, after the heat of the sur
has passed, he may refresh himself
by a surf bath in the clearest of sea
waters upon the cleanest and finest
of sandy beaches. And this, not simp
ly in the balmy spring or summer
but on every day of the whole year
for this is, indeed, the land where il
is Always spring.
The first impressions of Honolulu
are too delightful and too poetical tc
permit the traveller to pay any atten
ton to the prosaic details which really
differentiate and describe this wonder
full country, and these must be reserv
ed for a future letter. Suffice it nov
to say that the first impressions of tn,
traveller leave him fully acquiescent il
the justice and entire accuracy of tn,
claim that this land is no less than III,
paradise of the Pacific"
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