The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-18
REGULAR PARADISE
A Letter From Luke Kennedy in
Honolulu.
NOT SICK ON THE TRIP
Has Not a Word to Say About Over.
crowdine and No Complaint as
to the Food-Treated
Liks Princes.

Luke Kennedy, son Of Building In
spector w. J. Kennedy of this city, has
written to his father from Honolulu. but
he does not mention anything about bad
food on the way over. perhaps because
his father instructed him before he
started that IL is the duty Of a soldier
to obey orders and make no complaint
and that under no circumstances should
he kick. Young Kennedy says:
Honolulu, July 2g.-Dear Father:
Well | have seen a good deal since |
wrote you my last letter. our ship is
$50 feet long. 40 feet wide and 90 deep.
and has three decks and lis men as a
crew. She is a slow boat. but very
strong and seaworthy. so Jimmy Curtis
told me. / did not get seasick in our
nine days at sea, nor did ] get any other
kind Of sickness. Seasickness is a queer
thing. They think they are going TO die
and are the sickest looking people you
ever saw. But In two or three days
they are as well as ever. Jimmy Curtis
and l got In a boat az we reached blue
water and we saw a whale. While
watching the whale and the seabirds
and talking with Jimmy | guess | forgot
to get sick. Sucking lemons also helped.
l saw flying fish and PROPOSES. 1t
seems very queer TO look all around you
anu see HOlillilk but water hlillik Ill bhk
waves, handling the ship like a chip.
After nine days Wa reached Honolulu.
The first interesting thing | saw here
was the natives swimming. They are
regular fish in the water. They swan
round and round the ship without rest
ing at all. The water is 40 feet deep.
so they can't touch bottom. IL you
throw a nickel into the water they will
dive and get II. The town is a regular
paradise. trees, flowers. palms, cocoa
nuts. bananas, mangroves, guava,
oranges, pineapples and sugar cane In
profusion. | have plucked them from
trees and cut them myself. | don't like
the mangroves or guavas yet. They say
you never like these fruits until you
have tried them several times. They
also have fine grapes.
THE white people here are the finest
people I ever met. Everything free. We
had a fine feast on the lawn of the
queens palace, which is a beautiful
place. We had all we could eat. After
dinner they gave us cigars and all kinds
of soda water, ginger ale and root beer.
AS you walk along the street they
all invite you in and show you around
the place and let you help yourself to
fruit. The people here consist Of whites,
Kanakas. Chinese, Japanese, and that
is their order of merit, too. The whites
are at the head OF all the big concerns,
and though the Kanakas do not go into
business as extensively as the Chinese,
they are nicer people. The Japs and the
Portuguese are no good. The Chinese
are everything h~ere-butChers. carpen-
ters-and they seem TO be pretty good
carpenters. They build houses just like
Americans, but IL takes a lot of them.
They have little street cars pulled by
little donkeys. The rails are just like
the rails for the mine cars in Butte. II
is kite time among the boys here and
they have a good time. This is not a
very large town, not 5000 people. This
island is very mountainous and the
mountains are a rich green clear to the
top. The climate is delightful. IT is
pretty warm I'm the day time, but not
uncomfortable, and the nights are very
cool"