Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-07-06

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islands, rice and bananas stands
next in the official list. The owners
Of Hawaiian lands are largely in
debted to the Chinese for their
faithful work, especially in Oahu,
in redeeming the marshy salt lands
and turning them into fruitful
banana plantations, and also in
cultivating rice where heretofore
the wet land was almost useless
except as it was used to grow taro.
Coffee is beginning to be con-
Sidered "the coming industry"
particularly on the island of Hawaii.
Much hard work must be done to
get a coffee plantation in paying
condition, but the business seems
to be fairly well adapted to the
small as well as to the large agri-
culturiSt. The trees present a
beautiful appearance after the coffee
ripenS, the berries being of dark
red color and growing in thick
clusters. Lord Byron is quoted as
having brought coffee plants tc
these islands in 1924.
towards the last OF September !
visited friends in Eva, eighteen
miles from Honolulu, where is
large sugar plantation of some
10000 acres. The land is leased
by the Oahu Railway and Land
Company from James Campbell, a
Scotchman, for fifty years. Their
railroad runs fifteen miles beyond
Eva to Waianae. Only a few
years ago this plantation was
dry, barren plain. The cane crops
are raised largely by the aid of
arteSian water, using patent
chemical compound as fertilizer.
went through the large sugar mill
and saw its powerful machinery,
but it was not in operation. The
works are shut down in July and
started again in December.
1t takes eighteen months to grow
and ripen crop, and by planting
at different periods they have sew
eral crops to harvest in a year.
Sugar cane is mostly propagated by
planting the tops of the ripe stalks,
which are cut so as to contain three
or four joints, from each of which
sprouts a stalk and this forms new
cane. Another plantation of about
10000 acres was incorporated in
the Eva district last year for
1900, 900.
On my return to Honolulu |
stopped at Pearl City station to
visit friends who have a beautiful
home at "the peninsula" on the
banks of what is known as Pearl
Harbor. There is no question but
that this So-called inland lake can
be made one of the best and safest
harborS in the world.
The educational facilities of this
Republic are exceptionally good.
| found both the Government and
Independent schools of Honolulu in
an excellent condition. The Eng
lish language is taught in all the
schools and it is wonderful how the
HawaiianS, Portuguese, Chinese
and japanese are becoming educat-
ed here, not only in "book knowl-
edge" but in that which goes to
make true men and women. The
lines of race distinctions are not
closely drawn on these islands and,
as result, the rising generation of
all nationalitieS, largely through the
influence of the schools, are being
fitted to occupy better and more
honorable positions in life than their
parents. The law requires that
every child between the ages of six
and fifteen, both inclusive, shall
attend either a public or private
school, and special police are en-
ployed to enforce this requirement
of the law.
The Kamehameha schools for
Hawaiian boys and girls are most
excellent, having splendid facilities
to give thorough education both
scientific and industrial, with proper
attention paid to the moral training
of the pupils. These schools were
founded by Mrs. Bernice Pauahi
Bishop, a descendent of Kameha-
meha |. The buildings are fine
and beautifully located at Palama,
a suburb of Honolulu, two miles
from the pOStoflce. The noted
Bishop museum also stands on the
same grounds, which, by the way,
is an institution of remarkable in
terest. The yearly income from