The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-19

good. and correspond as whole very
favoEably with the systems OF many
OF our own states. There is r Min
lister Of Education in charge, and there
is d Board of Education and an In
spactor General. There are also many /
fine private schools perhaps the best !
being the King kamehameha school, /
founded by Mrs. Bishop and endowed
with lands worth millions. Its great
feature is industrial education. and II
lis being improved all the time.
| think the Islands will soon have
| great experimental station, with tirSt
| class scientist in charge. There Is
| some talk of making the head OF such
an institution ex-officio assistant sup
erintendent of public instruction. and
so combining the agricultural and in
dustrial features permanently and
thoroughly with the entire system of
! education. 1t is the plan of President
Dole and others to establish agricul-
tural schools in each district OF the
Islands. | do not think anything bet
ter than this can be done for the peo-
pie. and if it results in reviving their
lost manual deXterity, very great
= step will have been made in raising
their culture.
r | must confess that for me the most
: interesting thing about the Islands Is
, their geologic structure. | visited
t nearly all of the big craters on the
e different Islands. To see the differen'
:. | stages of development, running all the
V way from the scanned and erodeC
+ Kauai. the oldest island of the group
r to Hawaii. the newest. with its perfect
q lv symmetrical mountain formation
e gives an insight into the processes o
e continent and island building that can
e not be obtained anywhere else so IA
If as | know Maui is perhaps the mos
interesting of the Islands, and with IL
IS delicious valleys and mountain. slope
is it forms real fairyland.
y PARADISE FOR TOURISTS.
)" | think that the Hawaiian Island
will some day be one of the mos
famed countries for tourists in tn
&c world. l don't know any other regio
that can give so much pleasure. On
goes on a summer tour into a tropics
~ country without suffering any OF tn
y, Inconvenience of heat. The mountal
- slopes show tropical, Subtropical an
= temperate climates, and the wealth
fruits and the luXuriance of the vege
- tatiOn make every step new dellgh
80 Then for health the Islands can /
- praised. | never felt so perfect
healthy in my life before. l feel q
though l had returned from a ne
found world.
=: When asked about the greatest neeC
- of the Islands, Col. Parker said tn;
"a after stable government was attalne
80 the first great Improvement would
- in the construction of new harbor
- that at Honolulu being practically II
nlH a
-, tanned, he said. the industrial develo
D ment of the Islands would go on vel
~ rapidly. Sugar and rice he sal
ARE the two greatest products no
and the output of them can be emo
- | mOuSly increased. The coffee | N
there was the most delicious | ev
We tasted but it is still doubtful wheth
NJ this industry will be as profitable
IA the other two. The possibilities I
"a grapes and other fruits and for tObac
49, are very great.
us Col. Parker says that the reports
disagreemeutS between President Dc
-" and members OF the Commission fro
-! this country are not true, and IN
-" when ne left Honolulu the relations
~ the two sets of Commissioners we
ieu very pleasant and their sessions ha
mOniouS.
In regard TO the Hawaiian M
nd do,,ao 7,L;ob I,ocar,o fo,,ous nv, :
Mt. Nt;1,,.a,- ,I,,ri,o, ~ Iyo,ld,s rot. :
for |aIa,,oi -ono,.Ts TO- A,,,oricans ba
do taken it in a very wrong way, a
I" that it was originally a religious p'
." Torrance and took the same place
the life of the HawaiianS that the ira
l!u edy did among the Greeks. The dane
ole were first meant simply TO illustri
oy the songs and stories of gods a
ms heroes. but afterward degenerated.
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