The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-06-01
4 GOOD REPORT
v. J. CFanWell'S Glowing AC-
count Of Hawaii.
DELIGHTS OF ISLAND LIFE
" 40 finer Country on the Globe
Honolulu RemarkabieiCity-
Progress of the People.
tDenVer POst.)

! There is no finer country on the
! globe said w. j. Cranweli, fresh from
the Hawaiian Islands, to a Denver Post
reporter, and as for Honolulu, it is
| certainly one of the prettiest and most
| prosperous cities / have ever seen"
| Mr.. Cranwell has great many
| friends in Denver and Cheyenne,
WyO., whom he and his wife will visit
| during the summer months. Accompa-
nying Mr.. Cranwell and Mrs Cranwell
is Joseph J DAILY, who has been as
sociated with Mr.. Cranwell on the Ha
waiian Star.
These gentlemen left Cheyenne for
the Islands three years ago and their
descriptions of life in Hawaii, as they
have observed it, are not only inter-
esting, but highly instructive
While | cannot speak generally of
the Islands, for / have not been all
over them" said Mr. Cranwell, 4
have spent most of my time in Homo
lulu, and my knowledge of that re-
markable city and it's environs, is, as
consequence, more exact and extern
sive. / believe there are few more cos
mOpOlitan places to be found in pro-
portion to it's size than this same cap
ital of Hawaii. It's population of $1,000
is composed principally of natives,
Americans, English, Samoans, Portu-
guese, Chinese and Japanese, but there
is hardly a race of the earth that is
not represented.
The Chinese and Japanese maintain
their national customs, but the other
races assimilate we'll with the English
Americans and Germans, who control
the wholesale European trade but you
need not think that the Chinese and
Japs are lacking in enterprise. Some
of the largest wholesale merchants do
ing business in the Islands are Of
those races. They are in all kinds of
business groceries, hay, grain and
feed, cigars, hardware and everything
almost and many of them are con-
tractors and builders with good bust
nesses.
THE natives are of two kinds. The
younger and more progressive OF them
are becoming EuropeaniZed rapidly.
They are getting into mercantile bust
ness and all sorts of industries, and
many of them show an enterprise that
is truly remarkable. The older natives
are principally dock labOrerS and fish
ermen They are not particularly ann
bilious, but they make excellent long
shoremen and are very useful citizens.
of the city ITSELF it's picturesque
features, it's beautiful buildings, broad,
shaded streets, wonderful Towering
trees and shrubs, l could talk for a
week without having done justice to
my subject. THERE'S no place like it.
The eQuable climate is most favorable
TO the continuous growth of trees and
plants, and the odor of flowers, the ex-
uberance of plant life and the density
of the everlasting shades are features
that never cease to impress one who
has lived in colder climes.
The suburbs are most beautiful and
picturesque and are Of amending inter
est to the tourist. There is the ia
nous Pail, or precipice, where King
Kamehameha drove the opposing chief
and his men, after chasing them up
the Nuuanu Valley. They could go no
further, and Kamehameha came on
with his pursuing legiOns and crowd
ed them over the cliff to their de-
struction.
Three miles up the beach is the
lordly promontory, Diamond Head, on
top of which is a signal station. Here
the operator sits and scans the sea for
incoming craft An ocean steamer
may be seen a distance of twenty-five
miles, and when the signal man sights
her, he telephones to the city and the
news is spread, and all the whistles
blow, and everybody knows that
ship will soon be in the offing.
speaking of telephones, may as
we'll add that the Hawaiian telephone
system is the most perfect l have ever
seen. Fourteen hundred telephones
are now in use on the Islands, and
that number is constantly being added
to. People of all nationalities have
learned TO use them, and they are re-
earded as Indispensable. There is not
2 telegraph line in use, in fact, teleg-
raphy is practically unknown there.
"One Of the first things to impress
the stranger in Honolulu is the gor-
geous color effects produced by the va
rious vines and towering trees. The
Boirganville vine is one of the most
of these. 1t grows all over
a tree, covering it as completely as i'll
it were blanket. Twice a year it
blooms, and then the vine-covered tree