The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
Nothing Exciting Ever Happens In
Honolulu.
DULL HAWAIIAN PAPERS
COULDN'T RUN WITHOUT SAN
FRANCISCO JOURNALS.
Harbor Facilities Insufficient-Gov-
eminent Doing Nothing to Relieve
the Situation-Money Spent to
Benefit Cabinet Officers-Weath-
er Is Delightful.
fspecial Correspondence.1

Honolulu, March PA should recon-
mend this island as a health resort
for nervous people, Nothing happens
here to excite the nerves. 1t. will be
different when the cable brings the
islands into contact with the great
world The wire will bring news and
there will be newspapers. AT present
the sheets published as newspapers do
not deserve the name, They clip arti-
Giles from the California papers when
the latter arrive by steamer and dish
them out to their readers in daily ra-
lions until the old supply is exhausted
and until another steamer brings new
supply. OF course that cannot be helped
1t is the best they can do. But they
are lacking in local news and that is
inexcusable. Editorials are few and
tedious. The trouble is there are too
many papers. Honolulu publishes four
dailies in the English language. The
town has a population of about 81, 900,
of whom minority only is able to read
English.
The increased oceanic traffic due to
developments in the Orient has made
the question of harbor facilities prom
inent in the minds of business men. 1t
cannot be said that the government is
meeting the demand for more space
with the necessary energy. The har-
Dor of Honolulu has insufficient dock
age and anchorage. There is just
enough space for the ships now coming
in but there is none to spare. The
traffic is steadily increasing and unless
the government acts promptly, much of
the shipping will be diverted to other
ports. 1t is hardly desirable that a
group of small islands like these should
have more than one center of COM
merce and it is surprising to see how
much money is wasted on improve
ments that benefit only few, though
they be members of the cabinet, and
how little is done for the all-important
harbor. Evidently Uncle Sans gov
eminent is not by any means the most
corrupt in the world.
In Camp Mckinley the paramount
topic of conversation is the prospective
mastering out. It cannot come any too
soon. The battalion of engineers en-
cages in daily drills just as if war, not
peace, were ahead. Half of companies
K and NJ will start on April l on a
ten days practice march around this
island Oahu, the other half of the two
companies will go on a march to the
island Kauai.
Anton Schneider of Salt Lake City,
recently made second lieutenant in
company NJ, has in short time sue
ceeQeQ IN establishing MS reputation as
an efficient and popular officer. The
transition from the ranks to a place
at their head is not easy and requires
as much tact as professional ability.
Lieutenant Schneider lacks neither of
the two.
Private Buckle received his disc7 rye
and left on the 21st inst. for Salt Lake
City. r~a
A detachment of Lieutenant Kern
and twenty-five men is now occupying
the old Hawaiian barracks near the
palace. Their duty is light. They
guard the government property.
The weather is pleasant. The wet
season is not very wet. Eggs are 20
cents dozen.