The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-07

Of HAWAII
Admiring Tribute to the
Islands.
LAND OF SUNNIEST SKIES
Honolulu Life Scenery and Customs
Social Atmosphere = Caste
Among the Half-Whites.

Among the half-WniteS.
The following interview upon Ha-
waii and it's claim to be one of the
worlds paradises appears in recent
Washington Star:
"Since the annexation, y said one of
the Hawaiian-American gentlemen
who recently came to Washington in
connection with the Hawaiian Islands
interests in Congress, there has been
a heavy tide of tourist travel in our di-
rection. 1t is composed chiefly of
wealthy Americans, many with an
eye to investments, others simply bent
on pleasure. All of these tourists are
charmed and fascinated by the Islands.
Most of them remain much longer than
they had intended in setting out for
| the group. This is not surprising.
landed in Honolulu nearly thirty years
ago, with the idea of remaining there
until the next ship returned to San
Francisco. I've made my home in Ho-
nolulu ever since.
/ Honolulu is about as pleasant a
to fifty years as may be found upon
the map of the world. / think so, at
least, and 1 have seen all the great
cities. Honolulu is cosmopolis and
a country village in one. The grand
eur of its natural setting Is not easy
| to describe. There are many spots
upon the earth where the triumph of
nature over mans works is signal and
overwhelming where the victory
of nature is so complete as upon the
Island of Oahu, ringed by sapphire
seas-the island upon which Honolulu
is situate. The splendor of the major
cities of the world pales their environs
to meanness and squalor by compari-
son, but the beauty of the enviroDs OF
Honolulu dims the beauty of the city
itself Nuuanu street in Honolulu is
pretty and interesting, but the wild
Nuuanu valley, at the foot of which
Honolulu straggles, is magnificent.
Hawaiian Scenery.
oahu is only one of the Islands
and Nuuanu only one of the valleys
Neither is paramount in the group in
point of beauty. But Oahu, because il
is the island-setting of Honolulu, and
Nuuanu valley, because its gorges are
{ 1.-THE prolongations of Honolulu's streets
: are especially well known to wander
ers who have dreamed away few
: days in Honolulu between steamers
: Scenically, all of the Islands are su
iperb beyond the range of hystericall!
; descriptive superlatives. But Hawaii
the largest Island of the group, dwarf
, , the lot of them in it's scenic splendor
Crowned by Mauna Loa, the most tre
mendous of the worlds volcanoes, AM
Ipitted by Kilauea, the flame-belchini
J lake that would have made Dore gas
with amazement, with innumerabl
beautiful, level plateaus, covered witt
s sugar cane, Hawaii, l think, is tn
= loveliest of the worlds islands. Il
e truth, every feature of Hawaiian see
r merry is so essentially perfect in itsel
e that the difficulty of description lie
: in the attempt to single out character
: istic aspects.
I aside from the volcanoes, activ
{ and extinct, perhaps the cascades tina
= gush from the lava palisades of tn
Island of Hawaii most commonly i'm
+ tpress the voyager. Steaming froI
o Honolulu to Hilo-the chief city o
. the Island of Hawaii-and skirting th
/. coast of the Island at an average dis
l. tance of not more than a couple {
= hundred yards, for scores of miles th
d voyager's eyes are fascinated by til
s leaping, shimmering play of these en-
/ lerald cascades, which at about the il
y tervals of city blocks Jet from th
. nights of the palisades in tempestuor
streams to the indigo waters of tt
Isea.
q Life in Honolulu.
THE average globe-trotter miss'
: all of this. Entranced from the ms
ment his eye first catches sight of II
purple hills and the white towerir
mountains OF Hawaii, he is landed
, Honolulu, where, fascinated by Il
y JOY of living in a city that has a tTop
a cal aspect without possessing tropic
,r climate, he fingers, satisfied that
le seeing Honolulu he has seen the III
d waiian Islands. Although he hash
rs he is not greatly to be blamed f
TO the pleasurable joys of e
istence in Honolulu-me saying Il