The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-24

or friends to bid goodbye or letters to |
SEND away. but it's just a case of every |
Douy. 10 a stranger IL looks rather fool |
lsh. one would think Honolulans had |
never seen a steamship In their lives. II |
this had been In sCaptain Cooks time
there would De some good reason for It."
Before Marshal Ray moved into his
present quarters In the Judiciary building
the room was occupied by the officials of
the census Bureau and among its furni-
ture the most conspicuous feature was
pair OF paintings on the wall, handed
down from by-gone days. evidently, his
tory forgotten, and even the name of the
artist little more than a tradition One
lof them represented the harbor Of Homo
iuiu IN lSO, with but a small brig floating
on It's waters. natives bathing on the
reef. a canoe containing a brown-bodied
boatman and a clerical-looking individual
In ridiculously tall hat in the fore
ground. Beyond was village of grass
| nuts among palm trees and the blue
mountains doomed In the background. 1t
was rather good bit of work, and cas-
ual visitors were accustomed TO look at
IL with much interest. But the compan-
lon piece was Of different order. 1t
purported to be view of the harbor in
lSso, and II showed the monumental
changes which had occurred in the fifty
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ships. barge with gaily-clad oarsmen
was prominent feature of the fore
ground, and the palms and grass huts
were replaced by business blocks and
wharves, where stevedoreg labored In
the background were the mountains, but
somehow they seemed to have grown
higher and fatter and their outlines had
changed somewhat. as though they had
lcraned their necks I'm trying to see what
man was doing In the busy town below.
And alas! what had happened to the
sky? Instead of the blue empyrean over
head with masses OF billowing clouds
clinging to the slopes of Tantalus, the
heavens were overspread with a flock OF
hectic-complexioned monstrosities that
looked like floating feather beds, but GER
tainly were not clouds. a young malihini
strolled into the oIhce a few days before
the Census Bureau was routed out of its
quarters. He glanced with approval al
the painting of the Honolulu of old ant
then his gaze wandered to the other pic.
ture. He looked at II a moment in ST.
lence. Then he turned to Mr.. Girvin.
Say. what's that you've got up there?'
he asked In awestruck tones.
Now those paintings are hobbies of Mr.
Girvin's and he resents any comments OF
them, as he would on one of his owl
creation. That's a picture of Honolulu
or course" he replied somewhat gruffly
You're not blind, are your"
We'll. It's a daisy and no mistake,
: went on the newcomer, irreverently
D squirting his eye at the creation Say
the man that perpetrated that sky coul
have got a fortune II he had turned hi
attention. to painting scenes on the plan
.: Mars. but he was way off IL he though
that anything like that ever grew on thi
{ circumambient atom of the universe.
: looks az though a cross between a Kan
8 sas cyclone and an overflow Of Kilaue
n lava" and. with this last scathing crit
: cism, the youth departed.
y Now what's the matter with that sky
! anyway" asked Girvin of Bigelow. ex
d aiming the picture critically. THAT
e the 'steenth visitor that has flung dispar
q aging remarks at II today. And, to tie
q the TRUTH he went on CONFIDENTIAL,
'e there does seem to be something wron
a with the thing. Don't you think so?''
= Cant prove II by me-" Bigelow reptile
p Inadvertently. his nose In the depths of
n sugar schedule. Better tell them afts
n this that the colors ran or have fade
az No sane artist ever painted any sue
- monstrosity as that"
J. That's what I'll do" Girvin said
ID lead lifted from his shoulders. And !
I'd went on again with his work. casting a
re eye approvingly at his two art treasure
u occasionally as he finished column
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