The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-22
STUDNICZKA AT HOME TELLS
OF WHAT HE SAW IN HAWAII
Enthusiastic Over Improvements on the Big
Plantations, Modern Architecture, and
Island Scenery.

the wholesale industries of the Islands.
and the best skilled workmen are fur
nished by these nations.
THE police department is efficient. con-
Quoted by natives, and in conformity
with recently imported metropoI tan
| ideas. There are patrol wagons in Homo
lulu, of the same pattern that you see
| in st. Louis, but they are not kept in
such active commission. The city has
good street car service with the line ex-
tending from the beach the entire length
| of the corporate limits A branch line
runs also TO Pacific Heights, the new res
idence district on the hills back of the
city. Nearly all of the secret and benev-
olent societies have lodges in Honolulu,
and the Salvation Army sings on the
streets there the same that it does here.
There are soldiers and a sailors home,
free kindergarten, and Ch--dren's Aid
Society, American Relief fund, Hawaiian
Relief society, German Benevolent soci-
ETY., Portuguese Ladies' Benevolent soci-
ETY., and full quota of churches
The largest industrial enterprise in
the city is a finely equipped foundry. the
Honolulu Iron Works, owned by a joint
stock corporation. 1t builds sugar-mak-
ing machinery, which finds a ready mar
ket over the Islands, and the work gives
employment to several hundred hands
Only the very best mechanics are engag-
ed for this department of labor, and the
products compare favorably with those
from any foundry in the United States
There are also two smaller foundries. a
car building works, planning mills. manu-
factories of rubber tires bicycles etc;
but Honolulu will never be a manufac-
turing center, neither coal nor raw
material Is accessible there. and the fin
ished articles may be had cheaper from
our plants.
The system of schools is all tina
could be desired. The largest group of
these is the Kamehameha, which en-
braces a seminary for native Kanaka
young ladies, the building for which was
donated to the state and endowed by
Queen Emma. There is a well appointed
manual training school, which is prob
ably as thoroughly equipped in all it's
departments Washington University !
1t is attended by the native Kanaka |
boys, and the building was donated and |
endowed by King Kamehameha VI On |
its grounds is situated the Bishop muse |
um, filled with interesting historical and !
native relics from the period of barbarity |
down to the present time. The costumes /
of the chieftains of all ages are shown /
here in contrast to the dress of the pres
ent time. and other object lessons of civ
lization's advancement are forcibly CIV
sn the rising generations The museum
was donated by the late Ber-
nice Pauahi Bishop, great-granddaughte
Of King Kamehameha, the Great, she
having married a wealthy banker of Ho-
lolulu. The Kamehameha schools for
native boys and girls were founded by
he conditions of her viii. " nile she |
vas a Hawaiian princess and eligible for
he crown, she refused the nomination.
rhe high schools are located in a magni-
icent building, which was formerly the
esidence of Princess Ruth, the last lady
# the Kamehameha family. She do
lated it to the state for this purpose,
md today it is one of the most adnira-
'ly conducted institutions of its kind in
he country. 1t is under the direction OF
Prof. NJ. NJ. Scott an American, and
warm friend of Prof c. NJ Woodward,
# Washington University. 1t is con-
lucted much on the same plan as the
chools of the United States, but in addi-
ion to the regular high school course it
las attached a supplementary course of
stenography, bookkeeping
nd commercial law. The attendance in -
ludes Japanese. Chinese. Kanaka and {