The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-03
VIEWS OF
HONOLULU
What the Steam
ship Tourists
Say.
ASTONISHED
OVER THE CITY
| A Hawaiian Traveller at Victoria
Vancouver and Seattle-..Stag-
nation in Canada.
Especial Correspondence

| SEATTLE, April 20.-''To see ourselves
as others see us" was the wish of the
| poet. and it finds an echo in every heart.
To crafty this desire, one has only to
! board any foreign steamer, which calls
at our port, and then listen to the COM
| ments of the passengers as they come
| on board to resume their journey, after
| few hours in Honolulu. The Austria
| liam vessel, s. S. Aorangi, lately contrib
uted it's quota Of travellers who were
glad of the chance of q brief tour
| through our streets, and made the most
| of it. Many of them, who saw Homo
lulu for the first time, were almost as
founded to see such a modern CONNER
cial and go-ahead community in mid
Pacific Some had expected to find
grass houses and malo-clad natives in
| full evidence, and got out of their mis-
take by saying that all the white popu-
| lation must be congregated in Honolulu
and the half-wila and wooIly natives
were kept in the background These
croakers were thrown into a collapse,
| however, when Berger and his native
band appeared on the wharf and COM
menced their musical entertainment.
| After the first air had been rendered,
one could hear remarks such as. AN,
well, / suppose that German has beaten
one or two well-known tunes into those
natives and that's all they know But
! when one after another of the favorite
airs of old England came in quick sue
cession and with a precision of execu-
/ ton hard to beat anywhere, they doubt
less were fairly silenced, and large
quota of globe-trotters went on their
way to the ends of the earth, convinced
! by that most telling of all arguments,
an object lesson, that Hawaii is Well
n ahead in the race of civilization and re-
finement AS this country has spent
large sums of money in advertising It
self at various foreign eXpositions, ana
as some of these advertisements are
i calculated to give wrong impression,
* would it not be false economy TO cease
to support our native band, even though
Il does stay all the time at the capital!
Do not all the citizens who pay any con-
siderable amount of taxes on the other
Islands frequently visit Honolulu? Are
. they not proud that the world at large
should see what lovely City we nave
for the seat of Government? Do not the
people of every country on earth Ora"
large sums from even distant provinces
| to embelIish and render attractive their
respective capitals-aye, and even TO
provide government bands for them-and
will any one after due consideration,
vote to abolish this native band of ours
of which every Hawaiian from Nifhau
to Hilo should be legitimately proud!
Surely, our legislators Will not perpe-
) trate such an act of vandalism as cut
ting off the appropriation, which is mon
J ley exceedingly well spent, and indeed is
PRO bono publico."
4 Another surprise to the Aorangi pas
} sengers was the file Of Advertisers sup
{ plied to that vessel and gotten up with
an artistic cover that speaks highly for
: the enterprise of the promoters. rms
I paper was in almost constant demand
/ all through the voyage to Victoria ano
q was highly appreciated and much talked
3 about.
The Doric, Gaelic and Maru steamers
q being no longer available For passengers
4 between Honolulu and the Mainland
much attention has naturally devolveo
upon the Canadian steamers, by Wh1cf
Y travellers can book passages to all points
b in North America and Europe via Van
Y couyer The Aorangi had very heavy
x passenger list from Honolulu, ever!
berth being occupied, and the accoinmo
dations and fare were pronounced I'd OF
z Al by allson board. The Aorangi $ one
4 of the steadiest boats afioat, and sft
y made a quick run to Victoria, B. c., O
Z only seven days, connecting there will
v steamers for Seattle, Tacoma, Portland
4 and San Francisco, and at Vancouve
" for all points East. The scenery on Pu
get Sound is magnificent. and well WORT
v making a variation of route to see, De
z ing something entirely different from IN
y Californian Coast. and the local boat
- are we'll up to date and replete with ev
cry comfort.
Puget Sound, more than 1000 miles i
length from Olympia to Alaska, and RI
valing in beauty the famous inland Sc
of Japan, has half a dozen thriving ell
les on its shores Victoria the capita
OF British Columbia, has been the lone
est established, and is substantially 5ui
and equipped with streets, sidewalks an
n, electric cars, which put Honolulu far
W. the shade Most of it's large stores an
public buildings are of brick or grant
which is plentiful here, and everythir
I'D looks to be cut out for successful pus
ness; yet, with all this something seen
to be wrong There is none of that e;
ger rush and activity that every Amer
can city-even tropical Honolulu-cf
show Such business as there IS cor
mences late in the forenoon and clos
It. early In the evening, and by p. M L
- great wide streets are deserted and
is still for about sixteen hours out
the twenty-four. =
Certainly the people look to be w
dressed and prosperous, hut they mt
have made their wealth in days gone I
and are content to let we'll enough alol
and take things easy for the rest of tn
lives.
NJ Vancouver, across the Sound, on t
mainland of British Columbia, and I
| terminus of the Canadian Pacific Ra
. O road, seems to promise better than I
older city on Vancouver Island. This
. Is more push and go-ahead activity V
n ihle, and yet even here things aeem d
u to an American. ] questioned at least
score of representative people from
ranks of life to the wherefore OF
much stagut'ion in these two cities. .
most always he srswer was, Il do
know whats tue matter II can't
lks. Why nothing seems TO -e done. e
A Ioafer on the waterfront, whom I h
not addressed, volunteered to give
reason In a few words, and when tut