The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-28
WILL SPEAK
FOR HAWAII
A Shriner Tells OF
His Good
Time.
SURPRISED AT
THE ISLANDS
The Visitors Draw Near Territory
Nearer to Rest OF the
United States.

THE pilgrimage of the Shriners to
Honolulu will materially help to bring
the Hawaiian Islands and the rest OF
the United States and Territories clos
er together" said w. A. Whitman,
Mystic from South Arm, Michigan, to
an Advertiser reporter yesterday.
People who have never been to
these Islands cannot realize their inn
portance, their beauty and attractive
ties. 1, for one. am willing TO confess
that I was surprised beyond express
sion upon my arrival here to find SO
large and busy city, such an intelli-
gent and refined native population, so
many modern improvements Il am not
referring to your mule cars), and such
magnificent natural advantages.
''One of the things which have struck
me most forcibly here is the fact that,
whether you drop in at the mansions
of the rich or the homes of the poor,
all the people you meet are ladies and
gentlemen. You do not seem to be
possessed, to any appreciable extent,
with what we comprehensively term
the lower classes, in cities on the Main
land. 1 consider the natives a splendid
race Of people, and I have had &C.
casion to meet many noble examples
of the fact during my brief stay in
| Honolulu.
I'VE ShrinerS are from all over the
! United States. When We go to our
| homes and tell our friends of the de-
! lights and advantages of Hawaii, anC
| they, in turn, tell all Their friends, anG
so on, and so on, Hawaii will have I'm
doubtedly received benefit. There is
no better way in which the Islands
could have become known to the people
on the Mainland. The more known OF
the Islands on the Mainland, the near
er the Islands and the rest of the Unit
| ed States and Territories will be
bror hit to each other.
~ know of no more delightful place
Tin the world than Honolulu in which
to make ones home. Thousands OF
people will flock here within the mex
few years as the result of what they
will hear of the place from those VIII,
'Fhave already visited the Paradise OF
the Pacific.
lone thing which the coming of the
Shriners to Hawaii will help to accom-
plish, will be to change the opinions
of many people on the Mainland who
We're. and still are opposed to annexa
ton, When they hear from the lip:
of their friends the facts concerning
the Hawaiian Islands, they will Sc.
annexation in a new light, and will bt
glad that Hawaii is a Territory, and &
promising and prospecting Territory O.
the United States.
you treat visitors here with the
greatest possible consideration, anC
they will never forget the charm of th'
Islands. They go back to their homes
and do more good for Hawaii than al
the newspaper advertising could eve1
| accomplish.
Il was down at the wharf with my
wife, today, when the Mariposa sailed
for San Francisco. We never befor,
witnessed SO pretty and Impressive {
of the steamship with a large numbe
of Honolulans and visitors abroad.
THE music of the band and tn,
lovely custom of giving wheaths o
flowers, leis, 1 believe you call then
here, together with the general i'm
the departure of a steamship, impress
ed US very deeply, and left in oul
minds a memory we will never lose.
I'VE have visited the pali-the grand
est sight of all; we have visited Moa
nalua we have dipped in the waikiki
forts of the Moana Hotel, and we hav'
made it a point to take in all tbs
sights of your city
/ "A party of us went down to the Ew;
sugar plantation. We followed thu
manufacture of sugar from the begin
ming to the end. We saw, in places, tn
unbroken ground; we saw the lane
made ready to receive the young cane
we saw the young cane growing; WI
saw it at its full growth: we saw TIL
laborers cutting the cane; we saw tn
cane taken to the mill; we saw l
ground: we saw it boiled, and we saw
it shoveled into bags and shipped.
I'VE went down the railway line ant
stopped at the Waialua Hotel Tha
is charming place, if there ever wa
one. on have an excellent railwa.
service, better by far than we had ex
pected.
II am in the lumber business II
Michigan, and was very much surpris
ed, in talking with lumber man here
to find that lumber Is as reasonable II
price as it Is. / cannot explain 1t.
Tomorrow we return to San Fran
cisco on the Zealandia. It shall Away
be our hope to someday return TO Ho
rolulu. To enter once into the Para
disc of the Pacific is to always want t