The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-01
'SHR|NERS'
P|LGRIMACE
Continued from Page 81


They go back to their homes and &C
more good for Hawaii than all the news
paper advertising could ever accomplish
II was down at the wharf with ny
wife today when the Mariposa sailed fUI
! San Francisco. We never before wit
messed so pretty and impressive a sight
as the scene at the going away of me
steamship with a large number of Ho'
nolulans and visitors aboard.
"The music of the band and the lovely
custom of giving wreaths OF flowers
/ les, 1 believe you call them hereto
/ gether with the general importance
/ which seems to be attached to the de-
parture of a steamship. impressed us
/ very deeply, and left in our minds a
memory we will never lose.
I'VE have visited the Pali-the grand
est sight of all: we have visited Moana-
Ira: we have dipped in the Waikiki wa
! ters: we have experienced the comforts
OF the Mcana Hotel and we have made
II a point to take In all the sights OF
your City.
"A partv of us went down to the Eva
sugar plantation. We followed the manu-
facture of sugar from the beginning 20
the end We saw, In places, the unbrok-
en- ground; we saw the land made ready
TO receive the young cane; we saw the
Young cane growing: we saw 1t at It's
full growth; we saw the laborers cutting
the cane: we saw the cane taken to the
mill: we saw 1t ground: we saw 1t boil
ed, and we saw 1t shoveied into bags and
shipped.
Eve went down the railway line and
stopped at the Waialua Hotel. That is
n charming place, If there ever was one.
You have an excellent railway service.
better by far than we had expected.
IT am in the lumber business In Mich
igan. and was very much surprised, in
talking with a lumber man here, to find
that lumber Is as reasonable In price as
II ia. I cannot explain 1t.
'It shall ALWAYS be our hope to some
day return to Honolulu. To enter once
into the Paradise of the Pacific Ia to
always want to come again"
Mr.. J. J. Fisher the baritone OF the
East, whose voice has gone out all over
the earth in the records Of graphophonas.
Photographs and other sound-reproduc.
ers, expresses himself as being much
surprised with conditions. socially. com
merciaiiy and in many other ways. IN
Honolulu.
II had no idea you We're 50 up to-
date" said ne. 1--WE did not expect to
find so many nor such an excellent.
class of white people here. and have
been treated to a general surprise all
around. Along with your automobiles,
electric lights telephones and other
modern conveniences. see you have
got the Edison sound-reproducing ma
chimes. and yesterday. while walking
down the street 1 heard my own voice
turned loose from a photograph. 7 went
In and found that my voice had preceded
me by some five or six years. Ny voice
Is a great traveller. you know. and Il
keeps me busy keeping up with 1t. I did
not know It had reached Honolulu. In
deed, this is a great little CITY, and
am sure pleasant memories will linger
long with all OF us when we have left
the delightful Islands behind"
Honolulu? 1t Is veritable Eden
You can say anything you like in the
praise OF these beautiful Islands and
will say you have not said half enough
think those who live here are not full
ly alive TO the grandeur and beauties of
the place: they all take 1t so calmly
and accept the daily wonders of nature
as the ordinary. 1t Is all SO new and
fresh with us that we cannot say
enough. Indeed. We are pleased more
than we can say."-Mrs. c. B. Quig,ey,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
have travelled far, and have never
found SO perfect a combination of al
things beautiful and harmonious any,
where l have been. It Is all splendid
beyond comparison" Miss Crawford,
Flint, Mich.
There Is no city In the United States
OF the size of Honolulu so cosmopolitan,
and with SO great present and future,
commercial speaking have been
greatly surprised in this City. I had no
idea of finding SO excellent class OF
people, so much observance OF fashion,
such a band as the Hawaiian band. such
schools such churches. 1t will give us
all much food for thought. think Ho-
nolulu has a great business future. there
Is no doubt about 1t. Ten years henne
there will be a new Honolulu. Its
growth is bound to be rapid and steady"
Thomas F. Garrett, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Honolulu IS a little Chicago. Com
pared to its size and population. there is
no city in the entire United States so
active commercially or Its equal in COM
mercial possibilities John Mowat,
Grand Rapids. Mich.
Am / pleased with Honolulu? Well.
I should say so! It's more ike heaven
than any place I have struck for a long
time. Three weeks ago 7 came out OF
the snow In Michigan. and here I am in
balmy chimes and under sunny skies The
contrast is one that I appreciate. Ho-
nolulu is certainly all right."-C. Z.
Sherwood, Dowagiac, Michigan.
There are just two places on this
earth to live In--Redlands. California,
and Honolulu, OF the two. Honolulu
has my preference. It's delightful cli-
mate, the character OF It's people, its
surroundings, the beauty CT its scenery
-one can't begin to name the attrae-
lions OF the place. AS to scenery. I
was the other day up to the Pail, and
l have this to say: Though I have
Travelled much and viewed the finest
scenery of the world. have never seen
ANYTHING to excel the beauty OF the
Pail. There IS only one thing I don't
like, and that. perhaps. IS matter of
sentiment-I don't like tire raniditv OF
civilization as manifested here; It CRATES
on ones nerves to see the encroach
rents of modern civilization In Hawaii.
( The feast, or luau, which I attended
yesterday. was a great novelty to me,
one OF the grea test novelties have ever
vet with: vet there was that something
hich spelled It ail-the management of
white man. ard the touch of c'vili-
on. These things. OF course. must
b. IS the great march of civilization
.auG he evidence OF the white mans
burd - hut the survival OF The fittest
| is eve a disagreeable thing TO observe
Aside from this. as I said before, Ho-
nolrIu s a paradise. and for tourists II
is tie Heal spot Of the earth."-Dr. t