The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-11-18
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Honolulu the beautiful!
That is the sentiment that occurs to
you as you stand on the deck of the
the steamship which swings lazily into
the calm harbor of the capital of the
Hawaiian Islands.
Slowly the Korea, the leviathan of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's
fleet of vessels, edges nearer and nearer
the dock. While the vessel Is still
well out into the harbor a number of
young Kanakas, as the native Hawaii
ans are called, swim gracefully up
to the side of the big vessel and call
for "money"-using the native word
for that commodity. The passengers,
one after another. toss silver coins in
to the water, and instantly the brown
bodies disappear beneath the surface
of the ocean. Each youngster dives for
the same coin. and there is a lively
sub-aqueous scramble for the silver.
Finally, they all come to the surface,
blowing and putting like a school of
young porpoises, the victorious youth
holding aloft his prize in great citation.
Then another coin is thrown into the
water, the same struggle is repeated,
anu Ihcit is tue same SDTt OI Il UHdlp.
Pretty soon the vessel arrives with
In few feet of the dock and there
greets your eyes as cosmopolitan n
throng as 1t has ever been your pleas
ure to witness. Packed like The pro-
verbal sardines in the proverbial box,
they stand there, men, women, chill
dren and babies-all of them warm,
but all of them goodnatured-awaitin
the arrival of the Korea. Many of
them-without regard to nationality
wear the famous "lei" or wreath of
flowers which adorns the Hawaiian
and the American and European res
ident as well, and altogether the as
semblage is a gay and gayly-colored
one.
There you see jostling each other,
Americans, natives (some full-blood,
others of the half-breed type. and still
others with only slight admixture Of
Caucasian blood, Chinese, Japane, e.
Samoans, Portuguese, to say nothing
OF number of other races. From the
of nationality, ii Is a mot
ley assemblage indeed.
The new vessel draws too much wa
ter for the depth of the harbor and
she gets well into the mud before com
ing within anchorage distance of the
dock. Captain Seabury, the portly
commander, is visibly annoyed, but
while there is no odor of sanctity in
his immediate vicinage, neither is there
any odor of sulphurous profanity there
abouts-and he keeps his temper re-
well. Inch by inch. the big
craft works her way near the dock. the
are thrown down and the |
people on the docks and the people on |
the decks melt into one assemblage on !
terra firma.
Honolulu at last,
Volumes upon volumes have been
written upon this city and the Ha-
waiian Islands in general. and still the |
subject has by no means been exhaust
ed. The subject OF these Islands is AT
present one Of some moment, because /
they constitute the first of Uncle Sans
outside possessions, having been an
nexed in 1898. \ study Of the existing
political, social, and business condi-
lions in the Islands is therefore of
interest.
In an article OF this scope. n Is not
possible to give anything like an ex-
haustive review OF the different
branches OF the subject, and the writer
must content himself with touch In a
somewhat exclusive manner on the
different phases of the matter.
THE CITY or HONOLULU.
As TO Honolulu itself. II is a city Of
about 10000 people. About 2b per cent
OF them are whites, and the balance
native kanakas, japanese or Chinese.
There 10 also quite a sprinkling OF Por-
luguese ana other representatives OF
he Latin races, Tho city is beautifully
located u nestles in an amphitheatre