The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-05-23

fuInr Co. Malaiua why this seemed a
patriotic proceeding DO not know
perhaps like the I'D conundfum. he.
cause they both bsgin With W, but
% vas very successful, ana advise
you o. Try u neat year You VIII think
more ~ Washington than ever. 40 haV-
ing had the wisdom 10 invent country
that had the wisdom 90 acquire the
Islands az sounds like the House that
JACK bunD that you may have the
wisdom 20 come and reycl Ia these
beauties and feel that they belong To
YOU For this pride Of possession ls
quite reason enough for annexation, az
you will agree when you experience H.
II Is three hours on the train 60
Walaiua-and I am unklnd enough TO
hope that this simple statement comes
as shock TO your minds, Tor had you
supposed this island was big enough 10
have a railroad OF It's own? Yes, In
deed an excellent little one, running,
half way around the island, sixty miles
to Kahuku, and to reward me for the
dnipcnt study I have made Of the Ha-
Raiian Annual, let me inform you that
oahu contains GOO square miles and
IS 600 inhabitants mot counting your
correspondent, that 1t is nearly seven
tv miles long. encrusted with noun
tains from tip to tip as the crow flies
and Is not the biggest of the Hawaiian
group by any means. So hereafter,
please treat us with proper respect.
FLORID DESCRIPTION.
Now it may be that some of you have
felt inclined to criticize these letters
surprising the Courant has done me
the honor to print them-as entirely
too fiorid In language. II that is the
case let me call your attention TO the
following description taken from the
little folder that advertises the Oahu
Railway and Land Company. or course
we all know that there is a special
dictionary OF adjectives compiled for
the use OF the folder fraternity. but
surely the ordinary literary imagina-
ton staggers before this:
THE route OF the oahu Railway Is
through a panorama OF exquisite beau
ty and scenic variety. Vivid vistas OF
verdure. flashing expanses OF sea, and
towering grandeur OF hills succeed each
other and at times intermingle with
allurlng effect. Leaving Honolulu, the
train dashes past empowered homes,
groves of algaroba and fields OF grow
ing rice. On the left the sea heaves in
tropiC content. on the right noun
tains lift their heads toward the sky,
their traditional frown softened by the
radiance that lights their crests. Mel
lowed 10y enchanting distance, they
form fitting background to sloping
fields of waving cane"
BEAUTY GENUINE.
There is more of the same sort, and
after this 1t seems impossible for a
modest amateur to say anything about
the journey to Waialua. And yet it is
trip that lives in ones memory-a
succession of brilliant and beautiful
scenes. As we skirted along the coast,
| the ocean on one hand and the great
range of mountains with their infinite
| variety of shape and coloring on the
other. first came the rice fields, all
measured neatly into squares and in
all stages of cultivation-here the rich
black mud with bare legged Japanese
ploughing by means of those strange,
mis-shapen, patient water buffaloes-
and then the STOPPING figures with
their straw tea-tray hats, deftly plant
ing the tiny tufts of rice-one has seen
it 30 often in Japanese pictures-and
then the quiet patches of water, mir
! IplIIS lllt blut SKY anu Nllllt tlpuuS
with slender spears of green cutting
straight lines across, and so on with
a gradual thiclienng OF color till the
fields looked like stretches of spring
green velvet.
PEARL HARBOR.
Then there was Pearl Harbor, spread
ing its three blue lochs to ripple in the
sun and wind, like a gigantic clover
leaf with a narrow channel to the sea
for a stem. Here Is to be one of our
chief advantages in anneXation-a mid
Pacific naval station, for this sheltered
harbor is large enough and deep enough
To float all our navy and one or two
| others. and may be OF inestimable ad-
vantage to us In those mythical future
days when the Yellow Terror is 10
overrun the earth. BY and by you say
/ 10 yOurself-what huge field of corn,
J And then you are glad you did not
make the comment aloud, for you real
ize that this is young sugar cane and
| that you are coming to the great Eva
plantation that is famous in sugar cir
| Giles for its phenomenal yield. And no
wonder. for here are miles after miles
of cane. stretching in a great carpet of
| bright light green to the foot of the
purple mountains. 1t is all grown by
irrigation-black clouds of smoke mark
the pumping stations for the artesian
wells, and all the field work is done
by Japanese who work for their own
profit as well as the companys, re-
ceiving their land. their tools, their
cane tops in true socialistic style, and
selling the cane they raise at the mill.
After the Eva plantation came the Wa
tanae hills that one has admired so long
from distance; closer acquaintance
does but increase ones good opinion,
| for these great pointed ranges that
| catch the clouds on their sharp peaks
are cut into all sorts of strange shapes
by the fierce rains that sweep over their
crests Hundreds OF steep walled val
/ leys run up their sides, and, as we
creep slowly along on a narrow ledge
where the great mass meets the sea, a
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