The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-15
. AS SEEN
FROM FAR
ARKANSAS
A Travellers Views
Of These Fair
Islands.
EDITOR KENDRlCK
VISITS paradise
interesting Review OF Conditions
Here by an ODservant Way
farsr From the East.

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O Editor Kendrick of the Daily g
O News Record of Fort Smith, @
@ Ark, who visited Hawaii during @
@ the summer, has published the 9
@ following Impressions of his trip. @
@ His article Is preceded by this 9
@ editorial: q
q "On another page of this pa Q
g per this morning will be found Q
@ an article regarding the Hawai- @
% ian Islands. giving some facts @
@ regarding that wonderful Para Q
@ disc of the Pacific. @
O "This country is one about o
o which comparatively little is 9
@ known by the average American, @
% although by the act of annex @
@ alton of 1898, 1t became an in O
o tegral part of the. United States. @
g The time is coming when it will @
. be better known, both as a place O
@ for tourists to visit and as field @
@ for investment. O
e The Senatorial Commission, of q
g, whose work mention is made in q
o the article printed elsewhere, will @
@ have a yoluminous report to sub @
o init when Congress assemblies, @
o and certain recommendations to O
@ make which Uncle Sam can well @
o afford to heed. @
@ s"The people of Hawaii ask for @
@ nothing more than that which is @
@ their due, and to which they are @
q justly entitled @
o 0000000 90 @ o 10000 o 9
Following is the descriptive matter:
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 t.nd 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 Drown
bodies disappear beneath the surface
of the ocean. Each youngster dives for
the same coin, and there is a lively
sub-auueous scramble for the silver
Fsssally, they all come to the surface,
xAloNing and putting like a school 0f
young porpoises, the victorious youth
holding aloft his prize in great elation.
Then another coin is thrown into the
water, the same struggle is repeated,
and there is the same sort of a finale.
Pretty soon the vessel arrives with
in a few feet of the dock and there
greets your eyes as cosmopolitan q
throng as it has ever been your pleas
ure to witness. Packed like The pro-
verbal sarlines in the proverbiat box,
they stand there, men, women, chill
dren and babies-all of them warm,
but all of them OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the arrival of the Korea. Many or
them-without regard to nationality
wear the famous "lei" or wreath or
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
standpoint of nationality, it is 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 yisibly 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-
markab1y well. Inch by inch, the big
craft works her way near the dock, the
gang-planks are thrown down and the
people on the docks and the people on