The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-27


were TO be seen. Here the party was
met by carriages and started on a
fourteen mile drive for the Volcano
House. The road over which We came
was bordered on each side with the
most magnificent tree ferns, AMI Ohia
Iehua trees in full blossom and over
all climbed a most beautiful wild rose
resembling the Pink Rambler. Talk
Of the roses or California, beautiful as
they are. Even those grown in conserv-
atories with the most lavish expendi-
ture of time and money, can not begin
TO compare with those growing wild
by the wayside in Hawaii. One spe-
cies resembled the Bon Silence, another
The Marchal Mel, still a third resem-
| bled the La France, only they grew
much larger than any had ever seen.
We reached the Volcano House at
eleven-thirty. Here we were met and
warmly welcomed by the proprietor.
| Mr.. Bidgood, and his estimable wife
who gave us the freedom of the house
and all it contained. 1t is not neces-
sary to state that advantage was tax
en- of this liberal offer. For ten days
the party walked, rode, drove, sang,
danced, played games from early morn
| until late at night. The air here is so
pure and bracing that a five mile walk
before breakfast soon became the ac-
| customed stroll from which the walker
returned glowing and ravenously
hungry. Soon that tired, jaded feeling
of which every one complained when
leaving Honolulu was gone. And what
with climbing down KiIauea-iki, walk
ing to Kilauea itself, riding to the Tree
Ferns and Tree Moulds, picnicking at
the Six Craters, dancing until late at
night, having private concerts, playing
the rubber, and enjoying the elegantly
prepared and served meals three times
a day, the time sped all too rapidly
away. I must not forget to mention
I the Turkish baths so kindly prepared
breezes from the SUBMITS of Mauna
Loa.
One bright morning. the fifth. the
party started on a thirty-five mile
drive to Honuapo. If any wishes to
| see how the world was made they
should take that drive. For about
twenty miles Nature is busy forming
the earth out of rock and lava. The
party made the drive with only two
stops. One for water at the Halfway
Il he ~ OF Do 20,
Honuapo was reached about two in
the afternoon and we went on board
the w. G.. Hall homeward bound The
next morning at Kealakekua Bay the
party, through the kindness of the cap
tain and the purser, were enabled to
visit the monument erected to Capt.
Cook near the place where he was
killed.
After spending about two hours in
this historic spot, the party went on
board the boat for breakfast. At Ma
poopoo cattle were being loaded, and 1T
was a very interesting sight to wit
ness the skillfuI way in which they
were so deftly and quickly placed on
the boat. After breakfast the party
again went ashore at Napoopoo where
they were met by carriages provided
by Mr.. Marcallino for a twenty-four
mile drive through the coffee belt of
North Kona to Kailua. This was one
of the loveliest, If not the loveliest
drive it was our good fortune to take.
Never, not even in the renowned Mis-
sissippi valley, have 1 ever seen such
fertility. I thought what a paradise
that would be if there could only have
been about five hundred German farm
ers scattered along the route. AS we
went through the Portuguese settle
ment the citizens came out laden with
large baskets of fruit such as grapes,
peaches, figs, mangoes, pineapples and
papaias which they generously pre-
pardoned if say here that think with |
a number of small farmers upon it, |
Hawaii could furnish all the fruits and |
vegetables not only for these islands |
but for foreign consumption also. Cof- |
fee seems to have at one time been |
the staple product of that district but
it appears now as if sugar were taking
it's place as so many of coffee fields were
over-run with lantana, but wherever
it could find a foothold sisal flourish
ed like the proverbial green bay tree.
1 trust no one, who has the oppor-
tunity to take that ride, will ever miss
it. A ride through that district will
do more to convince people that Ha-
wall is a good place to invest capital,
than all the circulars, which could
ever be printed.
At eleven a. m. We reached Kailua
where we met the w. G.. Hall, went on
board and started for Honolulu which
was reached about five a. m. on the
of July Z.
HaDpV Sunburned and enthusiastic the |