The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-30
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The Modern Eden
Advertised by
Young.

The Alexander Young hotel has just
received advance copies of an adver-
tising brochure designed for distri-
button among actual and possible
guests of the hotel as a souvenir or
incentive to visit the Islands, and ne
cessarily, the Young hotel, which is
perhaps the handsomest thing of its
style yet published. The text, written
by Alexander Young is all embracing
and extremely readable while the Illus
trations are exceptionally well chosen.
The engraving and press work is be-
yond reproach.
The booklet. of A pages, is enclosed
in dark green cover of crisp rough
paper on which the title 1.-THE Alex
ander Young Hotel, Honolulu, Ha-
waii," Is decoratingly embossed in gold.
The inner pages are of heavy coated
paper of yellowish tone, the letter.
press, Illuminated by initial letters,
being in black. The illustrations are
half tone engravings of photographs,
many of them grouped and appropri-
ately decorated in wash. They are ex-
tensively vignetted a great aid to
their general effect. There are in
all thirty-seven illustrations, grouped
and single.
OF these eight show the exterior and
lavish interior decorations of the ho-
tel, the rest being selected from views
on the, group with n special eye 10
attracting the tourist. A Rapid Tran
sit car halted amid palms is timely
advertisement of modern comfort
while the more characteristic attrac-
tions of Olden Hawaii are shown in
pictures of lei sellers, native grass
house, poi preparers and carriers
native luau and pretty girls head,
fishing canoes and a native woman on
horseback wearing the long pau.
Modern enterprise shows in pictures
illustrative of the cane industry, scenes
on the railroad, a grouped page OF
ocean and inter-ishnd steamers, Cam
arinos standing white clad among pine
apples and the shipment of cattle by
water.
Among buildings are shown four
panoramas of the city, the Haleiwa
hotel, the judiciary and Executive
buildings, with a view of Hilo Bay
and town and the Volcano House.
Sports are Illustrated by the polo
team and canoeing parties.
The chief charm of the islands is
we'll pointed to possible tourists in
collection of sunny views of palm and
reef, mountain and valley. Royal
palms, waving cocoanuts beside rip
pling streams cool avenues and vistas
of shade, the steep precipice of the
Pail with the sun checkered landscape
at its feet, typical trees of the tropics
banyan, breadfruit and banana, fern
embowered waterfalls, glances along
the coral strands with bathers stand
ing waist deep in the warm waters,
all give an enhancing glimpse into
Hawaiis repertoire of sunny scene
and balmy cline well calculated to at
tract and fascinate even the casual
eye The sublmity of the dormant
crater of Kilauea is well brought out
in a short poem by Alexander Young
supplemented by typical engravings.
Another poem by Mr., Young de-
scribes the glories of a Honolulu sun
set in forceful meter while the text
of the prose deals principally with the
constant delights of sunlight and
shade, moonlight and starlight in the
tropics, by sea or land coupled with
the witchery of the verdure clad
mountain and plain,
Practical instructions of how to ar
rive, enjoy and leave are given, sports
amply touched on, the modern comforts
ranged by the side of natural environ
ment an inter island trip being car
ried out in Imagination while theslast
page is devoted to a temperature table
for 1902 with its equable range of 65
to SS degrees throughout the year.
But little space is given to eulogy of
the hotel and its management, the
whole brochure -omprising a souvenir
calculated to impart most agreeable
impression and so gotten up as not to
be readily cast aside. The Union
Lithograph Company of San Francisco
is responsible for the publication.
II you are looking for a good trunk
be sure TO attend Morgan's auction sale