The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-01

t-TGeRGtS LiiStl scarlet BIOS
SONS from the highest trees: great
plantations of sugar cane and coffee
plants; feathery cocoanut palms; fiow-
ers as bright and fragrant in Deeenna
Der as in June-what is wanting. that
the vegetable world can produce. to
make Hawaii the vacation paradise OF
mankind2
But mountains without habitations
volcanoes but no hotels. flowers but no
people. would hardly give us our ideal
playground for the world.
But Hawaii has men as we'll as noun
tains. and such hospitable. generous
men and women, I venture, as no other
resort possesses.
If Switzerland is Europe's play
ground, her Inhabitants are not oilers
by any means, even though they cater
to the enjoyment of idlers. but the most
sturdy, vigorous, independent race in
all Europe.
SO the people of Hawaii are enter
prising, wide awake, progressive, but,
withaL most kindly to strangers.
If anywhere the tourist viii find a
welcome and God-speed, it is here.
Elegant hotels are open to receive him:
fine stores supply his wants while he
stays; and when he goes all the friends
to the wharf, and will throw around his
scented leaves. while the famous Ho-
nolulu band plays stirring airs to speed
the parting guest. Nowhere else in any
part of the world have I seen generous,
spontaneous, unstinted hospitality as in
Hawaii.
But scenery and flowers, and even
people, and good hotels, and fine houses
do not quite fill the measure of the
qualities that entitle a country to
praise.
Even in our worlds playground we
want to find land of good morals, high
ideals, and, IL possible. a noble his
tory.
All these are possessed by Hawaii
It is distinctively a missionary land.
It's history has been made by mission
aries. It's early institutions We're
moulded by them.
No nobler men and women ever
founded a new empire than those who
laid the foundations of the new Ha-
wall, nearly a century ago. The Pill
grim Fathers. who just two centuries
before landed on Plymouth Rock, were
not more heroic or self-sacrificing or
stalwart than the pilgrim fathers of
Hawaii. Their influence through all
the changes of modern years still
abides. AS compared with otter lands.
the islands are distinctly laW-abiding,
temperate communities.
here are gathered ali classes
and conditions of men, the early ideals
are not lost, and the leading spirits in
political and social life are men and
women of lofty and philanthropic aims
and purposes.
As a natural consequence churches
abound. Sunday schools and Christian
Endeavor societies flourish; benevolent
and missionary societies are in evil
dence; and the poor and unfortunate
are cared for as perhaps in no other
The beautiful Central
Union church would be credit to any
and the great stone church
called the Kawaiahao church, attended
by very large native congregation,
and ministered to by an eloquent native
is the most interesting land
mark in all Honolulu.
Nature and man, sea and land. sky
md air. history and tradition, climate
and position in the worlds greatest
,cean. all combine to make this vaca-
Con land, this land of out-of-doors, the |
worlds loveliest playground.
need only add that the steamers |
hat carry one TO the worlds loveliest |
playground are frequent and eomforta-
Die. I was fortunate enough to go, for /
ny very brief stay, by one of the ex-
,ellent new steamers of the Oceanic /
Company. In many respects the ac
ommodations of the Sierra are unsur-
passed on any sea. Nearly every week
ome steamer of this company plies be-
ween San Francisco and Honolulu, and
10 one need be deferred from seeking
his vacation land for lack of safe, COM
ortable, and even elegant aecommoda-
ions. May this Island Paradise be- L
ONE as well known as it deserves by /
Ired umanity.-Christian .Endeavor
World.