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

! Venomous reptiles, fierce animals,
frightful storms, intoIerable heat, bit
! ter cold, these should be conspicuous
! by their absence; and SO they are in
Hawaii In fact, the advertising fold
ers that make plain to the wayfaring
man, though a fool, the beauties of
this Paradise of the Pacific tell us in
blood-red ink on every page that here
are mo frosts, mo sunstrokes,'' mo
malaria" mo reptiles mo tidal
| waves mo sand-stornns,' mo fogs. :
mo wild beasts, !" no poisons," mo
typhoons,'' mo hurricanes mo beg
gars.''
While we may have to take these
statements, like most advertising ma
terial, with an occasional grain of salt,
yet they are undoubtedly substantially
true. and great negatives they are in
favor of a worlds playground.
But what are the positives that JUS
tify my title?
First. an infinite variety of the most
delightful scenery. People go to Swift
zerIand for mountains. to Coronado for
the sea, to the Riviera for the climate;
here you have everything in the way
of mountains, seashore, vegetation, eli
mate, raised to the highest power.
Magnificent mountain peaks, sullen.
burnt-out craters, at least one seeth-
ing, boiling lake of volcanic fire. precipi-
tous cliffs, fern-clad precipices, lovely
plains, dashing, CHANGING waterfalls
what is there in the line of scenery that
the territory of Hawaii possesses not2
Mention what you want to satisfy
the most stated taste in natural seen
cry, and / will guarantee to produce
1~,,-< l.,IyS
wide rivers. which the limited surface
of the islands. aggregating about as
many square miles as the State of Mas
sachusetts, naturally precludes.
But, if the land surface of Hawaii
is glorious, so also is the surrounding
sea- Poured round all'' is not ''oId
Oceans gray and melancholy waste
but a dimpling. ripping, sun-splashed
ocean, delfciously warm for bathing in
January as we'll as in July, and full
of the most curious, brilliantly colored
fish imaginable.
If Hawaii boasts of mountains as high
as Mt. Blanc. as she can, she can boast
of an ocean deeper than Mt. Everest is
high, for near her shores the plunnmet
has descended into the Vastly deeps for
thirty thousand feet before finding bot
tom.
The infinite variety of Hawaiian seen
cry is most bewildering. One can live
here for years and not exhaust the
scenic delights.
If you think you know Oahu, of which
Honolulu is the capital, why, there are
Kauai and Maui and Molokai, and, big
ger than all of them together, the great
island of Hawaii with it's mighty vol
cano. Moreover, each of these islands
has it's own beauty-spots, it's own dis
tinctive natural scenery, which makes
a visit to it forever memorable
The worlds playground, however,
must not only have beautiful scenery |
but rich and varied vegetation, to make !
it deserve superlative adjectives. A
park without flowers or trees would be
dreary indeed.
Iceland is romantic, sublime, pic
turesque; but without tree and with
only scanty vegetation we cannot make
a playground of it.
But Hawaii shows us every flower
and fruit that the tropics produce.
Rose-embowered cottages, hedges of
night blooming cereus, avenues of royal
palms, the finest in the world orange,
lemon, and breadfruit trees; brilliant