The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-09-30
AS OTHERS
SEE HAWAII
Good Words About Us
In Railroad
Folder.

i he following article on Hawai- APP
pears in The Southwestern's Book, is
sued by the Passenger Department of
the Baltimore & ONO Southwestern
Railway.
With our recently acquired possess
ions in the Pacific Ocean and the war
in Alanchuria and Korea. the attention
OF our country has been largely at
tracted toward the Orient lately While
our latest acquisition. the Philippines,
have been much en- evidence, we have
another possession, nearer home, which
promises richer and more immediate re-
turns. The Sandwich Islands, which
were annexed to the United States in
1893, the halfway house to our pos
session in the Far East, offer rich
field. and one as yet little worked, for
the tourist, the seeker for health, the
artist or the literateur Through the
kindness Of the Committee on Promo
ton, of Honolulu, we have been favored
with the following brief sketch OF these
isles Of the Blessed" With the rapid
increase from year to year of transporta-
ton facilities, both by land and sea,
these islands are certain to be a popular
resort as well as satisfactory conf
advantages are better known.
Tropical in every feature but tenn
perature, describes the climate of the
ton in the mid Pacific Hawaii, whose
name awakens memories OF verse and
prose in honor, whose history is full of
romance and whose every prospect
pleases, has grown all the more an eye
filling entity. since the Pacific has be-
come the theater OF the international
drama.
1t is land of paradoxes and mega
tives. What picture of tropical jungle
is conjured by story, but the memory
peoples it with strange animals and
reptiles? Yet in Hawaii there are well
nigh impossible jungles of fern and
cane and palm, but so far as known
there is not a single snake in the archi-
pelago outside the museum, not a beast
which is an enemy to man. What land
below the tropics but suggests extreme
heat and fever, spell, yet there is land
whose average temperature, taken at
Honolulu, the capital, on the south side
of the Island of Oahu, was only 1897
degrees for the year 1908, the highest
average for any month being 77.o de-
grees for Tul' where on one day the
register was 50 degrees, and the lowest
February where one day was cold at So
degrees.
Honolulu, lying closer to the equator
than Havana or Mazatlan or Tampico,
and in about the same latitude as CAL
cutta, is not city OF pest and death.
Disease finds scant opportunity and
when the tens OF thousands OF Orientals
who till the broad fields are reckoned as
a factor in the community, the diligence
and capacity of the citizens in keeping
down and out the maladies which haunt
other tropical centers, cannot be too
never in history mas there been sweep
brighten no one. and the average health,
though many who are i'll seek this balmy
climate, is excellent Most sufferers find
the equitable temperature specific for
their complaint, and many to whom
asthma and catarrh have made life mis-
cradle, are helped materially if not cured
absolutely by residence in the favored
isles. Hay fever seems to be unknown,
and by making choice of attitudes and
district one may find just the variety of
climate he wishes, the year through.
Rheumatism disappears, jaded nerves
are strengthened, the worn out system
is toned by the newness OF the life.
Hawaii stands for scenery. Colorado
or British Columbia have more noun
tains. Switzerland has greater peaks,
Japan boasts OF Fajiyama, yet on the
Island of Hawaii the largest of the
group, are Maupa Kea and Mauna Loa,
which lift their huge bulks. from a 80
mile base, almost $4,000 feet directly
from the sea- and combine to form an
enchanting picture, with their glisten-
ing SUBMITS, refracting the spectrum's
shades under the tropic sun, while they
rest their feet in the summer sea. and
clothe their sides in tropic jungle. From
the steamer the great cones rise so
gradually that their height at first ap-
pears to be less than it really is, but the
scene grows on the traveller and when
finally Hilo, the mort OF debarkation' for
the volcano Kilauea is reached, the view
is impressive i'll the extreme. OF the
beauty of this prospect. DR.. Serene +.
Bishop, writing OF scenery in Hawaii,
says:
Nothing can be more superb than
the view OF Hilo looking northwest from
the harbor. Far in the rear stands the
two giant snow-covered mountains,
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. with dense
forests clothing their TANKS far seward
Along the northern coast for fifteen
miles lie the beautiful plantations To
the southwest are the great forests Of
Puma. behind which smokes the low
crater OF kllauea. 81 miles away,
"kllauea volcano constitutes the most
remarkable scenic attraction in Hawaii,
and perhaps IN the world. whenever IL is
in activity This IS due 10 is size, 10
the glory oi rs hre,, and TO the iaei
thar the fires may be eloselr approached
with convenience and safety Ofien
there are open lakes whit, hot molten
lava, su gently and quietly seelhing that
visitors cars insert poles and withdraw
cooling fragments - hAa adherng 90
them kllaHsa is noted at essentially a
lame volcano devoid # explosive -
dangerous action
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