The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-28
BY LAURA WALKER.

nolulu may be to you only an incident
of your journey, but to US, your COM
| ing is quite an event.
Let not this fact disturb your COM
sion in any wild outburst of enthusi-
asm. If you have any fears that there
NAV be the usual stampede of Amer;-
cans to do honor to distinguished
guests let them be allayed. We want
YOU to enjoy yourselves and, at the
same time to appreciate the charm OF
an existence in an American city
where there is no strenuous life.
Visions of a public meeting with Ad-
dress-of- Welcome oratory by a Mayor,
and carriage drive with the Honor
able Members of the City Council,
should likewise be dispelled. Honolulu
has no Mayor Neither has she any
City Council. and it should follow that
she knows no graft, no corruption, no
boodling Perhaps it does follow. You
come initiated into the secrets of
Territorial Government, and though
the ways of one-man power may be
dark and devious. it will not become
apparent to you during your brief
stay.
You will be told, however, that the
80 ton of mower
| is not altogether popular, and the adj
vocates of Home Rule expect to be able
to establish the constitutionality of
County Act which was passed by the
Legislature two years ago. If Home
Rule is secured, Honolulu may take on
metropolitan airs and establish a mu-
lnicipal government. Possibly she does
not know when she is well off.
| Really, to be frank, we want to have
| a look at you. We don't often have
chance to see the people who make laws
| for us down here. If the entire Con-
gressional body could be transported to
THE islands for awhile. there are peo-
pie here who think they could ..show
en- a few things.
You will be taken for an automobile
ride about the city and to some points
tof interest nearby = an excursion
planned wholly with an eye to your
pleasure. Strange, but true. Buildings
will be pointed out to you which are
mot half bad to see, which We're once
used by royalty, now devoted to gov
lernment purposes. You will speed along
countless trees which a Missourian de-
spairs of ever being able to call by
name; you will see hedges of blooming
hibiscus, enclosing well-kept lawns sur
rounding beautiful residences, but you
will not see any blue grass. You will
Isee stone fences covered with the plant
so carefully cherished by it's possessors
in Missouri-the night blooming Cereus
land will be told of single night of
LONELINESS during the year. when thou
sands of those magnificent flowers
bloom. shedding all their fragrance and
beauty within few hours.
If you have time for only one excur-
lsion about the city, you will probably
choose to see the Pail (cliffs) of Nuua-
nu. There you will hear the story of a
TERRIBLE battle where the army of Ka-
mehameha pursued the enemy up the
lcliffs, sending thousands to meet their
q hun Io
below. It is said, so terrible was the
slaughter, and so relentless the pursu-
ers, that not one of those who went
up from the valley escaped with his
life
The islands abound in legends, and one
OF the most beautiful will be told as
you visit the Valley of Rainbows (Ma-
nca Valley, where the soft rain falls
daily-'iiquid sunshine" it is called.
The story is that beautiful girl, the
Ionly daughter of a Chief who lived in
the valley, was slain by her betrothed
lover. through jealousy, and the gods
continue to shed tears for her loss.
which accounts for the dewy mist. The
most gorgeous rainbows end in that
valley, and L am sure the pot of gold
must lie buried there,
| inen there IS Tantalus. People here
VIII tell you to See Tantalus, and
dle!' But that is another long ride.
and you have time only to visit the
| beach at Waikiki. If YOU have any
poetry in your soul, (and 1 believe Mr..
| DeArmond is said to be a poeD you
| will find Waikiki an ideal place to in
| dulge your fancy. There you will have
| the bay at your feet, warm and in
| vlting; the splashing of the waves in
their restlessness, speaking to you the
| message that you long to hear. the
| mountains before you, cool and shad-
| owy; all around you stately palm
trees and luxuriance of tropical TO-
| ilage; while withal and over all. there
is the most delicious, balmy atmos-
| phere, with a constant variation OF
color On earth and sea and sky.
After you have seen these things.
you may not be in a mood to listen
! to labor problems and questions of
state. There is a real problem con,
fronting the people here, and you may
hear of it next year in Congress- You
see, sugar cane is the thing down
here, and the planters prefer China
| he sol