The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-09
MRS. STANFORD,S LAST PHOTOGRAPHIC
Can amateur picture Observe the left hand
(The Daily PaIO Alto.)

In meeting his class in Organic Evo-
| luton today for the first time since his
return. President Jordan spoke briefly
concerning his sad mission to Honolu-
lu. His words were full of feeling and
pathos. He said. in substance:
Not long ago 1 used these words in
writing to an old friend in the East:
| A great many things happen in fifteen
years, especially in California 1t is
less than a month, as we measure time,
since l last met this class, yet it seems
time so long that L feel a sort of
surprise to see you still here. You
ought to be graduated and out in the
world long before this
II do not like to think of all which
has happened in this time. 1 like to
think of the mother of the University
as she lived the last day of her life on
earth, free from the burdens of the
thought of an unseen enemy, before
the pains of her last Illness came upon
her /,
"On the mountain behind Honolulu
is a long slope leading to the top of
the range. ending in a veritable cliff
of nearly a thousand feet on the other
side. This pass-called the Pali-is a
part of the rim of a huge volcanic era
ter. which was made when the island
of Oahu arose hot from the sea. 1t
was once eight or ten miles across, but
the sea broke in and tore away half
the rim. Now from the Pail one sees
one of the nobIest views of the world.
a view comparable with the one from
Chapultepec, in Mexico, which Hum
H. lac,f oil
the known world.
Down from the cliff of the Pail, one
looks over sleek mountain slopes, COW
cred with dark shrubbery, and amid
this the light green of the koa trees.
Below red rocks are forests of guava
with golden fruit ripening in the winter
sunshine of the tropics. On the plain
lies the sugar plantation of Heeia, the
canes of the brightest green known in
nature. And beyond all, behind head
lands and islands. breaks the great blue
sea, with it's white rim of surf along
the reefs and splashing higher on the
lava rocks.
"A century or more ago Kamehame
ha the First. the King of Hawaii came
over to Oahu, burning his ships on the
beach, with two Mexican solGia~s and
an old-fashioned cannon. He drove the
people of Honolulu-the quiet haven
up the hill behind their town. Step by
step he forced them back till they came
to the Pail Down the cliff he thrust
them one and ALL till those who Were
left gave up the fight and swore ale
glance to Kamehameha the Great the
first king of the United Kingdom Of
Hawaii
lover this Pail. five years ago, a good
road was built curving up the noun
tain slope. running in sharp Zigzags
down the cliff. Who should build it but
a Stanford man-Rea Edwards May
nard of the class of "a? Who should
help him but another Stanford man.
of the football team in the
later nineties?
THE glorious climate of California
stretches like a great mantle over these
Pacific island wards of hers. and in
Hawaii her winter sunshine reaches it's
ultimate perfection.
1T was on the morning of February
2Sth that Mrs. Stanford with her maid
and secretary set out for drive over
the Pail. She felt like girl that day,
and before her on the Pail lay spread
put new heaven and new earth.
There were no cares any moreno
more worry. The cornerstone of the
library was in a few days to be laid
DIV the students. She had finished the
address to the boys and girls which
Alexander Sherriffs. winner of the Car
,o+ medal was to read for her at the
Dedication. There was something else
;he wished to say. something which viii
lraw the student heart nearer 10 the
university mother when the word is
inally said.
Driving down the Heeia road they
topped before a conical mountain Of
hiniug Hawaiian green What Is the
lalne of this mountain, Johnson? she
aid to the driver. It has no name
IRIS. Stanford Johnson said.
:. Then said she turning to the
mountain with uplifted finger. baptiZe
hee Sugar Loaf-and Sugar Loaf shalt
hou be henceforth and forever And
o on with the rest of the ceremonial