The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-11
As OTHERS
SEE HAWAII
Many interesting Notes
of Territorial
Travel.
Haleiwa. Oahu. T. H,

/ Editor Press: At your request
/ shall endeavor 10 write a letter for
your paper and hope that it will be
of some interest.
Our party left San Francisco for the
Islands July 8, on the steamer Man
churia, this being the same steamer
on which We're Secretary Taft and
cific, and we enjoyed every minute.
We had no rough weather until the
! last two days, when the breakers roll
ed quite high, but we only enjoyed
this the more, having by this time
gained our ''sea-1egs." In fact, our
party succeeded in keeping their sea
/ legs from the very start.
| The Manchuria and her sister ship,
the Mongolia, are the largest steamers
that leave the San Francisco harbor.
They are equipped with all the COM
forts of home and one wants for moth
ing. The service over the entire ship
is Chinese. The walters formed quite
a striking picture in the dining room
as we came down to our meals. For
breakfast and lunch they dressed in
long blue robes, and for dinner they
were all in white. What stole faces
they did have, expressions never
changing, no matter what the circum-
stance.
We arrived in the Honolulu port
about 5 O'Clock in the morning on
July Ia, and locked about Z, although
we were not allowed to land until
nearly s. A party of native musicians
came out to the steamer and met us
and played their sweet native songs
for US until we reached the wharf
A number of Honolulu's prominent
citizens came aboard also, bringing
, with them great armfuls of leis; these
are long strings of howers,i and they
are the natives welcome to the WISH
tors on the islands. We came into
port amid great demonstrations in
honor of the Secretary of War, Miss
Roosevelt and others of the Taft
party. In the confusion of sound you
could distinguish the boom of the
cannons, the whistles and bells on the
different ships in the harbor, and sew
eral bands, playing the Hawaiian ma
tional hymn and America" The city
and harbor We're gay in the flying of
flags of all descriptions, but the one
that looked the most like home was
"O1d Glory
The wharf was guarded by the ma
tive police, and a company of the
United States regulars, under whose
protection we passed to the farther
dock, where we were met by our
friends. Here l left our party and
in company with my sister and her
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Bidgood, came
out to the Haleiwa hotel on the Oahu
railroad, one of the two that they
have the islands.
The trip on the Oahu railway is one
of rare beauty and attractiveness to
visitor on the islands. Leaving Ho-
nolulu the route lies west to Moanalua
and through the cane fields of Homo
lulu plantations. For more than half
of the circumference of Pearl Harbor
the Fine is on the shores of the lochs.
Fertile fields border the rails and the
scenery of the western coast is inn
pressive. Mountains, broken by deep
valleys come down to the sea in al
most continuous cliffs, against which
beat long surf lines. After leaving
Kaena Point, the northwestern end of
Oahu, one looks out upon fertile
plain, three miles wide and twenty
long, which are cattle ranges and
fields of rice and sugar cane.
About midway of this coast is the
bay of Waialua and the Ha1eiwa no.
tel. And it is here that 1 have taken
up my abode for the summer months.
A beautiful spot, a perfect Garden of
Eden, placed as it is, picturesquely
upon the shores of a quiet bay, and
about which rise great mountains, at
the foot of which stretch vast valleys
of the cane and rice fields.
The variety of amusement here
would satisfy almost any heart, there
being excellent golf links bordering
, on the sea; tennis courts; bathing in
ocean or fresh water pool; driving,
fishing, hunting and boating. Surely
one would not lack for entertainment.
The Haleiwa hotel is located about
the center of the great plantation OF
Waialua, a mile away is the modern
mill. The sugar crop of the Territory
of Hawaii for the year 1904 was 763,-
491 .992 pounds. of a total value of
s24, 359,3S5: 102019 tons of this output
was produced on the island of Oahu
and 81 per cent of this amount was
raised along the line of the Oahu rail-
way. which runs from Honolulu to
Kahuku, about 16 miles beyond the
Haleiwa hotel Along this line is the
most productive sugar estate in the
world-Ewa-which last year produced
1885 tons. At Eva sugar culture has
become a science; some of the fields
have produced Is tons to the acre. The
plantation is artificiaIly irrigated, as
in fact are all of those along this
road. On it are seven pumping sta
tions, which have capacity of g.
900 gallons of water daily.
Two hundred feet is the highest
level irrigated, but on the Wafalua
plantation there is being constructed
a great reservoir up<in the mountains,
and it is the plan of the company
constructing it to store up all the wa
ter possible during the rainy season
When full the water will back up the
gorge eight miles. The capacity OF
this reservoir Will be such that enough
water can be stored there for a years