The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-14

and see only Chinese ana japanese.
/ There are q. GOO Chinese in the islands,
and 10000 japanese In the total popu-
lation, there are i've men to. one woman.
There are eighfy-flve saloons IN
4 Honolulu, and half Of them are run by
! Chinese and Japanese. In one of the
sugar districts there IS a school at
tended by six hundred children. OF
! these, 400 are AsiaticS, So 8 natives, and
one American. This, of course, is IN a
/ country district, but in Honolulu half
/ the school children are japanese and
/ Chinese. There are three japanese
newspapers In Honolulu, and the Atch- !
ison young man now living there IS
greatly interested IN q newspaper row
/ going on between two of the japanese
/ editions; the japanese Interpreter at
the police court reads the articles to
/ the AtchisOn young man lives at the
| Royal Hawaiian hotel, a beautiful
/ place occupying an entire block sur
rounding the main hotel building are
cottages, almost hidden in the luxuT-
liant vegetation. In one of these cot /
tageS he has a room with bath. lie
pays exactly one-half of his salary for !
living at the hotel, and it is a good
idea to spend your money for COM
Portable quarters instead OF for beer |
Some of the dining rooms of the hotel
are in the open air, except that there
/ is a roof over them. In the fine garden !
y
and the Hawaiian band plays in the
stand on certain evenings. Honolulu
is always full of tourists, and another
wonderful hotel there is known as
Young's. Both the hotels named have
branches at the bathing beach men
toned elsewhere.
The watermelons in Hawaii are in |
ferior. The sweet corn is also poor, |
and tomatoes hay worms in them, I
but I heard the formerly of Atchison
people make no complaints. There are
no snakes on the islands, but there are
scorpions and centipedes, and just now /
there is some excitement over the
plague, five cases of which have De
veloped among the Chinese. Formerly
there We're no mosquitoes on the is
lands, but a whaling ship brought
them over in infected water 1 am
prepared to believe that the water car |
ried on ships will produce mosquitoes.
In Atchison, the oIeander is kept in 4
houses in pots, and occasionally aired
when in bloom. In Honolulu, the ole
ander becomes a tree. Huge palms
are also very numerous Ihefe are
certain towering vines that grow over
walls, trees, and houses, and those are /
very attractive. Flowers are SO cheap I
and easily grown that laborers wear (
garlands of them in their hats when at
work.
For our ride into the mountains, we
had q clear day. This was a rare piece
of luck, since rain falls in the noun
tains nine days out Of ten. enJoyeai
the day so much that climbed out OF
the carriage and did q. good deal OF
walking on the way up; 1t was such a
relief, after our experience on the snip.
For awhile after we landed at Hollo-
lulu, the ground under us seemed to
be rising and falling.
1t costs forty-one cents a word to
& .IrrIr- to A FP10
And no wonder: the cable company
maintains a ship there constantly, to
make repairs. For six months, II mas
not been out of port, but it is always
ready to go out and grapple for the
line, in case of a break.
on the road up the mountain, I saw
q familiar sight: rural route mail
box. And out at the bathing beach, /
I heard a familiar sound: girl play
ing the piano, and singing. 1 said to
nv companions. 1--WE have no bread
fruit in Atchison, and no banyan, but
at home I can hear as poor piano
playing and singing as that any day.
Another thing I noticed: Water
pipes on top of ground AS there IS /
no winter here, it may be all right, 1
but it looks shiftless
also observed hot houses; they are
mainly used, Mr.. Emmeluth said, to
protect certain young plants from the
wind.
out at the beach is a wonderful
aquarium, where live fish of every
color of the rainbow may be seem /
Later I saw many of the same fish |
offered for sale at the fish market A 4
certain fish here is chopped up fine /
and eaten raw, as we eat raw oysters I
Many Of the gentlemen here wear
white suits and white shoes The Of /
ficers of the ship appeared in white 7
suits today discarding the dark blue /
they had been wearing. [ have no /
ton that at the bottom of my trunk /
I will find a white suit, and pair of
white shoes; [ have found everything /
else have needed.
The Pacific Mail ships have a con-
tract to stop at the Hawaiian Islands, /
on their eastward and westward pass I
ages. The "sKorea" lately carried /
the Taft party from Japan and the
siberia carried the presidents /
daughter. so neither stopped at Homo |
lulu The reformers are mad, and (
But you know how much attention it
viii attract.
A few notes from the guide book: /
There are eight inhabited islands in /
the Hawaiian group. and three that
are uninhab ited. The ssfands are /
of volcanic formation, and each has
one or more extinct craters; on one I
of the islands there are two living
perature is from So to SO degrees, the /
average being about rs. the average
yearly rainfall at Honolulu> for the /
past twenty-seven years has been /
81 inches. The physical aspect of the !
country is that of a huge volcanic !