The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-21
SECTION THREE.
) The AFTERMATH OF THE BOOM IN HAWAII



the City of Mexico. The last named
has a population of over 100000. in
GLIDING 1000 Americans, while Homo
lulu with its 10000 residents claims
5000 whites.
School Children are Mixed.
An examination of the, school report
of our island territory d1ScioseS some
Interesting figures SchoolS IduSiI
in Hawaiian have long been abohsneo'
all instructions now being in the Eng
Iish language The natiOnali1ies or
all pupils i'm the schools are as follows;
Hawaiian 1903: part Hawaiian, z,sbS'
American, So; British, 24o; German
go: Portuguese. 4.124; scandinavian,
9S; Japanese. 1913, Chinese, l.530,
Porto Ricans $50; other foreigners
I51. Total. 17,51S-
The national classification of teach
ers necessary to instruct such a
motley crowd of youngsters IS as FOL
lows. Hawaiian. %, part Hawaiian,
20. American. S2g: British. So, Ger
man. II: Portuguese. %, French. 10,
Scandinavian. 10 Belgian. 9: Japan
ese. ;: Chinese. 8: other foreigners, =
Total. 500
The main dependence of the Hawa-
iian Islands Is sugar. Nearly all Of
the existing wealth came from this
source. and it * about the only hope
of the immediate future OUT of the
total value OF export shipments for the
/ last fiscal year. amounting TO S26.2-e.-
204. the item Of sugar alone was 50
( 80 725. Thus il viii be seen that there
was less than 81 00o 000 worth of all
other domestic merchandise exported
to the United States and foreign c0UU-
tries There are about 10000 acres
planted i'm sugar on the islands today
, There are SeVenty-Oue plantations IN
all which are scattered over the four
islands of Hawaii. Maui. Oahu and
Kauai. These plantations produced
last year 43. g91 tons of raw sugar AS
/ gaiust 166 Az tons ten years aEu--a
gain of 21f.559 tons since the fall Of
the monarchy
Hawaiian Cane is Rich
1t is said that the cane grown. in
I Hawaii Is much richer than the pro
duct OF cuba and the United States
( 1t takes about ten tons of Cuban cane
+ to produce ton of sugar while eight
/ tons of the Hawaiian stalks will easily
/ yield that amount. If the price re-
mains fair it is expected that the total
yield of these islands will eventually
reach 100000 tons annually Hon
J Carol d Wright United States com
missioner OF labor. i'm q report ON
/ Hawaii. declared that it ought to af-
/ ford homes for q half a million people
!
( staple the island viii have no great
| stability but viii suffer numerous ups
/ and downs according to the variations
/ of the market.
! What is needed is a diversificatiou
/ of crops Successful experiments have
. been made with the YuCatan fibre
plant. a variety Of cactus called sisaL
( which can be grown ON Semi-arid land
I This fibre is used - making rope and
| binder Irvine. a we'll as several kinds
| of brushes over 100 900 pounds Of this
fibre has already been produced i'm 2
/ year. It sold in san Francisco for
about s cents per pound. netting the
growers about so per acre
The Spell of the Tropics.
/ The people Of Hawaii have their
! problems to solve but they viii doubt
! less be able to work them out. Il is 4
/ place where home is worth striving
] for. He who sOjoUrns here q while Is
| ever 10th to leave The fair skies and
| bright flowers and brilliant shrubs Of
fer a charm that grows the while, and
makes other less favored chimes dull
| in mparison. Only those who know
the spell of the drOwsy tropics car
! understand the hold they have Upof
/ the fancy No pictured palm car
/ wave and dTOne its evening anthem
like the one that has its roots in tbs
I sand and its crest in the wind, NJ
painters brush can catch the majesty
| Of the mountain peak at the sunset
/ hour: and no iUgEIeT of words car
| impaTt the zeSt that rides with the
spray of the southern sea To know
it for a day IS to know II forever Its
pleasing memory never fades.