The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-02

vided the tug Fearless and steam barge |
Pioneer to convey local passengers |
ashore from the steamer Both Of
those vessels were used in preferencetl
to the. small launches, as there was
very heavy swell running at the time
and it was regarded as a safer means
of transferring the passengers. The
passengers who were impatient at the
delay and took launches ashore were
naturally asked to pay because the
launches were run independently of the
two craft supplied by the local agents.
If any money was Iasked of Honolulu
passengers on the Pioneer or Fearless
which l very much doubt it was
through a misunderstanding So far
as the through passengers were con-
cerned the local agents have nothing to
do with them and are not supposed to
provide transportation ashore for them.
Indeed am not aware that the Pacific
Mail Company Agrees to land through
passengers at Honolulu free of possible
launch fees.
& 8 4
One of the most striking things sug-
gested to me by the Art Loan Exhibit,
which the ladies who are carrying on
the free Kindergartens, held last week,
was, to what diverse origin the strands
of life and family which center here,
extend. OF course in these modern
days when the stay-at-home germ has
been practically destroyed by the
bacillus of what our German friends
call wanderlust every community
re
elements from many and distant places.
But it seemed to me that there was
evidence in this loan exhibit of wider
diversity of origin, and a finer repre-
sentation of good blood, than most
communities can boast. To be sure
neither the catalogue nor the labels
always disclosed the family line
through which the exhibits had come,
but there was enough shown to in
dictate that a lot of people in Honolulu
may justly be proud of their family
trees. Heirlooms don't usually last
= through a century or two in families
} that don't amount to anything in either
2 character or achievement So l take
it that when people are exhibiting old
, family relics two hundred years old
there has been a succession of several
generations of pretty decent people.
Well, a very interesting part of the eX-
hibit was made up of just that sort of
5 thing. If you have kept your cata-
logue of the exhibit, just look over it
} in the light of this idea.
Then there were number of things
that more directly indicated the rami-
fication of the threads of life that
b have met here. Just think how fan
and to where you are carried by that
I fan Miss Parke exhibited which was
carried at the court of Louis XIV by
Mrs. Matthew Parke; or that Queer
= Anne coffee pot loaned by Mrs. w. F
T Allen; or the tea set 200 years old loan
ed by Miss Won Holt; or that sworc
e carried by her grandfather at the Bat
- tie of Waterloo loaned by Mrs. T. j
King. I am not going to give cata
logue of all the things of this kind
1 haven't space. But 1 think l have
given enough to point out what was
K one of the most interesting qualities
= of the exhibit, which I hope will no
be the last of the kind attempted,
= = = g
+ l see that little booklet entitle'
"a 'fThe Log of the Water Wagon" ha
9 just been published. Those who hav
read the thing say that only an abb
% seaman. one who had served an ap
. premiership in front of the bar coul
have written the log. Incidentally onl
those who are fit applicants for pass
>, age on the water wagon or else are eX
q tanks, will appreciate the book TIL
y, humor is that peculiar kind that
based upon Renaissance.