The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-11-06
FINAL GLIMPSES OF HAWAII
BY HELEN 6. TINSLEY

] Several facts prominently in my mind,
have returned home from in the Hawaiian
Islands, with the Southern California Editorial Association One
the wondrous beauty OF rainbow capped Hawaii with exqus
tey lovely valleys of tropical luxurancc
vegetation in America compare with that the
Another fact is extraordinary most delightful
hospitality and freedom from such Americans
hat obtains among all the people of various in Hawaii
doubt whether there can be genial happy
pie in all the world than there in Honolulu
Another TACT is the OF Honolulu Its electric
system is as modern anything continent Its hotels
would do credit any American town
are without upeo in the world Its public buildings har
the public school system of Honolulu fine that of Cali
ad an ws a as b ta s bs as on r II
memory is the aquarium of Honolulu. When William
letter from Honolulu he never
ANYTHING OF the kind wonderful hundreds speci
1t wonderful how rapidly Honolulu is becoming American
SG sed with the oa @ s om but
are people Honolulu After annexation,
could drop into lucrative positions able
with tat incomes lawyers dentists mechanics book
only find the ranks of the professional and workers already
and employment Living Honolulu very expensive, since
Pacific coast Many the seekers aer ueae and eay po
tons not able accommodations for hotels
whence they came carrying reports which did great
Justice to Honolulu and her splendid people The field for engineers
the Chinese Japanese and Portuguese to with which, for
American impossible An ambitious energetic make
place for himself Hawaii elsewhere but rustic and
dc it by hard work
rapidly becoming Anlericanzed
there are things that will change about these beautiful islands
There will always be the climate whose the delight of
soft tropical heat tempered by the soft trade winds which blow
months of the twelve OF is hot in the and
the middle of the day. but the mornings and evenings delight
full There will always be those wonderful volcanic craters for a
with the Alps
Then there will be for the tall well built
gentle, good looking Hawaans with their aoha Their
the not fat while the lips slightly fuller than In
neat, and the womens dresses spotlessly clean
And what happy smiling faces they have We may look in yam
for the hard angular faces that always evidence in European
crowd The Hawaans by free from guile but
hatred and ncarabenes almost unknown these
simple almost childish people They loved and were loyal to their
late and especially in the rural districts think that
period The total elimination of these simple people only
of time for there remains only Of when
the white their islands and cordial
An American who has never been in Honolulu cannot under
stand how potential the Chinese and Japanese and
industry in the Hawaiian Islands
The Chinese of Hawaii form integral part of the population
position been firmly established
they have proved themselves progressive by gaspng the best OF
civilization The Chinese of Honolulu and
mode of living far different from the Chinese OF San Francisco
Los Angeles Their environment different They nnge and
ntemarry with the Hawaans and their consulted by
the Americans thereby bringing their best traits and Graduating
the responsiveness of the Chinese of America. III
They Hawaians the that the Germans the
Swedes and the Irish have become Americans Therefore believe
laws apply to the islands as they do to the To
population of
people would indicate the great task of exclusion
From point of there doubt the benefit
Foreign capital going Hawaii rapidly
Real extremely high figure
soaring.
Hawai- has been monarchy but even during the reign King
Kalakaua sugar the real king and the has
relnqued his annexation the United States The
have been and The
really the hands of few who had received immense
of land during monarchy and who practically
monopoly with small capital planting
requires amount of Sugar
grows that be obtained from
but the choice locations
are all occupied and owned by large corporations
largest richest operating plantation Eva Ho
noluu comprises 10000 yield of twelve
per 1t employs 400 abores
There be bright future for coffee though in Homo
very little of coffee Sugar the theme for
strives o a least few shares of sugar stock
The drawbacks establishing coffee plantation the time