The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-26
AN EMERALD COAST.

beautltul stretch or green coast that
lies along windward Hawaii--eighty
miles of sugar cane stretching up the
long slopes to the black forest line and
threaded with silvery streams leaping
from the cliffs into the sea at short in
tervals. Very few, take it, have rid
den through those green cane fields,
mile after mile, as / did, and been for.
tunate enough to see, as l saw, tho
whole process of cane growing, from
planting to cutting, from fluming the
cane down swiftly to the mills to put
ting the sacked sugar on the ships in
the harbor of this town of Hilo.
| And, in the fields, / have seen small
Portuguese boys plant cane alongside
Japanese men and beat them at it, row
for row. have seen Portuguese,
past middle age, cutting the ripe cane
in the midst of n gang of Japs and
Koreans-and advancing into the mass
of vegetation "A yard ahead of his fell
lows all the time. Don't tell me that
fields! That is fctich, fostcred by
people who do not want white men
| there, il may he. ] have seen the white
man at it, and he and his sons could
have worked rings around the Asiatics.
On those upland fields of Hawaii, where
the sun is not so hot as in the corn
fields of Kansas and Missouri, and the
laborfno more arduous, any white man
can work in the sun and can thrive.
The fetich that he cannot do the work
has been held before the white man
and the white man of Anglo-Saxon
blood has disdained to put himself on
working level with the Jap and the
Korean. Let the white man of your
own blood take fighting chance, gen.
tlemen, and see where you would land!
Or, if not that, lend the encourage.
ment of your approval to the Portu.
guese, experiment. The Portuguese
make good citizens, too, and achieve
the Anglo.Saxon standard in time No.
body will object if you make profit of
their growing season.
NO MONoToNY HERE.
fields and across the deep gulches, and
by wagons are most interesting The
scenes on the roads are constantly ami
mating. Japs and Koreans and Ha-
waiians pass along on foot, on horse
back, In quaint vehicles and strange
dress. Long trains of pack mules. car
1t would seem that mile after mile
through the cane fields would become
monotonous, but 1t does not. There Is
Infinite variety in the cane itself and
on the Hawaiian plantations the vari-
Gus processes of plowing and planting
and cutting are going on all the time.
The various ways of getting the cane
To the mills. by swiftly running fumes,
by overhead wires that carry bundles
of cane, soaring like birds over the
rying bundles of seed cane. trot nimbly
off to the fields. The deep gulches into =.
which the road winds are rich wit
their profuson of tropical foliage, sn
bananas, kukui and breadfruit tlan~sss.
aud musical with running water {
Ing down their steep declivities. 1al
In the fields the ripening cane nodnty
the fields that have been cut the yelsy@N.
steam plows are dragged forward and~-
back, biting into the rich soil, or some Z
small Portuguese boy shouts shrilly to
four strong mules that he drives to a
eultivator because they are powerful
brutes and he is son of man. And.
beyond the cane fields. running down.
ward. the blue sea throws back the
shadows of the white clouds of the
trades.
All the way from Honokaa to Lau-
Dahoehoe, which is known as Jap
iown' in the vernacular of the coun-
ryslde, the scene changes always, and
8 always more beautiful 1 do not
moose, having seen 1t from the land
'ide, to modify my old opinion that
Jap Town" is a dangerous landing,
But / do say that 1t is landing that
8 worth making. 1t is one of the most
beautiful places along that beautiful
'oast
BEAUTIFUL IN SLEEP.
Laupahoehoe is not, to all appear
noes particularly thriving. There is
me store, and one hotel and there are
Wo saloons. There Is also the usual
omplement OF japanese. But the place
les. that part of IL not on the main
Dad, upon rocky peninsula that
marks where, In the long ago. the red
ot lava ran down from Mauna Kea to
zap Kissing into the sea and make the
eef that makes Jap Town" a bad
indlng.
But although 1t is not thriving 1t is
Ntremely picturesque. There are the
Id stone walls that seem to mark the
lrmer habitations OF a numerous ma
we population, stone walls now en-
losing vacant lots; ana group OF
igged cocoanut trees set against the
m In u Wide grassed lot; and a few
nlives and native dogs asleep In the
an down by the boat landing, while
fussy little steamer tug, restlessly
her moorings as her native boat
'ews sloepiy work her boats IN and
lt through the surf, disoharglng car
laupahoehoo h something of trade
nler says Mr. Barnard the postmas-
= ana slorokroper and general head
AN of the place, and Il In pretty
lnuRh to be- attractive hout that,
'"n from tho ruai cat into the sheer