Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-13
THE TIDE OF TRAVEL
Hawaiian islands Are Now Get
ting Their Share.
ALL THE HOTELS ARE FULL
Interesting Points That May Be Seen
With Advantage.
SOME ATTRACTIONS DESCRIBED
The Delightful Climate Dwelt Upon
and What Occasions Its Balmy
Atmosphere.
SOME ATTRACTIONS DESCRIBED
'peeiai Correspondence of The Star.

udsei WHICH regularly fnvadeS southern
California has at last begun to cross the
Pacific in large numbers and to tarry in
Hawaii, as well as to make the longer voy-
age and invade the orient. One cause or
| this movement is the recent great improve
ment in transPacific steamships Among
| others the Pacific Mail Company has lately
added four ships of the larger class, the
| Korea. Siberia, Mongolia and Manchuria,
! any one of which would be satisfactory in
| the Atlantic passenger traffic And more
| Of this and other lines are certain soon to
| follow, as these ships are already over
| crowded. One of these big ships calls at
honolulu each way every two weeks while
other good steamers, somewhat smaller,
doubie that service. Altogether an aver
| age OF two hundred first-cass passengers
are calling at Honolulu, bound either east
or west. eight times month. And this is
| IN addition to the calls five times a month
| from the Sydney mail steamers from San
Francisco and Vancouver to the colonies
ana return. averaging fifty or sixty each
way.
To Do Hawaii.
considerable number of these people
who are through-bound stop over for two
| or three weeks to do Hawaii MANY
tourists returning from Yokohama take the
vancouver steamers. which traverse the
northern route, skrting the Aleutian
Islands This is .'great-circle" passage.
ana day or so shorter. But it Is cold
and terribly stormy and rough as com
pared with this mid-Pacific mildness and
smoothness In fact, that northern route
Iairiy averages with the north Atlantic for
oou anu storm and you can always get
enough OF that sort of thing in going to
europe. When you go to Japan always
| take the Honolulu route for comfort at
| sea.
BESIDES that through crowd who delight
ed 10 pass few hours on shore looking
around Honolulu and sururbs, and the
hundreds who stop over on the through
voyage for two or three weeks of sight
| n,'r.n we are now getting considerable
number of visitors who come to spend sew
eral months. as they do in Florida and Los
Angeles. Altogether, our city hotels and
country resorts during the past winter have
Deen quite overcrowded. and many of the
more permanent visitors have taken private
board or hired cottages. In nv own i'm
mediate vicinity millionaire couple occu-
Ply new cottage delightfully."- located and
thelr mred auto whizzeS by a dozen times
a day There are three large hotels. all
overfull-two central and one at the Wal
kiki tWye-kee-kee) beach, where another
large one IS promised shortly. 1t was in
the Waikiki surf that Secretary Taft. Miss
Alice Roosevelt and Representative Long
worth did not get spilled out while canoe
sIding But plenty of tourists do get
spilled and hand out the half dollars 70
! the alert Kanakas for putting them hack
into their canoes. You know these canoes
! are smooth, slender dugouts with outrig-
gers.
| There is a plenty to see around Honolulu
| to Nil up a couple of weeks of leisure In
| the first place there are over twenty miles
| or electric railway. All this runs through
streets EMPOWERED with tropical foliage, or
mile or so up the loyeliest of mountain
valleys, or to Diamond Head, or Kairnuke
ridge. or kahanik's new barracks An ex-
cursloii car traVerses the whole line nearly
very DAY with guide and megaphone. Be
SIDES tally-ho trips are made every two or
| three days from the hotels, either to the
| splendid Pail, or up TantuIus road with
It's mountain forest and magnificent pros
poets The Pail is Honoluus chief Jewel
| Six miles of smootFest macadam road sI,d-
denly ushers one upon a grand panora ma
or mountain wall, lowland plantations and
! distant foaning reefs and ridges. with blue
| ocean stretching afar. all viewed from a
| lofty perch of twelve hundred feet 1t is
well If the strong trades driving through
| the mountain pass do not lift you off your
| feet.
| Interesting Railway Trips.
| There besides from Honolulu ex
| tremely interesting railway trips. The
| Oahu railway will take one seventy-five
miles around the coast past the north end
| of the island and past a constantly cnan ?
| ing scenery of mountain ridges, ocean
views and crashing surf pillows There are
SIX large sugar plantations on the route
which are much visited especially two
winch are among the largest and best
equipped in the world. Sixty miles out are
| line country hotel resorts with excellent
| golf links and sea bathing. In three months
from now branch road will be completed
TO the rich farming upland of Wahiawa
| twenty-five miles from town. where are
| several prosperous pineapple farms and a
| large cannery. That is destined to be a
great resort on account of It's cool climate
at an altitude of LOO feet There a new
| reservoir OF large capacity has Just been
| completed for the irrigation of extensi We
| sugar lands little below. A good hotel is
| likely soon to be erected there. 1t should
/ be added that the Oahu railway is equipped
! with excellent passenger cars-two through
trains day, and otl-burning engines with
| out smoke Very little coal is now burned
| on Oahu. California petroleum having dis
| placed il for all power service
| Most tourists who have the time occupy
| one or two weeks in visiting the three great
4 points of interest upon the Islands of Muri
/ and Hawaii On Muri the very grand
| lao valley, sort of Yosemite and the won
| derfui crater of Haleakala, 10000 feet alti-
| tide, 5000 feet deep and twenty-five miles
in circuit. only recently extinct. But the
| chief attraction lies with the living and
/ active volcano of Kflauea, lying beside its
| two snow-clad giant mountain sentinals of
| 1900 feet You are taken to Kilauea by
1 thirty hours on coasting steamer and three
| or four hours by railway and stage-ali ex-
| penses for the round trip from Honolulu
| $50, with one day at the excellent volcano
| hotel at the brink of the great crater. You
| descend on horseback 500 feet to the era
| ter floor, riding two and a half miles
| farther to the fire lake, which is at present
/ depr essed some hundreds of feet. Although
| for a few years past the fires have been
| comparatively inactive they are still of
| some brilllaney and are liable any month
/ to resume their usual energy
| Extraordinary Attractions
| So, as you know, Hawaii has extraor-
/ dill airy attractions to draw tourists, and
| they are beginning to pour in upon u.s. so
that we are being put to our best energies
| to provide quarters and transportation for
i them. But the greatest attraction of ALL
i when understood, is bound to be Hawaii's
i unique and marvellous climate 1t is not
i yet commonly understood that we possess
i the only climate of the kind on this globe.
4 1t is not a tropical climate. but mildly and
i uniformly subtropicaI We never have tor
rid heats. nor ever have chill weather, ex-
Il cept at high attitudes Your summer nights
i In Washington and New York are simply
| terrible to us from Hawaii, where we never
/ know such q thing sweltering night
and generally need blanket on the bed all
summer. While there Is a difference be-
tween our winter and summer 1T Is very
moderate. In oHnolu between January ]