The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-02

We crossed the Pacific from 1cAo-
hama to Honolulu in the China, ana as
passengers were few l had a rooihs'
bieh-studded cabin to myself Against
-ba odvice of the steward I kept the
port open, preferring to take chaiice
an drowning to one on asphyxlalloii'
Much water came in, but 1t dian touch
me- as slept in the upper bunk, reach-
Cd nv a ladder. and my chance proved
we'll taken When we crossed Inerioiaii
$50 we had the somewhat unusual eA-
Derience of having day 4S hours long
We were given two sunrlses' I"o SUI
cots and six square meals, all on Fri
day, and all on the fifth OF the month.
Had it been Thursday or Saturday L
should not have cared. but nate lsn'
and that was certainly long day.
Our first sight of the Hawaiian
rroun came at evening from the "heat
Iiehtnine', nIaying over one of the out
wing islands, and at daybreak the next
morning we were at Honolulu (pro-
nounced Honolulu by the inhabitants).
7 saw at the place, but not in it, for one
of our steerage crowd of Koreans, after
troubling the ships doctor by develop
ing eranulated eyelids, and threatening
smallpox. came down with huge ao-
scess in the arm pit that the quarantine
officials diagnosed as bubonic. So we
waited while they took section OF him
ashore. only to return after hours with
the glad news that it was simply re-
spectable but angry boil.
After this comforting assurance we
went ashore and had tiffin at the ele-
giant Alexander Young hotel, went OUT
to Waikiki beach for surf riding, bought
zurios, took trolley and carriage rides,
and in fact settled down to real hard
work as sightseers. L am, however,
going to put off the story of my own
adventures and get right down to the
story of Hawaii as it is and as 1t will
be when it gets to be a rubber pro-
Queer.
To go back little, the Sandwich is
lands were discovered in 177S by Cap
tain Cook, whom the natives believed
TO be edible, and whom they at once pro-
ceeded to get away with. Some time
IN the present century they were re-
discovered by William J. Gorham of
the Gorham Rubber Co, of San Fran
cisco. The natives did not cherish the
Illusions regarding him that they did
toward the former discoverer and he
got away with them. When I met him |
in Honolulu he had just subjugated ev-
cry trader in the group, and was plan |
ming to sell to a syndicate, enough of /
his wonderful steam hose to run pipe
line from the volcano of Kilauea to ;
Honolulu, to furnish steam for indus
trial purposes.
The islands comprising the Territory |
Of Hawaii are seven large ones and
quite a number of little ones. They
are Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molo-
kai, Lanai and Niihau. According to
the census of 1900 they had 154,001 in
habitants. OF these islands, the most
densely populated is that of Oahu, which
has nearly $4,000, and it is on this is
land that the city of Honolulu is sit
aated. The native populat alton today is
small, being less than one-third of the
total, the predominant races being the
chinese and the Japanese. Probably
no country in the world offers a great
or variety of beautiful scenery than
does this midocean territory of ours,
and not only is the scenery marvellous
and the arabic land rich and produc-
tive, but the climate is uniformly the
finest on earth. The very hottest day
iildt the ISLANDS can 1urnlSh VIII not
show a temperature of over 80 deg. F.
and it never gets colder than So deg.
On the mountain tops they have cool
nights. occasional frosts, and sometimes
a little snow, but anywhere near the
sea level there is beautiful May wealth
sr the year round. 1t is certainly a
nsherman's, huntsman's, bicyclist's,
automobilist's. or general tourists par
adise, and the American people are
rapidly waking up to the fact.
Sugar cane. of course, is the main {
crop in the Hawaiian islands. I have
forgotten exactly the number of acres
but think it is about 100000, most OF
which are titled by great corporations I
under their own plantation systems
There are. however, many small plan
ters whose cane finds a ready market
at the sugar mills. A great variety
II tropical fruits such as pineapples, ba-
hanas, alligator pears, oranges, etc, i
are also grown and a good deal of cof-
zee is raised while the Chinese planter i
IS quite a feature as rice producer | t
1t is claimed that there are at the 7
present time something like 1000 L
lcres of arabic land on the islands, T
most of it belonging to the govern h
nent. This may be easily acquired by a
hose who contemplate any sort of s
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