The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-23

comes from over the sea, some from wv /
East and the remainder from the West
Canned goods. groceries, carriages hats
shoes furniture, crockery household |
effects. nearly everything except cof-
fee. taro strawberries, poultry grass
mats and sugar, is imported. Even .
some hay is brought from California .
on every steamer
The chief resource of the city beyond |
what Il derives from retail merChandiz- |
ing, politics and tilling Of its tributary !
soil. is the opulent tourist lie Is /
cont 'nual distributor of largess. To /
make him disgorge the hotel keeper |
lies i'm ambush and the hackman plies /
the brigands trade For the tourist /
the price of everything he wants that |
white men can supply scars ON high !
/ The Chinese sell him curios and cloth |
ing cheaply but his Christian brother
heeces him until he has no wool.
( For recreation the native goes fish
/ ing. He strips himself of clothing
/ down to the simple clout and pushes
off i'm a long. narrow canoe with out
Triggers into the still water behind the
coral wall guiding his frail craft with
paddles He feels his way to some
narrow break in the Jagged Gordon of
reefs and waits until the last and high
comber has wasted itself i'm the shall
lows. In the nick of time he shoots
his canoe through the channel and rides
/ over the waves like a waterfowl, paus-
ing on easy swells beyond.
; A mile from shore he let's down his
crude fish lines made Of grass with
chunk of iron for a sinker. Then he
usually takes a drink from his newt
able bottle of gin and patiently waits
for a bite in the ocean depths below.
The world knows comparatively moth
ing about the great fortunes that have
been amassed in Hawaii in the last
thirty years. The children of the YAM
kee missionaries who sailed from BOs-
ton and Gloucester around the Horn to
carry the gospel to the Sandwich ISL
ands in the '30s and 4Os, are the rich
est and most aristocratic people in Hoo
nolulu. For mere songs the sons of
missionaries obtained great tracts OF
marvelously fertile soil for sugar plant
/, ing in the valley of the islands and
, with their natural enterprise and in
ventive spirit they developed theSgreat-
est sugar cane plantations in the
! world.
When the United States gave a treaty
to the Hawaiian kingdom putting Ha-
waiian raw sugar on the free tariff list
the profits of the sugar planters went
b up at a bound. That was in 1868. For
twenty-five years the dividends of the
several of the Yankee companies oper-
ating sugar plantations and mills in the
islands ranged from Is to 80 per cent a
= year. The Hawaiian Commercial Su-
gar Company paid "a per cent dividends
annually from 1870 to 1882. The world
. has never known productiveness so
rich as that of the valleys of Maui and
Hawaii for sugar cane. The seed had
I only to be planted and the rains fell
and nature did the rest. one tract
of 1900 acres Of land on Maui was
Q given to a young American, who mar
3 ried a bewitching Kanaka girl, by her
t father who was delighted to have a
I pale-faced son-in-law. 1t was worth
about 5000 at that time. The tract sub
$ sequently became a part of a great SUI
gar plantation 1t was bought by
s Claus Spreckels for $175lOOO and is
= worth at least $780, 900 today.
t of the islands. 1t is almost wholly in
d the hands of the Chinese. The crop
n demands great quantities of water, for
d the fields sown with grain are flooded
d to dept of two and three feet twice a
= year Seven tons of rice to an acre
are common in Hawaii. Nowhere
= else in the world is there such produc-
It tiveness.
: The cultivation of coffee has in
d creased wonderfully since Hawaii be.
IS came an American territory. Wher
i King Kalakaua was on the throne the
a annual exports of coffee rarely exceed
e ed $4,000. The soil and climate of Ha
4, wall are admirably adapted to coffee
lie growing and there are thousands O
d acres on the mountain sides where No
IS l Mocha may be grown at good profit
ic Last years production of coffee herr
was $1,2OO,OOO.
'e Bananas have become an article o
is profit to the islands since 1886. TIT
re exports of these have increased fas
lie each year
l. In the line of fruit there is grea
4 abundance everywhere in Hawaii
IS Many delicious fruits have never beef
l. shipped away from the islands. Tam
Il arinds, guavas, figs, papaias, oranges
y lemons, lines, vi apples, pears, blu
s. mangoes, ohias or mountain grapes o
at peculiar sweetness and pineapples groN
&c in profusion.
tie oahu has many places of interes
rs outside of Honolulu. One may visi
h the sugar plantations, rice farms, an
er may go to Pearl Harbor or the Punch
he bowl The later is an extinct vol
rs cano rising a few hundred feet abov
at the town. Another resort is the Pal
ar the highest point in the pass throug
n the range of mountains that divide
re Oahu, 1t is the fashion, and a yer
ps good fashion 1t is, to see the Pail an
ne praise it's charms. 1t is the Yosemit
er of Hawaii.
ey The view from this height sweeps tn
10 whole island from north to south. l
r. tho direction Of the CaDital the Ian