The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-06
SAW The
ISLANDS
Visit OF a Tacoma Man
to the Pacific
Paradise.

Saturday after brief vacation trip tc
| the Hawaiian Islands on the steamship
| Olympia. in discussing his trip yester-
| day, said:
1--WE have had a glorious time. These
! islands truly deserve the name the
| Paradise of the Pacific 1t is no long
er proper to call them the Sandwich
| islands. In the general description is
sued by the United States photographic
| office, Washington, D. c., we read:
The name Sandwich islands was given
to this group by Captain Cook at the
| time of it's discovery by him in ITS,
in honor of the earl of Sandwich, who
was the first lord of the British ad-
miralty, but the name Hawaiian ISL
ands, derived from that of the largest
island in the group and the official
name used by the people of the islands
has nearly superseded the former The
group is now a territory of the United
H.'-territory of Hawaii.
"Why Seattle allowed the name
Sandwich to be dropped needs expla-
nation. Surely a first lord Of the
British admiralty is as important an
individual as a rear admiral. Captain
Cook revisited the islands and was as
sassinated. Vancouver visited Puget
Sound soon after; he saw Mount Ia
coma, named it Rainier after his friend
the rear admiral, and sailed away. The
native name Hawaii is, of course,
Tacoma is than Rainier. visit to
these islands is truly an event of
lifetime. Honolulu on the island of
Oahu-the capital, is the chief port. It
is very cosmopolitan. 1t has its Chi
nese, Japanese, Portuguese and native
quarters. 1t is beautiful city from
tanned here by the brothers McCand-
less, who have been on the islands for
the past twenty-five years, and who
have taken no small part in the devel-
and politically. James McCandless
devoted all his time to us while we
We're in Honolulu, showing us every
thing we had time to see. We enjoyed
trip with John McCandiess in his
magnificent automobile up the Nuuanu
valley to the famous Nuuanu Pail the
precipfce over which Kamehameha I.
drove his enemies in 1895 and gained
the signal victory which practically
made him the first king of the islands.
THE historical places around Homo
lulu are, of course, interesting only to
those who are familiar with Hawaiian
history. Now that these islands are
ours, their history in the future will
become more familiar. In bounding
along over the beautiful macadamized
road down the Nuuanu valley from the
Pail, and admiring the city in the dis
lance, the harbor with it's shipping
and the ocean beyond, Mr.. McCandless
said to me: We have all heard the
motto of Tacoma, and we are pleased
to watch it grow, but there is a new
American shibboleth that appeals far
more to us Hawaiains. 1t is ''See Amer |
lea First
These Islands are part of America. I
Here we have perpetual sunshine ,
spring and summer alternating each |
other all the year through; an equable |
climate with no excessive heat, tropi-
cal fruits in abundance and surf bath :
ing at all times that cannot be sur
passed anywhere. See America First
means see these islands and enjoy real
life.
I'VE spent an evening at the beauti-
ful home of John McCandless, which
nestles in grove of about 100 cocoa
nut trees fronting on the beautiful
Waikiki shore near Kapiolani park.
TO wake up in Honolulu at the dawn
s to be greeted by the songs of thou
sands of birds chief of which are the
english sparrow. the nina and the
'ice-bird. These We're introduced to fill
/ Iong-felt want in the islands, but
hey have become a nuisance. The
ice-birds cost the Chinese rice farmer
thousands of dollars in gunpowder to
'rotect his fields. The English sparrow
Gems more impudent there than any
Vhere else, While the nina, almost as
mpudent and as numerous as the
parrow, has through his lack of a gtz-
ard scattered the lantana seed far
III W lde- 1HlS Is q that ,
rows up very fast on neglected places
nd through which it is difficult
or man or animal to go. 1t re- ,
uires eternal vigilance to keep it I'M
er control These birds were brought
o the islands by DR.. Hillebrand about
S74. who probably pinned for the song
irds of England. Old country folks. | ,
Ike myself, sadly miss the song birds :
f the old land in this beautiful Puget .
'ound country We ought to have !
hem Our climate is suitable to them I
IN organized effort should be made for ,
heir introduction. We have the Eng 8
sh sparrow. and he will soon become
nuisance, as he is in most Eastern !
tiles. We have him without his an :
idote. whatever it may be. He is not {
nuisance in the old country When 7
'e get it he viii become less impudent r
nd more appreciated. The rice-bird 7
would be pleasing thing to see hop-i :
ing about our lawns: there is no rice r
ere for him n dac=rov orr IA ,