The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-08
HER PARTING
IMPRESSIONS
Mrs. McHatton's Letter
Home Regarding
Hawaii.

Mrs Mediation, of the Southern Cali
ried here for longer visit when the
main body left. She has kindly fur
nished the Advertiser with the follow
ing copy of a letter written for a paper
in Ell Paso, Texas, where she has both
social and property interests. Mrs.
Mediation, who intends to leave in the
Ventura tomorrow, takes this manner
of showing her appreciation of Hawaii
and it's people:
Honolulu, Oahu, Oct. 5, 1906.
Dear News. l don't know any reason
why [ should not write you a short
letter. You know Great Caesar dead
and turned to clay may serve to stop
hole to keep the wind away So
even so small a parsonage as myself
may write line that will serve to
crafty the curiosity of anyone who has
noticed my absence or cares to know
my whereabouts or surroundings.
Well, we drifted away out here on the
Pacific, with headquarters in Honolulu,
called here the halfway house be-
tween San Francisco and Australia.
There are several other points of in
terest en- route. such as Samoa, the
favorite resort of the late lamented
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Then there is Page Page, in the Sa-
moan group, Uncle's Sam naval station
beneath the Southern Cross, and Auck-
land, the commercial capital of New
Zealand. All these are points of great
interest to the traveller, and their peo-
pie are good neighbors, all spoken of
as one family out here by these big
hearted, broad-minded folks.
But I must rein in my Pegasus,
which. by the way, is an ocean steamer
-one of those ocean greyhounds that
have for the last few months kept
things lively by chasing each other up
on the coral reefs in our neighborhood.
After discovering that they were not
a success in that line of locomotion,
they have, one after another. backed
down into their own native element
and come limping into port here, |
where we all went down to the wharf, |
and received the dear boys with open
arms and hearts full of sympathy and |
gratitude for their safe return. This |
is not poety-it is the sternest kind of
prose.
But this is not telling you about |
Hon-o-hon-o-lu-lu, lulu, hi. Pronounce
it If you can. That is the way the |
band boys sing it here as nearly as I |
can write it, Oh, it is fine. Think I'll |
build me a grass house. as the natives |
used to do, and stay here as long as
else does. I like these people |
OF course, we do not come |
into contact directly much with the |
native Kanaka. But the old stagers |
mostly Americans, who have lived here
from ten to twenty-five years, are char
acters, and are full of interest to an
observing mind. They are generous, |
clever and shrewd. The native Kanaka
is in many respects a counterpart, or
better said, of our Mexi |
can population across the Rio Grande.
This territory, lying as it does in
about the same latitude as Mexico.
mostly between Is and % degrees
north, must of necessity be very SINH
cially the sea coast portions. Most
of the face of the country here is
usually covered with |
dense vegetation some call timber, with
the underground a dense jungle. VAL
eys intervene. which are beautiful and
usually we'll cultivated. Further back
from the coast are some fine areas of
mesa land, thousands of acres in ext
tent, ideal for cultivation. the only |
drawback being that they require irri- /
cation, and water is in very limited |
supply and will need much time and |
capital to afford a sufficient quantity. |
But this line of development is already |
being vigorously prosecuted by brave, |