The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-19
Honolulu


While Honolulu has not lost it's ear
uer and distinctive charm, it has grown
into a city Of modern aspects and fac5l-
tiles. What survives Of native ways
Of living Is not much seen IN either
the ground plan or architecture Of the
place. though it RAY be felt in certain
existing customs and modes Of hospi-
tality- A stranger searches IN vain for
the grass hut and the haIf-naked saw
age Of the postal cards. It is much
easier 10 find the adobe house and the
Mexican vaauero in California. Homo
lulu, in its chief characteristics. belongs
as much as do any of the American
coast cities TO the twentieth century.
This is one Of the first Thoughts OF
the sea traveller on approaching IL
Honolulu, save for its palm pIumes and
its background Of extinct volcanoes,
might pass for any prosperous Amer
lean summer capital and small COM
fTnereial port. There are the busy tugs
and coasters in the harbor, the moored
deep-water ships, the docks. marine
ways, warehouses. oil tanks, the brick
and stone business section. with six
story structures here and there. and
beyond are the shaded villa homes,
stretching over a plain, where church
spires now and then emerge from trees,
climbing the slopes Of hills and lined
up along a nearby curving beach, where
the suburban hotels and bathing re-
sorts abide
Fifty years ago one landed in Ho-
nolulu from an outrigger canoe. man
ned by swarthy natives. who had pad
died a mile or more TO meet the ship
Now an ocean liner ties up AZ d fine
dock. one Of many, and the passenger.
after giving his checks to the baggage
man. steps off into a waiting hack or
automobile. He rides 10 his hotel through
macadanized streets. which are also
lraversed by electric cars He sees
telephone, FIRE alarm ana electric light
ing wires, and notices that people are
buving and selling the same classes Of
goods, save those inhibited by the eli
mate. that he saw last IN the store
windows of Chicago and San Francisco
One thing especially suits his ideas
| of what a city should be-the general
cleanliness Of streets and people And
that is one Of modern Honolulu's best
| points Sometimes a Northern town
nav let dirt accumulate without hay
ing men decay tropical one, never
4 Southern seaport, especially, must De
always On its guard against diseases OF
rha torid gone which ara left BY ships
that touch and go. It took some years
and some punisnments 10 teach Homo
l11Iu the gospel of sanitation, but il has
learned the lesson, and now the city
dnds itself conapl1mented in the report
Of the Surgeon-General Of the Army as
being the. second heaILhiesL post IN
which United states troops serve.
Alaska appearing as the first ON the
list
/ To specify some details Of interest II
brief form: Honolulu has from 4a,V9o
Ia e. 600 fabitants about 1000 O
whom are OF unmixed Caucasian blood.
tie rest being Hawafians. Portuguese,
japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Porto F-lc-
ans and negroes (the latter being leWos
80 miles Of weI-cared-for streets,
which are heightened, IN some lnsLan-
ces. bv YnacadanIzed highways, reach
ing far into the country There are
fva marks. Few modern comforts or
public utilities are wanting ID mono
min whose people, being wealthy and
pubsie-spiritad, have not been WILING
"a lag in The path Of progress Long
rszarz
usa elsewhere II was operating here,
ard fts system now covers not only
the CAPITAL city, but al the Islands OF
the groun. All tho Islands Of the group
ara connected with Honolulu by wire
lass telegraph. and Honolulu with the
world nv cable An electric car sys-
4ern af the most modern kind gives the
r;+v rand transit, and The greater part
re +he island behind il is served oy q
railroad. Two electric lighting plants
and ore gas plant exist, there are
+F7-aa ice factories, two iron fou2oTles,
4hraa saiIx new spapers n English, re-
9Asvfrsr Associated Press cablegrazl4s
rwica a day, and about twenty-five
-. publications.. The banks number seven
+rraa being Aslatic branch establish
let's There is q stock and bond e1-
gnange. various trust companies. pa1d
6ra DEPARTMENT growing system o.
u-aterworks. and well drilled police ana
-,3s;+sa hacked by garrison Of regular
ir7fanfrv and marines Honolulu Is
governed ov county supervisors =
,5aaca IF education, religion and refine
-nan4 Honolulu has twelty-four cnurcn
e.zsfzcaS q college doing really useful
-z-,rk public schools accoEnu 7odata1as
! ga nupfls and private schools seTF-
Inv the intellectual needs q Ss11V, IAl7
attendance being wonderfully mixed a.
"a race. a public library ana II as9alllf
a historical society four social eluoa,
ona being Of university deE1F sa-lsz-' 80
NJ C A. and y " Z A. -
Mems Institute, INo q - =,
branches Of al the pFlnels'ai