The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-17

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her violin with grace and ease.
/ Tickets at all music stores and from
pupils.
and waving handkerchief from the
hundreds below.
| Quickly the ship was unburdened of
| its passengers and Soon the pier was
alive with a hugging, handshaking
crowd. Captain Hamilton, the port
pilot, was the first to climb up the
rope ladder. A few minutes later seve-
| raj launches had slipped alongside
DR.. Weldon, the United States health
officer, followed the captain aboard,
but he found no sign Of illness. Until
the ship tied up to the dock at 10
o'clock. no one beside the port officers
were allowed TO go on board.
The returned excursionists were
united in singing the praises of the
voyage, of their treatment while on
board and of the generous-hearted
welcome they were accorded in Homo
lulu. Not only were they Toasted and
entertained with trips to the show
places of the island, but the natives
and others wished to load them all |
down with gifts, which, if they had |
been accepted, would have loaded the |
ship down
Besides the inspection of the boat
al re nv Ia
Ger there will be an equally rigid ex-
animation of all plants brought back
by officers of the State Horticultural Il
Society, which is concerned lest in
furious insects be brought from the
islands.
Aside from a storm into which it
ran few days out, the Ohio had a
pleasant trip. The rough sea set the
boat back two days in its journey and
during that time friends and relatives
here feared that some disaster might
have overtaken the ship. The stay in
the islands was spent IN cruising TO
points of interest and being feted in
Besides the excusionists there were
five passengers not in the book. These
were stowaways who hid themselves
in the hold among the freight in Homo
lu!o and did not show themselves for
several days. Two of these are women.
The Ohio also brought back a cargo
Of sugar
THE excursion was success from :
Every point of view," said r. Fl. Her.
on of the Chamber of Commerce com,
nittee of arrangements. "Of course,
where there are SO many there We're
bound to be few who were not ,
pleased. but believe that fully 80 per
cent of those who made the voyage
nave returned satisfied.
aside from a delightful pleasure
rip, substantial results to Los Ange-
es and Southern California will result
rom the trip. We received positive
assurances in Honolulu that $3.50, 900
would be raised there to establish a E
teamship line direct between that :
bort and San Pedro, and I think suchI .
line will be running before many
months. AS a business proposition I
'elieve it would pay almost from the
tart and a highly profitable trade for
his section could be worked up.
The people of the islands are some>
What worked up over the japanese
uestion. Undoubtedly the japanese r
re going to the islands in large num- /
ers, and they are not regarded as the
est of the Asiatic immigrants. There A
5 no such feeling against the Oh nese
nd they seem to have the confidence +
f the people on the islands. They are I
God laborers as well as shrewd mer-
hants and cut big figure in the COM
2erce of the islands.
we have much to learn from the
Tawaiians. Roads throughout the ISL r
nds are the best ever saw, and the [
eople have many admirable traits, of
-hich hospitality is not the least They r
did everything possible for
ur pleasure and comfort and we were |