The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-11-15
As Others See Us
washin gton correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post accompanied Congressional Party

Honolulu is a clean city. The su,
geon-general of the United State
army has declared it the second health
lest post at which regular troops ar
stationed. The city has learned b
experience the high cost it must pa
in lives for uncleanliness. Diseases o
the torrid zone are swift and terribl
in their ravages and easily communi
Gated. All of the ports of these is
lands have suffered from infection
brought by ships. They have dearl,
purchased the knowledge of the valu,
| and necessity of sanitation.
Life is not the savage competition
here that it is at home. The stream
of affairs moves drowsily between
pleasant banks. No one lets bushes:
interfere with pleasure. The people
take plenty of time to divert them.
selves as one golden sunlit day and
soft silvery night succeeds another
Out at Waikiki they have a wonderful
curved crescent of hard white beach
with blue seas booming in ceaselessly
Every day in the year the surf is full
of bathers. The little children living
in the cottages along the beach front
spend their entire days in the milk
warm water, instead of on their green
lawns. BY the time they are six they
move about in the water with the un-
conscious skill of fishes.
SURF RIDfNG.
At Waikiki there is practised sport
which can be found only in the south
ern Pacific. This is surf riding This
may be done in an outrigger canoe or
an a surf board. One paddles far out
beyond the line of breakers to where
the great combers begin to form and
uprear their crested heads. Then seiz-
ing the right moment the canoe is
driven furiously towards the shore
until it is caught up on the crest of
wave and driven shoreward with a
dizzying velocity. 1t is a ride that
makes a toboggan slide seem almost
tame. With the surf boards the Ka-
naka boys spring upright as soon as
they are caught up by the waves, and
come sliding inshore apparently stand
ing on the crest of the wave, like some
young water god, their olive-hued
bodies glistening with spray and shin
ing insth sun.
GAY, BUT NOT FAST"
Honolulu has the reputation of being
a gay place. 1t is, but without being
fast" In the old days it welcomed
every newcomer warmly and did not
inquire too closely about his or her
credentials. Steamer days are still
marked with a red ring on the cal
endar. All the tide of travel between
the Pacific Coast and the Far East and
Australia halts for day and a night
at Honolulu, both going out and COM
ing back again. There is always dane
ing at the hotels in the evening when
a steamer comes in. There are lights
and music, soft laughter and bright
eyes to entertain the visitor, even
though he come for but a day, for
these are a pleasure loving people, and |
much given to a generous hospitality. |
HONOLULU, May 14.-In the gar
len of the old Queens palace is a |
leep-off- -the-grass sign phrased to |
meet the needs of this smelter pot of |
he nations. The legend is painted |
boldly and placarded: More better you
20 round" This tells story in itself.
There is a Japanese quarter in Homo
ulu. and a Chinese quarter, and a big
settlement, and still anoth-
r locality given over to the Porto
2icans. Significantly enough there is
10 Hawaiian quarter. 1t is only a
natter of time when there will be no
This is a depressing thought to those
Who have come to know the gentle,
ovable, generous, native character. In
S12 there were in the eight islands
hat form the group now known as
he Territory of Hawaii 1894 natives
nd 1887 part Hawaiians. By 1900 the
atives had dwindled to 29.7S7, and the
art Hawaiians had Increased to 7S4S
here has been a further decrease of i.
atives since 1900. When Capt. James
'ook discovered the islands in 177S it
) estimated that they were support
lg population of more than 100000.
While the Hawaiians have been de- {
reasing rapidly their places have been
AIKEN by flood of Asiatics. In 1872 {
here were 1888 Chinese in the islands,
nd in 1900, 25,762. The japanese, how {
yer, have outstripped all others. i
here is no record of their presence in .
lie islands prior to 1884, when 116 were
numerated. Six years later their
umbers had increased to 1880, and {
x years after this, in 1896, there were |
lore than $4,000 of them. The census
1900 shows 61,115. Throughout the {
stands there are more than twenty &
ifferent races and nationalities iiv- I
lg in apparent peace, concord, and I
1t is no uncommon thing {
, find eight or ten nationalities and /
We or six different peoples represent
in schoolroom of forty children. l
The native-born population of the I
erritory is made up of Hawaiians, '
art Hawaiians, Caucasians, Portu- Z
uese, negroes, South Sea Islanders, '
apanese and Chinese. The foreign
orn people in the islands distributed Q
,cording to country of birth are from
lie Atlantic islands, Austria, Canada, I
hina, England, Germany, Ireland,
apan, Norway and Denmark, Pacific G
lands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Z
weden, and other countries.
THE JAPANESE QUARTER.
There are parts of Honolulu where i.
stranger, strolling down the street,
light readily fancy himself in Maya
Xxi, or any one of the freQuented :
lpanese ports. There are japanese !,
lops. hotels, theaters, residences, .
,urchaS opd v-bo+ ,o+ r-t,o -1.-r.