Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-20

cable charges being so high they are al
most prohibitive. The rates of living at
the hotels are 50 to IS per day (European),
although good accommodations can be had
for $50 per month (American). The Young
hotel is a superb structure 600 feet long
and six stories high. built of sandstone and
granite at a cost of over 100000, and
compares favoraby with the best hostel
ries on the American continent. Secret
and fraternal and beneficial societies are
very strong here, especially the Odd Eel
lows and Masons, who own their own hand
some temples in the heart Of the city.
Christmas day our party attended serv-
ices at the Japanese Congregational church,
the Portuguese Evangelical and the Homo
lulu Roman Catholic cathedral. At each
the services were highly appreciated. New
Years day we took leisurely stroll
through the most thickly settled portion of
the Japanese and Chinese district inhabited
exclusively by these nationalities, thus OBJ
tanning a lucid and distinct idea of the
modes of living of these people in their own
oriental country. 1t was a day education
ally we'll spent. 1 have yet to see a quar-
rel or fracas of any kind among the youths
or adults of these staid, Industrious people,
while 1 have not observed one inebriate
among them, the only drunkenness l see
mere Is Win the white race,
The Punch-Bowl mound hill, closely
hugging the city is 800 feet high it con-
tains a dead volcanic crater with sub
merged lava laying around that was ex-
PEELED from the burning pit ages ago; many
of these dormant volcanoes that performed
their functions in centuries gone by, are
distributed throughout the islands. The
only real live actual volcano, and the larg-
est known to mankind, is located at
Kilauea, on the island of Hawaii, go miles
from Honolulu by rail, boat and stage.
This immense burning mountain Is con-
stantly doing something, its crater is three
miles in length and breadth. 1t appears
cloudy in the day time but is brilliantly
illuminated at night the impressive
grandeur Of this lake of perpetual fire is
best appreciated at night and no such
weird scene is afforded In the world as
that of its roaring, fiery pillows and its
fountain of flame that shoots up here and
there like geysers. 1t is a thing of terror
and dsmay, yet spectacular Of the grandest
admiration.
At Waikiki, on the beach five miles from
the city, is located the aquarium, where 1t
is said the finest and most marvellous col
lection of the finny tribes in the world can
be seen. The exhibit is so magnifciently
grand language is inadequate to describe
it. one Of the wOndrOus environs of Homo
lulu that all strangers desires to see is the
Pail six miles up the mountain range. You
enter a broad canyon one mile wide. with
a gradual ascent and conservative narrow
ing until you reach the summit, where
the open space is only 100 yards wide and
the driveway apparently abruptly ends at
the Pail, a great high cliff with its preci-
pice almost perpendicular 600 feet above
the broad fertile valley below and broad
ocean beyond. This picturesque scene
presents a panoramic view seldom seen
anywhere. On this great heighth the wind
blows a perpetual gale Of twenty to forty
miles per hour for days at a stretch.
One hours ride from the city by rail
watts you through vast pineapple fields,
ripe with the lucious fruit and lands you
at the Eva Sugar plantation. Here we
were shown the mechanical process OF
manufacturing the sweet staple from Its
incipient stage in the cane to its finished
condition ready for the table. To show the
stupendous out put Of this universally used
product, this plant alone placed on the
market last year over 5000 tons, while
the whole island production amounted 10
the immense volume of $4,000 tons. This
great industry requires an army Of 1000
workmen 10 operate the various plants.
My article is becoming too long. and,
therefore, 1 must close by wishing the
editor OF The Bee and its numerous readers
a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
DAVID ANDERSON.
Honolulu. II. T., Jan. {. 1907