The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-03-06
TAKEN IN BY
GOV. CLEGHORN

General" Hollister, who writes tn
intensely interesting letter printed be
ton and his comrade through the Wa
of the Rebellion. He is author o
Navajo and His Blanket This let
ter comes to the Advertiser through
the courtesy of Miss Anne Marie Pres
colt, editor of the Honolulu Times:
Denver, Colorado, Feb. 6, 1908.
Brother Joseph Dutton, Kalawao, Mo-
lokai, H. T.
My Dear Dutton: I acknowledge re-
ceipt of Picturesque Honolulu" from
your hands, for which I thank you
very much. 1t is a very interesting
document and the Promotion Commit
tee seem to be doing a good work.
took such fancy to Honolulu while
there three of four years ago that
build 'air castles once in awhile,
thinking that if my fortune will ever
1
there and finish up" in that beautiful
climate. There is so much there that
! I am perfectly in harmony with. 1t
is such a lazy country, and the natives
are so good-natured, and the sea bath
ing so fine, and the horticultural prod
ucts all have a charm for me, and the
morning air is like old wine. I know
it is foolish for old men to be building
castles in the air." but sometimes we
can at least lay the foundations and
doing that much.
I must relate a little incident: We
landed at Honolulu on March 9th
about p. m. We could not get any
rooms at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel
on account of a big bunch of Cooks
tourists having engaged rooms at the
hotel, so we drove out to Waikiki and
stopped at the Moana Hotel. AS we
were much interested in the growth
Of vegetation, we asked where we
would find a good representative gar
den, as we would like to look it over
as we were to sail in the morning. We
were informed that the best thing of
the kind was that of Ex-Governor
Cleghorn, but that he would not per-
NIT strangers on his grounds. We con-
cluded that we would go down and
look over the fence any way. On
our arrival we found the great big gate |
open, and we walked in and down the |
road, following the winding paths |
around the place until we were pretty |
we'll satisfied, and as we were coming |
out at the gate we met the gentleman.
explained to him that we were in
truders, but that, in passing, the beau
ty of the place was so great that we
could not resist going in. I then in
my friend as Colonel" Kirk
patrick, and he in turn introduced me
as General Hollister. Whether the
titles impressed the old gentleman, or
whether it was our courtesy in begging
pardon for the intrusion, I do not
know, but he asked us to go back with
him. We spent an hour in going
around his beautiful ten acre planta-
ion, and he explained to US, and gave
20 US the names of all the tropical
regetation growing there; he told us
low old the banyan tree was that COW
,red his bungalow, and when he plant !
d the cocoanut trees that are now in /
ull bearing, and wound up by taking
Is into his house where he had a very /.
argd. room, which, as 1 now remember 7
t, was fifty or sixty feet square, fur t
lished very richly, and in which he S
lad very fine collection of old Ha- :
vaiian curios in which I was very +
much interested. Then he rang a bell t
nd a Jap woman came out, and he y
aid something to her in Hawaiian,
'hich we understood later must have Il
cen Scot h whiskey and cigars" as
hat is whin: she brought out. We sat I
own and d INK and smoked and chat Il
ed, and welt away highly impressed 7
18th the hospitality and courtesy of o
ne man whok. we had been cautioned b
OF to intrude upon. p
On our return we were there ten =,
ays and visited all the interesting $,
oints mentioned in the publication. V
7ent out to the sugar cane fields and d
ILLS, and out to the Pail where the -
ind blows about 100 miles an hour all II
le time, and where my friend lost his el
at, which, I suppose, is somewhere Il
ear the Samoan Islands by this tine. v
7e were obliged to hitch our horses ir,
sheltered place, and it was with CT
lie utmost difficulty that we could get fl
p the road, by hugging close to the "
all, and look over the cliff out to sea. ,,
was a beautiful sight. 1 believe the So
ind always blows there, and it is a HI
rror. II
We have been talking lately of MAX :.
g trip out there next winter If Sc