The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-03
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"You need some good workers
throughout the country keeping track
of the people who go every year to
Europe and to Florida and Bermuda.
then address them personally and keep
on following up the letters with others.
You are not known at all on the main
land"
The hope of the General is that of
many who have visited Honolulu for
the first time. He is so delighted with
the country himself that he wonders
why others are not told Of it's beau
ties and urged to come here to see for
themselves. He wants to share with
others the delight he feels in simply
being in Hawaii His suggestions
carry weight from the fact that he has
been an extensive traveller throughout
America, Europe and Asia, having
travelled over the tourist routes and
noted the methods adopted to promote
travel.
It was in 1878 that General Pratt first
met General Armstrong, "a man of
whom you people have every reason to
be proud he said. He had been sent
into Florida in charge of seventy-four
Indian prisoners, captured by the
troops in one of the many wars in the
Indian Territory. When the time came
for returning these hostiles to their
home, twenty-five of the younger men
expressed a wish to stay in the East
if they could be educated. The Gen
eral, then a cavalry captain, took up
the matter for them and interviewed
General Armstrong, who had not up
until that time considered the plan of
adding an Indian branch to his work
among the negroes. General Armstrong
grasped the suggestion eagerly, how
ever, stating that he had commenced
to find it difficult to interest the public
in the negro question alone and thought
that the idea of working for the In
dams would renew interest in his ife's
work. Seventeen of the Indians were
at once entered at Hampton, the other
five being placed elsewhere. At the
same time Captain Pratt was ordered
by the War Department to assist Gen
eral Armstrong in his work.
ST was made a part of his show" said
General Pratt, smiling, land we went
around the country. The first address
General Armstrong made on the Indian
question was in New York, and we
had a great audience, among those
present being the Vanderbilts, Goulds,
Astors and others. And General Arm
strong knew how to talk to them. His
experience with the missionaries of this
place had taught him how to get things
and his mission was a success.
But he nearly wore me out. He did
kill himself eventually, sacrificing him
self on the altar of his great ambition
to help the negroes and the Indians.
He was ever on the move, boiling his
food and then dashing out to one of
his many appointments in every place
we went. I had to tell him that he
had to ease up, / couldn't stand the
pace. My nerves and my stomach We're
commencing to so back on me. But
he kept the pace up until he fell dead
in the midst of his work
General Pratt then told Of his work
at Carlisle. saying for one thing that
the Carlisle graduates were lied about
more than most people. His interest
in the manual training of the Indians
leads him to take a great interest in
such work everywhere and he is lcok-
ing forward to a visit to the Kameha-
neha schools.