The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-01-16

The paradise OF the Pacific: Who has
not felt the Jingle Of that phraze-all
the fairy dreams Of your youth come
fitting in realms ETHEREAL when Its
music is sounded in your ear. Perchanco
you think of it not only as an acquired
haven but heaven descending upon us
during time Of need-a Democratic ad-
ministration. Here it s-the refresh
ment station, furnishing coal for ships
of commerce and passenger steamers
and bit Of land recreation for weary
and seasick passengers. Nearly all
steamers, and cramps" plying across
the Pacific, stop here. A place sur
rounded BY the barren sea, over two
Thousand miles to the nearest continent,
albeit, in closer touch with the western
United States and the great Orient than
New York or London! There is the con-
slant entrance and exit Of foreign ships
and people. The Pacific cable puts them
in closer touch with the Associated
Press than hundreds OF continental
villages.
Ono is impressed with it being q
phenomenal thing; to say the least,
many are surprised on passing through
the break in the reef and steaming in
the smoother water to the docks, to
see such a city between the beach and
tho p1N nfos
OF tall ship masts stand like bars be-
tween you and the shore line.
Immediately upon landing, before you
is the business section. You will be
obliging to say nothing about the mar
row business streets. You will be
hurting the feelings of the "booster".
But modern are the buildings, some
skeletoned with steel and most of the
downtown buildings are walled with
stone. There are few finer hotel ac-
combinations than at YOUNGS in the
heart of the city and THE MOANA I'M
der the shadow of Diamond Head and
near the invigorating Waikiki beach.
On the tram car. A meek-eyed china
man to your left; a smiling faced Jap
to your right; Tahitian on the seat
before; crowd of native women and
girls behind you, vollied and th-mut-
tered. Whoop! Hurrah-e-e! We're off
for Waikiki! Along avenues shaded by
bright eyed acacias, algeroba trees,
past lines of stately Royal palm trees,
we soon break into the open where lie
the scattered suburbs. Here, pecu-
liar bean tree; there, banana planta-
ton with row after row of banana trees
weighted down with big punches of
partly ripe and partly green bananas.
Then to our left with another cocoanut
grove inverted busters, as fore
ground, are some native grass huts,
with native woman standing near the
car line. Upon our return, walking
this far before taking the car, she
gives US cocoanut each for which we
profusely thank her. Truly surround
ings sufficiently to the northern CONT
mental people to make one feel like he
had arrived in another world!
Now the beach. Hundreds in high
glee in the high waves at high tide
from noon till midnight. Men, women,
residenters and travellers, intoxicated
i'll the sport Of the tropics! The shady
trees and the soft green surrounding,
the golden beach by day; the long lines
OF gorgeous electric lights shining
like brilliant stars from the trees kiss
ing the sparkling waters at night.
Canoes and surf boards are brought
into play. Diving stands become the
delight Of swimmers. Tis truly marvel
GUS to witness how the native adepts
can lay surf board" to all appear
ances straight board about eighteen
inches wide and ten feet long and with
rounded edges, on the slant of big
wave, stand on it and ride one and two
hundred yards to the shore. While the
water becomes deep from the shore,
SAOAO 40 q SPtOuuAu COCdl F00I OuU a lew
hundred yards that protects this
bay of water from sharks.
mot day in tn year but wat We en-
battle in here, mister" is the word of
any from whom you may inquire. He
means to inform you not so much about
the bay as about the climate. How the
Hawaiian braces up to you, looks
straight in the eye and talks about the
wonderful climate. Mention midday of
summer to him, and he shrugs his
shoulders, plucks banana from the
rear yard tree, Offering it to you to re-
lieve the situation. However through
out the year, with the exception of the
real summer months, the days are not
sultry, and the evenings all the year
are the finest in the world.
"Up, up, gentlemen, if you want to
see Hawaii in all her glory" came the
early call of our host the next morning
after our arrival. Having been gen
erous to the fishes during the ionrnay