The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-17
ARMADA MEN, ALOHA! !.

Under the above caption, the Pacific
Prospect Magazine. Ilonolulu's new
monthly, publishes tne following arti-
Gle:
This is Honolulu, gentlemen, the
Honolulu you've had pointed out to
you on the map away back in the
little old red school house, the teach
e,'s pointer just for second touch
ing speck in the Pacific Ocean
which was as likely as not labeled
The Sandwich Islands.
Perhaps you thought Honolulu was
one of the islands and there were
few singed grass huts on the edge
of a volcano which ever and anon
spat flame which burned a few Of
the hay-homes and sprinKIed molten
lava in the backwards of others.
When you went to school, most Of
you, you learned less of these same
Sandwich Isles than you did of the
paleozoic age or the psychological
law of correspondence or affinIties,
but that was probably because we
were only on the map as curio and
had not yet, as now, doomed into
worldwide Importance as "a strategic
point in affairs present and to come
And you, men of the great Allan
tic fleet, out for circle of the globe
and for frolic or fight as history
shapes itself, are doing a lot to-
ward making us feel very important
just now.
You'll hear of Honolulu again, some
day, just as surely as we, with the
rest of the world, will hear of you
May we of Honolulu be as certain
OF always giving as good an account
of ourselves as you,' gentlemen OF
the American Atlantic armada, are
Icertain of ever and under all condl-
tons giving a glorious account OF
yourselves.
We hope, you people of the great
Pacific peace patrol, that you Will
find your way back to our port some
day and since you must leave so
quickly, on the continuation of your
mighty mission, take with you our
hearty Aloha and this brief idea OF
Hawaii
We call it the Paradise of the Pa
lcific and it Is to many OF us, though
YOU have and doubtless will behold
other places which impress you as
Ifayorably. Hawaii is the western
sentinel of our Uncle Sam and the
halfway house between home and the
Philippines, also the intermediate OF
Orient and Occident. She is the pin
nacled pause between the newest of
the New World and the Oldest of the
Old World, the port of call for YES
sells from China, Japan, the Philip
pines, Australia, New Zealand, Sa-
moa. Fiji, Chill, Peru, Panama, Mex
leo, the United States, Canada, and
from around the Horn and Good
Hope. She is touched by all peoples,
enjoyed by all the earth!
Hawaii is soon to become the for
tress of this ocean, the Gibraltar of
the Pacific, the Port Arthur of the
western sea.
Pearl Harbor is as great as any
in the world in point of opportunities,
opportunities about to be speedily
made advantages. There we are to
have drydock of granite which will
be large enough to take in battle
ships which may be designed in the
next generation, for the Navy depart
i! ment is looking well ahead. The
Pearl Harbor station will be mode
OF it's kind, with the best and mos
thorough coaling, cold storage, repair
ing and handling facilities, and it will
cost at least ten millions of dollars
a a when complete.
n Honolulu and Hilo harbors, Hilo be
ing our second port and on the Isl
and of Hawaii, are in process of i'm
pIovement. If the advance in Homo
in proportion in the next decade al
1t has been in the last ten years, w
: will have harbor into which ever.
= one of the sixteen battleships of thi
: present Atlantic fleet, and their col
3 Tiers and supply ships, could fin,
berths and handling with despatch.
g On this island of Oahu there
a in an advanced stage of installation
the greatest long distance wireless
I station in this giant Of the seve
= seas
We have a cosmopolitan commur
ity in which, more significant tina
anything else, is being worked on
If probably more satisfactorily tina
anywhere else on the globe the pr
millenial problem OF universal. brotl
erhood.