The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-05
HAWAII THE MOST
FAVORED OF LANDS

HONOLULU, T. H, May 16.-Great
literary lights, from Mark Twain and
Robert Louis Stevenson to Jack Lon
don and the Honolulu Promotion Com
mittee, have made much of the beau
ties Of Hawaii. In truth the land OF
never-ending spring is a paradise for
tourists. II is land, longed-for land,
after at least six days on the ocean.
For this reason one always beholds it
in both joy and gratitude-even the
best tourist sailor welcomes the port
of call. Hawaii, lying just within the
border of the tropics, is yet so fortu-
nately situated that it is best with all
the beauties of tropic lands while es-
Gaping the curses of the torrid zone.
The beneficent trade-winds sweep over
the Islands fer nearly the whole year,
melting all the seasons into one, and
that one Spring.
Here. then, is the charm of tropical
seas, the wealth of tropical fruits, the
delight of tropical flowers; in short,
the land that has-never known and
never will know the sere and yellow
leaf. Here, too, is that mysterious rug
! gedness of volcanic piles which tells
/ that Hawaii. most favored of lands, is
also the youngest of the isles of the
sea. Nothing is gray-the barest and
/ ruggedest OF volcano sides is never
neutral in color. a cloud floating over
the valley, or csinging to the mountain
/ side, may suggest shadows of gray, but
there is more in it of ashes of roses or
the heart of the turquoise.
The modern globe trotter demands
hn hpa Of n ha
TO him on a golden salver with al the
latest conveniences. Hawaii meets this
demand. Honolulu's hotels are of the
best and varied to suit the taste. In
one eff them, a great pile of stone and
mortar, one might think himself liv-
ing in a Broadway hosiery. In anoth-
er, framed in a setting of exotic flow
ers. one finds still lingering the atmos-
phere Of the old Hawaiian royalty. Yet
another spreads its quiet verandas
where the surf of the finest bathing
beach in the world threatens to break
over the breakfast table.
One is whisked in a rapid automobile
over a perfect road of asphalt and ma
cadam TO the magnificent precipice Of
the Pal the trysting place of the
winds and the grandstand before which
Hawaii proudly displays one of the
most inspiring views in the world. One
takes a Pullman car on the toy rail-
road for a journey TO the other side
of the Island. In Hawaii, and Hawaii
only. can one have his dinner or a
hotel veranda overlooking a lake of
living fire in the crater of the greatest
active volcano on the globe. This great
sight is only four days and forty dol
lars from Honolulu To Hawaii's ma
;ural beauties, and 70 its perfect eli
mate. have been added all the convent
ences which modern American civiliza-
ton can suggest for the care and en-
tertainment Of the visitor, be he sight
seer, commercial traveller or prospec- |
tor. M f18e
To most American visitors, except |
those who live along the Pacific Coast,
il is the up-to-dateness of Hawaii |
which is its most striking feature. A
in an Ohio city few weeks |
ago caused much amusement in Homo
lulu by its astenished comment upon
a copy of the Honolulu Pacific Com
mercial Advertiser, which by chance
had fallen into the hands Of Buckeye
editor. The Ohio man thought it worth
comment in his columns, and in an
amazed tone informed the public of the
fact that Honolulu was a place where
people not only conformed to the con-
ventions Of life, but had a newspaper.
From letters that constantly come to
Honolulu il is to be seen that the
Ohio EDITORS ignorance upon the sub
ject of actual conditions in this really
part of the United States
is widespread. In the Pacific Coast
states. TO which Honolulu is as near
as New York. the people know better,
but east Of the Rocky Mountains Ha-
waiians complain that the prevailing
ideas of these Islands are obtained
from pictures of the death of Captain
Cook in the old-fashioned geography.
The Sandwich Islands were savage a
century ago, but the modern circum-
navigator of the globe who stops in
Honolulu will have no need to look
al the Stars and Stripes to tell him
that he is in an American town, with
all the American attributes. The Mer-
~ Widow hat. the Diabolo top, AMI
all the little fads and fancies of our
national life have their run in Homo
lulu just as promptly as they d" in
Quincy. Illinois, or Bangor Maine.
II is interesting to know that wire
less telegraphy was first used in prac-
teal commercial affairs in Hawaii.
The first commercial system installed
oy Narconi was that connecting the
Stands of the Hawaiian group, and this
preceded for some time the connection
# the islands with the rest of the
world by submarine cable. The ques-
ion Of inter-island communication had
always been a perplexing one. Ho-
nolulu was the capital. both politically
and financially, and the people were
put TO great inconvenience by the ne
,essity of waiting upon communication ]
~ slow and irregular steamers from ]
sland TO island. Experiments were I
made toward an inter-island cable, but
Is the channels are so very deep the
shore ends were cut off on the sharp {
oral reefs almost before the cable was {
aid. I
once the people turned to carrier |
pigeons as their saviors. Pigeons were {
bought, cotes erected, and arrange t
nents made to forward messages and S
etters from one island to another by {
means Of the homing birds. But the
pigeons failed to become a commercial {
success. Then came Marconi's discov- I