The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-12

black and beetIing cliff, and around i
came the little 90 Alameda. - rolling ant
plunging in a swell that did not ever
disturb the stately calm of our giantess
/ 1t was soon before we really warped
TO the wharf, alongside of which was
United States naval training ship
| whose band welcomed us, aecompanie,
by the shouts of the Whitehead boys
| The city of Honolulu, looking from
| the baTEOr, does not seem large
though there is population of 10000
| The houses are so embowered in lux
uriant foliage it is only occasionally
that roof may be seen peeping out
| AS soon as the gang-plank was out
a friend welcomed US with the beauti.
| full but rather embarrassing Hawaiian
custom of throwing long wreaths
about our necks. These are made OF
carnations, cameiias or jasmine, with
glossy, green leaves. Women, who
make them, sit along the streets in
Honolulu with baskets of flowers and
completed wreaths beside them; their
fingers busily engaged in weaving
others. So universal is this custom
of wearing these fowery adornments
that every native one meets has neck
and hat decorated with a fresh,
dewy wreath. Time was, no doubt,
when these were all of their adorn-
ing. but civilization has decreed few
additions to such an airy, though, no
doubt, picturesque costume.
Our doubts as to the best method
of seeing the sights were settled for
US by our friend, who had an automo-
bile waiting for us on the dock. The
driver told us of his first trip in the
machine through the outlying coun-
try. He came upon a Chinese coolie
who had never seen anything Of the
kind before, and stood rooted with
horror to the road until the driver
footed the horn. Then the Chinaman
fled franctically, to the fence, over
which he plunged, shrieking, Heap
devil, heap devil!'' When the driver
had finished telling US of his first ex-
perience I told him of mine-not in Ho-
nolulu, but in the good old Empire
state, u. S. A. AS I remember it was
a fine ride! The fine was a hundred
and fifty. I said to my chauffeur
chauffeur is French for plumber1 LET
her go." and he let her go. We went
so fast, the milestones looked like
cemetery! We simply flew through the
air. When the car stopped short was
still flying. / flew eighty feet through
the air, shot through church window,
and lit right in the middle of the con-
just as the minister was
saying: "And the angel of the Lord
Well, after working four days, with
eight-hour night shifts, we got the car
going; and all went well till tried to
steer / turned out for a COW, and
.urned into a "dago'' with fruit stand
There was a free delivery of fruit. 1t
vas hard to tell which was the fruit,
md which was the "dago." We stop /!
1ed long enough to remove a banana
rom my eye (you have to keep your
,ye peeled) and went on. Nothing hap
)ened until we got in the midst of
thoroughfare, when the blamed
hing had the blind staggers; tried to
,linnb an electric light pole, and hit (
in the middle of his beat!
That cost the city a copper, and me a
pretty penny.
An interesting phase of life in Homo !
ulu is the political speaker, who takes !,
he stump-sometimes several stumps. ,
n succesSion--at the noon hour. All /
Iawaiians take a keen interest in /
politics; The speech I heard was in .
he Hawaiian tongue, the only words
Understood being beef trust" this the
peaker said very plainly in English,
here probably being no equivalent in
Hawaiian. AS he proceeded from
lump to stump, his audience waned
rceptibly-perhap from a native in
olence of temperament which could
OF cling very long to one thing. At
ny rate, when he reached the last
lump his audience reminded me of
that Peter Daley said of an audience
a New York theater where business
as poor. When asked how large the
udience was, "Pete" answered, Il
ould lick all three of them,''
From politics to Palf-a marvellous
'ansition. This high cliff. garlanded
18th the softest and most luxuriant
endure. overlooks a fertile valley
here is spread. like a carpet, every
arying shade of green that finally
elts in the distance to the exquisite
lrquoise and beryl tints of the sea,
aking an enchanting panorama of
loneliness.
was next taken to the aquarium
here the collection Of native fish is
beyond the widest imagina-
on to picture, and quite battles de-
'ription. Little fishes striped in bright |
like sticks of pepper ;
lint candy, iostle those that are of a
ark color, with spots of vivid red. and
rides of golden yellow going about