Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-23
BLUEJACkEIS TO
SEE HONOLULU.
Grandeur of the Hawaiian
Scenery Graphically
Described.
The American Fleet Of 16 Battle
ships Will Mark off Another
Stage Of Its Globe Girdling
Journey When it Drops
Anchor in the Har-
Dor of Honolulu
Today.
Today.

Washington, July 16.-The Amerl-
can fleet of 16 battleships will mark off
another stage of its globe girdling
journey when it drops anchor in the
harbor of Honolulu today. Recent
dispatches from the capital of Hawaii
tell of elaborate plans that have been
made for the entertainment of the Off
GERS and men of the fleet during their
weeks visit there. OF all the places to
be visited by the fleet ON it's cruise
around the world it is safe to say that
none offers more attractions for the
visitors than Honolulu and the Hawaii
Islands, which were annexed to the
United States in 1897.
The Hawaiian group, tropical, vol
canic, beautiful, lies more than two
thousand miles from San Francisco
and about three thousand miles from
the nearest mainland to the far West.
No where in the world is there to be
found more attractive and delightful
country. Eight islands comprise the
group Hawaii, Oahu, Kauai, Maui
and Molok kaiss are the principle ones.
Situated within the tropics, but swept
by the trade winds, with a boundless
expanse of sea on every side, and
mountains towering thirteen thousand
feet above the ocean level, with an al
most daily gentle rain on the wind
ward and almost absolute dryness on
the leeward side, the whole island
group is natural sani nitarium.
Oahu is the principal island of the
group. The city of Honolulu is sit
nated on it, and over two thirds OF the
population and wealth are on this is
land. The entrance to the harbor OF
Honolulu is one OF the most charming
in the whole world. The water is a
peculiar deep blue, and the great cres-
cent bay is tringed by rolling hills that
rise one above another and are green
thatched by thousands OF picturesque
cocoanut trees, waving palms and
banana trees. In the background,
rearing themselves several thousand
feet high, are to be seen torn and SER
rated lava mountains, enveloped in
verdure of the richest hue,
The grandeur Of the Haw allan scene
ry was thus graphically described by
United States Senator Money of Mis-
sissippi, who was one of party ofpub-
lie men fromEthis country who visited
the islands whenkthe treaty of anneAa-
ton was being arranged.
!" A visitor, standing upon Haleakala,
on the rim Eot its stupendous cap,twen-
ty-three miles in circumference, and
thousands of feet deep, can turn from
a field of corrugated lava, shining like
satin, and a. chaos of extinct volcanic
cones, to far reaching view Of noun
tain, plain, sea, and remote islands.
Ten thousand feet below, the wrinkled
sea changes it's deep blue to a border
of vivid green, edged with a lace OF
milk white foam, where the surf breaks
In thunder on lava coast. Along the
mountain foot, green fields and white
plantation houses extend down to the
vale Of Wailuku.s. Thissis the prospect
looking under the clouds; looking
above them, Molokai and Oahu, on the
sharp horizons edge, Sppear like
brown stones in a setting of blue
enamel. Strangely enough, the sea
seems to have lifted itself to the noun
tain's height, and the islands to float
in a sea aboye the clouds. The tre-
mendous crater of Kilauea, blotting the
sky by day, and illuminating the night
with her perpetual fires, sacred to
DaIa. the immense fields of lava flow
from Maunaloa, in their sterility and
loneliness; the wild loveliness of the
deep valley OF Iao-all these are scenes
that fill the mind with wonder and de-
light"