The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-23
THE MAUNA kEA
EXCURSION
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that he was taking a thankless job
and might get a moose around his neck
assuming that difficult complications
would arise that would be hard to
handle. So far there had been no
moses, and the duties had been pleas
ant to him. Still. he was in the kim
dergarten of the work, and asked the
help of his fellow citizens. Some people
seemed to think that Americanizing
the Territory consisted in applying here
the set general laws. Laws should be
adapted to suit our conditions-not
laws that applied peculiarly to other
parts of the general country.
Rev. S. l. Desha, speaking for the
Hawaiian people, made an eloquent
speech in the native language, Mr.. W.
o. Smith acting as interpreter.
Mr. Carl Smith spoke on the land
question, and pointing out weak points
related an instance where one man had
got hold of six different homesteads
and successfully disposed of them. Mr..
Garfield interrupted the speaker with
pertinent questions.
POSTMASTER said Mr.. Garfield s time be-
ing so limited, it would be necessary to
adjourn for the prearranged public re-
ception for Mr.. Garfield in Spreckels'
Hall, which was numerously attended
by the general public.
In speaking of the reception to Mr..
Garfield, afterward, Mr.. F. B. Nc
Stoeker recalled an incident that oc-
CARED at Washington Birthday recep
ton in 1908, at the same hotel. Gov
ernor John Baker was making a speech,
in which he said the Hawaiian people
looked to the United States govern
ment for peace and protection When
marks, dove few through a window
into the room and alighted on Mr..
Bakers shoulder This very unusual
incident was regarded as an omen of
peace.
OFF FOR THE VOLCANO.
A special train leaving Hilo at =
o'clock Saturday afternoon took the
Governor party to Glenwood, where
automobiles had preceded them, and
conveyed them the remaining nine miles
to the Volcano House. The regular
train, which took the volcano excur-
sionists, and the travelling island peo-
pie to Glenwood, or way stations, left
fifteen minutes later.
HILo'S FUTURE.
Nearly eleven years ago | made a
visit to Hilo and the volcano-one of
the first things l did after arriving in
the Islands. My guide and compan-
ION on that visit was P. Maurice Ne
Mahon, then stenographer in Judge
Hitchcock s court, and known famil-
iarly as the .sBard OF Hawaii. ;" OPP
portunity never occurred to revisit
Hilo until this trip. In comparing notes
1 find that while most of the people l
met on the first occasion have either
died or removed from the pretty little
city, the place has made material
progress, of which its citizens may well
feel proud; and am false prophet, or
else the place has a near future of
growth and commercial prosperity that
will bewilder its older residents with
its magnitude. With principality of
the richest of virgin land tributary to
it, with its growing sugar, pineapple
and other resources expanding, with its
good railroads, which will rapidly in
crease in mileage and earning capacity,
and its new breakwater, which will give
the place an unrivaled harbor, and its
United States building and all the in
crements all these things bring-with
these things backing it. what is to keep
Hilo from forging aheadf
On the train / recognized and re-
newed acquaintance with Mr.. Chas.
Furneaux, who on my former visit to
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