The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-21

pretty thorough acquaintance with
Oahu, and couple of visits to Hawaii,
| made short visit to what has long
been called ''The Garden Island,'' and
it is well called, too, for everything
looked as fresh as a new-laid egg and
as green as an emerald.
A bird 's-eye view from a high ele-
walton impresses one similarly to the
of. July, except that the surface of the
island is much more undulating and
beautiful.
On the eve of October l the noble
little steamer Kinau bore us away from
Honolulu toward Koloa, where we were
beached by the aid of small boat IS
crew at little before a. m. on the
End, at little, lonely landing, where
nice old gentleman stopped, and had
stopped for years, to attend to the
shipping for the H. S. n. Co., Ltd, and
the sugar companies. A hack drovel
me to the Kauai Fruit and Land Co.,
Ltd, cannery (pineapple), where Mr..
w. d. McBryde, the manager, made an
appointment with me to look over the
place two days later, and Mr.. Ed.
Weed, the superintendent of the can
merry, and his good wife, treated me
right royalty, and their little girl of
five years called me Hospital That
evening, being DESTROYS of going to Lii
hue, and unable to secure other con-
veyance, I pressed in Mr.. A. D. Hills
japanese soda wagon driver, who land
ed me at Mr.. Hills lovely place just
before sundown
Mr. and Mrs. Hills had just returned
home from a little drive, and they both
insisted in performing the "Good Sa-
maritan'' act of taking me in, and, con
sequently, l had the satisfaction of
spending what, to me, was one of the
most pleasant, interesting and elevat-
ing Evenings which it has ever been
my privilege to enjoy. 1t was just
IDEAL Their place is ideal; right on
the river bank, cool, scenery beautiful,
just lovely; in fact, it recalls a certain
couplet which / have somewhere seen,
viz:
We need not ask another's sphere
In realms beyond the sky,
For the reign of love is near1S>here,
As, behold, the dawn is nigh.
Ten O'Clock next morning came very
quickly, when mine host took me, after
his wife had wished me well, to other
less pleasant scenery, although twas
pretty, as Lihue is located in a beau
tiful place, at an elevation of prob
ably 200 feet above sea-level, and about
three miles from Nawiliwili Bay, where
the landing is Lihue is surrounded by
canefelds and groves of trees, beauti-
full ones of different kinds. / stopped
at the Fairview Hotel until the next
morning, October 4, when I tramped
back to the Kauai Fruit and Land Co. s
eannery, about fifteen miles, where l
arrived at 1880 a. M, after most de-
lightful morning walk in as pretty a
section of country as I have ever pass
ed through. There seemed to be an
abundance of water, although it was
said that water was scarce; and yet the
still remained with me, in !
spite of expressions to the contrary,
that three times as much rain falls ON
Kauai as on Oahu. OF course, was on,
the windward side, which makes great
After a cup of coffee and light
meal, a hot shower bath with a port
able bath outfit, and a good sleep, of
a couple of hours, / was ready to en-
Joy Mrs. Weed s good dinner to the ex-
tent of my full capacity.
The next day, Mr.. MeBryde and
went up where we could look over the
pineapple tract, small farmers settle
ment, a settlement of Portuguese on
ive-aere lots, supplied with water and
nice little cottages, all of which look
quite thrifty and promising. The set
.lers seemed well satisfied.
Mr.. McBryde took me to the top of
4 prominent table-land, about 900 feet
high, containing some 200 acres, from
which we could see along the coast
from away north of Koloa to the west.
away beyond Waimea and all over the
mall farmers places; it gave us a SPLEEN
I'D bird 's-eye view of the whole of the
Ioloa and MeBryde plantations.