The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-17
MARSHALL P. WILDER AND
HIS VISIT TO HONOLULU

ed to take part in the concert, an
chose q fitting selection for roug
night Rocked in the Cradle of th
Deep just as she started in
J sing the ship side-stepped and thre'
her under the table. A friend G
mine was accompanying her on tn
piano, so, of course, he had to follo-
her. l said: "For heaven s sake,
this concert or a knoekabout acti
The prima donna thought she wa
down for solo-but she was dow
for an hour.
i On the Pacific there were no sue
experiences for u.s. And it is such
great, big, lonesome ocean-only one
in all the is davs did we see a ship
a big, full-rigged ship with all sail
set-but seeming to stand perfectl,
still, utterly becalmed, ga painted
ship upon painted ocean"
Captain Porter was a delightful ra
contour and entertained us on severa
occasions with stories of his soiourr
in the frigid zone His tales of Es.
quimaux dainties, especially a duck
soup. where the bird is put in fol-
cooking not only undressed but un-
plueked, made us glad there were nc
Esquimaux cooks on board.
The evening before our expected
arrival at Honolulu the chief topics of
conversation were the principal sights
of the town, and the best methods of
seeing them.
Every one retired with the keenest
antieipations, for even six DAYS on
the water create longing to see
land, proving that man, though he GO
down to the sea in ships, is beyond
question a land animal.
Most of us were up betimes and
were rewarded by the sight of dark,
low-lying island on our port bow This
is Molokai, the leper island and the
scene of Father Damien's heroic life
and death. This Belgian missionary
priest, who started life a simple un-
lettered peasant. so lived and worked
and died that his name will ever be
one of those who need no hall of fame
to make their memory immortal. His
will go ringing down the halls of
time as one that loved his fellow
men.
Ahead, another island, with high,
rocky promontory, stood out now
quite plainly. AS we came nearer we
could distinguish fleets of little fish
ing boats, their white sails dotting
the blue water like floeks of birds. A |
snowy sickle of sand outlined the |
black and beetling cliff. and around it !
,ame the little Alameda, - rolling and
Dlunging in a swell that did not even |
disturb the stately calm of our giantess. |
1t was soon before we really warped |
20 the wharf, alongside of which was a
United States naval training ship, |
whose band welcomed us, accompanied |
)y the shouts of the white-elad boys.
The city of Honolulu, looking from
he harbOr, does not seem large,
hough there is a population of $4,000.
The houses are so embowered in lux
Iriant foliage it is only occasionally
hat a roof may be seen peeping out.
As seon as the gang-plank was out
friend welcomed US with the beauti-
ul but rather embarrassing Hawaiian
ustom of throwing long wreaths
bout our necks. These are made of
arnations, camelias or jasmine, with
lOssy, green leaves. Women, who
lake them, sit along the streets in
honolulu with baskets of flowers and
Ompleted wreaths beside them; their
ngers busily engaged in weaving
thars. So universal is this custom
wearing these fowery adOrnments
nat every native one meets has neck
nd hat decorated with fresh,
ewy wreath. Time was. no doubt,
oil oT !
e, but civilization has decreed a few
editions to such an airy, though, no
Oubt, picturesque costume.
Our doubts as to the best method
seeing the sights were settled for
by our friend, who had an automo-
le waiting for us on the dock. The +
liver told US of his first trip in the
achine through the outlying coun-
y. He came upon a Chinese coolie l
no had never seen anything of the
nd before, and stood rooted with q
rror to the road until the driver '
Dted the horn. Then the Chinaman p
d franctically to the fence, over g
lich he plunged, shrieking, Heap o
vii! heap devil!" When the driver i
d finished telling us of his first ex- fl
rience l told him of mine-not in Ho- cl
lulu, but in the good old Empire W
tie, U. S. A. AS l remember it was s.
fine ridei The fine was a hundred C;
d fifty. I said to my chauffeur m
lauffeur is French for plumber) Let
: goi" and he let her go. We went
fast. the milestones looked like a n
We simply flew through the
Z. When the car stopped short was
Il flying. 1 flew eighty feet through
/. air, shot through a church window,
j lit right in the middle of the con-
,gation, just as the minister was
ing: And the angel of the Lord
p,
Veil. after working four days, with te
ht-hOur night shifts, we got the car to
ng; and all went well till l tried to er
er. 1 turned out for a COW, and vi
ned into 'dago" with a fruit stand WI
ere was a free delivery of fruit. 1t Gu
5 hard to tell which was the fruit, he
! which was the "dago" We stop or
long enough to remove a banana
n my eye (you have to keep your pl
peeled) and went on. Nothing hap 70
led until we got in the midst of a in
wded thoroughfare, when the blamed wi
ng had the blind staggers: tried to to
nb an electric light pola and hit a ed
iceman in the middle of his beati
at cost the city a copper, and me a in
tty penny. &C
n interesting phase of life in Homo H,
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