The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23

| waiter EIWood. OF Amsterdam, " L.
a young Cornell graduate who passed
through here recently on his way Il
the Philippines, has sent the following
descriptive write-up of Honolulu to hi:
home paper, the Amsterdam American
He wrote:
Two hundred miles from Japan and
my letter merely started! Lor', must
hurry like the deuce and act brisk for q
small portion of my trip, though brisk
mess is something we all despise violent,
ily Yes, sir, and over three thousand
miles from Honolulu, where we were
cruelty cut off with but a half dozen
hours of sightseeing. And that Mon
day il rained for the first time in weeks
much to the comfort of the natives.
Thank goodness, though, it rained very
daintily, and being wash goods we went
forth in wide-eyed wonder. There was
no use at all for us to act as though
we had been all over the globe and as
though we were accordingly immensely
bored. So we settled right down and
sight-saw and admired with uncon-
strained enthusiasm. Why, l got up as
early as half past six and in my paja.
mas peeked out of the window, and be,
held large gray something rising
calmly out of the water. It's beauty lay
in the firmness with which it stood on
its foundations / must confess it was a
pleasant sight, great unadorned, super
animated volcanoes, wrinkled and
creased, with the warm ocean breaking
at their feet and a great cloud sheet
lighted up by the early sun lying over
their peaks. What pleased us more was
the greenness of the fields lying next to
the shore, for once in a while we ID see
a house in a little grove in those fields.
Some amateur would say: HThere's a
housed" and another would answer:
And there 8 a house tool' with all
the pride and dramatic impressiveness
of so many Christopher Columbuses.
Somebody else would call out: 'FOh
lookl and we d dutifully look out and
watch the flying fish scoot about like
so many animated silver rods. And
every morning we have cunning little
rainbows, following the boat along in
the spray and the sunshine. 1t WASH t
long after we got past Diamond Head
when we began to see Honolulu and
its haTbor full of masts, and the most
lighted deep valleys behind
it.
'4Isn t that valley pippin?' asked
the young humorist. g Wouldn t that
thrill the soul of an aestheticist2
Wouldn t that word-pippin, also?
That IS such good word,'
After we had all been lined up in
the social hall and counted and looked
at by the quarantine officer, / began to
grow very much excited, for / had been
let into the great secret. The cadet 3
mother had come all the way from
Yokohama to meet that son of hers at
Honolulu! 1t was to be a great sur.
prise. The cadet knew that something
was up and he knew that / knew it,
but / assured him that his fears were
that it wasn't his folks.
May heaven have mercy on my soul.
He was going to take his old friend
the stewardess out driving that day,
but she declared she didn It dare even
ook at him for fear he d see her watch
ing and suspect. So as soon as the
Kauahi boys-I hope and pray that We
spelled that correctly-had ceased their
Yelling and shouting for coins, and mad
scrambled out of the water with a
nouthful of money which their diving
mad won 'em, the stewardess commits
stoned me to go down on the wharf and
ell the excited lady, heavily yelled in
1lue-like the unknown benefactress on |
he modern stage-that Wade was up
IN deck The last I saw of her, she |
vas vanishing around the corner of the |
,abin. Then, our bunch started out |
lefantly without umbrellas at ten |
, clock in the morning amid lazy brown |
galoots with wreaths on their hats ana |
husky Hawaiian women who wear morn |
ng wrappers all afternoon, just like |
persons who had got the blessings of !
civilization through missionary boxes, |
Imong Chinese matrons staidly dressed |
n black pantaloons and jackets, and /
title Japanese women as neat as wax |
Tolls, walking about on little wooden /
platforms or getas, with their feet in /
nowy white socks or-nothing at all, /
which looked much prettier. Somehow
he men, as usual, weren t nearly so ,
much in evidence They were probably |
lard at work in the shops and anyway |
lot half so interesting. Naturally, we /
topped in one of these shops and /
Fought post cards and accordingly tried |
o count up on our fingers the benefits
# travel. Never in my life did have
ueh an enjoyable eye-opener of ride /
S the ride up King street on our way