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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-04
For Sale.

Eleven acre farm three miles
from Brownsville, brick dwelling,
FIVE rooms. underground cistern,
barn, all fenced, on resaca, for
81, 700. Easy terms.
w. S. DOUGHERTY.
12-28-tf. Abram, Hidalgo, Texas.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-02-04
Attention! Homeseekers!!

In addition to being agent for
the sale of the land belonging to the
San Benito Land and water COM
pany. have most of the Hicks
lands for sale can offer home
seekers some exceptionally fine
bargains in lands near the town of
San Benito.
w. o. COLEMAN.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15
THE CITY OF HONOLULU

ishes here like trade on the mainland
The Kilohana Art League has its own
quarters and holds a semi-annual eX-
hibit that would do credit to any city.
Japan imports her cloisonne; China,
her ivory, and the local artists grow in
the hospitable atmosphere of it all.
Mr.. Hitchcock's picture of the Vol
cano of Kilauea is most wonderful in
execution. 1t now hangs on the wall
of the Bishop Museum and is valued at
$1,000.
THE BISHOP MUSEUM.
The Bishop Museum is one of the
show places of Honolulu. 1t was built
by the missionary, Charles r. Bishop,
in memory of his wife, Bernice Pauahi
Bishop, a native of rank. The Bishops
are great land barons, owning large
outlying estates on several of the ISL
ands. This museum, however is only
one of their many gifts to the public
The Bishop Museum contains the
relics of a fading race. The throne
room shows the gorgeous feather
cloaks worn by the kings of old. These
feathered cloaks of red and yellow are
of, inestimable value. The yellow
feathers are the more costly, only two
being found on a very rare bird.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15
American Hawaiian Paper & Supply Co., Ltd
Geo GenrMM Corner FutaH ISratsH

Are you going to bring over more
immigrants?"
TO BRING MORE IMMIGRANTS.
Eyes, we will bring in more, but
not of the kind that are pouring into
this country through the eastern
ports. We are now bringing English
speaking and Scandinavian people al
most exclusively for farming purpos-
es. They are coming as the result
of well-directed advertising, and no
promises have been made them Of
anything other than the advice and
care of this department. Some have
as much as $4,000 each, with which
to buy lands and establish themselv-
es in farming operations. One man
with that much money brings his
wife and ten grown children. 1t is
possible, also, that before summer
comes we will bring a large number
of people from Saxony on a steamer
direct to Charleston, and that regu-
lar sailings will follow, and it is not
improbable that before the year is
ended Charleston will have a direct
service from Scandinavia and Eng
land"
What methods are you required to
use to conform with the labor law?'
"The state has the right to adver-
tise it's resources and opportunities
abroad The only restriction is that
it's agents shall not promise work of
any description to any immigrant.
This is a slightly more stringent re-
quirement than was in the old law,
where the state could go to the ex-
tent of saying that it would under
take to see that the newcomers OBJ
tanned woqk at the prevailing scale
of wages advertised. Under the new
law it is permitted to advertise the
scale of wages prevailing here, the
cost Of the necessaries of life, house
rent and so on, but no assurance OF
employment can be given"
"Are the mill men willing to I'm
port foreign labor or to give employ
ment to foreign labor if it is I'M
pOrted?"
AT this time the mill men II
South Carolina are not particularly
concerned with the matter of immi
grafton other than from the stand
point of the general upbuilding of/tht
state. They do not care whether for
eign labor is brought for service il
the mills. They desire, however
that when such labor arrives ev
erything be done to make the new
Corners feel at home"
How do you work it?"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

situation has adjusted itself l think
l will be in a position to announce
the opening of transatlantic service
to the south Atlantic states"
How do you avoid undesirable I'm
migrants?"
I'm our office on the continent when
an applicant came to make inquiry
we first talked to him generally. The
next step was to require him to go to
the commissaire du police and bring
a transcript of his record.
"The next step was to require him
to go to his physician and bring a
sworn certificate as to his mental and
physical soundness. The third was
to examine in detail his work book,
in which he must have a certificate
from every person with whom he has
ever worked. When this had been
done and he was deemed a desirable
citizen he was given a letter of intro
duction to the immigration Office at
Columbia, which briefly stated the
main facts about him. Finally there
was a requirement that the intending
emigrant should secure a certificate
of change of residence, declaring his
intention of going to South Carolina,
setting forth his entire record-even
showing whether he had ever been
divorced-his education record and
his judicial record. This he brought
with him, and he was given to under.
stand that it must be shown here dur
ing the first fortnight after bis arriv'
al to some official Of my department
In one of the other countries the sys
tenn was even more far-reaching, EN-
bracing a probationary period, during
which time our agents made inquiries
about the general character Of the
people. believe that such a system
can be put into operation most effec
lively and to the immense advantage
of this country through internationa
agreement by the United States gov
eminent II this should be done
great fight will no doubt be made by
the steamship companies who arr
handling immense numbers of people
of Slavic origin and from the south o
Europe. The desirable emigrant from
the north of Europe has absolutel,
nothing to fear from an educationa
qualification were it many times a
stringent as that proposed, wherea
on the other hand the undesirable
are densely ignorant. In all my eS
perience with northern European pee
pie I have discovered but one cas-
in which the party could not read o
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

Carrie f. Thomas contributed the
article to the Memphis
(Tenn) Commercial Appeal, accom-
panied by three-quarters Of a page of
Runnin back from the beautiful CITY
of Honolulu are several verdant noun
tain spurs that rise many hundreds hf
feet into the cool atmosphere, afford
ing change of climate, cool and
bracing.
Upon one of these ridges. Pacific
Heights, we are now situated 70 our
left and Immediately below is the Pa
uoa valley green with taro patches
banana farms and vineyards: to our
right lies the matchless Nuuanu Valley
with it's palatial homes, magnificent
pike and Country Club.
Our neighbor is Punchbowl, the era
ter of a volcano long since gone to
sleep. At our feet, seven hundred feet
below, nestles Honolulu, the mos
beautiful city in the world, while out
beyond lies the peaceful ocean as blue
as the sky above.
From our high pinnacle We car
watch the great ships as they come anC
go to and from the Orient and tn'
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15
Geo. G. Guild, General Manager

The experiment had for it's object,
first, to secure an advance guard of
satisfied people who could write home
to their friends and relatives and tell
them of the advantages of living in a
country that possesses such rare nat
ural advantages and is developing in
dustrially and agriculturally at won
derful rate.
I'm the second place, the object OF
the experiment was to call the atten-
ton of this country to the inadequacy
and absurdity of many of the provt-
sions of our immigration laws, which
are bAing violated almost hourly at
the great ports of entry. l was deter
mined to make such a demonstration
as would, if possible, bring about an
intelligent revision and establish be-
yond question whether a state was to
be treated on the same basis-and
even often at a Acknowledgements
labor sharks, who are bringing people
in violation of law into this country
to be bought and sold like so many
so with a view to demonstrating the
advisability and practicability of ex-
aiming the emigrants at the ports Of
departure, rather than at the ports OF
entry, under the sanction of their
home governments. This means to
examine the record Of every man be-
fore he starts for this country, be-
cause, under present regulations, the
vilest criminal is able to enter any
Of our ports and the officials take his
own word as to his record.
Another object of the experiment
was the immediate improvement by
object lessons, If possible, of the labor
conditions in the cotton manufacture
ing plants. Before 1 began this move
ment 20 per cent of our spindles were
standing idle for lack of operators
who could not be obtained anywhere
in this country. The effect of putting
several hundred new people into dit
ferent cotton mills caused an almost
immediate return of many OF those
who had been formerly employed, and
in a short time the mile were again
operating with full force, so there is
now no need of importing foreign Ia
Dor. The agitation resulted in the
enactment of ten-hour law without
opposition on the part of the mill men
and a voluntary increase of wages al
most to the standard prevailing in
New England which two things, cou
pied with the fact that it has been de
monstrated that labor could be secur
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

Helmets with plumage and weapons
of war, portraits of royalty and cab
inets inlaid are to be seen as old-time
relies and furnishings of royalty.
Grass huts and everything else to
show the manner of life of the abort
gines of these islands are there. The
early natives ate their food from wood,
Calabashes are wooden bowls which
they used for holding poi. These Gala
bashes are usually made from koa
wood and are polished most highly.
They are far more costly than the
tourists imagine, ranging in price from
s. to 500, according to size.
In glass Enclosures are life-sized
plaster casts of natives pounding poi,
mending their nets and living the life
of old.
There is also a most beautiful va
riety of stuffed birds. The Hawaiian
Islands can boast of but few birds, so
this collection has been gathered most
ly from Australia and the South Seas.
THE AQUARIUM.
One of the first places to which the
tourist is taken when he visits Homo
lulu is the aquarium.
The aquarium is said TO be second
only to that of Nice. The painted"
fish are a source Of the greatest Won
derment on account of their unusual
formation as we'll as their gorgeous APP
parel.
Fish with teeth, with wings, with
bills like birds, with horns and with
eyes almost in the center of theiI
bodies are seen in abundance. The
snakelike cells and the fish that looh
like birds make it easy to understand
where Darwin got his theory.
The lazy devil fish coils himself Xix,
a snake while his lung valve dilate
as he breathes and sleeps his life away
The gold fish, the silver fish the re,
fish. the fiat fish, the fish in stripes lik
a convict, the rainbow fish, the darl
blue fish with orange trimmings, tn
dotted fish, the crawfish, the turtle, tn
flying fish and every other kind an
color of fish in the category are foun
in the Pacific and are here in the aqua
rum, happy and bright
The flying fish are quite numerou
IN these waters, it being no novel sign
to see them flying along by the steam
ers as they near into the warm lat
. tudes. They have been known to lea
|, upon the, deck, and not long ago on
did so with such violence as to knoc
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

been as I have said, no man can
tell. Where l have found any alien
not inclined to earn his own living,
and demonstrating his undesirability
as an American citizen, we have sent
him back to his own country, where
his own government could look after
him. l believe, however, that we have
retained a large percentage of the
flower of the flock, which was pro-
nounced by the United States immt-
grafton authorities to be one of the
bestlooking ship loads of aliens ever
landed on American soil. OF the farm
ing class quite number bought small
farms, and in practically every in
stance success and permanent resi-
dence have followed. One of the Bel
gians purchased a place for $1,000.
A number went to work on the share
cropping basis and have given gem
eral satisfaction. The farm hands you
saw yesterday on our ride into the
country seem content and happy.
They are doing excellent work and
are giving general satisfaction to their
employers. My experience has taught
ME, however, that the farm laborer
proposition is rather a difficult one
to handle"
"You consider the experiment a
success, them"
4 OBJECTS OF THE EXPERIMENT..
Most emphatically, though large
number of our own people, who car
see it only as a matter Of bringing Sc
many laborers into the state, are oil
the nnininn that II is NOT q SUCCESS
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

I'd to settle shortages, brought about
the desired result. In these regards
the experiment was a success.
OPENED TO FOREIGN TRADE
"The most far-reaching object in
making this experiment was not on
the immigration side of the problem.
For almost a century effort after eff
fort to open Charleston, one of the
finest ports on the Atlantis seaboard,
to foreign trade, had failed. The only
chance was to convince the steamship
world of the availability of the harbor
for large passenger steamers and that
they would find cargoes and a passen-
ger business awaiting them. The sup
port given me by the manufacturers
was based largely on. this desire to
open the south to tin commerce of
the world, and there was no objec-
ton on their part to my making use
of the crying need for immigration.
In this regard the experiment has
been far more of a success than l had
anticipated, and but for abnormal
shipping conditions and the recent
financial panic a permanent line OF
steamships would at this moment be
in operation bringing passengers and
imports to Charleston and sending di-
rect to Europe raw cotton and cotton
manufactured products. The very sue
cess of the undertaking in this regard
caused Congress to appropriate $70,'
900 for the establishment of perma.
nent immigration station at Charles.
ton, and the work on this station is
now being vigorously prosecuted"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

eral movement among the officials and
the commercial and industrial organ
izations of the southern states to fol-
low the example Of South Carolina.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ARRIVALS
When I asked Mr.. Watson what had
become of his immigrants he replied:
"They were promptly distributed
among the cotton manufacturing
plants and the farms of South Caro-
lima, but there is no way in which
my department could have kept track
of their movements. Newly arrived
aliens, almost without exception,
move from place to place for some
time before finally settling down.
think we have retained as permanent
citizens of the state large percent
age. In a number of the mill villages
not only have these people become
permanent fixtures; their assimila-
ton has been without friction and
they have been the means already or
bringing a considerable number OF
other desirable citizens, members Of
their immediate families, relatives
and friends. In one instance fifty
nine came to one district in a body.
MANY of them drifted from one
mill village to another and then into
adjoining states. A few months ago
a party of more than thirty who had
been originally placed in a South
Carolina mill and had left it a few
weeks after their arrival returned in
a body and asked the privilege of
resuming work and they are now
there and doing well. One striking
instance Of the rowing disposition OF
even the best aliens was the case of
a Belgian truck farmer who, after
working one season here, Travelled
down into Cuba in one direction and
as far as Canada in the other. He
finally returned in the winter of 1907
with the announcement that he had
seen all OF this country and that his
first location was the best that he had
found. He was a man of means and
Immediately proceeded to buy an ex
cellent truck-farm on the coast, upon
which early this spring he will pro
badly make money. Some of the
trained mill operatives, after a short
stay in South Carolina, went to the
New England mills, whence, after ex
periencing one winter, they returned
to their original location in this
state. These are a few of the cases
that have come under my observa
ton.
A DESIRABLE ACQUISITION
GLOW many such cases there have
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15
| CAROLINA TRIES
LABOR Plan HAWAII TRIED

PROCEDURE FOLLOWED ABROAD
1--WE simply distribute literature
printed in the native languages and
in accordance with the Gus
tom of the country in which we may
be working among the people in the
agricultural districts. In Great Bri-
tain this literature is supplemented
by advertising in agricultural jour
nails and by carefully selected agents
going from point to point through the
country districts with lectures and
with stereopticon views of farming
scenes, etc. In Belgium for a good
while l maintained a regular branch
office from which thousands of pieces
Of literature were mailed into the
country districts. The people, hav-
ing become interested in this way,
visited our office to seek further in
formation. OF course this work var
les according to the customs of the
country, and must of necessity be
done with the sanction of the foreign
government obtained through the De
partment of State at Washington"
rs there any prospect of a direct
steamship line between Charleston
and Europe?'
YES, there is every prospect for
one line with thirty-day sailings, and
possibly for others. The steamship
world understands that the cotton
belt is not going to submit much long
err to the roundabout transportation
system that now takes the bulk Of
the profits AS soon as the financial
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

COLUMBUS, S. c., March 10, 1908.
During the last year considerable
attention has been attracted to the
arrival of two shiploads of selected
immigrants from Belgium, Germany,
Bohemia, Austria and Hungary, who
were induced to come to South Caro-
lima by the direct inducements offer
ed by e. J. Watson, commissioner OF
immigration of this state, who was
sent to Europe for that express pur-
pose. The immigration laws prohibit
private individuals or corporations
from assisting or even inviting aliens
to this country, and it is unlawful to
offer a foreigner employment before
his arrival. No one is allowed to APP
proach an immigrant for any such
purpose until after he has passed
through the gateway of this land Of
liberty and stands bewildered upon
its hospitable soil. The government
of South Carolina, however, sent Mr..
Watson over to Europe to test these
regulations. He says that he went
under legal advice and carried in his
pocket an Interpretation by the De-
partment of State at Washington,
which he consulted at every step.
The immigration officials, including
Mr.. Sargent, the commissioner, were
at Charleston to meet the ships, and
gave the newcomers a cordial vel
come. Mr.. Sargent expressed his adj
miration at the character of the PEG.
pie who came and his sympathy with
the movement, and since the ice was
thus broken there has been a gen
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

West, and can see the tiny pleasure
boats as they glide along the placid
sea.
THE LUNAR RAINBOW.
Many rainbows visit us throughout
the day, and nature paints most gor-
geous pictures on both land and sea.
Lunar rainbows are not uncommon,
and can be seen nowhere else but in
the brilliant moonlight of these ISL
ands. Not only do they appear as a
corona around our nightly Waterman,
but they lean against the curtain or
the sky bedecked in colors almost as
radiant as one of MONDAY birth would
be.
HONOLULU AT NIGHT TIME.
In the fullness of her strength, the
moon is so bright that all street lights
are dispensed with until the dark
nights come again. But with her my
riads of lights, Honolulu fairly scin-
tillates through the darkness, the stars
twinkle back a response from the sky,
the trades sing a sweet lullaby, and the
soul of man, overpowered and intox-
icated by the beauty Of it all, climbs
into the clouds above.
Then it is that fancy runs ahead of
facts, and we can see old Punchbowl
bright with the lights OF summer gar
den and gay with festive scenes. We
can see American capital wind track
around her rim, and lighted cars like
glow worms crawl along her sides.
DIAMOND HEAD.
Nothing could be more strangely
beautiful than Diamond Head as it lies
like huge lion it's dead crater dark
ened by shadows or glittering in the
western sun.
Have you learned to love Diamond
Head?" was asked us soon after ouI
arrival. IF you have not, you Will
was the reply. 1T is so closely identi
fed with the place that every one does
1t has since proved fascination. Ar
lists have found it, playful shadows {
source of ever changing delight. d. II
Hitchcock, the splendid landscape
artist of whom Honolulu is so justl!
proud has made it the center of many
of his most beautiful studies.
HAWAII, THE ARTISTS PARADISE
At all times the Hawaiian Island
are a paradise for the artist Art -four
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write, and have found, on the othe
hand, that the average immigrant
a very well educated man."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15

a man down who happened to be in
the path of his intended flight
Last to mention, but not least OF
these creatures Of the sea, is the man
eating shark. One lives at the back
Of the aquarium in an open tank by
the beach. AS the tide comes in and
the great waves splash into his watery
home, he swims swiftly around ana
casts a hungry glance at the specta-
tors as they stand at a respectful dis
lance away. He eats the food given
him by the keeper, which is a great
source of satisfaction TO the authori-
ties, as every one they have captured
before has starved himself to death
His sole companion is a huge turtle
too hard to bite. She sleeps in her
corner and adds to her thirteen pounds
day by day.
These sharks are not at all uncOm-
mon in these waters, and but for the
protection of Waikiki Beach by the
coral reefs might prove a source Of
much apprehension. On the northern
side of the island they are so numerous
as to make sea bathing more of dan
ger than a pleasure. They like moth
ing better than nice, Juicy man
for a meal, and will chew up his arm
or leg with the greatest enjoyment and
satisfaction. When captured and kill
ed their bodies sometimes contain tin
cans not yet digested; besides, the
bones of some unfortunate fisherman,