The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-02
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doing that much.
I must relate little incident: We
landed at Honolulu on March 9th
about D. m. We could not get any
rooms at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel
on account of a big bunch of Cooks
tourists having engaged rooms at the
hotel, so we drove out to Waikiki and
stopped at the Moana Hotel. AS we
were much interested in the growth
of vegetation, we asked where we
would find a good representative gar
den, as we would like to look it over
as we were to sail in the morning. We
were informed that the best thing Of
the kind was that of Ex-Governor
Cleghorn, but that he would not per-
NIT strangers on his grounds. We con-
Guided that we would go down and
Took over the fence any way. On
our arrival we found the great big gate
open, and we walked in and down the
road, following the winding paths
around the place until we were pretty
well satisfied, and as we were coming
explained to him that we wers in
truders, but that, in passing, the beau
ty of the place was go great that we
could not resist going in. / then in
troduced my friend as Colonel" Kirk
patrick, and he in turn introduced me
as General Hollister. Whether the
titles impressed the old gentleman, or
whether it was our courtesy in begging
pardon for the intrusion, I do not
know, but he asked us to go back with
him. We spent an hour in going
around his beautiful ten acre planta~
| ton, and he explained to us, and gave
to us the names of all the tropical
/ vegetation growing there; he told US
| how old the banyan tree was that COW
! cred his bungalow, and when he plant
| ed the cocoanut trees that are now in
/ full bearing, and wound up by taking
| large room, which. as 1 now remember
| it, was fifty or sixty feet square, fur
nished very richly, and in which he
| had a very fine collection of old Ha-
| waiian curios in which I was very
much interested. Then he rang a bell
and Jap woman came out, and he
which we understood later must have
been Scotch whiskey and CIGARS as
that is what she brought out. We sat
down and drank and smoked and chat
ted, and went away highly impressed
with the hospitality and courtesy of
the man whom we had been cautioned
not to intrude upon.
| On our return we were there ten
days and visited all the interesting
points mentioned in the publication.
Went out to the sugar cane fields and
mills, and out to the Pail where the
wind blows about 100 miles an hour all
the time, and where my friend lost his
hat, which, I suppose, is somewhere
near the Samoan Islands by this tine.
| We were obliged to hitch our horses
in a sheltered place, and it was with
the utmost difficulty that we could get
up the road, by hugging close to the
! wall, and look over the cliff out to sea.
It was a beautiful sight. I believe the
wind always blows there, and it is a
terror
We have been talking lately of max
ing trip out there next winter if
! things come cur way. Some friends
of ours want to go and wish Us to
join them. do not know whether I
could spend a week in Honolulu again
without going over to Kalawao or not.
I would have to have your permission
first. The way I feel about it, it would
be one of the browning events of my
life to spend a day with you at Ka-
lawao.
Captain Norcross has sold out his
GAINESVILLE residence and seems t. be