The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-27
c. F. JUDD At
SEATTLE FAIR
SEATTLE, Wash. July ii. 1909.

EultoT AuNertiscrs-InG HAWAIIAN
exhibit at the Alaska.Yukon.P Pacific
Exposition is about the most popular
and well attended Of any on the
grounds. make this statement not
only as a kamaaina, but also through
the eyes of malihini on account of
n soiourn in this country of several
years Every time that l have visited
the exposition l have. of course, Wis
tied the building devoted to the Ha-
waiian exhibit and have always found
il thronged with visitors from all parts
of this and other countries who seem
to he delighted with the display and
who are thus educated with knowl-
edge of what our islands really are and
what they produce.
Many and curious are the remarks
which are made by some of them l
saw one group of country people look
at a bunch of dry cocoanuts and heard
them remark, "What large chestnuts. -
Another person remarked that he did
not know that cocoanuts grew in the
ground. He was looking at sprouted
cocoanut growing in a sake tub.
About the most attractive advertise.
waiian girls who serve the delicious
pineapple to the guests at the elegant
koa tables. Frequent have been the
remarks upon the beauty of the girls
and some are contented merely to look
into their chocolate eyes and imagine
the life in the tropic islands where
the surf beats pulsing lullaby on the
white coral sands and nature gives
forth abundantly from her best store.
The model of the islands is work
of art and is well located in the center
of the building The idea of the isl.
ands rising out of the water is we'll
conceived and the whole arrangement
gives one comprehensive idea of Just
what the islands are.
The pyramid of cocoanuts and the
huge pineapple built out of the in.
dividual fruit as well as the great
variety of fruit preserved in jars, give
| the people excellent instruction as to
Just what the islands produce in this
line. The coffee and rice display are
instructive as well, and the model of
| the old Hawaiian palace, plastered with
brown sugar, is about completed and is
a fine example of our leading industry.
The display of the beautiful Hawai-
ian woods and botanical specimens
naturally interested me, a forester, to
very great extent and Mr.. Hosmer
is to be complimented upon the ex-
cellence of This exhibition.
l. The work of the school children
| finds many interested admirers and sisal
hut and the exhibit of the Hawaiian
| Beekeepers Association give one good
idea of some of the. allied industries.
The Gurrey pictures of Hawaiian types
are admired for their artistic value and
Howard Hitchcock paintings of the
volcano and Hawaiian landscape are
viewed by all with the greatest admira.
tion. Like Ulysses sailors, whose ears
were stopped with wax to shut out the
Sirens song | felt that my eyes should
be blindfolded when Hitchcock's paint.
ing of the Won Holt trail on the sum
nit of the Waianae Mountains at Ma
nakuli Valley gave me its mute appeal
to return and once again hunt the wild
goats along the rocky cliffs, and his
painting of the sands at Mana seemed
almost to bark welcome back to the
islands.
The exhibit in the Government Build
ing under the auspices of the Smith.
sonian Institute contains much of in
terest that is Hawaiian. A life size
group in a glass case shows the print
tive industry of making tapa in a very
instructive manner. Other cases con.
tain primitive Hawaiian implements, IA
small feather cape, samples of school
work and pictures of those who have
been prominent in Hawaiian govern
al ntT III lnt I q
glad to see the picture of my grand
father DR.. G. Pc Judd.
The Hawaiian fish swim about in two
Of the tanks in the fisheries department
Of the Government Building as much at
home as if in their own tropical waters.
A very happy selection has been made,
in this case, for the tanks contain fish
of the queerest size, colors and shapes
and excel all Others in the building in
the curiosity and wonder which they
arouse in the minds of the spectators.
In the order in which the visitors are
permitted to view the fish in this room,
they come to the tanks containing the
Hawaiian fish last. Here they remain
as long as possible and crowd about in
great numbers eXolaiming most of all
upon the wonderful colors with which
nature has painted our members of the
fnny tribe.
In the building devoted to Hawaii
there is room in which moving pic
ture lectures on Hawaii and other sub
iects are given every hour. AS soon
as each lecture is completed the visitors
flock over to the end of the large room
where the pineapple is served and
where the enhancing music of Ernest
Kaai's orchestra holds spell bound
those who have never seen the beauties
of Hawaii or tasted of the hospitable
life upon her shores.
Aloha nui oukou from
CHARLES S. JUDD.