The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-11
SIGHTSEEING ON HAWAII
WITH THE CONGRESSMAN
An Advertiser Man Gossips About Pleasant
Trip Through Beautiful Country and
Past Lovely Coast.

with music furnished by quintet club
and members of the Orpheum compa-
ny. Claudius Mcbride gave a hui
morous selection, which said something
about a cablegram worth 800.
Crowd Of for bitches.
A Jolly crowd of Congressman with
local men for pilots left the Mauna
Kea at Mahukona about / clock this
morning, starting for the Kohala and
Hamakua ditch country. Two big
autos belonging to F. E. Thompson
and E. !. Lord were taken ashore from
the steamer to transport the party,
which will inspect the big ditch and
irrigation enterprises and land in HiIo
Thursday night.
The Governors Party.
Governor Frear, U. S. Senator Dill
lingham, U. s. immigration Commits
sioner and Mrs. Wheeler. Mr. Mellis,
expert statistician; Private Secretary
Mcbride, L. A. Thurston, Chairman
Richard Ivers of the Territorial I'M
migration Bureau, and Geo. B. McClel-
Ian, Secretary to Delegate Kuhio, left
the steamer at Napoopoo and took
autos. for the homestead sections where
the Immigration officials will secure
data on what has been accomplished
in the way of home-making. They
viii continue on to Hilo.
Beautiful Kona District.
At Napoopoo landing the party was
given a hearty welcome, the wharf be-
ing decorated with ferns and welcome
signs while the members walked to the
autos and carriages over a road strewn
with ginger blossoms and leaves. SEN
ator J. D. Paris was on hand to vel
come the Congressman.
Then began the attractive drive
over the twelve-mile road to Kailua.
As the cavaleade rose to the higher
levels and came into the fern and chill
pepper section and finally to the coffee
plantation region they became enthu-
siastic. For miles and miles they pass
ed through region beautifully eul-
tivated with red and green coffee ber-
ries on every hand, evidence that Ha-
waii possesses a coffee product which
is unequalled in any other part of the
world.
The party passed big pineapple
cannery where also the cans for the
delicious fruit are manufactured Then
the big tobacco experimental region
where Jared Smith and the late Mr..
Blacow have demonstrated that Ha-
waii can also produce cigar wrapper
and filler equal to any product of Cuba,
Mexico or the South. Kona smiled
pleasantly on. the Congressional visitors
and they smiled in return for the ride
was as pretty as any yet undertaken
since their arrival in the Islands.
What Hawaii expects Congress to
do for the best coffee in the world
and it comes from Kona-was detail
ed to the visitors, and Kona people
hope that they were duly impressed
with the need of putting a tariff on
coffee which will give Hawaii home
steaders chance to develop the mar
ket far beyond its present proportions.
Kona is. perhaps, the most perfect
homestead section of the Islands. For
miles and miles the little homes dot
of land yet undeveloped merely await
ing favorable terms upon which pros
pective settlers may take up holdings.
The road through the. district is in
very good condition except a portion
close to Kailua where it is dusty and
bumpy.
At Kailua the Mauna Kea's boats
were found at the landing and with
out delay the travellers were taken
aboard and the steamer started for
Hilo at 10 a. m, an hour behind time.
''There She spouts''
An hour after leaving Kailua shout
went up, "a whale, whale! and
everybody ran to the rail. Far off a