The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-15

Kea. l am informed that for about
seven months in the year snow may
be seen on the mountain though il is
upwards of n hundred miles distant
1t speaks in stentor.an tones the praises
of the climate of this island and |
am constrained to believe that it has,
in clearness, at all events, Colorado on
the run. Another view from the beach
is the much neglected Cocoanut Island,
a bit of land, topped by cocoanut and
lauhala trees, a view that is reproduced
in every shop window where postals
are exposed for sale.
If this stretch of beach were covered
with bungalows, if it were the site of
n hundred or more lightly built houses
of the tropical style, l would not har,
Dor the thought that the owners of the
land should hide their heads with shame
for the evidence of their righteousness
which sticks in front of every tourist
who visits the place. But it is a sec
ton where the Japanese shack, the
blotch in every community in the is
lands, abounds. Pah. And pah twice
more. Hilo needs as much as any place
| ever visited, an Improvement club
that will improve.
OoHiiHB IuIJutI up lUWH 4 louHu N
better condition of affairs and it may
be said to almost begin at the afore-
mentioned saloon at the corner of
Church street. A step before reaching
there one butts into a motion picture
theater which, while conducted by a
white man, has for its clientele mostly
japanese. From that point on toward
/, the postofiice, new Hilo, or Hilo that
is not strictly Oriental, is found. One
business house of generous proportions
is next to the Gayety, the newest mo-
ton picture house, decent looking
place conducted by the man who has
the Art theater in Honolulu. He seems
not to realize that the Japanese and
Chinese are the steady patrons of the
motion picture shows or, if realizing,
does not heed the call. The patrons
of the Gayety are mostly white people
and the business is less in consequence.
Lash of the Empire believes, evidently,
that when in Japanned Hilo he must
advertise in Japanese.
Hardly more than dozen years ago
| the government put up for sale certain
lots near the postoflice. The conditions
were not more peculiar than are often
heard of today. At any rate one of the
lots, good one in size and location,
for it is near the water and so close
to the railway that came later that
they need no delivery teams to get
their goods from the cars Hand de.
livery is satisfactory unless it is the
wish of the firm to cart the stuff over
on barrow. On this lot Hackfeld L.
Co. built a store, having two stories,
and warehouse of one. 1t extended
a full block one way and Atty or more
feet another A few years later, ac-
cording to the law, the lot was put
up for sale at the request of the firm
and was sold for fifteen thousand dol
lars. Presumably their building cost
as much more, so $4,000 were invested
| by this firm. On the opposite corner
the Spreclels have erected shell that
is occupied in part by stores and as
along is the stable of the Volcano
transportation company which helps
people from the train to the volcano
and from town to the outlying settle
ments and plantations to the north.
Up to within few months the Pea
cock building has held the palm as
the best built structure In Hilo be-
/ sides being the only fire-proof ono.
! Today, however. the belt goes to the
! masonic fraternity for the best con-
| crete building in Hi'o and the best of
| its kind in the Territory. Al a cost of
forty thousand dollars Kllauea lodge
has built place that will be everlast-
ing. Being practically three stories It