The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-16
PINES ARE
GOING AHEAD
Continued from Page One,

ward dining halls, put Hawaiian pine.
apple on its bill of fare greatly to the
delight of the Island colony who dine
there
Another factor in Hawaiian promo
ton hereabouts has been series of
lectures given by Miss Elizabeth Shaw
Colwell, until recently a teacher in Ka.
waiahao seminary. She is now travel
ing in this vicinity and has two lectures,
one descriptive with stereopticon views.
the other with a shorter description and
more attention paid to Hawaiian folk
lore. Your correspondent heard the lat
ter lecture in Medford, a suburb of Bos-
| ton, last week. A large aadience~was
charmed by the lecture which is one
of the finest pictures of Hawaii and her
people that has been heard on the lee
ture stage The descriptive portion was
| given in language that suffered not at
all in comparison with Mark Twain S
classic words which were given at the
close while the portion of the lecture
devoted to Hawaiian legends was a rev.
citation to those who were not familiar
with the subject.
| Miss Colwell was accompanied by a
| soloist who sang characteristic Hawai-
ian songs in Hawaiian Such lectures
| help dispel many of the popular mis-
conceptions about the islands, and the
volcano after such a mastery descrip-
| tion as Miss Colwell's becomes less a
| bugaboo to tourists and more the mag
nifcent manifestation of nature that
| it is.
| Some amusement may be created in
Hawaiian circles by certain portions of
the following press despatch which APP
peared in various newspapers recently,
following the loss of the great White
Star liner Republic. Captain Sealby is
known to Honolulans and probably was
somewhat amused himself at the send
off his home>tow gave him during his
absence. The extracts are from the
Boston Globe of aJnuary 9th and are
as follows:
| In 1897 he was placed in command
| of the steamer Coptic, sailing between
San Francisco and China. Later he
commanded the Persia and Suevic, from
England to New Zealand, and Crotic
and Canopic from Boston to the Medi-
terranean. He was given command of
the Republic last July
While in charge of the Coptic, going
to China, Capt. Sealby saved the ship
from destruction. The vessel was struck
by a tidal wave, and would have gone
/ to the bottom but for the heroic ex-
ample he set for the crew.
When the Sandwich Islands were an
nexed to the United States, July 3, 1898,
Capt. sealby carried the news to the
residents of the Islands. The people
wanted to make him the first governor
but he could not accept the offer, and
they gave him a silver and gold loving
cup.
He was also the first person to send
out the news of the capture of Ger
vera's feet by Admirals Schley and
Sampson.
The great ocean disaster has aroused
the widest interest, the special feature
having been the use Of the wireless.
Had it not been for that wonderful in.
vention the repetition of the La Bour,
| ILL
Cured in the fog off Nantucket shoals.
The only casualties out of the sixteen
hundred souls on the colliding ships
were the seven deaths caused by the
crash, and not one was drowned.
His dynamos out of commission, Wire
less Operator Jack Binns, of the Re
public, sat in his crushed cabin and
with weakening storage batteries called
seven great liners out of the impene-
trable fog and told his story to them
and to the shore. In Boston people were
reading in the papers the movements of
the vessels at the very moment when
they were occurring and knew the loca-
tions of the various actors in the ocean
tragedy when even the liners themselves
could with difficulty find each other III
the fog. It was a wonderful triumph
for Marconi S invention and those of
the others who have worked out differ
ent systems.
lid KAA[lMOANA