The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-01
VISITORS MAKE
INSPECTION
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water boat represent Uncle Sam s great
navv in Hawaiian waters; thence up
past the Judiciary building, the CapitoI
and along Beretania avenue to Luna
lilo Home where Mrs. Ellen Weaver,
sister of General Armstrong Of Civil
War fame, and founder of the famous
Hampton Institute received the visit
tors. W. 0. Smith, one of the trustees
of the home, was also present and acted
as guide and interpreter. An aged ana
deerepit Hawaiian pensioner chanted
one of the ancient meles, a feature
which interested the visitors. When
the Congressman asked Prince huhlo
for IN Interpretation, the Prince re-
minded them that the language was OF
the ancient days and almost too deep
for him to interpret.
The visitors were also deeply inter
ested in the Difference and devotion
paid by the aged Hawaiians. to their
Prince whose hand they touched with
their lips.
Aquarium a Revelation.
The route was then through the Oahu
College grounds and ont Kalakaua ave-
nue. to the Aquarium. Their principal
regret there was that they had not
time enough to igger longer gazing at
the wonderfully -eolored and strange
looking fishes found in Hawaiian wa
tiers. Some they declared looked like
actors and actresses just made-up for
the stage; one fish with long-extend-
ing proboseis they named Einstein. The
squid with its ugly in-sueking tenacfes
held their attention. The beautiful
peacock fish, the canary-birds, those
through which the sunlight cast
shadows-aD appealed to their sense of
the unreal. They declared the fish look
ed almost as if a painter had used
brushes upon them TO optain the beau
tiful eoloring and faneiful designs.
.'The sight of the fish in the AQUA
rum, said Congressman Reeder of
Kansas, SIS alone worth the VIII &c Trip
down to the Hawaiian Islands. /"
Reluctantly leaving the denizens of
the deep, the party motored around
Diamond Head to Battery Harlow,
perched on the mauna side of the era
ter, where Major Winslow, Engineer
Corps, U. S. A., under whose direc-
tion the Notifications have been built,
received the party. In the pleasant
task of guiding it over the works the
Major was assisted by Mr.. Burbank,
the engineer who has worked directly
on the job, Captain Pourie Of the coast
artillery corps and several young
coast artillery officers attached to Fort
Ruger.
View Magnificent Battery.
The first view of the great, black
cemented works with their death-deal-
ing engines of destruction, was an OBJ
ieet lesson to the Congressman of the
manner in which the War Department
is spending money appropriated by
them to make Hawaii the strongest
outpost between the Fax East and the
Oceident Battery Harlow looks like
huge river boat with the central pilot
house high up above the main deck.
The battery consists of central sta
tion WI a two wings, and in each wing
are four great mortars. There is one
main floor or deck on which the NOR
tars are located. In the great cement
deck house. using the boat term. are
classmates for protection ard for Office
rse. Above the main deck-house is
another. with more Offices. Above
this is narrow house, where the
charts of the sAa are plotted and sur
mounting the entire structure is the
pilot house, where the commander of
the battery has his quarters when the
guns are being fred. Long, narrow
Sits in each side give him a view of
the two mortar batteries. Direct com
munication is had with the room below
where the telegraphie orders are re-
eeiyed from the trig station on the
apex of the crater rim above the Dia-
mond Head lighthouse, as to how the