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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-29
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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-29
IN THE Realm
OF fashion
Lace and Batiste MeCkWear.

The latest fad In Paris is the deep
lace collar or bertha. which may he
slipped on over various bOdices, max
ing Il dressy affair of Il simple costume.
The bertha pictured here Is made or
strips of crochet point lace put together
with an entire deux Of pin tucked ba-
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mountains. The last great eruption was
in 1907. and was attended by an earth
quake. The one in 1865 raised huge sea
waves forty feet high, which broke on the
shore and destroyed many villages.
Uncle Sans bird reservation, which has
been set aside by the government and
placed under the biological survey of the
Department of Agriculture, is another
natural wonder. 1t is a great OCEAN park
covering hundreds of miles. in which are
many small islands. rocks and reefs. They
belong 10 the Hawaiian group. but they
stretch far off to the westward In the
direction of Japan.
them, but they contain population OF
sea BIRDS which in variety and extent Is
unequaled in any other part or the
earth. There are tens Of millions OF birds
which make their homes on those lonely
lands. They come there to breed. and at
times the islands are covered with nests
The ground is one mass Of eggs. and In
wheelbarrows and carts and carried away
by the boat load.
The birds feed on the fish which
swarm about the islands and upon other
kinds of sea life which live on the reefs
and along the shores. There are some
plants. and just now the reservation IS
suffering from an invasion OF rabbits.
which feed on the plants and which, If
not dealt with, may destroy the bird
life.
Moreover, the japanese have been raid
ing the islands in order to kill the alba
trosses and cure their skins for millinery
purposes. The group should he watched
by our revenue cutters and the reserva-
ton should have permanent officials
there TO care for 1t.
Uncle Sam is doing much to prepare
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Peak, and another on one side, the Ia
nous kilauea, which is constantly active
and has a great lake of fire in Its center
1t Is planned to make one reservation
right at the top of Maona Loa and an
other reservation down the sides OF the
mountains to include kilauea. hilauea
is only 1900 feet above the sea. ana II IS
situated on belt road around the island.
and can be reached by automobiles.
Think of going by automobiie rlSht
down to the shores OF lake OIL
fire and brimstone. That is what
we have in Kilauea, and all around
in the country about are picturesque pit
craters. banks of sulphur and lava Trees
tree ferns and forests of many Varletles.
The government will establish volcano
and earthquake observatory there. ana
It will preserve the scientific aspects OF
these wonderful natural features from
vandals and business intrusion.
The crater Of Kilauea is eight miles In
circumference and the pit of blazing fire
Is 1900 feet in diameter and it lies per-
haps thousand feet below the mouth OF
the crater. 1t is usually safe, but IT
has had some mighty eruptions, when
stones. and volcanic ashes have been
spread over the country for miles around
In recent times the lava is supposed 10
have gone out under the earth 10 the
sea. the floor of the crater rising ana
sinking with its discharge.
The crater in the other reservation on
nine and one-haif miles in circumference.
1t is a pit crater. with walls almost YER
teal and about 800 feet deep When the
mountain goes into eruption ii spoutS forth
columns of flames and clouds of yapoI
and the lava runs in streams down the
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the islands for the increased traffic
which will come with the Panama canal.
The ports have been cleaned and the
chief harbors have all modern facilities
for the handling of freight. A very i'm
portant work is that which is going on
at Pearl harbor
The general board of the army and
navy has declared that this PLACE should
be made naval base, and plans have
been prepared which will involve the
spending of $1O,oOO,GOo in improving it.
There are to be also posts and fortifica-
lions which are to cost $4,990.OD more,
and altogether we shall erect a little
Of the Pacific. The islands have already
been made a separate military district,
and a general officer has been assigned
to the troops stationed there. We are
putting in a huge dry dock at Pearl
harbor. and connected with it will be re-
pair shops for our gunboats and other
vessels of war.
The opening of the canal will greatly
increase the importance of these islands
as the metropolis of the middle Pacific
They lie. you know, at the crossway OF
the main travelled routes OF that ocean
They are 2.lOO miles from San Francisco
and about 1900 miles from the east coast
of Asia They are 400 miles from the
western end of the Panama canal, $50
from japan and about 400 from Seat
tie or Vancouver. They are the half
way house to almost anywhere in the
Pacific and their future trade will be
enormous.
AS 1t is, the transportation facilities
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long to rich corporations and trusts.
There are altogether sixty-tive companies
most of them chartered under the laws
of California. The stock is held by 1909
persons. some of whom live on the islands,
some in the United States and not few
in England and Germany The corpora
tons have an aggregate capital of $780,
ODO worth of sugar year Some OF the
plantations have declared dividends as
high as per cent a month, while others
have gone into bankruptcy.
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The work of sugar raising is scienti:i-
cally done Enormous sums are spent
for machinery and fertilizers. About half
the land is irrigated, and that at a cost
of $40 per acre. or. about four times as
much as similar work in our country
The labor cost forms about GU per cent
of the whole.
It is this labor demand that has brought
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President will be in entire control of the
situation through man into whose
hands ali strings OF activity run.
To attract the worlds commerce is
feat less easy of accomplishment than
the settling of matters of authority and
control. The question of toll rates must
first be settled or a basis to let freight
shippers and vessel owners figure out the
advantage of shipping through the canal.
Then there must follow the establishment
of great supply of coal depots that will
do for the ocean rover all the cleaning,
manicuring and refitting that may be
necessary in the shortest possible space of
time Upon the attractiveness of the ac-
Communications that are offered depends
much of the canals success in attra citing
trade.
Col. GoethalS suggests that the govern
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it erect huge laundries, machine shops.
ship hardware stores, coal depots and
food supply depotS. and that it take Il
ship at the entrance OF the canal and re-
fit it from stem to stern, If desired, in
the eight or ten or twelve hours it is
passing through the canal. The plan in
cludes big wireless station. to be under
the control of the canal authorities, sub
ject 20 control by the Navy Department
only in case of war. The approaching
ship will get into touch with the canal
and state what its needs are. If ma
chnery needs repairing, the canal ma
chine shop will be ready to disgorge sup
plies. workmen and portable apparatus
into the vessel as soon as ii comes
Food supplies will be ready to put
aboa I'd; the government laundry, run
ming day and night, will retit the ship and
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mixture of that and the American.
Twenty out of twenty-eiglt of the repre-
sentatives belong to that race, and they
also form the majority of the senate.
The Hawaiians cast something like 1000
votes at the last election. whereas the
American. British and German element
cast only a little over 5000. The Portu-
guese cast 1000 votes, the Chinese go
and the japanese 80.
The Hawaiian Islands. as every one
knows are now a territory of the United
States. They have IA governor and
secretary appointed by the President, and
these are aided by a territorial legislature,
consisting of senate and house elected
by the people. The Legislature sits sixty
DAYS only, and the last one passed 169
bills.
The Hawaiian Islands have not proved
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dren. There are also about two hundred
other buildings. consisting of machine
shops, storerooms and detached cottages
occupied by lepers. Among the schools of
Honolulu are some for non-leprous chill
dren whose parents are leIers
Some of the big questions Of the future
in the Hawaiian Islands have to do with
the labor question. This is based on the
sugar plantations. which are enormously
rich. but which require cheap labor to
handle them. There are few spots upon
earth that produce sugar like the low
lands and valleys of this Sandwich group.
The area is not large. but the crop last
year amounted to more. than a billion
pounds, or enough to give every man.
woman and child in the United States
a pound of sugar month all the year
through and leave some to spare.
The sugar plantations OF Hawaii all be
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those who got them have not made any
great profit to speak of. Today Uncle
Sam still offers homesteads, but the
tracts are small and they are given at
prices a little less than their cash value.
One thousand lots were taken In 1910,
but since then other drawings have been
advertised and comparatively few have
been taken.
The officials say that there are posi-
bilitieS in the islands in the raising OF
coffee. rice and bananas. and there is
no doubt that money may be made
I'm the pineapple industry. which is rapid
~ growing. The exports for the last
year were something like 100000 cases
and they will be 100000 in 1872 Among
other industries which bid fair to pay
we'll are tobacco and cotton, but the main
profits will always come from the sugar.
and this, as | have said is in the hands
of the rich.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER
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an FL Dorado to pioneers from the
United States. as many expected. The
truth is that they had already been de-
veoped by American brains and Ameri-
en- enterprise. These came III with the
missionaries and they have been so used
that the best lands have been taken and
the best places filed.
The government acquired about 1900
Go5 acres of public lands by the transfer.
but q great part of that was made up OF
canyon rayines and lava-clad mountains.
The government had about one-third of
the whole, but the greater part of that
third was no earthly good 1t had about
1900 acres of good sugar lands, but
much was leased to the sugar pIanta-
tions and was therefore not to be dispos-
ed Of until those leases ended. A num-
Der of homesteadS We're granted, but as
general thing these were small. and
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the ASiatic to Hawaii. The invasion be-
gan before we took possession of the
islands and at first it was composed large
ly of Chinese. Since then the Chinese
have been kept out by our exclusion law,
but the Japanese have taken their places.
and We have now something like 80 oO
Of them thae. We have perhaps 10000
Chinese, five or six thousand Koreans
and some Filipnos.
. AS to the Japanese. there are three
times many of them as of the native
Hawaiians and altogether they form from
one-third to one-half of the whole nopu-
lation.
So far these orientals have been doing
very little in voting but their children
will vote as they grow up, and the ques-
ton is what effect it will have as to the
control of the government. AS il is now
the ruling class is the Hawaiian or q
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and upon which tn" Senate, the House
and the President are concentrating their
attention.
In the opinion of Col. George w. Goe-
thals. the man who is building the canal.
ii is the great question left in connection
with the project. The remaining ten
months of 1912 will witness the compile
ton of many of the most difficult parts
of the canal itself. Building the water
way-"making the dirt fly at Panama
as 1t is officially known-is now merely
an engineering feat dependent upon the
continued smooth running of the gigantic
human machine that Col. Goethals and
his assistants have constructed.
Maintaining the world famed sanitation
and good order on the isthmus is a mat
ter to which the government authorities
need give little more attention. Col.
Gorgas and his associates guarantee it's
continuance so long as Congress Keeps
the way creased with enough money.
But the Panama canal is destined to be
q gigantic failure, in the opinion OF the
men best qualified to judge. unless as
great wisdom and foresight are exercised
in the next few months In settling its
future as has been expended in planning
ana carrying out It's conStiucuoi.
The future of Panama depends upon
conditions. regulations and seemingly
small considerations that mean success
or failure. The interstate commerce
committee of the House of Representa-
1ives. of which William G: Adamson of
Georgia is chairman. and the Senate COM
mittee on interoceanic canals, of which
Senator Rrandegee OF Connecticut is
chairman. have studied the isthmus and
fits problems minutely: have had the adj
vice and counsel of the worlds ablest ex-
yerts. and are preparing to guide through
Congress comprehensive laws 10 control
and develop the new highway Of COM
merce.
Great factors will have to be considered.
Will transcontinental railways be able
to control the coast-to-coast traffic?
How can the trade of China, Japan,
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then, II does bigger one now. itS lot
eign commerce is almost s7o,0OO.OoO per
annum. and it has more than doubled
since we made this a territory. Hawaii
now buys more than S2I,OOo,OOO worth OF
goods every twelve months. and 90 per
cent Of this we supply. The business is
all done in American bottoms, and the
customs receipts. which go to the fed
eral Treasury. have already amounted
10 about fifteen millions. In addition to
this is a large sum from internal revenue
taxes. so that the islands not only sup
port themselves and pay all their ex-
penses, but they annually turn large
sum back into Uncle Sans Golfers. This.
j should Say, is good business.
The Hawaiian Islands have grown in
Intelligence since we took hold Of them.
Then 81 per cent of the natives could
read and write. Now all can do SO.
They We're a civilized country inhabited
by civilized people. At the time of an
neXation they had common school sys-
tenn like that of New England, and there
were 1900 children in the schools. There
are now $4,000. and a compulsory law
has been enacted raising the school age
from fifteen to seventeen years. know
of no land where the school age is so
high. Moreover, the schools are quite as
good as our own, and they include in
their teaching manual and industrial
training.
Within the past few years the gov
eminent has established College of Ag-
riculture, and also experiment stations
devoted to the crops which grow on the
islands. The government has q bureau of
forestry. and 1t has set aside three for
est reserves 1t has an energetic de-
partment Of health, and one island has
been set aside as home for the lepers
Others Of the archipelago have been re-
serve. a. keep alive the wonderful bird
life Of the middle Pacific, and the Island
OF Hawaii. the largest OF all. is soon to
be the site OF a national park which
will inclose the greatest volcano known
10 man. A bill to this effect is now be-
fore Congress. and the governor of the
islands has advised that the reservation be
made
Before I 60 farther 1 want to tell you
about this volcano park. We have the
greatest geysers OF the world on our
public reservation of the Yellowstone. We
shall have the greatest volcano and the
greatest active crater in this part OF
Hawaii. The whole archipelago is made
up OF volcanoes. 1t has altogether forty
volcanic peaks and volcanic ash and lava
abound everywhere. The very soil Is de-
twenty feet deep, making the islands
among the richest on earth.
The Island of Hawaii. the largest of
the group where Congress is asked TO
create this park, consists mainly OF the
semitic slopes of five volcanic mountains,
and il has among theme the great Mauna
IIoa. which is by far the largest volcano
OF the world. There is a crater at its
TOP which is almost as high as Pike S
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1912. by Frank G. carpenter.J

HAT has Uncle
Sam done for Ha-
wall? 1t is the old
est OF our colonial
possessions. w e
annexed 1t in 1893
and it has been a
part Of US for the
past four e e n
years. 1t was rich
when we got IL; it
is richer today. 1t
did a big business
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its crew throughout and deliver the fin
ished product to the other end of the
canal. and fuel supplies will be put aboard
from moving GOLFERS as the vessel pro-
ceeds through the waterway.
There is great opposition in Colon and
Panama to such a plan, and many MEM
bers of Congress also oppose the under
taking of these commercial transa lotions
by the government. But it is claimed
that unless Uncle Sam does become the
permanent storekeeper and supply man
on the isthmuS commercial combinations
will control the situation, with the power
to dictate prices and brighten much trade
away.
Pacific coast business interests and
members of the House and Senate from
the coast are making fight for free
tolls for American ships. They declare
it will develop American shipping and aid
in keeping down railroad rates. Opposed
to them are many members from the east
and the middle west. who declare it
would be a violation of the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty with Great Britain, and who
contend that American vessels should
help to pay the $40, 100000 or more need
ed annually to maintain the canal
The British treaty was made in antici-
patton of the canal, and binds the United
States not to discriminate against the
StSStlS vi udttteSiHpS Oh any nation
President Taft, members of the cabinet
and many western members of Congress
contend that 1t does not prohibit the
United States from Relating to ships
owned in this country the tolls that
might be collected.
To prevent the transcontinental rail
roads from controlling the canal should
they so DESIRE is more serious problem
BY acquiring docking and terminal factl-
tiles and by purchase of the steamship
lines or determinations in freight accom-
modations to independent lines. it is
recognized that the railroads might easily
control traffic so that the canal would ex-
ercise little or no influence in reducing
railroad rates.
Government officials advocate that the
interstate commerce commission be given
the same authority over the canal traffic
that it has over the railroads. Witnesses
who have appeared in Washington to
give advice to the committees have
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DIV that we have
the Panama canal
almost finished.
" hat shall we do
with it, This is
the big question of
the hour in big
ditch" circles. 1t
is the problem to
which two commit
tees of Congress
have d e " o I e d
months of study.
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There is a movement in Congress also
to provide penalties for the operation OF
any ships by transcontnentai railroads
or their stockholders in the interests of
the railroads. A further suggestion is
that the government operate line of
freight steamers, thus fixing rates from
coast to coast.
These questions present SO many varied
angles to the men responsible for the
rules that will govern the canal that the
canal legislation will be agreed TO only
after the most thorough consideration
and debate. The navy wants 10000 tons
of coal held in reserve on the isthmus
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who returned recently from an inspection
of the work, Lies not in the invading
army or the hostile battleship, but in
the man in plain clothes with a suitcase
full of dynamite
This goes to the bottom of one Of the
most important features of the problem
now being worked out, namely: How
shall the Canal Zone be developed. and
where shall the absolute control and au-
thority at the isthmus be placed?
1t is the opinion of many experts who
have been working on the problem that
the zone itself should not be opened to
settlement. The strip is about forty miles
long and twenty miles wide. 1t is of
little agricultural value, but there are
places along the route of the waterway
that might be made attractive to Central
American settlers if the United States
undertook to populate the place.
But an influx of settlers means a con-
stantly growing population of aliens and
of 'floaters. men whom 1t Is difficult
to keep track of, and whose purposes
and connections can be learned with diff
Guilty Military experts believe it will
be better to keep the zone unsettled, and
under patrol throughout its entire length.
There will be decided movement In
Congress to place the canal, the Panama
railroad, the zone and all the activities
on the isthmus within the hands of one
man, to be administered by him with as
absolute power as Col. Goethals has ex-
ercised in the great work of building the
waterway.
\ zone government must be established
to carry out the ends of justice and to
provide for the administration of local
affairs, but many members of Congress