Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-25
EDITOR FROM
ILLINOIS IS !.
Complimentary
E. NJ. Bottsford Tells Members
of AID Club Why He Pro-
Ionged Visit In Hawaii

One of the Honolulu Ad Clubs
guests At yesterdays meeting was E
NJ. Bottsford, an editor from the Middle
West, who had some exceptionally5hice
things to say about Honolulu and his
!, visit here. 1851.
Following was Mr.. Bottsford's con,
, tribution to the days speeeh-making:
Il am like the fellow who was asked
! If he could sing. He replied: Those
who have heard me say that | can't
So have had expert expressions from
parties who have heard me speak and
, they are unanimously, of the opinion
that can't. i make a business oil
writing, however, so that any OF you
who desire to know my valued oBin'
, ions OF your charming island will have
| to subscribe for the Quincy (Ifl.) Daily
Herald, Sc a year in advance, poi
pineapples and papaias not received
for subscriptions. -
You may get some idea, however,
of what i think about Honolulu and
the domains dances and damsels that
adjacent lie, from the fact that came
here on the Great Northern for a IL
days trip. The shortness of the trip
was the main incentive for making it.
Moreover / had the assurance of the
steamboat management that / could
live and sleep on the boat while here
and be afforded thus all necessary
protection from capture by your can.
nibais after dark. ~ ~.
In those days when 1t behooves all
good Americans TO observe neutrality
though the heavens fall, upon being
asked to make an iInpromptu speech
to you, / have hastily prepared one,
so that anything might say could
not be distorted, disconnected, dislo-
Gated, disembodied or distended and be
made the basis of an internecine war.
After one days visit to your city,
its gardens, its mountains and its sea
and its resorts / went back to the
boat and hurriedly packed my trunks
and sent them ashore in fear lest I
be carried back before could get off
the boat Then went-to the purser
and demanded my return trip money,
on the ground that they sold me the
tickets under false pretenses. They
assured me that three days was long
enough for any one to stay in Homo
lulu. One. day convinced me that
three weeks would be little enough
and soon after, over four weeks, l
believe that three months could be
pleasantly employed in your midst,
Poets and novelists and orators
and fhetorieians have sung the praise
of your climate and your flowers and
your eyer-deyeloping vegetation and
your peaceful sea and your guardian
mountains, your music and your hulas,
and all the novel delights that are in
digenous to your remarkable cline.
Let me stoop to humber measures.
sing The praise Of your street car con.
ductors. To my surprise found them
all to be almost human beings. They
have even stopped the car and kept
inpatient passengers waiting while
they gave me courteous and elaborate
information in reply to questions ask
ed.
THE other day my wife's hat got
in Ihe focus of one of your balmy
trade winds and was blown Off OF
his own motion the conductor ran the
car half a block back and recovered it.
I sh ldder to think what would have
happened had such9a thing been sug-
gested in Chicago.
But it was gratifying to note that
with all your advantages and perfec.
tions you still suffer from some Of
the evils of civilization, as we do of
the mainland. note that you have
wives and mothers who when opportu-
nifty offers are prompt to tell you men
when to get off. And from what |
hear this week, they even go so far as
to tell you when not to get off "a night
off. But bless them! they always
mean wen and we must give them de-
served tribute. 5
Without them one of Honolulu's.
greatest charms, most unique charac.
teris.ics, could not be maintained.
Their presence and diligence alone has
made this city the recognized melting
pot Of the races. So in closing let.
me propose q toast to the new woman
and the old, regardless of race, suf.
frage and previous conditions of servi-
tude.