The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-30
ILLINOIS EDITOR
TELLS HIS PAPER
J. !. Of HAWAII LIFE
! N. Botsford Has Found
Heaven In Honolulu and
Taken Cottage There
THIS IS lust LIKE
= FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Carnival Was Hilarious, Music Is
4 Charming, Volcano Wonderful
and Everything Delightful

tgIldItIliIv, tOiCdnO WOHucTiui
and Everything Delightful
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as. NJ. Botsford Of the editorial STAFF
of the Quincy (In,) Daily Herald, writ.
ing from Honolnlu to his paper, has the
BORROWING TO say about Hawaii and his
soionrn in the Paradise Of the Pacific:
n.tT have found heaven and taken a
rOttage there. Some Of my carping con
teinporaries and peeved political oppo.
! nents may emit snorting sneer at the
idea Of my having qualified by morals
and virtues for any sort of celestial
glories. Whatever may come hereafter,
know that here and now ] am in
heaven. While II is coming to be real.
lied that the spiritual heaven Is within
4 man and he can make II or break il
himself, still ] must maintain that in
all the marvellous material delights Of
climate and scenery and mountain and
sea and flower and foliage and balmy
breezes and tonic ozone, this region has
every other section Of God 3 footstool
surpassed. !
81 had supposed that southern Cali.
foFpia was about as near paradise as
nue could get on this globe. But, bless
yo0, il 10 2l00 miles from il, and over
q rough, restless and ofttimes retehing
ooean But once here and all the mis-
sries that have assaulted the pit of your
stomach for ave days are fully atoned
fof,.by the inexpressible superbness OF
this ideal spot. t,
Marx Twain's Praise
,ss' Here is what Mark Twain said Of
H. S. .J>. -, =.
s--kty Hawaii, the lOveliest feet Of isl.
ands that lies anchored In any ocean.
No alien land in, all the world has any
deep, strong CHARM for me but that onej
no ether land could so longingly and
beseeehingiy haunt me sleeping and
waking, through half lifetime, as that
ono has done. Other things leave me,
hut il abides; other things change, but
Il remains the same. For me its balmy
seas flashing In the sun; the pulsing Of
its suvf-beat isin my ear; can see its
garlanded crags, its leaping cascades,
Its splumy palms drowsing by the shore;
it's remote SUBMITS floating like islands
above the cloud rack; can feel the
spirit Of its woodland splitudes; ] can
hear the plash of its brooksI in my nos
trils still lives the breath Of flowers
thai. persisted twenty years ago.
Mark Twain has expressed my sem
tirnepts almost ms gracefully as ! could
have done. But he cant beat my en-
tlinsiasm, and can I bottle it. Z 2'.,
Like Foreign Land
Briefly speaking, this is just like
Nfsreign land. One does not have to
10 70 China, or Japan, or Portugal, or
korea. We have all the atmosphere
and environments and people right
herw They have their quarters, but
they. swarm the city all dressed com
.plet4y In their native and unique eos.
tunes (see any eneyelopedia). But
thank heaven, they are all under the
stars and stripes, OF the 10000 or more
residents only about 5000 are white.
But besides this number 10000 Of I'M
Gle Sans soldiers keep things lively
night and day, and ! fear we are whit
eninR out the blood of these Mongo-
Hans and Orientals and other shady
eomplexions at speed which in am
other generation will have largely de-
stroyed the picturesqueness of the pass
ing throngs. ~ y
Then there are dozen big German
vessels in refuge, dismantled and dis
armed and stuck in the Honolulu har-
Dor until the war Is over. The hun
dreds OF German sailors and marines
add 10 the variegated throng and have
nothing TO do but enjoy themselves and
liap the eifereseence of the island. One
poor .fell0w, fine looking, a quartermas.
tefvun the Geier, shot himself, despon-
dent at not being able TO see his wife
and child, born since he has been tied
takes Cottage at Beach - ~
ssWe had expected to merely make
., two weeks trip, coming from Los
Angeles on the big new steamer Grea'
northern, which had just come, the
iifsf big passenger boat, through the
Panama Canal, One day Of this All
and. sea and cosmopolitan delights set
tied us. We hastily packed, our trunks
and. located IN a cottage at Seaside
Hotel for month. The cottage hai
lust been built two weeks, and hal
Kety convenience, as modern and com
pIete as one could get at home. w
taHsstep right out onto the beach and
into iDllOWy Watefb thal hcoP IN oNoi
Temperature Of seventy-six the yea
around. Never under seventy four
The thermometer inland here never wa
kh6v.n 70 90 below flfty,fye or abos'
eiehty,fye, while day In and day out
its range IL sixty-hve 10 seventy eight
I'VE we're very fortunate to leay'
the ship here. The neEt day, on thu
trip 10 visit the active volcano in thu
Islsnd Of Hawaii at Hilo, two ladie'
Who lad been with US ali the way wer'
Killed by an Ovapturning auto-bus NJ
the mountain. The bodies were EN-
ballhed and taken back TO Los Angeles
hpt Il must have east pail over thu
Eve days return trip, and from pleas
IRE voyage II was converted into
funeral ship. ..s
hilarious Carnival Week L.
s.nThls has been hilarious and glo
! rious week in Honolulu
THE entire week has been deyotee
toathe Mid ;Paeihc Carnival something