The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-24

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The eastern magazines have discovered
Hawaii The islands are receiving
th0re or less Prominent mention in I
number 0fSthe most popular and inimen
tiat weekly and monthly Publications.
and yet others of greater size and prom
inenee are promised in the next few
m0nths.J sAriS4, .. SIX VI. p. g., ,..,t :
cThe recent issue of Golfers Weekly
mas an Interesting comment eoneernins
Hawaii. Scribner : monthly eabied L
BONNIE a few days ago for some of hi,
photographs OF Hawaiian, scenes, re
locsting particularly that hersend views
~ the great extinct crater Of Elalea
akaia, in Maui, TO be FubliLntd in con
hectton with an article, w".ch is Il
appear inaihe next few weeks. .;g
Jaek Bonslon, who is residing at Wal.
kikf beach, has received a CGliimisslo
from COsmopol, tan to write an articl'
concerning the Islands. lie is engaged
n that task now. The story will appeal
some time in the course of the summer
Story Written BY Traveller
In the March issue of The Eagle, d
magazine Published in Chicago, TN
leading article is an account entitled
In Honolulu illustrated by two ina
ginative drawings of Waikiki beach and
q scene in the Oriental district. The
magyar ne says. in presenting IT,: '.-
Here is q letter, written without q
thought of publication by young man
on his way around the world. Read
I. It win give you a vivid and charm
ing glimpse Of one of Uncle Sam g
most picturesque possessions.
The writer is Nathaniel PfeffeF, n
Young ne%spaperman who tarried in
the city q few months last year. Ii,
sent on to Shanghai and later was
hen a from in Toxic. ~. 49,.
Mr.. Pfeffer liked Honolulu. He ap
preciated especially the cosmopolitan
rrowtls and the eommingling of Orien-
tai and Occidental and tropical, though
he did not care very pahSionatelyf for
the American spirit of ambition rs dc
monstrated here, for he remarks in on,
part Of his very chatty letter: -"
America Just Next Door
f"" America is just next door, after all
realize it when l notice the, goodly
sprihkling. of my fellow .countrynGn :
the crowds on the streets-mostly COZ
mOnolitan crowds, they are, with Ha.
waiians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans
Filipinos, Portuguese and perhaps rep
'eseItatives of two or three other races.
to be met within one block. | realiz.
I especially when read the fboos'
stories written for the chamber OF
commerce and the promotion commit
tee-gOlden tales of pineapple and 81
gar cane. The members of these organ
izatiOns are determined to drag Homo
lulu to the heights of st. Joe, Missouri
and they will do it. Already the an
eient motto Of the Hawaiians, "A ma
lion shall live in righteOusness,' har
been changed to: IF you can't boost
keep still; don Z be knocker. " D.. :
A lengthy and well Illustrated article
IN Honolulu appears in the Furniture
World, of the issue of March 2, from
the pen Of John IN. l. Towse, cous''
of Ed. Towse of Honolulu. J. ".
Towse, who is one of the directors o.
the magazine, visited the Islands re
Gently. The publication, as its nam
implies, is given chiefly to topics of in
terest in the furniture Ihustrv.
The story, with pictures of some tn
city's best known places and three Ho
uolTlu furnitnre ptn. coves' near
Four pages. This writer, too, liked HO
nolulu and itS peonle. He gives 70
Introductory Mark Twain's poetic D.
4eription Of Hawa' and then says the
he, too, intends returning some da
For a longer visit. On this point hC
writes:
~" Now, after three weeks spent il
his mid, Pacific paradise and i am or
the ocean speeding home, want u
confess that Hawaii is in my blood and
some day 1 am going back for longer
stay. g+f-' s"'.} III
GAS the Islands are becoming bette
knOwn-the Hawaii Promotion Commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce Of
Honolulu is doing splendid work--morr
Heohie' from the States are finding tho
way there. More Americans have. beer
% Honolulu this winter than eyer be
'ar", and for a time the dozen hotel,
rcld all they could accommodate. NV
Ihse~vHt on is that most of the tOuris,
'rsvel Us from the Pacific Coast state
and the middle west, and this indicates
'o''me that the east has not as yet
beens sufficiently impressed"
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