Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-11-03

proved to be much as it was the DAY
before for fifty or sixty miles, ana
then conditions changed for the oetler,
There we're fine groves OF trees
around all the houses we passed, Win
houses every half mile or so, and lhe
grain. and conditions generally, were
much better, and continued SO untn
we got to Minneapolis. The country
was somewhat swampy and covered
with timber, and there were lakes
everywhere. Lake Harriet seems %
be great swimming place; hundreds
Of people were in bathing when we
passed. Minneapolis has population
OF. 35o,000, and everything is on the go.
Women At Work
On our journey we saw several Wo-
men cutting and stacking hay as II IS
impossible to get men to work on the
farms in this country. Sunday we
visited the places of interest around
the city Of Minneap polls, the parks
and residential and business districts.
The city has many beautiful homes.
One home was pointed out to us as
costing two million dollars, and its
furniture $500,009. There are five
lakes within the city limits, all in1prov-
ed, and there we're many people
out enjoying the water. All the lakes
are connected by canals SO that a
motor boat can go to each and every
lake at will, and there are hundreds OF
boats, both private and for hire,
If the people of Honolulu would only
clean the mud canals that are in the
park at Waikiki, and make them suita.
Bile for pleasure, could you imagine
anything more beautiful in scenery
than winding around through the 200
9cres of waste we have in Kapiolani
park today. If our legislature would
get busy with the appropriation that
the citizens committee wanted, at the
last session, to raise to keep the flood
waters from getting into the park and
around the beach, Kapiolani park
could be made as picturesque and
beautiful as any spot in the world. At
present the only thing we have is
climate.
Longfellow park in Minneapolis is
where the animals and birds are kept,
There is an animal which is cross
between dog and a coyote, and the
gray timber wolf. We had seen sew.
eral brown VOLTS, but had not seen
any gray ones before. Beautiful white
peacocks were also something new to
us. We saw Russian wolf hounds,
twenty of them. and white wood
chucks. some of the very few that
have ever been captured.
LongfelIow Park .....a
There was a band of twenty pieces
playing at the entrance to LongfelloW.
park when we arrived, but later they
moved over to the, dancing pavilion,
and a small charge was made for those
who wished to dance. After leaving
this park we drove over to where they
were opening up new dancing paw
lion near the Mississippi river, and
this was our first view of the great
stream. Minneapolis is the head of
shipping On the Mississippi. The gov.
ernment some years ago built a con.
crete wall or dyke across the river,
thinking 1t would help shipping but
a great flood came along just before
1t was finished and washed the whole
thing away, and nothing further was
done about 1t at that place, but small
er one was. built little lower down
the river. Minneapolis proper has a
population of five hundred Thousand,
but st. Paul in reality joins Mime.
apolis, and the combined population is
100000. The main parts of the two
cities are only fourteen miles apart
and are Joined by street car lines.
The beautiful climate we find in
Minneapolis is of short duration lasting
only three or four months, and for the
rest Of the year the ground is covered
with snow. They say that up to ten
years ago there was nothing but
stumps, swamps and Swedes around
Minneapolis; but conditions have
changed since then. The CEMETERIES
all over the states are kept up in the
very best condition: the grass is green
and free of weeds.
Like Fort Street !. ....-.~..a
The streets in ST. Paul are very
narrow, not much wider than Fort
street in Honolulu, and all the main
streets have double street-car tracks,
which makes traffic very congested.
The street from Minneapolis to st.
Paul is 125 feet wide and is paved
with blocks and has double track the
entire distance After leaving st Paul
We passed through farming districts.
The road, or rather the road line, is
fine and will tho 1nnforistcs do