Evening star., 1935-09-15
The Tru0elerS Notebook
By Jacques Futrelle, Jr.

~ ARK TWAIN, who helped
M Americans discover Europe
W. and reduced the Old World
4 L to plain Yankee language in
"Innocents Abroad" had this to say
OF Hawaii:
mo alien land in all the world has
any deep, strong charm for me but
that one; no other land could so un-
abiddingly and beseechingly haunt me,
sleeping and waking, through half a
lifetime here as that has done. 9th
er things leave me, but it abides; other
things change, but it remains the
same"
STRING thousand lines Of superla-
~ tive and languorous and colorful
words together and, presto, there's a
description of Hawaii. For Capt. Cook
really found something in 1778. The
exotic islands cast a romantic spell
over a few fortunate whites of the
world long before Twain sought them
out and talked reams about them.
11o q IOul loO NAdAN Va EOCll tWlb1lOuI
a poisonous reptile, by the way) Hawaii
doomed after the United States took
it over in 1898 and when the upper
crust of the white-collar workers be-
gan to crafty its yearning to have a
gay beauty lower leis caressingly
around its collective neck.
HAWAII is what is known in pro-
motional circles as a natural" 1t
had "it." The publicity man and the
song writer took up where Twain and
other capable writer's left off. The
hula complex became so keen that
there were not enough grass skirts for
all the New York dancers who dustied
up their skin, risked getting their feet
dirty on the stage, and added bit of
abandon to the sedate national Ha-
waiian dance. Americans became
Hawaii conscious in big way.
With all this ballyhoo (Which died
down, as ballyhoo does in America,
Hawaii lived up to its extravagant
claims. 1t still does. Its beauty has
become commercialized. its tourist
centers have been modernized quite
adequately, but hardly more than the
conlfort-loving traveller demands.
HAWAII has climate so appealing
that the natives never thought
up a word for weather" The lazi-
ness of the South Seas has infected
every thermometer introduced into
the islands. The mercury rambles up
a few notches and calls it a day.
Month in and month out, it seldom
climbs above 85 and hardly ever
drops below 65 The water at Waikiki
Beach hovers languidly about rs
degrees. It's not as bracing as Names
surf, but who can bathe in Names
Atlantic in Winter?
With the broad Pacific as its we'll
stocked lake Hawaii lets the visitor
fish without a license, laughs with
him as he toboggans down the lush
glass slopes on ii leaves, carefully
explains that Kilauea is the name
OF the live volcano, but that the fire
pit, where Pele is at home, is called
Halemaumau. Kilauea'S crater is
8 miles in circumference. the pit,
three -ffths of mile across.
WHAT is loosely termed Hawaii
consists of four main islands,
Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii and Maui.
Honolulu is on Oahu, but the geog-
raphy has perhaps told you that.
Kauai is the smallest and the oldest
geologically. Here is Waimea, the "lit-
tie Grand Canyon" deep and splashed
with color, here is the Spouting Horn,
a geyser of salt water propelled by
the surf; the Barking Sands of Nohili,
where the beach, instead of crunching
with step. growls like a dog.
The islands are full of such wonders.
Vegetation. of course, is the most
amazing, with forests of ferns which
really become trees, the monkey
pods, huge banyans, royal palms,
eucalyptus and the strange, delicate
flower, the cereus, which blooms only
at night.
New wonders cease for the visitor
only when he leaves the island. The
memory, as Twain said, abides.
NEW YORK'S rubber neck wagons.
more properly called sightseeing
busses, don't require as much rubber
necking as they did before the intro
duction of glass tops. Picking their
way through the narrow streets, they
afford view of the skyscrapers by
a straight look upward. Germany,
proud of her mountains and hoping
to show them to advantage, has in
troduced the glass-roof idea to OBJ |
servation cars of her railroads. They
are not yet general, as the innova-
tion is just being tried.
Practically the entire upper part |
of the coach is made of unbreakable |
glass, and the seats permit one to |
face either way in looking up at
the mountain tops. The first such |
car made its maiden voyage recently |
from Munich to Berchtesgaden.
outranks June as a
popular month at Atlantic City, |
figures released yesterday by the re-
sorts chamber of commerce reveal. |
September is now in third place, ex-
ceeded only by August and July. June
is now in fourth place, after having |
held third rank for years. February |
is last in order, but visitor figures |
for Winter months bear out the claim |
that Atlantic City is Americas |
greatest all-year health and pleasure
resort"
SCR1BBLINGS: Asheville, in the |
Land of the Sky, was named Nor