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Are We Forgetting Hawaii?
RIDING
' THE SURE
T THE time of their annexation to the
United States much was heard of the
linwaiian Islands as the key to the
Pacific, a name which, unlike most
tags, seems to be a fairly accurate de
-3 scriptlon. Situated between 19 and 23
degrees north latitude and between 151
degrees 40 minutes and 162 degrees
west longitude, they are at the Junc
tion of the principal steamer routes
across the Pacific and indeed are the
only land of any extent within a radius
of 2,000 miles. This situation gives
them, Inevitably, great strategic and *
commercial Importance. To the north
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llic* nearest land is Alaska with the chain of the
Aleutian islands, 2.000 miles away; to the east,
the North American continent. 2,000 miles, and to
the west, the Philippine islands. 4.500 miles
Honolulu Is distant 2,100 miles from San Fran
cisco, 2.460 miles from Victoria, 13. C.; 4,700 from
Manila, 3,400 from Yokohama 3,810 from Auck
land and 4,410 from Sydney.
The American tourist to the Hawaiian Islands
will probably take ship at San Francisco, al
though the steamers from Vancouver are also
good. He must remember that from a United
States port it is possible to sail to Honolulu only
on a ship under American register, unless he lias
a through ticket to the Orient and plans merely
to stop over. The first day or two out of San
Francisco are usually cold, so that heavy wraps
are essential, but as the rest of the trip is warm,
rooms on the starboard side, getting the trade
winds, are preferable.
After the hills of the coast range have dropped
below the horizon there is almost nothing to see
—a whale perhaps, or porpoises, but no land and
very rarely a passing ship. But to the man who
has never been In the tropics the ocean, so ut
terly different from the North Atlantic, is a reve
lation. There usually are no waves, as the At
lantic traveler knows waves, but the whole sur
face of the sea aways gently in great, silent,
lazy swells.
The harbor of Honolulu is not large. The en
trance is 35 feet deep and 400 feet wide; the
Inner .harbor is 35 feet deep and 900 feet wide,
but this width is being extended to 1.200 feet.
The water Is always still. Indeed, the name
Honolulu means "the sheltered" and is appro
priate, since there are few severe storms and no
weather affects the safety of the harbor, which
In consequence is usually crowded with shipping
As the steamer enters the channel people watch
the Japanese and Hawaiian fishing boats, usually
dcu-ies painted some bright color, that contrast
with the gray tenders of the men-of-war. Near
the dock the water is alive with Hawaiian boys
swimming about and shouting, ready to dive for
nickels and dimes, not one of which do they
miss. They are marvelously dexterous swlm-
and give incoming passengers amusement
that Is pleasanter and more unusual than look
ing at the undoubtedly practical but also un
doubtedly ugly warehouses aud United States
government storehouses which line the shore
The streets, in so far as the uneven character
of the land permits, are laid out at right angles
Fort street and Nuuanu avenue running from
the sea toward the mountains, and King, Hotel
and Reretania streets, more or less parallel to
the roast, give, as being the principal thorough
faies. sufficient indication of the street plan. All
after farvlng the business center pass between
luxuriant gardens which are never shut In by
walls, but are enclosed only by low hedges,
usually of red flowering hibiscus. In many parts
of the city the streets are bordered with tropical
flowering trees that are a glory In the late spring
months. An admirable electric car service covers
the entire district of Honolulu, traversing or
.crossing all the main streets.
Of public buildings the first in importance is
the Executive building, formerly the royal palace.
This stands near the center of the city, on King
street. In Its own open park. It is used now as
the offices of the governor and of territorial of
ficials and contains also the chambers of the
eenate and house of representatives. Built in
3880 of blocks of concrete, much overornampnted,
_to suit the king’s ideas of beauty, It follows no
recognized style of architecture, would be in any
northern city amazingly ugly, but standing alone
as it does, with no other buildings as contrast,
approached on all four sides by short avenues
of superb royal palms, surrounded by splendid
great trees and gay shrubs, cream colored, its
wide, cool galleries giving an effect of lightness,
it has an appropriateness that makes It almost
beautiful.
A building of real interest, constructed of
brown tufa stone from Punch Bowl and sur
rounded by striking gardens, is Lunalllo house
This was established by bequest of King Lunalilo
as a home for aged and indigent Hawaiians. and
NATIVE WOMEN AT THEIR MEAL A
ofVliSH and poi
WHERE THE JIOUNTAIN ROAD
REACHED THE OAF; HONOLULU, H.l.
here about a hundred of them live on and on
Some are blind; some deaf; all are decrepit.
They Bit in the sun under the palm trees and
talk of times 70 years ago, quarrel happily and
vociferously, and sometimes marry—these octo
genarians and nonogenarians. They have plenty
to eat, comfortable quarters, a weekly excursion
to church in an omnibus, and, life having become v
something nearly approximate to heaven, they
see no valid reason for changing their state.
Not seldom do they pass the century mark and
many remember, or claim to remember, the death
of the first Kamehameha.
Private gardens line all the streets, their luxu
riant trees and shrubbery happily masking the
houses themselves, most of which make no pre
tense to anything but comfort. People live out
of .doors, and the result is that broad vine cov
ered verandas or "lanais" —the Hawaiian term
is used universally—are the most noticeable and
characteristic features of many of the houses.
The glory of the gardens is their palms—royal
palms and dates principally, but also wine palms
and fan palms—and their flowing trees. In the
spring the ’Poinciana regia mwkes huge flaming
umbrellas of orange or scarlet or crimson; the
Golden Shower, sometimes a stately tree, i£ hung
with Its thousands of loose clusters of yellow
bells; the Cacia nodessa spreads Its great sheaves
of shell pink and white blossoms like a glorified
apple tree; t|ie Pride of India is a mist of laven
der. But at nil times of the year these trees
look well, and in addition to them there are gi
gantic banyans throwing cool purple masses of
shade; algarobas with their feathery leaves,
through which the sunlight is pleasaptly diluted
and the insignificant flowers of which supply the
tons of honey exported .annually to England.
People work In Hawaii. For those whose
lots are cast permanently in the islands life is
not what it appears superficially to the tourist,
one long, happy holiday. Nor is there here, ns
in so many tropical countries, a three-hour hiatus
in the middle of the day, when men and women
take their siesta. Hours of business are what
they are in New York oj* Chicago, and life is
planned—too completely perhaps—along northern
lines. In Honolulu men go usually to their clubs
to luncheon —the Pacific, the University or the
City club —talk business and hurry back to a
long afternoon in their offices. These clubs, it is
fair to say. are delightfully arranged buildings
with windows on all sides to catch any breeze.
Of them the oldest is the Pacific, formerly the
British club, on Alaeka street. The house has
broad verandas on both floors and large, cool
rooms. The University club, more especially a
resort of younger men, has a pretty cottage near
the Hawaiian hotel. Its membership includes a
large number of army and navy officers, grad
uates of West Point and Annapolis, as well as
men from American, English and German univer
sities. The City club, much more inclusive in
membership, is in a business block in the center
of the town. There are also of course, as in all
American cities, lodges of various orders, Masons.
Odd Fellows. Elks and Red Men.
While men are lunching at their clubs their
wives give luncheon parties or go out to lunch
eons—a form of social entertainment which
would seem more suited to a cold climate than
to tropical midday. In the late afternoon the
Country club in Nuuanu valley or the Pacific
Tennlß court near the Executive building or the
various athletic fields and the bathing beaches
at Waikiki are the meeting places of society. At
night there are dinners, dances and bridge par
ZLBZRT COUNTY TJUBUH*.
NATIVE POUNDING TARO TO MAKE POI
PRINCIPAL. ST HONOLULU, H.I.
ties occasionally and much more amusing moon
light surfing and swimming parties. There is no
particular social season in Honolulu. More peo
ple are out of town in sumnfer. but on the other
hand that is the time when boys are at home
with their friends from American colleges, and
they must be entertained day and night. This,
therefore, is the time to see more of the distinc
tively Hawaiian form* of amusement.
The ancient dances, or "hulas." are not often
seen, both because the art of dancing is being
lost and because many of the dances, in the
motions, which make them up and in the words
which accompany them, are, from a civilized
point of view, indecent. Some of them are occa
sionally given in an expurgated form at the
vaudeville theaters or certain selected dances, as
entertainment after private “luaus,” and no op
portunity to see them should be neglected. They
are often marvelously graceful—more so tnan
are the Arab dances —Jand with the monotonous
beat of their musical accompaniment are very
poetical and quite in a class by themselves.
Of good theaters the islands are destitute. An
occasional series of mediocre performances at
the Opera house in Honolulu brings out the
whole population. Of Interest to tourists who
have never been in the Orient, there
are the Chinese and Japanese theaters with their
Interminably long plays, often gorgeously cos
tumed and probably well acted. Nor Is there
naturally much opportunity to hear good profes
sional musicians.
For the women of the place housekeeping is
none of the easiest. Servants are all Orientals,
admirable as far as they go, but with inevitable
limitations. The Chinese are faithful, good
cooks, and immaculately clean In their work.
They are In general preferred to the Japanese,
even though during the Chinese New Year, for
three days in January or February, they ail de
part on their annual holiday. During these days
no bribe could make them work. They also at
that time have the habit or giving to the fami
lies for whom they work expensive and usually
hideous presents, which must be prominently dis
played for months after. An amusing part of the
Chinese New Year- Is the necessity for men of
calling on all the Chinese merchants of their
acquaintance—ceremonial calls where they are
regaled with queer, cloying sweetmeats and cham
pagne. The Japanese are filling the ranks now
as house servants, since under the United States
immigration laws the Chinese population is grad
ually dwindling. They are far less reliable, but
are often excellent cooks, and Japanese maids
in their bright kimonos are picturesque about
the heuse. They can be taught almost anything,
snd once taught never forget, but unfortunately
the knowledge acquired Ib often of the parrot
variety. example, a lady gave a luncheon
and before the guests arrived showed her new
Japanese maid exactly how to serve each course
and what plates to * use. The following week
she gave another luncheon exactly like the first,
but omitting one course. Her Japanese maid
served it perfectly, except that when thfe time
arrived for the-course which was left out she
brought in all the plates and then carefully re
moved them empty.
Because of the lack of literature there is no
way to get any permanent impression of tho
charm of Hawaii except by a visit. Its history
one can read and can appreciate if one is able to
adopt in the reading a sympathetic point of view.
The fact that thoroughly American Ideals per
vade all phases of Island industry, of modes of
living and of social intercourse may be accepted
and theoretically believed. But the Hawaiian
flavor, with which these ideals are subtly Im
pregnated and that Insensibly affects all who
have lived there, is something indescribable,
something which seems to emanate from the
misty hills, the whispering waters, the exquisite
vegetation, the low voices of the people. All this
may be grasped only through the senses. The
e>es must see from the shores at Waikiki the
bright carpet of water beyond which Diamond
Head so proudly stands at the gateway of the
world beyond. The ears must catch the melody
of Hawaiian song and the swish of the wind In
tho palms. The scent of stephanotis and plu
marla and ginger must strike one as it steals
through the hibiscus hedges around secluded gar
dens. The whole body must respond to the ten
der caress of tradq winds that have blown across
a thousand miles of warm ocean. Only this is
full knowledge- -and the sense of this no words
can convey.
MAKES DRAWING OF
A MARINE MONSTER
Second Officer of the Steamship
Corinthian Describes Fifty-
Foot Sea Serpent.
IT CRIED LIKE BABY
Declares He Located Creature Off the
Grand Banks, Near Where Titanic
Sank—Had Bonny Blue Eyes and
Neck Twenty Feet Long.
London.—Surely it would have been
k mistake for the "silly" season to
ftass without its sea serpenL Down at
the Surrey Docks is a man who has
not/only seen a fearful and wonderful
marine monßter, but has even
sketched It from life.
It is not exactly the sea serpent of
hoary tradition, but a sort of sea
giraffe—an extraordinary looking am
phibious animal which Is puzzling the
zoologists who have heard of it and
seen the drawing.
Some idea of this weird freak may
be gathered from this first hand de
scription of it: "Has bonny blue eyes;
cries like a baby; neck twenty feet
long; body fifty feet; big head with
long ears and snout; three horned
fins adorn its bony head; two big
flapping fins; skin like a seal; brown
ish yellow in color, with pretty dark
spots.”
A plain, commonsense seaman, who
tells his story bluntly, without any
frills or trimmings, Second Officer G.
Bachelor of the steamship Corinthian,
describing his strange adventure with
the sea giraffe, said:
"We were bound from London to
Montreal, and it was my tuyn on
watch on the bridge in the early
morning of August 30. It was cold
and the gray dawn was just break
ing. when, as I was keeping my eye
straight ahead on our course. I
picked up a queer-looking object about
a mile nhead. It disappeared, and as
quickly it shot up again no more than
200 feet away from the ship
"I distinctly saw it rise out of the
water. First, there was a big head,
with long ears and long snout, and
bulging blue eyes that were mild and
liquid. Then there was a neck—no
end of a neck—and it swayed with
the wash of the waves. What it was
I couldn’t guess, for in twenty years
of sea-going, including trips in trop
ical waters. I’ve never seen anything
like this sea giraffe that was staring
right at the Corinthian.
"As the thing seemed to eye me it
lashed the water with its big front
flns. Then it suddenly dived and dis
appeared. at the same time giving an
add little wail like a baby’s cry. You
wouldn’t think such a huge animal
could have had such a small voice.
"As soon as I went off duty I went
below and made a sketch of the mon
ster In India ink. When the Corin
thian reached Montreal my sketch
was shown to Prof. F. E. Lloyd of Me
-3111 university, an expert In zoology.
The professor said that whatever it
was, it wasn’t a serpent, but a sea
“Seemed to Eye Me."
mammal. It was certainly built on
high speed lines, and its Unlike pro
tuberance was well adopted for run
ning things up.
"I located this sea giraffe in lati
tude 47 degrees 51 minutes north and
longiture 48 degrees 32 minutes west,
off the Grand Banks, and not many
miles distant from the spot where the
Titanic went down. I am Inclined to
think myself that the wreck of the
Titanic has had something to do with
the presence of this strange creature
iu water where nothing of the kind
has ever been noticed before. Is it
making food of the dead bodies be
low ?”
Mr. Bachelor made the gruesome
suggestion in all seriousness. He was
evidently impressed with the absolute
accuracy of his observations.
Mr. Bachelor, it may be added, is a
canny Scot, and his view Is that there
may still be more survivors of an al
most extinct race of sea beasts. Any
way, zoologists are not unacquainted
with an "amphibious or aquatic rep
tile” called the sauraptergia. which
curiously resembles the description
of what Mr. Bachelor saw.
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INDIGESTION. GAS
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eructate sour, undigested food and
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member the -moment "Pape’s Diapep
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all such distress vanishes. It’s truly
astonishing—almost marvelous, and
the joy Is its harmlessness.
A large flfty-cent case of Pape’s Dia-“
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worth of satisfaction.
It’s worth its weight in gold to men
and women who can’t get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home —should always be kept handy
in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach
during tho day or at night. It’s the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in the world. —Adv.
Perpetual Motion.
One may well be sure that there is
no "perpetual motion machine.” For
this purpose machines have been con
structed from tlnle immemorial, but
nothing has ever come of it. Men have
gone mad on the subject, but without
any practical results. It was demon
strated long ago by Sir Isaac Newton
and De la Hire that perpetual motion
Is Impossible of attainment. Even the
solar system, the most wonderful ma
chine of which we have and knowl
edge, will run down in the course of
time, some say in about 11,000,000 of
years from now.
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Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluf
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after a "Danderine hair cleanse.” Just
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Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
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Besides beautifying the hair at once,
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But what will please you most will
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downy at first—yes—but really new
hair—growing all over the scalp. If
you care for pretty, soft hair and lots
of it, surely get a 25 cent bottle of
Knowlton’s Danderine from any store
and just try It. Adv.
Not His Wife.
"Did I not see you talking to your
wife last night?"
"Nope; if it had been my wife 1
would have been listening, not talk
ing.”—Houston Post
Red Cross Bng Blue, much better, goes
farther than liquid blue. Get from any
good grocer. Adv.
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