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IARCH, 1914. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY VoL. VII. HONOLULU, HAWAII. • Several times a week the Inter-Island steamers call at Maui island ports. Almost from the decks may be had a view of Iao Valley, showing the sheer 5000 foot precipice at the upper end of the valley over which a native trail once led from Wailuku to Lahaina, a port of frequent steamer call on the other side of the island. JA/14,15:JP,1141PtIllZ 1 .,10.,•14t.• • • •441,4X•V•iMMIIMP/47 The glid-Pacific Magazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor NUMBER 3 VOLUME VII CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1914. Our Art Gallery. 217 Americanizing Hawaii - - - - By Henry B. Restarick, D. D. - 225 The Cities of New Zealand By S. S. Mills - 231 Motoring In Hawaii - - By Geo. F. Henshall - 237 A Trip on the Sydney Trams By H. A. Parmalee 243 The Cultivation of Sugar Cane - - By Royal D. Mead - 249 Palolo Day - - - - By Oscar Vojnich 255 Lahaina Days - - - By James W. Girvin - 261 From the Philippines to Japan By Chas. Lobingrer 267 A Midnight Vigil in a Volcano - By Geo. B. Thayer - 273 Columbus in Pacific Statuary - - - - By a member of the Pan-American Union Staff 279 Old Home Ware in Hawaii - - From Memoirs of the Bishop Museum. Motoring Through California's Riviera 285 By R. J. Baler 291 A Day in the Kauai Forests - a • • • By J. M. Lydgate Guide Book and Encyclopedia of Hawaii and the Pacific. The Mid-Pacific Magazine Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the Usited States and possessions, $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. Permission is given to the Press to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine when credit is given ■ ■ ■ ■ A quiet sunset at Pearl Harbor, the Waianae mountains in the dis- tance. The country about Pearl Harbor is as level as a billiard table, so that at first sight those who expect beetling cliffs at the "Gibraltar of the Pacific" are somewhat disappointed. • ■ ■ California has her great national park, Yosemite, but there are many views throughout the cascade range of unexcelled beauty. The picture is but a type of what mountainous California has in store for the climber of hills. • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ At dawn the clouds from the sea come tumbling down over the rim of Haleakala into the great seven-mile-wide crater, drowning in its fleecy foam the mountain ruggedness of the great quiescent caldron. It is one of the wonder sights of the world. • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • New Zealand has named her most attractive glacier after the ener- getic Minister who created and carried to success her Government Tourist Bureau. A party of tourists is here seen crossing Donne Glacier, named after the Hon. T. E. Donne. • ■ ■ ■ ■ It is now a quarter of a century ago that the Oahu railroad from Honolulu was built to haul sugar. Today much more freight of other kinds is hauled, and this railroad has developed a rich tourist traffic. • Australia has become the country ideal for the tourist. Everything is done for his comfort; New South Wales and South Australia particularly vying with each other to entertain him. The picture is of a road through the Mt. Lofty range. • ■ The ruins of Mitla, in Mexico, speak of romance, and here the de- scendants of those who peopled the ancient stone city of Mexico meet, love, marry and pass away. The ruins speak of as high a degree of culture as that of ancient Egypt. • II • • • as • The reefs about Honolulu are still a paradise to the native fishermen, who use the old Hawaiian spear for impaling the fish and eels they find in the crevices of the coral. Even the white boys are some- times clever at this sport. • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • The older Hawaiians still use the old native nets with which to cast for fish near the beach, and they know as if by some occult power just where to cast the net to reap a rich reward in brilliant tasty fish. • A cruise to Alaska is now one of the attractive summer jaunts of those who can get away for the hot months to tramp over the ice fields about Nome or the mouth of the Yukon. • This is not a butte or mesa in Arizona, it is one of the mountains on Kauai, the Garden Island of Hawaii. Many of these moun- tains still hold prizes for the scientist and the climber. • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■' ■ The Japanese woman today is often highly educated and either in native or foreign dress charmingly entertains her husband's guests. As a student she is capable of high attainments and by her own intellectual work is raising her standard in the land of Nippon. • ■ ■ ■ ■ The coconut tree in Hawaii Mark Twain likened to a inverted feath- er duster, and to an umbrella struck by lightning. Wherever in the old days a chief rested for the night he planted a coconut, the result of the chiefs' pilgrimages being seen everywhere. • ■ • The Micronesian may be known by his wiry hair that stands straight out from the head; he likes to have his picture taken if you let him dress for the occasion, and as a single garment is full dress, it does not take long. • • The Mid-Pacific Magazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD VoL. VII. MARCH, 1914, NUMBER 3. Queen Liliuokalani reviewing American soldiers. Americanizing Hawaii B.y HENRY B. RESTARICK, D.D. HE United States has had, for when the men and women sent out by the over ninety years, men and wom- American Board landed in 1820. No T en here who represented all that one can understand, in even a faint way, is best in American life. While the history of these islands who is not there had been American traders coming familiar with the story of these mission- and going for some years before, yet the aries and their consecrated service for Americanizing of Hawaii really began the people. 2-M. P. 217 • 218 THE MID-PACIFIC There were other influences here, but that in sending letters he directed them the chiefs and kings selected mission- to his father, who forwarded them to aries as their friends and advisers. The Washington. He said that he believed missionaries have been blamed for tak- that the purchase could have been ac- ing an interest and part in civil affairs, complished at this time, but that Se- but the situation was peculiar, and the ward had been so criticised for the ac- chiefs showed that they had at heart the quisition of Alaska that he decided that good of their people when they selected the American people were not prepared missionaries instead of adventurers. for another addition of territory at that Hawaii was most fortunate also in the period, and so the matter dropped. Se- men who went into business in the isl- ward had a vision of the development of ands. They were not all Americans, the Pacific, but he was ahead of his but they were men who in a remarkable time. But at last the inevitable hap- way were interested in the development pened and Hawaii was annexed and be- of the islands and in the raising of the came a Territory of the United States. social life of the people, and so far in The Hawaiians have become thoroly sympathy with the missionaries. In the American in their practice of politics, period of the forties and sixties men and the idea seems often to be that one came whose names stand at the head of chief function of government is to pro- large business houses, and they, with the vide offices for as many as possible and missionaries' sons, who went into plant- provide work at good pay on roads and ing or merchandise, have for ability, public works for voters. But, then, I foresight and integrity put the business have seen that idea prevalent on the of the islands upon a high level. Among mainland, and perhaps it is a part of those who came were Charles R. Bishop, the Americanism they have adopted. American ; Paul Isenberg, German ; It is true that many Hawaiian officials Theodore H. Davies, Englishman. Long have proved defaulters ; it has been in ago, since 1826, the American house of part the result of loose methods of the Brewer & Co. and other firms had car- past, but even this feature with accom- ried on trading business, but now came panying graft they may have learned the opening days of the sugar industry from reading that such things exist or and the coming in of the alien popula- have existed in various parts of the tion. United States. Speaking one day of the There was strife in all these years as men who had brought Hawaii thru to whether British or American influence troublous times, men who had the genius should prevail, but the Americanizing of of government and the ability to or- Hawaii went on. Hawaiian born Amer- ganize, men who were associated with icans kept up their patriotism, and the Sanford B. Dole, who, however much Fourth of July was, in the boyhood of the objects of party dislike, yet were men now old, kept as a holiday in the known to be upright, strong and cap- old-fashioned way, and Thanksgiving able, the gentleman to whom I was was celebrated with turkey and pumpkin speaking said : "They have , no idea of pie.

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