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Midpacific Volume32 Issue3.Pdf X-irolw. XXXII. No. 3 25 Cents a Copy eptemner, .LYzo .AeMID-PACIFIC MMAZINE offical aWan ofAe ACIMC UNION The flag of the Commonwealth of Australia sent to the Pan-Pacific Union by Prime Minister S. M. Bruce, being presented by Sir Joseph and Lady Car- ruthers to Hon. Wallace R. Farrington, Governor of Hawaii and President of the Pan-Pacific Union. It now hangs at the Pan-Pacific Research Institution, Honolulu. AUSTRALIA HAWAII ORIENT JAVA UNITED STATES AND NEW ZEALAND Boekhandel Am. News Co. Pan-Pacific Union Kelly & Walsh Javasche Gordon & Gotch . Trans-Pacific Transportation The Matson Navigation Company is Los Angeles. The steamers visit Hilo planning big things for I I awaii in many for the Volcano trip. The B. F. Dilling- ways. It is behind the great new Royal ham Co., Ltd., are Honolulu agents for Hawaiian Hotel at Waikiki, and is en- the Los Angeles Steamship Company, at thusing the people of Honolulu to re- Fort and queen Sts., and here may be newed efforts to place their attractions arranged passage direct to Los Angeles, before the people of the mainland. and beyond by rail, or you may arrange The Company is also inducing the to ship your auto or general freight. people of Hawaii to visit California and The Oceanic Steamship Company, become acquainted with the people of the with head offices in San Francisco, and scenic beaches of that state. The Mat- son Navigation Company maintains a Brewer & Company as agents in Honolulu, tourist information bureau at its main maintains a fleet of swift palatial steamers between San Francisco, Hawaii, and Aus- office in the Matson Building in San Francisco, as well as in the Castle & tralia, visiting Fiji and Samoa en route. Cooke Building in Honolulu, where This is the ideal passage to the South Seas tours of the Hawaiian Islands may be via the sunshine belt to Australasia. The record breaking trans-Pacific steamers, booked. "Sierra", "Sonoma", and "Ventura", are Weekly, the Dollar Steamship Line on this run. sends its palatial passenger vessels around the world via San Francisco, Honolulu The Canadian Australasian Royal and the Orient. These great oil-burning Mail line of steamers operates a regu- liners have only outside rooms and brass lar four-weekly service of palatial bedsteads for their passengers. The steamers between Vancouver, B. C., and agency of the company in Honolulu is in Sydney, Australia, via Honolulu, Suva, the McCandless Building. The steamers Fiji, and Auckland, New Zealand. The usually arrive in Honolulu on Saturday magnificent vessels "Aorangi" and morning, sailing for the Orient late the "Niagara" are among the finest ships same afternoon, giving a day of sightsee- afloat and their service and cuisine are ing in the city. world renowned. The trip from Van- couver to Sydney is an ideal trans-Pa- The Toyo Kisen Kaisha maintains a cific journey with fascinating glimpses line of palatial steamers across the Paci- of tropical life in the storied Islands of fic, via Honolulu and San Francisco. From the South Seas. Japan this line maintains connections to The Canadian Pacific Railway is every part of the Orient. This company reaching out for the visitor from across also maintains a line of steamers between the Pacific. At Vancouver, almost at the Japan and South America ports via Hono- gangplank of the great Empress liners lulu, as well as a Java line from Japan. from the Orient, and the great palatial The Honolulu office is in the Alexander . steamers of the Canadian Australian r Young Hotel, and the head office in liners, express trains of the Canadian Tokyo, Japan. Pacific begin their four-day flying trip The Los Angeles Steamship Company across the continent through a panorama maintains splendid fortnightly service by of mountains and plains equalled nowhere palatial steamers between Honolulu and in the world for scenic splendor. .., .57, 011[1,0 itlib.arifir Maga3inly .?: CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD . Volume XXXII Number 3 0 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER. 1926 •1 ,)1 203 g A Fishery Lunch Session of the Pan-Pacific Club, Honolulu !.7., Dr. David Starr Jordan Presiding i The Fur Seal in the Pacific 207 ., By Dr. Barton Warren Evermann ii Hawaii as a Racial Melting Pot 213 s By Prof. Romanzo Adams 4 217 • Philippine Fisheries • By Albert W. Herre, Ph. D. • The Chinese Snake-Head Fishes 231 7t,' By Dr. Yojiro Wakiya • An evening at the Pan-Pacific Research Institution - - 233 • With Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Volcanologist at Kilauea Volcano • —.....—.... • Standards for Potable Water 241 By Prof. Arthur R. Keller Pan-Pacific Beachcombing 247 By Allan R. McCulloch At the Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo in April: Making Democracy Safe for the World - - - - 249 By Dr. Ku Hung Ming Forty Years With Japanese Students 253 By Prof. John Seymour Latin American Culture in the Pacific - - - - 259 By Dr. Jose M. Galvez What Is Patriotism? 264 By Dr. Jesse H. Holmes The Caves and Geysers of New Zealand 265 By E. H. McGuire The Law in Canada 269 By judge 7'. Bigelow The Genesis of the Pan-Pacific Union, Chapter XII - - 273 Being Some Reminiscences of Alexander Hume Ford, 3 Director of the Pan-Pacific Union The Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union - - - - - 281 ] New Series, No. 8o td-Varifir i'i: agazint 0 Gir J'1 Hotel Building, Honolulu, T. IL =5, Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Canada and i subscription in the United States and possessions, $3.00 in advance. Yearly For all foreign countries, $3.50 Single copies, 25c. Mexico, Entered$3.25. as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. 1 Permission is given to publish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine '41 • • •,VNI . NIPA 99999 vmstygr, 17•41,11, . • •.., 5 nn e , 2O2 THE MID-PACIFIC • The late Eric Knight Jordan, Geologist, son of Dr. David Starr Jordan. The picture is from the most recent photograph, which hangs beside that of his father in the Gallery of Pacific Personalities at the Pan-Pacific Research Institution, Honolulu, of which young Jordan was a member. Ile was a delegate to the first Pan-Pacific Conservation Conference, Eric K. Jordan died at the age of twenty-three in California on March in, 1925. THE MID-PACIFIC 203 On the lawn of the Pan-Pacific Research Institution. Dr. Jordan in the center, with Dr. Wakiya (standing), chief of the Korean Fisheries Experiment Station, and Dr. C. Ishi- kawa, Ichthyologist at the Tokyo Imperial Institute. A Fishery Lunch Session of the 14- Pan-Pacific Club, Honolulu DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN, Presiding. ini • •, • • nniffinninilnii-ffirniniffinninnieffuniffinnicaiiinino od of doing things, and we can get the Dr. Jordan: We are hoping to ar- range for a fish conference here in best results in regard to protection of 1927, and we will try to do something fish and seals by international agreement, for the protection and conservation of which cannot be uniform because differ- sea mammals and fishes. If the South ent species require different treatment. American countries would take the \Ve have with us Dr. Wakiya, a pupil trouble to save their fur seal herds they of Dr. Ishinouye's, and an authority on would have an income of two to three the reluo (called agi in Japan). Only million dollars a year. However, they one has been found in California and have robbed the rookeries without com- none was ever found north of Virginia punction and they have killed all the in this country or north of Southern France in Europe. His thesis on this seals they could find in the waters, with- fish has been published by the Carnegie out compunction, just as if they were rats. In a supposedly civilized world Museum in Philadelphia. He writes ex- with supposedly civilized peoples, we cellent English, but he does not speak it must pull the countries out of that meth- as well, so we will have him say what he 204 THE MID-PACIFIC The ((Os and pool of 'rajlelc, Kalihi Valley, Honolulu. Here Dr. Jordan and Dr. Ishi- kaTca tried the experiment of planting the eggs of the Japanese Ayu, the most delicious of fishes. Results of the experiment are being studied. THE MID-PACIFIC 205 might wish to say in Japanese and I some to the list that Dr. Jordan pre- would like to have Dr. Harada translate pared. So far, we have collected over for us. I have known Dr. Harada for 400 kinds of fish in Korea, but undoubt- the last twenty-five years, so I am taking edly there are others still to be collected. the privilege of asking him to translate, My rough estimate would be about 500 without first asking him if he will. Once in Korean waters that we could locate in Japan I gave an address, and I had a and classify. That number is small com- distinguished Japanese scholar to trans- pared to fishes found in Japanese wa- late for him. I told him to pay no at- ters. In one locality of Japan proper, tention to what I said, but to say what around one of the promontories that jut 1 ought to say. It was an excellent out into the sea, we find nearly 600 kinds speech and well received. of fish. So far as fresh fish are con- cerned, Korea has many more than Ja- Dr. Wakiya: I deem it a great honor that I am going to address such an pan. We have found 150 kinds to date audience. It has been my ambition for in Korean waters, while in Japanese many years to meet Dr. Jordan and also waters we have only forty so far.
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