1113RUARY, 1914. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY $2.00 A YEAR OrritiCTED 377ALEXANDER HMLTN CLOSED DU 620 .M5 irreilteia rAltd ritt 66 (Mt aaaaa • • lF • • • • • • • • 4 144 • 4. 4. 4. • "41.+SAMMISINVSAI 41 The glid-PacificMagazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor VOLUME VII NUMBER 2 CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1914. • . Our Art Gallery • acifi c - - - - 117 la • Carnival Times in the Mid-P ifi • IN By Geo. F. Henshall Tramping in New Zealand - - - - - 125 By 0. C. Witness Round About Hilo - - - - - - - 131 By Henry Walsworth Kinney A Day on the Panama Ditch - - - - 137 By George B. Thayer The Sugar Industry in Hawaii - - - - 143 By Royal D. Mead A Garden Island River - - - - - - 149 By J. M. Lydgate A Story of Old Nauru - - - - - - 155 By Philip A. Delaporte Furnishing the Hawaiian Grass House — 161 From the Memoirs of The Bishop Museum A Sierra Club Outing - - - - - - 167 By Mary Randall Parsons Australia for the Tourist. - - - - - 173 By Alice Hunt Through Haleakala Afoot - - - - - 179 By Sam R. Dawdle On a Japanese Steamship - - - - 185 By Hugh M. Polwarth Market Day in the Philippines - - - 191 By John R. Arnold Hawaii—A Poem - - - - - - 196 • • By Eleanor Rivenburg • . 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 United 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 Ft2stoffice. 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E— = E =.Eg____ . m The Mid-Pacific Magazine .=._...=, CONDUCTED BYB ALEXANDER HUME FORD VOLUME VII. FEBRUARY, 1 91 4. NUMBER 2. The Landing of Kamehameha. Carnival Times in the Mid-Pacific .63„, GEO. F.. FIENSHALL. HE Honolulu Floral Parade and surpassed in the opinions of some, by Mid-Winter Carnival has arrived ! other events of the three or four days of T In Hawaii "Floral Parade" means jollification in the mid-Pacific metropolis. February. In February Honolulu lends herself for It has taken its place, with the Nice a week to celebration. The days and carnival, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, nights are so filled with events that there the Portland Rose Festival, Seattle Pot- is rest for no one who is at all convivial. lach and other spectacular celebrations of People come to Honolulu from all over holiday seasons which attract world-wide the world to see this highly picturesque attention. Beginning ten years ago with observance of a great national holiday, a small parade of decorated automobiles partly as a result of former parades and —a floral parade only—the observance of carnivals and partly as a result of adver- this holiday season has grown into a tising the carnival all over the civilized several days' carnival, of which the floral world. parade, still the great feature, is by no Last year there were four days of car- means the only big one and is, in fact, nival. The program included a garden 2-M. P. 117 118 I M • li • • - - „ r''''',..t.t.: ,,,,, 4 , • :, . -4 ';' i ''', ; 0 • ... , 1 • ... ,,.,. ' `," '-- . 1.1 1. - 4 -.'.• z'" ,....,, '„,, ..: , ;......., 1 , ,,,,, ., . 1 ., . THE MID-PACIFIC .., ; ; 1.... • „ ,, 4,..,:,li .,,,I - ,"'t.„ ."::m'..4. 4 ' •-' 41"'''.' 4\1 'i,._7%,” '4° '„,,„ '•.V. 4.11 , 4 , . 1, rVIY ' ,I. :, C,t- -1'.., ... -o ',..4."*. , , ''"1 ri ' , , r . , 0 '''' 1 7 ., l.', t ... • , 1, ; - ' -',-• '; • 4 ''i * '- . 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