MAY, 1914. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY $2.00 A YEAR HMLTN CLOSED DU 620 .M5 Vol.. VII. HONOLULU, No. 5 HAWAII. From the wharf where the Inter-Island steamer lands at Kahului it is but half an hour to the Iao Valley. Iao Valley, on the Island of Maui, is often called the Yosemite of Hawaii. It is a picture in green foliage and white fleecy clouds. 13.4 • mtl_v_r 4.2_/ i • •co • • • •vs, • 4144.wp 4,kw ts/10,4,1v4impi egmtk•Akttm l The Mid-PacificNagazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor VOLUME VII NUMBER 5 CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1914. Our Art Gallery. • . Hawaii at the San Franciscc.Exposition - - 417 • . • • By Albert Pierce Taylor • • John Barrett and His Work - - - - 421 By F. S. Grafton From Fremantle to Melbourne - - - 425 By Oscar Vojnich Hunting in Hawaii - - - - - - - 431 By Irwin Spalding New Zealand's First Million - - - - 437 By W. N. Auckland Growing Sugar Around a Volcano - - - 443 By C. D. Wright Beautiful Vavau - - - - - - - 449 By Arthur Cridland Windward Oahu - - - - - - - - 453 By Guy N. Rothwell Cruising in Fiji - - - - - - - - 459 By H. F. Alexander The Strange Fauna and Flora of Australia - - 465 By an Australian. The Return of the Japanese Warriors - 469 By Alexander Hume Ford Mokuleia - - - - - - - - - 475 By Joseph B. Stickney South America - - - - - - - - 479 By the Hon. John Barrett Kaimuki - - - - — - - - 485 By Ed Towse The Moro Exchange - - - - - 489 By Atherton Brownell A Trip to Kaua i - - - - - - - 493 N IN • • By a Tourist 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.S0. 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 On the Island of Kauai there are bits of scenic Arizona. For many miles the green mountains come down sheer to the sea, and the trail ends at the barren ridge that guards the way. To cross it is necessary to ascend thousands of feet to the table lands above. There are vistas today of modern Tokyo that remind one of a Euro- pean city. The Japanese are proud of their steel bridges and new turreted buildings, but to the tourist the native buildings of the Japanese are by far more artistic and interesting. ■ ■ ■ ■ Over on the Island of Hawaii is the valley of Waipio where Kame- hameha the Great was born and where waterfalls drop two thou- sand feet over the edges of the precipices. This picture shows one of its coconut groves and two of the falls in the background. ■ ■ ■ ■ The Jarrah forests of Western Australia are world famous for their wonderful hard wood that takes a polish like mahogany. The West Australians know the wood as the one that resists the white ant and use it therefore for railway sleepers. ■ ■ ■ ■ Waihee Valley on the Island of Maui is second only to the famed lao Valley. There are waterfalls in this valley that seem to come down from the clouds. It is a favorite place for horseback excursions. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • The Hopi Indians of the far western districts in America still live as did their ancestors in adobe brick buildings perched on the sum- mits of high precipitous hills. Ladders are their stairways from house to house in the village. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ The Hawaiian still clings to his poi. In the country districts he grows the taro and pounds the roots into poi with a stone pounder that n as made ages ago. Even the wooden tray has come down to him from his forefathe-s. A Manila street in the walled city within the Philippine Capital,— a reminder of the old Spanish days before American intervention. The natives of old in Hawaii were able to stand upon the waves, using a small thin surfboard. The board has grown larger and heavier of recent Nears and the feats thereon more startling. A scene on the Wanganui, the most beautiful river in the world, lo- cated in New Zealand. The Maoris, or natives, still paddle their dug-out canoes down the famous stream. In the upper reaches it flows between green canyon-like walls of verdure. On the island of Lanai there are cactus under which the cattle seek shelter. They munch the young cactus regardless of the spines, nor does this seem to disagree with them; on the contrary, they grow fat. Down in the Philippines it is hard sometimes at a distance to tell the coconut palm from the tree fern. The native walks up the trunk of each with equal facilitY and agility as may be seen in the picture showing a tree fern. ■ ■ ■ ■ There is no more peaceful scene anywhere than that about Pearl Har- bor. Every one of the locks that might float the navies of the world, is bordered by the richest sugar cane and rice fields in the world. The fortifications are at the mouth of the harbor. This picture shows the ruins of the East Chi/twanshan Fort, Port Arthur, whichh was beseiged by the Japanese. The Japanese are pleased to this day to show visitors what they did to the fort with their heavy guns during the memorable seige. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ The Administration Building, with tower 400 feet high, the Globe at its summit typifying the world. The Mid-Pacific Magazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD VoL. VII. MAY, 1914. NUMBER 5 The Court of Palms. Hawaii at the Exposition By ALBERT PIERCE TAYLOR GOLDEN flood was asked from dioramas the wonderful scenery of the the Hawaiian treasury to display Hawaiian hinterlands, the beautiful palm- A the natural beauties and artificial fringed sweep of the shore lines of each glories of the Hawaiian Islands island, the gorgeous foliage of indigenous at the Panama-Pacific International Ex- trees and the cleft-mountains which sur- position at San Francisco in 1915. pass, not rival, the famed gorges and Plans were mapped to exhibit in unique canyons of the Colorado. 2-M. P. 417 418 THE MID-PACIFIC With a real opportunity to display its international exposition is an event of so resources at an exposition at the front serious importance that it measurably in- door—the Golden Gate—the Hawaiian volves the dignity of the inviting nation. Islands can show to the world what a Opportunity has knocked at the portals splendid tourist attraction the Islands are of the Hawaiian Islands many times dur- today. ing its hundred years of civilized history, • Rising above the financial difficulties and more than one nation has held that the Hawaiian Fair Commission has had hand when it rapped. Not all were so designs for a building prepared, and will successful as the United States, which be seen at the exposition with an exhibit knocked twice—first in 1876, when the which for unique and •alluring attractions *reciprocity treaty was agreed upon, will rival anything else shown in the ex- wherein, in exchange for Hawaii's raw position. sugar entering the United States free of The cause for the Panama-Pacific In- duty, the United States acquired the ex- ternational Exposition is the general sen- clusive use of Pearl Harbor as a naval timent that a concrete medium shall be base ; and second in 1898, when congress provided for celebrating the successful passed the resolution of annexation and completion and actual commercial opera- hoisted the stars and stripes here to stay. tion of the Panama Canal. The time Can Hawaii show to the millions of suitable for such a celebration properly mainland Americans that the diplomacy provides an interval after the passage of of the American government was justi- the first ship through the canal to enable fied, and demonstrate whether or not the the present routes and schedules of com- Islands can show Americans and the merce and travel to adjust themselves to world in general that the well-known the new conditions created by the canal. cognomen of "Paradise of the Pacific" is The place for such a celebration must be appropriate? This third opportunity is in the United States, the author of the the invitation to join in the procession of canal, and so located therein as to best the States and Territories of the United exemplify and practically demonstrate the States and participate with California in national and universal usefulness of the 1915 in celebrating the completion of canal. the Panama Canal. The manner of celebrating this canal The United States Government has opening contemplates an opportunity for supplemented its vast expenditures on the the people of the States, Territories and Panama Canal by comparatively large dependencies to join in a national jubilee expenditures in enlarging Honolulu, Hilo and evidence thereat of the industrial, in- and Kahului harbors ; building break- tellectual and material status of the waters at Hilo and Kahului ; dredging United States as a nation, and coincident- entrances to facilitate the movements of ly afford foreign nations and peoples an shipping, and establishing navigation opportunity to participate and in com- aids and safeguards on all the islands— bination with the United States present particularly lighthouses. And, in addi- a comprehensive picture and graphic tion, the United States Government has record of the status of the world iri 1915. spent and will expend more millions to Undoubtedly these views were enter- prepare Pearl Harbor's naval base and tained by Congress when it passed, and by has fortified it to defend the expected President Taft when he approved a reso- large commerce due to come to Hawaii.