MAY, 1917. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY. $2.00 A YEAR. dpi ID-FAC FIC it- ' T A H E S M P A 0 L R T T A S M 0 A F N T 'S H E P A P R A A C D I I F I S C E By Moonlight in Hawaii By •A. P. A Section from one of the Pan-Pacific Dioramas of the Owen Taylor "Seven Scenic Wonders of Hawaii" Merrick 'Ho IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~' O, Vol. XIII. No. 5. HONOLULU, HAWAII. • Speedy Trains in New South Wales 1 The Mother State of the Australian Commonwealth. The World's Famous Railway Bridge Over the Hawkesbury River, N. S. W. All the year round New South Wales is railway bridge. Here is to be found the best place for the tourist. From Syd- glorious river scenery as well as excellent ney and New Castle, as well as from points fishing and camping grounds. By rail also in other states, there are speedy trains, with is reached the splendid trout fishing streams comfortable accommodations, at very cheap of New South Wales, stocked with fry. rates to the interesting points of the Mother yearling and two year old trout. State of the Australian Commonwealth. Beautiful waterfalls abound throughout Within a few hours by rail of the metrop- the state and all beauty spots are reached olis of Sydney are located some of the most after a few hours' comfortable trip fron- wonderful bits of scenery in the world. It Sydney. is but a half afternoon's train ride to the beautiful Blue Mountains, particularly fa- Steamship passengers arriving at Sydney mous for the exhilarating properties of at- disembark at Circular Quay. Here the mosphere. Here and in other parts of the city tramways (electric traction) converge, state are the world's most wonderful and and this is the terminus of thirty routes, beautiful limestone caverns. Those of varying from two to eleven miles in length. Jenolan are known by fame in every land. One of the best means of seeing the pic- Reached by the south coast railways are turesque views and places of interest about the surf bathing and picnicing resorts famed Sydney is to travel around them all by elec- throughout Australia and even abroad. tric tram. The cost is trifling, as the fares on Within a score of miles of Sydney is the the state railways are low. The secretary beautiful Hawkesbury river and its great of the railway system is J. S. Spurway. „,.._• • • • • • VZ13,C7 171);_;'11P,AMTP.I., 1 CRirCA •• • k•14 p111/4 99 •VP/ AI II • il ■ ■ (4. .fr, • .I4 Illir . g to-Partur agazitir . • CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD . • VOLUME XIII. NUMBER 5. • • ' CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1917. 4 i . Our Art Section—Shades of Former Carnivals - . - - 402 • . The Malta of the Pacific—Pearl Harbor - - - 417 • By Albert Pierce Taylor. • • • • Dogs of Alaska 427 X! By W. E. Priestley. t • The Lane Cove River 433 • By David B. Hunter. • • . k The Land of Every Sport 439 W By Owen Merrick. t When Manila Celebrates 449 t By H. E. Walker. • • Tea Drinking and Flower Arrangement in Japan - - 455 . By D. T. H. McKinnon. • Found—A Perfect Climate! 459 • By L. W. de his-Norton. t . Nearing the End of the Log 466 I • By Charmian Kittredge London. America's Happy Hunting Ground 473 I• • By Fred Albright. • • Kauai Under the Reign of King Sugar 479 i • By Jean West Maury. E. 1 • A Night of Witchery 485 . • • By T. Paaka. • Hongkong—An Outdoor Paradise • 493 • From the Editor's Diary. • • • • Encyclopedia and Guide to Hawaii and the Pacific. is . • Vite i'i: 0-11arifir J'1; agazinr • • Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H • Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the United States and possessions, I' $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copies, 25c. St • Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. 4 • • Permission is given to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine when credit is given * * I. • ii- l raifirilndIY•l1 Latiartattni.=thcTh.tnt Lattal , , ---icwi(1--”, THEN ATIVEPA- CY) LEAD THE PARADE. THE KOREANS OF HONOLULU ALWAYS CONTRIBUTETHE IRSH AREIN M AKING THE CARNIVAL A SUCCESS. APRI ZE-WINNER OF TWOY EARSAGO- HONOLULULO DGEOF E LKS. SHADESFRO MFORMER FL ORAL PARADES. THEH IBISCUS SHOWI SE ACHYE AR PERHAPSTHE MOST BEAUTIFULOF CARN I VAL FEATURES. aL 3 SOME OFTHE ADM IRED FLOATS SEENIN THE JAPANESE LANTERNP ARADE. THE CARNIVAL RACES IN HO N() U HARBOR. Mounted Tug of Tug of War— Second Infan try. 0 0 tt 0 2 I THEL ANDINGO FTHE HIGH CHIEFAT WAIKIKI. H. HACKFELD & CO., BY DAY AN])NI - ..........1:: ::.•*4;:::::c.':. ... , • _- --. _ • _ • .r . -• .. r ... , .._. .......- _-„.it. .... • . I, A( •:.. , ... •"•:....4-. ■' ' .' •. .., ''• \ - -A' •: '-'' i 'l - --c- , • ' .•.. 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THEAD veRrtsErz. 5I.D. i ....,: . ALEXAN DERTO WNE HOTEL • '''''. ...- .c.,. ..•,.... •Ll'Oric ft c* lbw JO X _ . ■ II r, • loLuLtrIS •LL * - ZE FORTHE • • • • O 4, as "0. O 0 ti o O Z, o • 6'0 O O • L O fz, o ry Elie Atagazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD ■ ■■■■■■■ .11111.111110111111/111".............111■1111111111.11■1111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111.11/■11....11111111111, .1111111411■111.11.1111111111111111111111tIlimmoopm.Iltrt..................,,,,,.....p..,,...,,..................g.mauti. ilirlim■11111111111,111iiiiiiimilitii111111111111111111111111111.1XMIL VOLUME XIII MAY, 1917. NUMBER 5. Pearl Harbor, the Malta of the Pacific An account of the greatest naval station in the World. By ALBERT PIERCE TAYLOR Secretary-Director of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee. HEN Balboa looked out on the to that ocean as the Isle of Malta is to vast Pacific Ocean for the first the "Mother of the Seas." It remained W time and realized the ambition for another sailor of fortune to spread of years, and visions of conquestidorial the sails above his galleon and set his occupancy of long stretches of golden course westward in the hope of discover- shores flitted across his mind, peopling ing a shore shining with gold and em- the isles of a wonderful sea with men bowered in tropical loveliness, for it was in armor and establishing the gay life Juan Gaetano who found, so tradition of feudal lords, little did he dream that tells us, the lava-bound' shores of Hawaii in a far future day a group of islands, island. History does not tell us that lying, far beyond the horizon, would be Gaetano landed with men in armor and 417 418 THE MID-PACIFIC The embryo gun and gunner. arquebuses and established the first an Islands a military outpost to safeguard foreign military camp in Hawaii, but in the entire Pacific coast against hostile all probability he did. fleets. Of such importance was the Again, in 1778, Captain James Cook, opening of this channel that the Navy of the Royal British Navy, dropped his Department sent war vessels to partici- anchor off the beautiful bay of Keala- pate in the demonstration and sent the kekua and once more men of a foreign Cruiser California up the channel to nation landed with guns and established safe anchorage opposite the present naval an armed camp. One hundred and forty yard. The cruiser was skilfully guided years later will see established on the up the four and a half mile channel, shores of Pearl Harbor, within easy can- thereby demonstrating that for all fu- non distance of Honolulu, the greatest ture time that any warship of the Ameri- naval and military camp ever attempted can Navy may easily negotiate the water- by the great American Republic, for in way. It was a historical event for June, 1918, the drydock of Pearl Har- Honolulu. On the quarter-deck of the bor Naval Station will be completed and California were many distinguished per- the great yard formally opened as a base sonages, including Her Majesty, Queen for the handling of warship fleets of the Liliuokalani, the former soverign of the United States and their defense by the Hawaiian Islands, Hon. Sanford B. nearby fortifications which already com- Dole, president of the first and only Re- mand the admiration of militarists. public of Hawaii, the Governor of Ha- In 1911 the channel which connects the waii, and the military and naval com- open sea with the inner lochs of Pearl manders in Hawaii. Harbor was formally opened, and was Although the Panama Canal was celebrated as one of the most important thousands of miles distant from San advances of the United States in its plan Francisco, that city celebrated the com- for preparedness in making the Hawaii- pletion of the great American waterway . THE MID PACIFIC 419 The great clam-shell. by holding an exposition which com- States in time of war—that between the manded the admiration of the entire United States and Spain—as a special world, and which was one of the world's mark of honor to this Mid-Pacific armed modern wonders. sentinel. The completion of Pearl Harbor Hawaii at that time expects to enter- Naval Station in 1918 will mark tain a vast number of people from abroad, the greatest military and naval believing that the opening of the $20,- progress of the American nation, 000,000 naval station will celebrate a and already plans are being for- feat of engineering which in reality had mulated for a celebration of that event its inception more than three-quarters to include a vast demonstration of pre- of a century ago.