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Title: A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Webb, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Joseph, Mo., Hardman press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nations. There are several fine hotels here, the Capitol building,the Palace of Ex-Queen Liliuokalani. many blocks of storebuildings, several hospitals, also many fine mansionssurrounded by tropical gardens, being the homes of sugarplanters. These fine places usually cover a full block ormore, the lawns having a great variety of palms, bananatrees, and all the most beautiful trees and flowers, whichgrow in a tropical climate, surrounded by hedges ofHibiscus, ten to fifteen feet high. This Hibiscus is a tinyand puny plant with us, which only grows with thetenderest nursing, but here it grows to be a small tree withgreat wealth of blossoms. They have fine streets, well paved, a good line ofelectric street cars, and are well supplied with public schoolbuildings, not many churches, and these are Catholic,Congregational and Methodist, also a very good Y. M. C. A.,and its membership is made up of Whites, Chinese,Japanese, Portuguese, and Negroes, who, they claim, allwork together very well.
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The chief product of these Islands is sugar. Theyraise fourteen tons to the acre, In this cHmate the caneripens at any season of the year the planter may desire,according to the time when it is planted, so that on a largeplantation they have work all the year round in cutting andgrinding sugar cane. Many very large fortunes have beenmade here in the sugar business. Mr. Clans Spreckles isone who has amassed millions; also Mr. Alexander Young,who still lives here, accumulated a large fortune in thisbusiness, and has built the finest hotel in Honolulu, costing-over a million and a half dollars, a fire-proof structure sixstories high with a beautiful roof garden, and an elegantblock of store buildings on first floor. This is a greatwinter resort for people from the United States who wishto avoid the winters at home, and it is certainly an idealclimate for a lazy man. The highest temperature duringthe year is 84 in July and the lowest is 58 in January, only26 degrees of variation during th

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