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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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gainst fire is assured by a fine fire-department, with a chemical engine, assisted by two watertorrents; an electric light plant supplies private and publicplaces with the most modern illumination, and a system of 297 chants and lawyers, living in their own snug residences,surrounded by all the comforts of life, and keeping theirown carriages. Numbers of coolies, or Chinese laborers are employedin the plantations, and the alarmists, of which even thisfavored land is possessed, prophesy a Chinese invasion,but this incident is, perhaps, as far removed as any othercalamity. Besides the nations mentioned as the principal inhabi-tants of the islands, the surrounding islands contribute tothe general wealth of variety by sending delegations ofimmigrants from the New Hebrides, the Gilbert Islands,Australia. Samoa and Micronesia. Personally, the natives Hawaii are usually large andfinely formed, inclined to stoutness, which is considered abeauty, with bronze-brown skin and black straight hair.
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SCENE ON MAIN STREET, HONOLULU, b. I. street railways, whicli we shall hereinafter describe, givesready, if not very rapid transit to the various points ofinterests. Natives are employed as guardians of the peace, buttheir duties are not even so onerous as that of our ownMulligans and OShaugnessies. Perhaps, because of thequieting effects of a warm climate. The natives also holdgovernment positions of trust, although the higher busi-ness of international welfare is conducted by the shrewdYankee and canny Scot. The Chinese gather in their own quarters, clanning, asis their wont, and so densely populated is Chinatown thatone can well imagine that the place must be Dupont orSacramento street in San Francisco. It may be noticed that here the Chinese are. oftenin great esteem, and some of them are respected mer- The males wear workingmens dress, adding by way ofornament gaily colored bandana handkerchiefs andwreaths of flowers; while the women in calico holokiisand Ids of peacock feathers,

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