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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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NOLULU, S Here are the offices of the ministers and justices, treasurydepartment, law library, and the national museum. Inthe latter may be found a most interesting and uniquecollection of spears, war-clubs, war-drums, necklaces ofhuman teeth, feather plumes or kahilis, tapas, and agreat helmet made of red andyellow feathers. Each has itshistory attached, and here wefind an anomaly in the his-tory of the world—a peopleK)oking back upon the bar-baric methods and utensils oftheir fathers, for not until 1824did Hawaii break its idols anddon garments, approachingthe amenities of civilized life. In the grandly proportionedcourt room the ceremonies at-tending the legislative gather-ings are held. This affair is abewildering assembly of thenotables of the land, clothedaccording to race and taste, and the tout ensemble is akaleidescope of feather cloaks, stars, badges, swallow-tailed coats, ministerial vestments, gold lace, brass but-tons, startling uniforms, judicial wigs and gowns, clank-
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lilRUS EYE VIEW OF ROYAL PALACE, BARRACKS, BAND STAND AND BUNGALOW, S. of defense in case of insurrection or attack, and the gildedchariot of state, a resplendent affair used on specialoccasions. Immediately across the road is the government build-ing, which may be seen (front view) in our engraving. ing swords and scabbards, decollete dresses, gold lace,flaunting bunting and inspiring triumphal music. THE CITY OF HONOLULU. On the coast of Hawaii is the metropolis of the islands,and it is not only a representative colony of the commercial and social life, that the exigencies of the times and placeliave occasioned, but is the representative, also, of half-a-dozen other nations of the earth that have gathered in thebeautiful city of the sea, drawn thither by lucre, light, orthe pursuit of health. Such a cosmopolitan group as it is, too, with natives.Englishmen, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Portuguese,negroes and nondescripts, all trading, working and recre-ating under the tropics toget

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