. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . rDiamond Head, looking in the distance like ahuge watch-dog crouching on his forepaws at thisexposed pointy while he continues his long andlonely vigil over the sea. Once^ when its sidesthrobbed with the mighty forces at play within^it must have presented a majestic form, —a stu-pendous lighthouse illuminating far and widethe troubled waters. But its mighty walls fellwith the blowing out of its light thousands ofyears ago, and ever since its ruins have re-mained as a memento of its former greatness. Honolulu has a popu
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . rDiamond Head, looking in the distance like ahuge watch-dog crouching on his forepaws at thisexposed pointy while he continues his long andlonely vigil over the sea. Once^ when its sidesthrobbed with the mighty forces at play within^it must have presented a majestic form, —a stu-pendous lighthouse illuminating far and widethe troubled waters. But its mighty walls fellwith the blowing out of its light thousands ofyears ago, and ever since its ruins have re-mained as a memento of its former greatness. Honolulu has a population in round numbersof thirty thousand, a cosmopolitan people, refined,intelligent, prosperous, earnest in whatever theyundertake. You see this in the cleanliness of theseventy miles of streets, in its well-built brick andstone business blocks, in its handsome residences,in its public buildings, in its good roads aboutthe city, and its attractive drives into the is a city of foliage and flowers, whose tropicaltrees and plants are laden with a wide variety. VISTAS OF OAHU. 185 of fruit and fragrance; it is preeminently thecity of homes, where tenement houses are com-paratively unknown. The public buildings are in keeping with thethriving city, among which can be named theGovernment Building and National Palace, finebuildings both of them in settings of trees,flowers, and beautiful lawns, with spaciousgrounds; Honolulu Free Library, which containsover twelve thousand volumes of general litera-ture ; Post-Office Building; Bishop Museum 5 Pub-lic Hospital; lolani Palace, claimed to cost fivehundred thousand dollars; Aliiolani Hall, the maingovernment building, where the Legislature meets;Lunalilo Home, built by that king as a homefor aged and indigent Hawaiians; Queens Hos-pital, intended for the relief of Hawaiians ofboth sexes free; Young Mens Christian Associa-tion Building; Old Folks Home; Opera House,capable of seating one thousand people; OahuJail; Insane Asyl
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