April, 1937 • 
very disappointed to have missed the luau but he did not 
go hungry. 
We did not get our flag-pole at this time after all. We 
did not charge enough for the luau tickets and went fifteen 
dollars into the hole. However, we had a heck of a good 
time. A number of years later, Henry Cobb Adams, often 
called the King or Mayor of Kaneohe, sent us a flag-pole 
but it was too short and crooked at the top. Shortly before 
I retired, the government provided a fifty-foot pole—too 
short by twenty-five feet in my humble opinion. 
All the comforts, conveniences and necessities of civilized 
life were not present at Waiahole in those early days. It 
was difficult to live over there unless you were used to 
pioneering. One day Mrs. Hattie Leialoha, daughter of 
Judge Aikue, became a serious maternity case. An SOS 
was sent to Governor George Carter to request Dr. James 
Judd to hasten over, and he crossed the Pali on horseback 
as fast as his horse could travel. 
Both mother and baby son (named Francis) survived. 
My assistant teacher, Lahapa Kalei Makalii, assisted Dr. 
Judd on this case, legally adopted the baby Francis and took 
him to Kauai with her later. Incidentally, Mrs. Leialoha 
named the baby arriving before Francis, after me—Alice 
Pua Leialoha. 
Speaking of Judge Aikue reminds me of the night I was a 
guest of the Aikues. His daughter Hattie gave me a room 
in which was a nice Hawaiian bed furnished with blue and 
white tapa sheets. 
Soon after I arrived in the Islands the Revolution broke 
out. As we were having a vacation at the Kamehameha 
Schools I attended the trial of Queen Liliuokalani in lolani 
Palace. I went every day for about a week. The Queen 
was defended by Paul Neuman and his opposing counsel was 
Mr. Kinney. On the last day of the trial the Queen came 
down from the second-floor room, in which she was confined, 
on the arm of Colonel George Potter. The Queen said 
nothing but Paul Neuman was fluently witty and sarcastic. 
1 remember the American soldiers passing through Hono¬ 
lulu in 1898 to the Philippines during the Spanish War. 
When the Flag went up in August of that year I was over 
in North Kona, guest of Mrs. Nettie Scott at the Holualoa 
School. 
Visitors to my cottage at Waiahole always wrote their 
names in my guest book. Many interesting people signed 
that book. Among them was Joseph F. Rock the Botanist. 
In those early days he was Federal Inspector for Botanical 
Specimens. I remember how pleased he was when he re¬ 
turned to my cottage, after climbing the Koolau Range, 
and told me he had secured specimens of lobelia. He sent 
me an autographed copy of his Flowering Trees . 
One day, during the summer vacation, Neil Locke and 
Lord Radcliffe called on me. Both were interested in Boys’ 
Clubs. They wanted to organize one at Waiahole. Lord 
Radcliffe was highly interested in everything. My Korean 
houseboy, Joseph Kim, climbed trees and brought down 
mangoes, bananas and other fruit for his lordship. As 
they were passing through the gate, upon leaving, Lotd 
radcliffe suddenly exclaimed— 
“We must go back and bless this house.” Pe took off his 
hat and offered prayer, as Joseph Kim looked on in amaze¬ 
ment 
“Mother” Agnes H. P. Judd often spent many days and 
weeks with me. She was visiting my home at the time her 
son, Lawrence, became Governor of the Territory. 
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While I met the father of Hiram Bingham, former 
Senator from Connecticut, he never visited my home, as I 
recall it now. However, his son, the Senator, when a young 
man living in Honolulu, came over one day and gave a 
talk on mosquitoes at my school. 
Among the many other distinguished people visiting Wai- 
anapanapa was Mary K. Krout, the author, who spent 
several days with me. She wrote a poem for my birthday 
that was published in the Advertiser . She also penned an 
epitaph for one of my chickens that frequently visited the 
lanai while we were eating, and my famous visitor remark¬ 
ed—“that old biddy reminds me of the Divinity Students 
back in Indianapolis.” 
After many happy years at Waiahole I moved to my 
present residence at 2103 Alawai Boulevard, facing the 
Alawai Canal and the beautiful Koolau Mountains. I 
find that I am just as happy on this side of the Koolaus as 
I was on the Windward Side. I will always be delighted 
to have my friends and former pupils drop in and see me 
the same as they used to do over at Waiahole. 
SPEAKER MONT ILL A PASSES THROUGH 
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monwealth.” He closed with appreciation and good wishes 
for the welfare of the people of Hawaii. 
Speaking later in the day as the guest of honor at the 
Pan-Pacific Union luncheon given at the Honolulu Young 
Women’s Christian Association, Montilla revealed more 
intimate glimpses of his personality, and enabled his audi¬ 
ence to catch something of the political philosophy and hu¬ 
manitarian spirit which form his ideals. He congratulated 
the Union on its fine aims, and said to the members: “In 
view of the actual economic structure and of the various 
political creeds of the world, as well as the human suffering 
caused by the economic desequilibrium brought about by 
the last world war, the obstacles that you may meet may 
be many and big, but Fm sure that success will be yours.” 
“Unfortunately the human intelligence which has made 
such wonderful discoveries in laboratories is overpowered at 
times by those human impulses which refuse to submit to 
reason,” he further analyzed. “The instincts and sentiments 
which ruled in the early stages of mankind still influence 
the souls of the people in their hatred, and work destruc¬ 
tion.” He believes that reasoning and sympathy can lead 
the way to everlasting peace. “If men are unable to con¬ 
trol their evil impulses and continue to rule the world by 
procedures of destruction, we can forsee that our civilization 
is doomed to suffer the same fate as those past empires 
which have left us their ruins to serve as a warning and 
lead the way to better understanding.” 
In conclusion Speaker Montilla spoke of the beauty of 
Hawaii, which in so many ways resembles his own province, 
Occidental Negros. 
PHOENIX GUANO ISLANDS—ECLIPSE MECCA 
Continued from Page Twenty-Seven 
twenty feet high. It is broken only on the west side, 
where there are four narrow lagoon entrances, only one of 
which is too deep to wade at low tide. Even the southern 
entrance is blocked on its inside by coral reefs, which fill 
the v%$ern half of the lagoon. The eastern half, how¬ 
ever, is clear of obstructions and would make a safe landing 
place for seaplanes. 
