A Waikiki Palm 
If the newcomer has given no study to condi¬ 
tions in the half-way house of the world’s greatest 
ocean he will be astonished upon beholding in the 
hotels, at the resorts, upon the highways, in the 
churches, on the golf links, in the theaters, at the 
clubs, in business circles and at social functions, 
men and women whose garments, conversation and 
manners smack of the latest influence from New 
York, Paris, and London. 
lie will be astonished at the continuous streams 
of automobiles, of which there are some 8,000 in 
Honolulu, or about one to every ten of population, 
a proportion greater than that prevailing on the 
Unites States mainland, where, according to most 
recent estimates, it is about one to fourteen. 
The shops and stores will draw his admiration, 
for therein will he find anything he might call 
for in any world mart. 
He will experience pleasant appreciation of the 
city’s excellent rapid-transit, an up-to-date system 
with thirty miles of line, partly double-tracked, 
operating large, comfortable cars that run from 
Diamond Head, along Honolulu’s main thorough¬ 
fares, to Fort Shafter, at the northern end of 
town; from the heights of Kaimuki, one of the 
city’s most delightful suburbs, to the Honolulu 
terminus of the island’s steam railroad system; 
and between various other points, connecting the 
main valley suburbs with the city proper. Trans¬ 
fers make it possible for the visitor to enjoy the 
greater part of the morning or afternoon “seeing 
the sights by streetcar” for a mere five-cent 
piece. 
Taxi stands and garages are plentiful. Pound- 
the-island trips can be arranged for parties at a 
moment’s notice. 
Many shorter trips await the tourist’s choice. 
He may visit the Moanalua Gardens, near Fort 
Shafter, which are in reality the private grounds 
of a citizen who desires that the public shall 
enjoy his magnificent estate with its wealth of 
trees and plants and flowers, many of them of no 
common variety. 
He may go to the Pali, half-a-dozen miles from 
the city’s heart, there to stand on the edge of 
that historic precipice and drink in the beauty 
of a panorama that may he equalled but is not 
surpassed by any of Nature’s glories anywhere. 
AT THE NUUANU PALI 
At the Nuuanu Pali, over six-score years ago, 
Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who brought 
the islands of Hawaii under one rule, defeated 
the forces of the king of Oahu, his spears driving 
hundreds over the precipice, where the bones of 
LONE COCONUT NEAR. DIAMOND HEAD, 
