Hawaii — page 94: what you’re looking at

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- >" ~~, tet oe)... See ve et LR es ae OU se Bae . - ad - “ o . . e HONOLULU. 85 which is the sea bathing resort, and to the public parks, four miles from the city. An excellent musical band composed almost entirely of Hawaiians, and numbering between twenty and thirty, performers, who execute com- plicated European music with accuracy and pleasing ef- fect, play at the Park every Sunday afternoon. Twenty-eight years ago a branch of the Y. M. C. A. was started in Honolulu with Sandford B. Dole as its — first President. To-day the association occupies a hand- some brick edifice in the heart of the city, with hall, read- ing room, parlors and gymnasium. The Bishop Museum is a very handsome building of | modern design, and costing over one hundred thousand dollars. It is built of native stone and the interior is - finished with kra and kru woods, which take on a very _ high polish, and are very beautiful, excelling many of our hardwood finishings. A stranger is both surprised and interested at the extensive collection in the museum. A large addition is being erected, at a cost of forty thousand dollars, in order to have more space, so the collection can be enlarged. There are four banks in Honolulu, all having large capital stock and deposits. The legal tender is gold, with a money circulation of gold, silver and silver certificates. Money may be obtained on first class paper, bond or mortgage, at six per cent. interest. There are many beautiful drives one can take in Hono- lulu, one of the most interesting being to the Punch _ Bowl, which is an extinct volcano, about five hundred feet high, just back of the city. From this point many % : comicbooks.c + Ae e