Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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UNDER HAWAIIAN SKIES

works, the hotels and theatres, and the great warehouses and
canneries. The bulk of the cargoes brought from other ports
is unloaded on the Honolulu wharves. Oahu has an area of six
hundred square miles.
The former royal palace now houses the offices of the governor, the attorney-general, and the Secretary of the Territory.
The old throne room, preserved as it was in monarchy days, is
now used by the House of Representatives every two years, while
the old state diningroom, on the opposite side of the central
corridor, is used by the senate. The old government house, now
the judiciary building, faces the palace, upon Palace Square.
Near it is the new Federal building, housing the post office, customs bureau, internal revenue department, United States marshal,
United States district judges, and the federal weather bureau.
The territorial office building, occupied in 1926, adjoins the
judiciary building.
Completed in 1926, the "Aloha Tower," a lofty structure over
Piers 8, 9 and 10, at the foot of Fort street, is one of the mo-t
conspicuous objects in Honolulu. It carries four clock dials,
and above these appears the word "Aloha," cut in the concrete
just below the dome, Hawaii's welcome to all visitors from
abroad, a word that will be illuminated at night.
In 1927 will be completed a $2,000,000 hotel-the new Royal
Hawaiian Hotel-at Waikiki, to meet the constantly increasinlg
tourist travel to the Islands.
Honolulu has a population in excess of 100,000.
The Hawaiian Islands are the most conspicuous objects in the
Pacific Ocean. They are all mountainous, and, from a scientific
standpoint, nlostly of volcanic origin. From their highest summits down to the lowest depths to which excavations have been
bored, the soil is found to be lava in various stages of decomposition, and below it coral. It all seems to be melted earth,
fused in volcanic furnaces, which has been poured out in titanic
masses, forming the mountains of Konahuanui, 3100 feet high,
on Oahu; Waialeale, 8000 feet, on Kauai; Haleakala, 10,200
feet, on Maui; Hualalai, 9000 feet, on western Hawaii; Mauna