Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — HONOLULU IS UP TO DATE [ARTICLE]

HONOLULU IS UP TO DATE

Has Traffic Cops and Motor Cars A-plenty as Evidence of Metropolitanism. Honolulu, Hawaii. —Although Honolulu is almost in the middle of the Pacific ocean and 2,000 miles away from the American mainland, yet the Hawaiian capital shows its Americanism and right up-to-dateness by having traffic police officers at all intersections of streets in the downtown section. Honolulu has about 2,400 automobiles owing to its splendid streets and the roads which encircle the island, the circuit of which can be made in a single day. The traffic downtown has become so dense that practically all the police department’s foot force on day duty has been organized into a traffic corps, uniformed in olive drab. Most of the officers are Hawaiians, but there is an occasional Irishman.