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The Judd appointment was one of the first President Hoover made. Largelv instrumental in the selection was Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, Chairman of the Senate Committee on territories and insular possessions. When the Governor's grandfather arrived in Hawaii 101 years ago, he found there a Rev. Hiram Bingham who had come out from Boston to the Islands as a missionary in 1819 aboard the brig Thaddens. Their friendship has been continued through three generations. The now Senator Bingham was born in Honolulu, was an older boyhood playmate of the Governor's, is known among the Islands as "The Senator from Hawaii.''
History. (See map, p. 12.) When Governor Judd starts his inspection tour, he will pass, on Kanai's shore, the spot where Captain James Cook, British navigator, first landed in 1778. If not their discoverer, Captain Cook put the Islands on the world map. At the easternmost island, Hawaii proper, Governor Judd will come upon Kealakekua Bay, where in 1779 Captain Cook, for his overbearing treatment of the natives, was stabbed to death and thrown into the water. There stands a British monument to his memory. On the northern end of the same island. Governor Judd will pass the birthplace of King Kamehameha I. known as the Napoleon of Hawaii because with the whiteman's firearms he first united the Islands into one kingdom.
A census of 1832 showed 130,000 aboriginal Hawaiians. Full-bloods now number only some 20,000. But many a landmark of the old civilization remains—the temples of refuge into which those pursued for their lives might flee to safety; ancient battlegrounds; the open field on Oahu to which the mothers of chiefs and kings went to deliver their offspring publicly. In 1893 the monarchy came to an end when Queen Liliuokalani was deposed for her autocracy and, with the threatened aid of U. S. troops, a committee of safety was formed to take over the Government. Hawaii was ready for annexation to the U. S. then, had not President Cleveland's agent, James H. Blount, bunglingly attempted to put the old queen back on her throne. For five years the Islands existed as an independent Republic under the presidency of Sanford B. Dole. In 1898 they were formally annexed to the U. S. and Dole became the first Governor.
Geography. Governor Judd's jurisdiction stretched across a 380-mile chain of eight islands, containing 6,651 sq. mi., of which Hawaii at the south is the largest (4,210 sq. mi.). Kahoolawe is the smallest (69 sq. mi.). On the north lies Niihau, reserved entirely for full-blooded Hawaiians, to which others may go only by special permission.
Under the Governor's eye will come the beach of coarse sand on Kauai which makes a "barking" sound when walked on. Also on Kauai are: wild boars, pheasants. goats, and Waialeale, the mountain on which descends the world's heaviest rainfall. To Kauai was towed the drifting plane of Commander John Rodgers, U. S. N.. when that flyer, with his crew, just missed Hawaii in the first attempted trans-Pacific flight (1925).
Oahu, with its metropolis of Honolulu, is the economic, political, financial centre of the Territory. There are the Army (Schofield Barracks—12.000 men) and the Navy (Pearl Harbor base, the nation's largest). There is Wheeler Field, on which trans-Pacific flyers aim to land. There are the heavy defense fortifications around Diamond Head, the