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The prime Dillingham enthusiasm is polo. He organized the Hawaii Polo & Racing Association, developed inter-island games, captained many a Hawaiian , team journeying to the mainland.
Not long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain.
The conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse."
Where roses and strawberries can be had in any month, where trade winds keep the temperature between 70 degrees and 80 degrees day in and out, where life is so easy that the per capita wealth is higher than anywhere in the world, Hawaii is not boasting much when it calls itself "Paradise." Many are the other U. S. executives who may well envy Governor Judd his job.