U.S. Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis meets various officials. He represents President Coolidge at the Captain James Cook Sesquicentennial. He is accompanied by his daughters, Alice and Cynthia. Davis greets General Hines at Fort Mason, California. He boards the battleship the USS Pennsylvania and poses with his daughters. Captain Greenslade and Lester Maitland. The shipboard scenes show inspections, deck tennis, church services and physical training. A flag flutters from the foremast of the ship. Soldiers line up at the ship deck. Executive Officer Richard S. Galloway and Captain Greenslade inspect the troops. Men on the ship deck read a weekly paper 'Key Stone'. Soldiers dressed in white stand in formation on the ship deck. Inspections by the Secretary of War and Captain Greenslade. They decorate the soldiers and discuss amongst themselves on the ship deck. Army and Navy planes hover over the battleship to greet the dignitary. Men gather at pier number 2 of the Fort Armstrong at the Honolulu harbor to greet them. Officials discuss. The Governor of Hawaii Wallace Farrington arrives to greet Dwight. They inspect the guard of honor 64th CAC-AA. Dwight leaves for the royal Hawaiian hotel.
A ship dock at Kauai, Hawaii. Admiral Marvel boards the USS Pennsylvania. Soldiers line up on the ship and greet the Admiral. They salute him. Buildings and trees in the background. The battleship underway at sea. Smoke rises from the ship stacks. Soldiers at the Kealakekua Bay discovered by Captain James Cook on January 16, 1779.
Views of the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. A large home fronted by royal palms. Pedestrian traffic on King St. in the business district, including Japanese and Chinese in native costumes. Open front of a Japanese tea store. Women and children outside the store. A peddler carries vegetable produce in baskets hung from a pole across his shoulders. Views of the Hawaii Railway, Hamakua Coast, Hawaii island: Interior of a passenger car. Countryside and tunnels viewed from the train. A very high railway bridge with a sugar cane flume below it, across a valley on the Hamakua Coast.
A pineapple plantation in Hawaii. Workers cut pineapples by hand. The pineapples are canned for shipment to America. In a cannery, workers sort the pineapples.
A plantation in Hawaii. A man climbs a palm tree. Another man examines a papaya. Two men carry a hot tub the contents of which are covered with a cloth. A group around the tub on the ground prepares roots. A steaming tub of taro root over an open fire with a man poking at the fire. The roots are dumped into a shallow wooden bowl and pounded to pulp with wooden tools. Two men knead and pound the poi. A man tastes the poi while pounding it.
Heated lava from the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Roads are made over the cooled lava. A car goes along a road on the lava bed. Tourists jump across a crack in the lava about two feet wide. Vapors rise from the molten lava in the background. Tourists sitting on a rock watch the vapors. They look over the edge into the crater. View of lava and sheer sides of the crater. The molten rock glows in the dark at night. Kilauea is the largest active volcano in the world. View of the crater.
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