The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-05-20

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rough it, and have a taste
of nature in her widest and
most uninviting mood, but these
are the exceptions. The bulk
of travellers go where they can
have the best time with the least
cost of trouble to themselves and
the least sacrifice of the usual COM
forts and luxuries of life. The
obstacles to the development of a
large stream of foreign travel to
these islands may be reduced to
three, viz, the lack of proper facili-
/ ties; the lack of cable communica-
ton; and the lack of proper adver-
tising.
Perhaps the first mentioned lack
is the most grievous of all. Switzer-
land, the refuge of all Europe, is
lnterlaced in its remotest corners,
with railroads, stage routes, car
riage roads, bride tracks, foot
paths, and mountain trails. Where
one cannot Teach, another does,
until there is no corner, no matter
how remote, how unknown, how
inaccessible, which has not been
reached and made to reveal itself
to the curious traveller in search of
health, recreation or novelty.
There is many Swiss valley no
more attractlvely envirened with
mountains or lake than Honolulu
with its hills and ocean, where
traveller may spend an entire sum-
mer without exhausting the end
less profusion of walks, rides,
drives, and mountain excursions
which the neighborhood offers him,
by no means because 1t is more
various and interesting than our
own country, but because there
is no point which a road or path
does not reach. If Honolulu were
in Europe, there would be good
carriage roads up the valleys and
into the mountains, and along the
sea in every direction. There
would be a bride path up Kona-
huanui and along the ridge in all
directions, and dozen ways of get
ting to the other side of the island.
The head of Pauoa Valley is per-
haps four miles from the post office.
1t is a lovely plateau, with a glori-
GUS view down into Manoa Valley
and out upon Diamond Head and
the sea. If it were near Inerlaken,
for instance, it would be seen and
admired by thousands every year.
AS it is, how many of the travellers
who come to Honolulu ever see it,
or so much as dream of it's exist
ence? They see the Pail and go
away imagining that it is the only
point of very great beauty in the
neighborhood of Honolulu, whereas
every one who has searched these
mountains knows that 1t is only
one of dozen different attractions,
some of which are in No way in
ferior to it, and some superior, but
all more or less inaccessible.
The result of it all is that plea
sure-seekers in Honolulu are con-
fined to very narrow round of ex-
cursions and amusements, and the |
fact that they generally go away
enthusiastic becomes only more |
striking proof of the superior at
fractions of this superb country.
What we have said of Honolulu |
applies, of course, with still greater
force to all the other islands of the |
group. With the exception of one
or two points of interest, (even if |
we except these), nothing at all
can be seen without undergoing
vast amount of hardship, which
different people feel, of course, in
varying degrees, but which is GER
tainly always great enough to pre-
vent the average tourist from at
tempting to see anything at ALL
The legislature can do more to
remove this state of things than
anyone else, because the first de-
sideratum is something which it
lies entirely with them to supply,
VIZ, roads, and good ones.