The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-03-26
MAUI, THE SUGAR island.
MusiCk's Experience on the Island
Where Sugar Plantations
Are Located.
An Ideal Place to Resfde.-the
Home of Many Clever
People.
Copyright, 1896, by Funk & Wagnalls Com
pany, New York;

Copyright, 1896, by Funk & WagnallS COM
pany, New York;
From Honolulu to Maui is
but short voyage. The little
inter-island steamship, Claud-
inc, belonging to the Wilder
Steamship Company, left Homo
lulu on Tuesday, December 3,
1895, carrying ourself among
other passengers, and, at six
o'clock the next day dropped
anchor in the harbor of
Kakului.
The first glance of Kakului
is by no means inspiring. A
collection of low houses along
a beach washed by the surf, a
railway train, consisting of one
passenger and one flat car, in
waiting, and a dozen or more
Chinese huts were all that
was visible. There was not
sign Of a hotel or place where
the weary traveller might rest.
A French lady, Madam Valid
fogel, who lived in Paia, her
husband, a Swiss, being a mer-
chant there, went ashore in the
same boat with myself.
"You are a stranger here?"
she asked.
Eyes, madam. Can you tell me
if l can find a hotel in Kakului?"
mo. There is none"
mo restaurant"
"a Chinaman keeps miser-
able restaurant there, but don't
60 to his place. 1 live in Paia.
You had better come with me"
I thanked her very kindly,
and at once accepted her very
welcome invitation. Our boat
load consisted of this lady, my
self, one native woman and
child, two white men from Hon
olulu, and a dozen or more
Kanakas.
care you going up to Halea-
kala?" asked one of the young
gentlemen from Honolulu.
I answered that l was.
1--WE are going today and
would be glad to have your
company
AS it made but little difference
to me when l went up to the
great extinct volcano, l consent
ed to make the trip at once.
My friend, Mr.. J. S. Colville, at
Paia, would send for me, and
provide me with a guide and
horses for the ascent.
We landed, and while l was
placing my valise and umbrella
on the flat car Madam Valid
fogel went into the station and
telephoned to her husband
that she was coming home
with stranger to breakfast.
After a ride of six or seven
miles, passing through Spreck-
lesville, we reached Paia. The
kind and hospitable Swiss gent
leman, Mr.. Waldfogel, met us
at the depot in Paia, and seem
ed as pleased to meet me as if l
had been an old acquaintance.
He insisted on carrying my
baggage to his store, telephoned
my arrival to Mr.. Colville, the
manager Of the Paia plantation,
and urged me to go to the
house and have breakfast with
himself and wife.
The Chinese servants had
prepared an excellent breakfast,
which we had scarcely finished
when 1 was told that my friend
Mr.. Co1ville had arrived and
awaited me at the gate. He
had come over from the planta-
ton on horseback, and brought
a Japanese boy with horse
and brake to convey me and
my luggage to his house. He
asked it l wanted to make the
ascent that day, and being in
formed l did, said l had better
stop at the office and arrange
an hour for starting with the
young men from Honolulu,
whose names were Harry and
Ed. Benner.
We met at the planters office
and arranged to start as soon
after twelve as possible. The
Honolulu gentlemen were to
procure horses at the home OF
Mr.. Baldwin and meet us at a
place about five miles along on
the road.
Before starting Mr.. Colville
showed me about the planta-
ton, and explained the system
of irrigation. | saw hundreds
of busy Japs and Cinnamon at
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