The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-12
"A SEASIDE PARK
Bishop Estate and Government to
Cooperate.
WAIKIKI SIDE OF HARBOR
AQUARIUM Location and Site for
Magnificent Recreation
Ground-Par< Scheme.

1t is evident that this community
| takes a lively interest in providing
suitable places for public recreation. 1t
is matter of sanitary Importance that
public provision should be made for
such needs of any community. 1t is a
promoter of morality, as well as health
to have suitable places for simple social
enjoyment
The readiness with which the Legis-
latuTe passed the acts setting aside
Aala park as a public recreation
ground, and the old Makiki baseball
grounds, at opposite extremities of the
city, is significant of q general con-
viction that such public use meets a
public need
The drive up Tantalus and around
PunchbowI, gives mountain views that
are exhilarating and invigorating, as
we'll as delightful. It is hoped that at
no distant day, River street will be con-
tinued along the WaikahaIuIu stream,
from King street bridge to Kuakini
street, and so give a charming river
drive with bits of lovely riverside
scenery.
There is still another project that
opens up another possible source of re-
creation, combining instruction with
enjoyment.
It is understood that the attention of
the Cabinet has been called to the
desirability Of setting aside some avail
able acreage for a sea side park. The
land is that part of the reef on the
Waikiki side of the entrance to the har-
Dor, which the Government has already
begun to enclose with a stone wall and
to fill up with the material obtained by
dredging out the channel.
1t is proposed to build a drive way
100 feet wide on the inner side Of the
enclosing wall. At the entrance point,
that never can be available for
commercial purposes, on account of the |
roughness of the surf, there will be an
opportunity for the public to enjoy the
cooling sea breezes at an easily acces-
sible locality.
Along this drive way will be a border |
of turf 10 feet wide, with an occasional
COCO palm. Zone COCO makes the tro-
pics Nothing could be more charming
to strangers visiting Honolulu, than to
look on such bit of park, projecting
away out into the ocean, as if 70 ex-
tend to every stranger the hospitable
greeting of these sunny isles amid
tropic seas"
1t is further proposed that the trus-
tees of the Bishop Museum, who have
funds available for this special pur-
pose, shall build and equip a Marine
Laboratory on this portion
of the park, and ultimately erect and
maintain an aquar um, where the life
of the various inhabitants of the coral
reefs and adjacent waters, can be seen
and studied. Few of the exhibits at the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago at
tracted greater attention that the glass
tanks in the United States Government
Building, showing so many of the fishes
of the seas and rivers amid accessories
alike their natuarl habitat.
The marine fauna of the Islands has
never been thoroughly investigated,
and now that the chronological Depart
ment of the Bihsop Museum has been
so finely housed, and so thoroughly
the museum trustees may be
in the future development Of
the resources, which Hon. c. r. Bishop
has so generously placed at their dis
posal, to furnish the means for study
and observation in the geological de-
partment Of scientific investigation.
The place suggested is an ideal local
ity for such an institution, and no time
would be lost in making ample proyi-
son for the purposes of Investigations,
and preservation.
While a certain portion of the area
enclosed may be set aside for museum
buildings, there is available space,