The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-10
OUT IN KAIMUK|
Fitting Up a Suburban Tract
For Residences.
BACK Of DIAMOND HEAD
Has the Prime Requisites In a
Marked Degree Water
System-New Streets.

| one OF the very noticeable real eS-
| tate whirls has for its center the new
| kaimuki tract, on the Waialae road
and the kapahulu drive. 1t is reached
from either directly out Beretania
| streets or through Kapiolani Park, and
| is on one of the lines of the new Ho-
nolulu Rapid Transit Company This
whirl of activity amounts to almost a
cyclone, all to the benefit of the pur-
| chasers and Gear, Lansing & Co.. the
owners who are represented in trans
actions by Mr.. Minton.
Mauka of Diamond Head, for dis
, lance of three or four miles is a high
| ridge that vernacular biologists call
| hog back" At the most elevated point
on this ridge is the debris of Telegraph
Hill CKaimukD. In the olden days
vessels coming from the north were
signalled to the city from Kaimuki by
a semaphore system, clear and effec-
tive. The town end of the line was a
building on Kahumanu street, then oc-
cupied as a sail loft.
The Kaimuki tract slopes from
stone wall on either side of the old
Telegraph Hill station clear down to
the Kapahulu Drive, sometimes called
the White Road. 1t is like a boulevard
from the park. The Waialae Road, ex-
tension of Beretania street, is another
of the perfect roads of the new era.
Pofb 70 MD
shade trees.
When the Kaimuki tract was taken
hold of by the realty men it was COW
cred with lantana, had a considerable
tensive deposits of stone, heaved up by
volcanic fires. The loose rock and the
lantana are disappearing. The deposits
are being worked as quarries, some of
the stone having gone into foundations
for the Judd and other new buildings
about town. That there is a good view |
from this land is, of course, accepted at |
once. On the upper levels or the |
Diamond Head, may see Koko heads, |
may see Honolulu, Eva district, with |
the growing cane and the Waianae !
mountains. The breeze from Palolo |
valley is never failing. The drainage
is natural
Water supply was a problem at first.
but was solved by brains and money"
Two artesian wells have been driven
and they flow more than 100000 gal
Ions of fine water daily. Main pipes
will be within the reach of every lot
in the tract. The pumping plant is
about to be shipped from the coast. |
The reservoir will be located near Tel |
egraph Hill.
Streets are being made through the
plot now. A couple of hundred men
are engaged in the work and they work
with a will. The streets are lined or
banked with stone that is to be used
in the future in macadamizing, as a
stone crusher and roller are to come
into the task of making the suburb the
very best in every way. A good many
Chinese laborers are used and it is
crate They strike a surface rock that
is too large for the gang of eight to
handle. A piece Of giant powder di-
vides the aggregate of weight. There
is pole and heavy piece of cable for
each pair of men and four of the sets
can perform an almost incredible
task of moving a mass of stone. The
Chinese do not rush at their work
They do not shout or play in any man
ner. They keep ''everlastingly at it,
and accomplish simply wonders.
Kaimuki has attracted a number of
local investors, such men as DR.. And
rews, A. F. Cooke, E. A. Mott-Smith,
Mr.. Dickey and others, having been
early purchasers. Harold NJ. Sewall,
the Special Agent of the United States,
has a large area of the land. Mr.. Cooke
has an entire block. Two residences are
now under way on the tract. Many will
be built so soon as the water pipes are
sold at moderate prices and on easy
terms, as Mr.. Minton insists. 1t is Mr.
Minton also who suggests that inev-
itably there must soon be an increase
in the value of the land as building
sites
Gear, Lansing & Co. bought the Kali
muki tract from Paul Isenberg, TO
whom it had been sold years ago by