The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-15
PACIFIC HEnHTs
PACIFIC HEIGHTS NOW I'm D2D| D Hawaii land Co. INN mI
Magnificent View From
That Addition.
OeSky VIII Build Great Hotel &C
Crown His incomparaEie
Home Tract.

People who have been up Tantalus
will never forget what sort of a view
develops on the upper levels of the
road. It is one of the scenic attrac-
tons of Oahu-wide, expansive, varied
with urban beauty and rural lowell
ness-but in most respects it is not to
be praised beyond the view which IN
rolls before the visitor to the new
townsite addition of Pacific Heights
From Pacific Heights one sees as
much Of Honolulu-yes, and d bit
more-than from Tantalus, and the
climb is not half SO hard. That part
Of the town along the Nuuanu road
shows better than from the loftier ele
walton and there are other valley
glimpses denied the 1ooker-on among
the high jungles of the range. The
vision sweeps from a place near the
Pail, out around the shoulder of the
town to Pearl Lochs and Waianae and
back TO Diamond Head, with side views
Of two Of the green and poisoning
land cOves that creep into the hills back
Of the city. It is not alone the view,
however, that makes Pacific Heights
are always moving there, the mosqui-
tOs rarely get so far above the taro
patches, the road is of such easy grade
that il is not tiresOme to climb, and
then the soil! Strangely enough, the
higher one goes on Pacific Heights the
deeper is the loan. One can grow any
thing tropical on that mellow upland
no matter how far the roots of the
\, 10 4 IN
of food and moisture.
The road looks steep from town and
as if it might be little precarious.
But it is neither. The grade is as
easy as that of the Punchbowl thor
oughfare and the way is broad enough
for heavy teams to pass. On the de-
building. Road and wall will be
worth the $4,000 or SO they will cost
when done. Another route has been
surveyed for theelectric line which Des
ky, the interchangeable promoter of Pa
cific Heights, proposes to build.
When Desky solved the water prob
lem Pacific Heights was made He
went far up Pauoa valley and got at an
inexhaustible supply. Pipes brought 1t
to a cemented reservoir and from there
cottages below. Fine houses will take
it. too Some OF them are going up:
one. the conspicuous Booth place, is
finished. AS every lot-buyer must put
up a house within o reasonable time
a house costing not less than $1,000
it will not be Iong, seeing that so
MANY lots have been sold, before Pa
cific Heights will be we'll covered with
oil Ky
of them.
The browning feature will be the big
hotel, Il picture or which goes with this
article. Think OF sitting out on
broad veranda on moonlit nights,
guiltless OF fans and mosquito RENE
dies, with the wind from the Pail
bringing the salt SAVIOR of the north
ward seal Below the city browsing
in its scented gardens; in the near dis
lance the ochered bulk of Diamond
Head: far westward the purple range
of Waianae; pervading all the SHIN
mering ocean with its white pathway OF
moonbeams: above in the illimitable
blackuess the great stars shining each
like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
That veranda will be a place for poets.
It was Rollin Daggett, sometime Minis
ter of the United States to Kalakaua's
court who, sitting in an easy chair on
the lanai of what was once Allen Her
bert's incompatible place, wrote THE
Cocoa with it's Crest Of Spears that
ear-hauntfng verse which spread the
fame of Waikiki. It would be money
in Desky's pocket TO have Daggett come
back if for no other end than to give
meter TO the impressions he would get
n, NIGHTS on that hotel yeranda. He
might also give the hotel lifting
name. It is nameless yet, but Desky
will pay out shining gold to the man
who will baptise it for him. The con-
test is open to all and the founder OF
Pacific Heights is ready TO receive pro-
posals.