The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-27
FOR L-AHA|NA
The Ancient Capital is
Not Declining.
Comments on Population and Oeve'-
opment--CaIIs Local Scribe to
Account for Errors.

Editor AdverCiser:-I the Weekly .
Star" Of December 18th appears an (
editorial entitled "A Change Deslra- (
hIe " wherein the writer seems ANXIOUS
II have both court terms OF the oecoho
Circuit held in Waikiki. The Writer
IS open TO considerable CRITICISM III
this. He first refers 10 kaanapal do
a snarselv settled district-ln the heA1
few lines he speaks OF Honokc"di anu
Olowalu as two small districts lie
naxt saws. ''the matter is more easily
understood if anyone will study the
man of the Island and the population
figures according to the last census
II does not appear to me as though
tho writer of that article had ever
s+,diad the map of Maui TO any great
extent. When he refers 10 haaliapoii'
Honokowai and Olowalu as dls'rlols
bis ionorance OF the political DIVISIONS
of the Island of Maui becomes appar-
emf for there is only one district oii
tho west side of Maui, and that is ohe
Lahaina district.
He tries to impress his readers VIII
bic knowledge of what Lahalna Was
, AWAY back in the ffties. He says Towns
: or villages have their period OF ue-
velopment as all other human ahe.' .
I g. ahaina budded, lowered ana laoeo
S (that sounds very facetious).
Where he got his census hgures lioii
n 7 do not know but | know tnere l.
=. o,osa On > 600 ablebodied men employ
ed bv the Pioneer Mill Co. alone liza
would leave three to 4oo men
women and children in other parts
tho district according to his inquire
, 39S last census, and here L hieah
show how Lahaina has faded
1came to Lahaina in December 1913
the taxes collected that year was o''
= seven Thousand dollars, this year. Io'
i Tho taxes amount to over $4,000. II
- output of sugar in 1898 was a mute "
100 tons at the Pioneer Mill Co., "i
in 1900 will show at least lo'ooo 1ol
The Lahaina CoHee and Frnt Co ia
n PLANTED since 1898, 100000 coffee tree
Honolua Ranch Co., $4,000 trees !
coffee from both places ranks amons
IT the best on the Islands
Six wears ago Lahaina boasted
'py half a dozen brakes owned by prlV<
parties; today she has nine hacAs
rs, nublic hire and some fifteen VeAlc
CTR fo,. nrivate Dse. besides numerous OH
To carts and wagons belonging 70 ou
- moss firms and stores This year O.
'A0' thirty steamers month called DIT
mort and daily steamer service
tween Lahaina and Lanai VIII De
tablished before new year
The need of keeping Lahaina
iudicial center becomes more appai
/. dav by day. When Maunalel Sugar
- 1anai), Kaunakakai and Kamalo I
lokaD, and Kaanapai are FULLY
vaIoned the court business OF II
places all belongs to the second clfe
not to speak of the immense strelc'
land owned by II. P. Baldwin at III
Ina, in the district OF Lahalna' WI
is exnected to be planted IN cane
fully developed Within the next
1pS wears. These lands alone would
from forty to fifty thousand ton
sugar year.
will admit that there are few
lapidated shanties along the city
that should be torn down, but II i
g same with many other places no
oantine Wailuku. How the write
that article can figure out tnat
- ina is decaying I can not unders1a
LAHAINA11