The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-04
WANT ROADS J!
.Wahiawa People Tell
Their Troubles.
They Say They Have All the Com
fcrts of Life but Public
Highways.

WAHIAWA, Oahu, May "A
meeting was held April q, at the res
idence of Mr.. Byron o. Clark, Dole
avenue, Wahiawa, for the purpose of
organizing Book Club, which should
afford the subscribers resident of Wa
hiawa current periodicals and new
books. The people of Wahiawa are at
present, for the first time in their ex-
perience. without the advantages of
public library. and the project of a
Book Club has been given instant and
hearty support.
Mrs. Alfred W. Games was elected
chairman and opened the meeting by
describing in a few words the growth
of the Book Club, from the English
custom Of exchanging books and mag
azines with friends till the time when
the idea of cooperation was evolved
which resulted in a greater and better
supply of reading for the individual. at
greatly reduced cost. Book clubs, as
she had known them, were exclusive,
because made UP of coteries of people
of congenial tastes; rich because old
and old because we'll managed
The prime desideratum to the sue
cess of such a club is a group of people
of cOngenial tastes who desire the Gull
ture OF really good reading. The chair
man stated that she realized some of
the difficulties attending the trans
planting OF such an exotic as the mod
ern book club idea from established
communities in old civilizations to the
| infant settlement of WahiaWa. How
ever. since we are all agreed that civ
lllZed man cannot live without books,
she hoped that the Wahiawa Book Club
would live to be one of the oldest as it
is one of the first institutions OF the
place.
AS to the practical workings of the
club, holders of memberships will pay
an annual fee of five dollars. The Off
GERS of the club will be librarian and
treasurer and book committee. The
book committee will choose and pur-
chase all magazines and books. There
will be an auction at the close of each
year, when all reading matter will be
sold to the highest bidder, proceeds of
such sales to be used in purchase of
literature for ensuing year. AS to the
desire among us for public library, it
is hoped that from the annual sales of
books and magazines there may be Sc
| cured the nucleus Of our future library.
| officers elected: Librarian and treas
urer, Mrs. Alfred W. Eames; book
committee. Mrs. Byron o. Clark, Mr..
Will Thomas, DR.. Rhodes, Mrs. Games
After an enthusiastic discussion OF
! books and magazines desirable for club
use the club adjourned.
NJ Peaad i,,r lrh % hi
| ava met Friday afternoon last with
Mrs. i. E. kellogg. The club is read
ing together that very charming book,
The Autobiography of Felix Mosche-
les" a delightful afternoon was pass
ed in reading and discussion
The people of Wahiawa are grateful
for the recent appropriation for the
much-needed bridge across the Gorge.
1t is an earnest of the great relief
which the bridge, when actually built,
will afford drivers of all kinds of We
hicles. During the recent heavy rains
the creeks in the gorges have swelled
nightly. So much lumber and sup
plies are being brought in here by
teams that passage through the ford is
an element of tragic interest. Some I'M
lucky team is stranded there every few
days. The need for the bridge is upon
Us. Let the good work of building the
bridge begin, and the avenues may
swing into line. 1t goes without say
I ing that a new settlement in a new
country has many needs. This settle
( ment does not lack charming, pictur-
esque location, a tonic-bracing climate,
nor fertile, well-watered land; but
broad avenues, lined with some of the
beautiful trees which flourish here are
among the primary essentials, since
people cannot travel for business nor
pleasure without roads, and trees to
beautify the same cannot grow until
painted. Give US, Oh give us, Mr. Road
Commissioner and Mr. Bridge-man,
bridges and roads!
Mr.. Gibson, Inspector of Public In
struction in the Islands, spent several
days of this week in Wahiawa super