The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-26
THE HoUsEBoAT.

Honolulu has evolved great deal
that Is luxurious in domiciliary life but
( 1t Is still a stranger to the houseboat.
/ Homes have gradually shaped them
4 selves on tropic lines until they mark
y a wide departure from the stiff, formal
and cramped New England dwellings
z which the missionaries built here in
<faithful though not sensible derivation
'ffrom the snowbound farmhouses of the
4 boreaI north. Gradually the wide porch
rand bath room came; then the lanai
ttand the spacious. airy chambers; then
the shaded hooks where hammocks are
hung and tents pitched or where the
tplunge pool waits invitingly. AS the
means of luxury Increased people built
1ftheir summer cottages down by salt
4water or amid the luxuriant ver5ure
fand tonic atmosphere of the mountains.
tThey bought yachts for temporary
homes afioat but in spite of the invita-
lion which the placid waters of Pearl
fiarbor or Kalihi gave they never got
no that Incompatible aquatic home
fftead. the houseboat.
fI To those who have enjoyed the hos
< FATALITIES of a houseboat in the lee of
Sausalito or Belvidere, on the lordly
Hudson, or Cayuga Lake in New York
Z m Quinsigamond in Massachusetts or
\ n any of the thousand calm bays or
q toves of America where such domlciles
4 re to be found. no plea will be neces-
6ary to get approval for the houseboat
|<#1 Hawaii. 1t is to those who have
II ever slept in the comfortable bunk of
+; ne far from the noises of the town OF
ave never drowsed in a hammock
lille the tide rlppled out to sea along
4 tde, homesteader with no land to pay
/ tr care for and with fishing good from
( my doorway,-it is to those we address
Yourselves with the query: Why not
z flild Households, have them towed q
harbor and enjoy yourselves
{H we nave seen a houseboat of four
ERoms built upon a scow that beat any
immer cottage ashore. There ,yere
tIfedrooms at each end with hunks; in
<fEe middle was the cooks galley and j
ming room to seat eight persons;
tttfcks projected from each bow, one OF
q X EN- shaded with awnings and the
E4thrr with vines. Yes vines were
own in tubs and were kept mos,
4sXout the roots with water taken fr,.iY
l<<te supplies aboard or by rain when
f II wing down the slanted cottage roof
WNUl INTO TIN runnelS and was carried
an a small tank. There were plenty Il
70 mmocks and easy chairs, plenty u
ne ft and drink and a skiff, towing along
e, furnished the means of getting
tthore or the motive power, along with
% temporary square sail, of getting
.,5<Hout. IL the fishing grew poor in one
z.z'Pt or the swimming was not salts
M ii tory. the houseboat would be taken
~ another place and anchored there.
{W#netimes fleet of these cottages
<tPat would moor together in a quiet
Lug and give each others passengers
Rste of society. Talk about the lotus
4ers! Even they would envy house
Ht colony.
5f3earl harbor is an ideal place for the
m {pyment of houseboat life. Not every
n can have land along those defect
{XR waters: not all to whom the sea-
Xf cottage appeals can get one on
M hsion: but three or four underpaid
Fks could afford houseboat and the
Tor 1t Is free to the preemptor