The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-16
TWO NAMES FOR ROAD WHICH IS
PRACTICALLY BUT ONE
THoRoueHFARE.
PUnehbOwI and Kinau Streets Are the
Cause of Great Annoyance to
Hundreds of People Every Day
Experience of Two Ladies.

San Francisco two families arrived
from the East with the intention Of
settling down in the Paradise of the
Pacific and making Honolulu their
home
These two families had travelled
IN the same train across the CONT.
nent and became well acquainted. con-
tinuing the pleasant acouaintance
aboard the steamer which brought
them TO Honolulu They went to a
hotel on arriving here. remaining
there while looking around for suit.
able cottages.
One family was from New York and
the other from Boston The ladies' of
the two families became especially
Wen acquainted and planned many in
teresting little curiosity shopping ex.
petitions in Honolulu. being very
anxious to ornament their homes
with native Hawaiian nick-nacks.
The Boston family secured a cottage
ffrst The lady from Boston was de-
lighted and told her friend all about
II. It's just tho cutest little Mace
YOU ever saw" sc said 1T is Iocat-
ed on Punchbowl street and is next
door to So-and-so's; YOU must come
and see me when YOU get settled
A few davs later the family from
New York secured cottage on. Kin
au street. next door TO What-you-ruav-
call-him's place, After the mating.
nsJ been nut down and the curtains
hung and the furniture was in order.
the lady from New York made up her
mind that she would rail- on the 1adv
from Boston on Punchbowl street and
ask her to come down ard helm her
pick out native strav hat.
Bravelv she Sfartad ont Tho
weather was delightf-l and she nre-
'a-red walking 70 riding in haeA
'fo~ 50 short = iistap~e''
Wsiting north nm Kirau stNeet af.
tei' heinv informed h- p Chiross sban.
T'en that P'rncbhowl street Law in that
8'raction. the ladv frnm New Work
tont q sharn lookout for p,rrrbbo,rI
-+''eet. She hra walled ONLY saw
blocks aiaHs Kirsr whom ehe eudson.
w. stunned ard ga-od IN mild surnrise
- SIGN that notified her ~ tha fao.
+Naf she ~-ns aIresi- on pr,nohhovvI
~t~eat "v'hv, ' .bopoht this We
"i"au st~~e+" 4" sold tha i;ttia lsd- ~
herself "'This is thn ef~oet y, which
I'VE 7nd J fnow thnt I'm living ~,
'F'-au street. ba~prse there &c . ciop
that savs so. ripht r~.r onr bousa
n~d besides Il saws lyman St-eat' IN
fhe recent for tho frst rnonfh'e raot
IN rdrance. This must he a mistake" /"
So she WALKED on and m getting
tired and lnokinv around for n hack
F'ntit 70 and behold she discovered
that KHAN street or PuuchbowI street
tshe WAS now very much undecided
as to which II wasl ran suddenly into
Panoa Road. and there ended.
FootSore and weary and Just TT
tie bit angry she stopped a gentle
man and incurred the name OF the
street in which she was walking
This is Punehbowl street was
the arswer.
We'll. I'm looking for some naor,e
who live next door to So-and-so. she
said doesn't So-and-so live on
Punchbowl streetg
Yes but veu will have to ret-are
vnur steps several blocks ard then
fnru sharp 10 vour right. srd half a
block Down. on the right hand side
ron viii find So-ard-So's house.
''TrHrn n the right
"Assure6lv.
Put isn't this Punchbowl streets~
-Tt is
Ara there two P1n~hhowI strepss p.
Not exactly. but Punchbowl street
Is very queer street and III you
walk several blocks back and then
turn sharp 20 your right you win find
that YOU are still on Punchbowl
street.
The lady from New York expressed
her thanks and hurried to retrace her
stems.
she watched the signs on each cor-
aer carefully and finally noticed that
Punchhowl changed its name ana
became Kinau street ali OF a sudden.
Here there was q sharp turn TO the
right She approached q sign on tbs
street 20 the~ right. and sure enough
here was another street named P1nch-
howl Seeing = dssengaged hack an
preaching about this time. the iadA
from New York foreot all abort the
cd1itv Of Psinehbowl ard Kinsu
street being the same street and bail
"a tho driver.
Take me 70 So-srd SOS Eiaee on
oSs-< hhowl street. onsrk,s Sha said
The haekusan turned down the
-freet rnrra-w toward The sea and
-nen deprSifea the l.d- - the gate
81 the honen sho was seeking