The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-09
.PUULOA AS
NEW RESORT
Will Be Made a
Model Seaside
Town.
BOULEVARD EX-
TENDS TWO MILES
Reached by Ferry Across Pearl
Harbor Channel-Plans for
the New Suburb.

IN uULOA is to be the new and ex-
elusive seaside resort, If the plans
= of the Dowsett Estate Company,
Ltd, are successfully carried out as
is the present prospect There have
been laid out beach frontages extend
ing for two miles along the. ocean, and
plans are being made for the carrying
of passengers almost to the doors of
the cottages, which it is planned very
soon shall line broad boulevard.
The carrying out Of the present plan
of the Dowsett company is following
an idea which was kept in the back
ground only by the uncertainty due to
the fact that the United States govern
ment waited so long before indicating
at what point it planned to place its
naval station. AS soon as the suits for
the condemnation of the plot on the
east loch showed just what land would
be needed in the business of the Navy
| Department, the company put in mo-
ton it's machinery to develop the old
Dowsett estate property This includes
two miles of ocean frontage on the
Eva side of the entrance to Pearl Har-
Dor, and the channel front all along the
entrance to the lochs. This includes
what is said to be the finest bathing
beach along the Kona side of the ISL
and.
The first steps taken were those look
ing to the laying out of the lots. 1t
was decided that these should be 200
by 100 feet, approximately the curva-
ture Of the shore making anything like
absolute straight lines impossibIe. Fol-
lowing the modern method the lots on
the ocean were made to run from low
water mark, and to extend inshore to
a boulevard, which runs parallel to the
water line. This boulevard is to be 100
feet wide, and will be improved by the
planting of trees and 1t is planned to
have along it tram line for the trans
portation of the residents to and from
the ferry, which will connect with the
Waikiki side of the channel.
On the mauka side of the boulevard
there is also a line of lots which are
200 by 100 feet, and these two rows of
cottage sites are all that win be placed
on the market at this time. The laying
out of the town site was begun inside
the harbOr line. at the point of the old
salt marsh, and from this down to the
bell tower, or taking in some thirty
lots. the company has reserved all the
residence sites, SO as to accommodate
the probable traffic which, may come to
the west side of the harbor entrance.
There will be no immediate develop
ment of any industries along this front
age but it will be simply reserved for
Il future sale.
Since the laying out of the plots OF
ground was the first thing to be done,
the next was the development Of wa
ter, of which there is not an adequate
supply on the property at the present
time. For this purpose contracts have
been made with L. E. Pinkham and a
we'll boring outfit has been shipped by
schooner, which will be used in the
prospecting for artesian water The
first well will be put down along the
edge OF the old marsh few hundred
yards from the channel line. This will
be followed by other prospects should
the supply found at that point not be
sufficient to provide water for the eX-
pected population.
To form an estimate which would be
placed upon the lots as laid out a sam
pie sale was held last week at which
the only possible bidders were the heirs
of the Dowsett property. An upset
price was fixed upon the lots and the
auction was for choice of the lots. The
sum named as the value Of the lots
was $3.50 There were ten lots sold.
and the average price was $3.50. This
was before there had been any move
made which would guarantee water or
transportation What the price TO be
set will be when these advantages
have been found and provided, is not
vet known to the managers of the prop
erty but it is said that nothing more
viii be done as to offering the lots to
the buying public until all the preiim-
inaries have been arranged. 1t is eX-
pected that there will be plans made