The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-21
TRAIL WAY Or
| BOULEVARD?
S. T. Alexander is
to Consider the
Question.
NEW SURVEYS
FOR THE DRIVE
Mr.. AIexander's Original Promise
May Be Adhered to-EIec.
trio Line Plans.

A conference was held yesterday
morning between S. T. Alexander, pro-
jector of the boulevard proposed along
the Makiki foothills to Mount Tantalus,
| and Messrs. Desky and Pratt, repre-
senting the Pacific Heights Railroad.
The conference was productive of no
promises on the part of Mr.. Alexander
that his original plan to give a boule-
ward to the city of Honolulu would be
set aside. or that he would aid in the
1 construction of an extension Of the
present Pacific Heights Electric Rail-
way from it's present terminus to
Mount Tantalus and Sugar Loaf. mfr.
Alexander stated that for the present
he would study both propositions. He
stated that he had had q talk with As
sistant Superintendent of Public Works
Campbell with reference to making
new surveys for the boulevard, and
that upon the result OF these depended
largely his decision as to whether the
road would be constructed.
1t has been given out that Mr.. AL
eXander is in sympathy with the prop
osition to extend the Pacific Heights
Railroad to TantaluS and Sugar Loaf
seeing the possibilities of making the
magnificent mountain an attraction
from a scenic standpoint, which would
make it well worth the expenditure of
a large sum of money. But having
proposed to give a boulevard he will
make an exhaustive study before
turning his attention to new project
In the development of the electric rail-
road around Sugar Loaf he also saw
for the future the building of a large
number of pretty villas upon the
wooded slopes of Tantalus, and land
now occupied only by heavy forests,
would soon be dotted with the homes
of those who would court a residence
far above the torrid plains of the city.
Messrs. Desky and Pratt have had
blue prints prepared of the proposed
extension from their present terminus
OF the summit of the Heights, ana cal
culate on building a line which would
be from five to SIX miles in length.
This great length is made necessary by
the number of curves necessary to
carry the line around Pauoa Valley,
and conforming to the natural convolu-
tions of the ride and mount. The
length of the entire line, including the |
present built road, which is now in
operation up Pacific Heights, would be
as follows: Pacific Heights line, pa
miles; Tantalus and Sugar Loaf line.
ga miles, making a total of T1a miles. |
The round trip over the entire line
would therefore be in the neighborhood
proposed for the TantaluS extension, or
about 1872 miles by the shortest route. !
. The present terminus of the Pacific |
Heights road is on the artificial table, |
land on the summit. 1t is proposed to
continue the line from this point, car
rying it around the head of Pauoa Val |
ley, where there is an opportunity to
cross of a 3H, 8 1-3 and 31s per cent |!
grade. The road starting from the ter |
minus would follow along the Eva side |
Of Pauoa Valley, and by taking the 81 |
per cent grade would cross at an ele- |
fiat. Crossing Pauoa fiat, the line
would go to the Waikiki side of Pauoa
Valley, or on the Eva side of Mount |
Tantalus, skirting the hill at an ele-
walton of about 1000 feet, continue on
to the Waikiki side of the mountain
to a point Waikiki of the Schmidt
place, or just back of Andrew Browns
property. Thence the lire, would be
carried down to Sugar Loaf, near the
residences of Judge Frear and S. L.
it being the intention to
make loop around Sugar Loaf.
The second route would carry the
inc from the terminus, at an elevation
IF about 1,450 feet, although this would
Increase the grade, and the line would
pass under the mountain just behind
he government road. The distance by
he first route is calculated to be about
Tx miles, and the second about a mile
IT three quarters of a mile shorter. !
The cost for building this TantaluS l
md Sugar Loaf extension has been es-
mated at $S5, 900, which would give it
full electric equipment of stations, /
.ars, lights, power, poles, standard s
ails, and all the accessories of an up {
o-date electric railway system.
On Saturday last during a session {
f the trustees of the Bishop Estate Y
he question of the. proposed electric
ailway extension was brought up, and
he board expressed itself in sympathy
With the project. The estate owns
aluable land on Tantalus, and al
hough no definite sanction was given,
ct it is understood that the estate
7ill give the railway right Of way
Trough its property and will aid 1t
therwise.