Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-08-29
INTERESTING SKETCH OF
THE MAUI COUNTY SEAT
AND IT'S HISTORICAL
SURROUNDINGS.


the mouth OF lao Valley with the green.
walled. Handicapped peaks " Lihau
and Pun Kukui towering above IL. and
is surrounded by green fields OF rust.
ling cane with angular patches of
broad.leavcd tarO bordcrcd by babbllng
rills of clear mountain water with the
uusiC Of ripping waters about II and
the brcczes Of the Pacific over Il. An.
ether marked feature OF the landscape
is the long range of crcam.Colored
hills below the town which extend with
hut a single break from Waihce 10
Waikapu.
First Sugar Plantation.
The leading Industries are sugar.
planting, taro-Erowing and rice culture.
One Of tho very first sugar factories
on these Islands was started here In
Wailuku by Aki, a Chinaman. He was
the pioneer suEar.plantcr on Maui, and
his mill was built where now stands
the ruins OF the old Waikiki Sugar Co.
mill, on Market street In the sixties
there were three sugar mills in Wal.
luku proper, not including the Waikapu
and WaihcC mills. All have been grad.
ually merged into one sugar estate, tho
Waihcc plantation being the last 10
yield to tho inevitable.
Home Of Tarocna.
Waikiki tarO had a reputation from
time when tho memory of man run.
meth not TO the contrary. Some TWEEN.
~ years ago DR.. Enders formed com.
rany to exploit new method OF mar.
k"ting this most nutritious of food ar.
tClcs. 4 factory was erected back Of
Union School on High street and taro
-four manufactured; later tho method
was changed and the taro cooked be.
fore II was made into -four, and the
product marketed as "Tarocna'. Tho
factor Is now using twenty-five tons OF
taro week and the demand for its
product gradually Increasing. promis.
ing u better future for this infant in.
dustry.
with a newsy, live, weekly paper, u
national bank. three comfortable ho.
tells, two saloons, three flrst.class liv.
cry stables and n baseball park, pub.
nc wants are not neglected and public
spirit not lacking in WailulUi, not to
mcmillan tho schooIs and churchcs
which do their part towards uplifting
tho risiny rcn,rati,n
Old Missionary Center.
Its past is full Of interest to the stu.
dent of local history. as a few histori.
cal Incidents and traditions vii, sbow
| looking rrom any or IN. annro,cbcs
therein IN, mos, nromipent Landmark
1. strik, the owe is tho native church
on High street n rcmini,r or tho
times whom wailuLu was n nissio,ary
center and the church was its mos, inn.
pOrtant institution This church was
established I'm the tbirtics by Roy. l.
: Green. one of the early missionaries
The abolitIonist sentiment in tho
States which led TO IN, Civil War had
n fearless outspolen chairman in Mr.
Green. When tho American pnard con.
Timed tn accent monov from ,ba
South n, thc fine whom tho sentiment
of righteous mon wcrc bcInp rouscd nm
Ia resign. which he did from thc scr.
vice of tho A n T. NJ and movcd
10 Makavao. where he established an
mission station or his
own
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,ery foundation nv this fierce faction.
II strife. and the curses of one FACTION
,gainst the other were long and loud
Is the aledictions of hell. That II
,roke out after the return or the nastor
rom his pilgrimage was perhans
mere coincidence. perhaps IN. incon.
iistency of IN. fact came home IN tha
native convert that a church which
,couired MIN and wife and loved ones
q DENY themselves nil human recrea.