The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-02
The Park and Resorts
Filled With
People.
The Pretty Suburb Under Diamond
Head Made Accessible
to All.

For the first time in the history OF
Honolulu the chief pleasure ground OF
the city was really open to the citizens
yesterday. The historic Kapiolani park
has always been the pride, and some
thing of the glory of Honolulu. Odd
times, every citizen has been there,
and all are familiar with it's shaded
walks and rustic bridges and fair places
that invite to rest in a restfu1 land.
But it has always been something of a
| task to reach the park-always, that
is, until yesterday.
Yesterday was another day. for Ho-
nolulu and Kapiolani park, and from
early morning until the last car went
to the house at night the crowd walked
through the park, or sat on the grass
in the shady places, or stood and sat
about the band stand, listening while
Berger and his bandsmen sent strains
of sweet music to echo back from the
rugged gorges of Diamond Head or to
singing of the surf upon the distant
reef
For yesterday the Rapid Transit
Company began it's through service on
its line to Waikiki, clear to the base of
Diamond Head, and did the biggest
days business perhaps in the history
of the corporation. Almost every res
ident of the city was carried over the
line, at some time or another during !
the day, and some of the residents were |
carried more than once. 1t was the !
thing to do. The cars ran all day on |
both lines so crowded that standing |
room was at a premium, and it seemed |
that the crowd waiting for each car
at the Punahou transfer point was as
big as the crowd that filled the cars
coming and going on the King street
inc. Everybody in Honolulu went to
he beach yesterday The Moana, the
W aikik Inn, the Annex, all the beach
escorts. felt the impetus of this travel
people all day. There have seldom
,een more swimmers in the surf than
could be seen from the beach at any
hour during the afternoon, and if any
nan of prominence in the city was
sought he could almost certainly have
,een found at that end of town. Homo
ulu felt, indeed, that Waikiki had at
asst become a part of itself, and the
lwellers by the surges knew that their
ong isolation was at an end. They
we're in the city as much as the dwellers
n the town itself, for these swift cars ,
passed their doors at short intervals,
nd they had but to step aboard TO be
vhirled along, the most remote of them,
o the corner of King and Fort streets
within a short half hour.
Large as the crowd was, it was ad
nirably' handled by the Rapid Transit
Company. To be sure, the cars We're {
rowded, but that was more because {
he people who wanted TO go to the !
each were impatient to get there and
Tould not wait for the next car than E
ecause there were not cars enough. I
md then perhaps it was not antic- n
ated that everybody would want to go l
} Waikiki The service was good. 1t '
ill be better when trailers are put i
n the cars on Sundays. Having such /
pleasure ground as Kapiolani park. Z
he people of Honolulu waited only for h
to be made more accessible to show Z
1eir true appreciation Of it. Tt will I
ontinue to grow in popularity with ! n