The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-07
SUBURBAN OPPORTUNITIES.

The taste for suburban life has al !
ways been strong with the people of
Honolulu. Lack of good roads and OF
an extended water supply kept the
population close to Fort street for q
time. but as public utilities spread out
the people followed and Nuuanu valley
and the plains. then the most attrac-
tive suburbs within reach, began build
ing up As population grew denser
.there, people who wanted ample elbow
room moved to Waikiki, to kalihi and
beyond Punahou, also getting 10 Tanta-
lus and in turn TO Pacific Heights, Ma
noa valley and Kaimuki. Some went to
the beach beyond Diamond Head
place which is bound to grow in popu-
larfty and value when forts begin TO
intrude themselves a Waikiki
The four localities which are likely
to build up the most rapidly in the fu-
lure are Kaimuki, Manoa Valley, Pa
cifc Heights and the beach referred to
above. Kaimuki in soil. comparative
dryness, cool breezes, view and accessa-
bility is an ideal site. only needing good
roads to make it very popular with |
bomeseekers. The College Hills-and
Manoa Heights district is elevated
well-drained, cool and on the mainline
schedule of the Rapid Transit, and it |
has an abundance of good water ana
good roads and streets. The great fall |
of rain observed from Waikiki is main
w in the upper valley, comparatively |
little. though quite enough, registering
itself makai of the valley terminus OF
the Rapid Transit. Pacific Heights
which is more accessible TO carriages
than one would think to look at it from
the waterfront, has a, large number of
fine building sites, and the incompar-
able air, withal, of Tantalus, without
the dampness and dense shade 1t Is
also well supplied with water and has
the Tantalus view. On the beach be-
yond Diamond Head there is a chance
TO make another Waikiki which the
Rapid Transit must sooner or later as
sist by an extension from Kaimuki.
PaloIo valley also has its place, as
has Kalihi valley, in the general
scheme of futures" 1t would be a
splendid thing for our people if these
two valleys were divided up, as far as
practicable. into ten or twenty-acre
farms and put on the market at acre
nrices. A ten-acre farm near Homo
lulu can be made to support family
Half of it divided into two and one-half |
acres of pasture and two and one-half |
sssof sorghum and forage-grasses, WILL |
Shere there is rain enough, nicely sup
mort six cows and a couple OF horses'
and a COW properly fed and treated
easily makes profit to her owner, not
counting the milk he gets himself, OF |
<55 her month. The other five acres will |
nroduce melons limess alligator pears
bananas, grape fruit. strawberries and
vegetables for which there is always a
market, as well as turkeys, chickens.
ducks. nogs and honey. There are thou |
sands of people about all the Caiifor-
MA cities who live in this way and there
are hundreds who could do it here if |
they were so disposed and We're given
Z chance. which such valleys as Palolo |
AFFORD to acquire the land.
Several years ago Miss Kraut, the
authoress. was here for a short visit
and in an interview she said that in
decade the high ground back of Homo
lulu would be covered with handsome
homes The prophecy is slowly being
realized and the sooner it comes to pass
the better for the health and comfort
Of the white population which seems
physically untitled, especially in the
case OF the women, to live on low
ground in the tropics.
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IOcAI CPApE CULTURE.