The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-10
{BY SOL. N. SHERIDAN.)

{BY SOL. N. SHERIDAN)
Did it ever fall to your lot to go or
a personally conducted excursion III
quest of an old Hawaiian Heiau, OF
temple of worship? That has fallen
to my lot-and it was a most pleasant
lv conducted excursion. 1t was con-
Quoted by Mr. E. NJ. Boyd, Secretary
of the Promotion Committee, and Mr.
Fred. c. Smith. General Passenger
and two more efficient conductors are
seldom sent out in charge of one small
party. The excursion, which took place
Yesterday, came about in this way: A
little time ago, Mr.. Thomas G. Thrum,
antiquarian and historian, came upon
the ruins of an old Hawaiian heather
temple at a point about four miles be-
yond the Haleiwa Hotel, and within
plain sight from the railway and the
public road. This was, in many ways,
most remarkable find. 1t is perhaps
the closest heiau to Honolulu, since the
destruction of the one at Moiliili, and
the wonder is that it had been lost to
knowledge SO long. In fact, it would
not, perhaps. save for the fact that
it has been taken all these years for a
cattle pen. Indeed, from the line Of
the railway and from the public road,
too, it does look precisely like cattle
pen lying back against the steep slope
of the hill.
FINDING THE TEMPLE.
But when Mr.. Thrum made known
the facts of his find, of course the in
terest of all concerned with Hawaiian
antiquities was aroused. The Histor-
zeal Society members talked of the
matter, and the Promotion Committee
took the thing up. A heather temple
of the old days, genuine antique.
was worth while as a tourist asset.
And out of this various interest in the
matter grew the personally conducted
excursion of yesterday over the Oahu
railway.
For. if the heiau was to be preserv-
ed, it was essential that experts should
be consulted upon it's preservation. No
experts could be so well advised as
to the proper steps to take as those
of the Historical Society. Nobody had
a more legitimate interest in bringing
these experts to view the heiau than
the Promotion Committee Therefore,
Mr.. Fred Smith was called into the
consultation, and Mr.. Boyd sent out
his invitations for the personally con-
Quoted excursion.
REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING.
All those who had been invited could
not go, unfortunately, but the gather
ing was representative. In the party
were DR.. Serene E. Bishop, DR.. N. B.
Emerson, Thos. G. Thrum. Prof. Will
liam Alason Bryan, assistant curator
at Bishops Museum, President Griffith
of Oahu College, E. S. Dodge Of the
Bishop Estate and w. w. Hall, Treas
urer of the Historical Society The
party gathered at the Oahu Railway
Station, and was whirled away down
the road, in a private car and a driZ-
zle of rain. The car was most COM
Portable. having an observation plat
form and cosy chairs and all the COM
forts that go with modern railway
travel. The drizzle of rain was not
at all uncomfortable, serving to cool
the air of what might otherwise have
been hot day, but it did not give
promise for a successful excursion for
purposes of observation Which only
goes to show that the weather is I'M
certain. even in Hawaii, for while the
sun shone at no time during the day.
the rain presently went away mauka,
and the day became perfect for the
purposes of the expedition. If it had
been made to order, it could not have
been better
DOWN THE ROAD
Away and away through the rice
fields and the kiawe thickets that lie
on this side of Pearl City. the special
train sped fast, riding as smoothly as
it might have done on one of the big
mainland railroads. You may not have
noticed that the Oahu road is perfect
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